Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 52, Issue 5, 240265(2025)

Anchor-free instance segmentation algorithm based on YOLACTR

Ting Mei1,2, Jingwei Zhao1,2, Shanling Lin2,3、*, Ziyu Xie1,2, Zhixian Lin1,2,3, and Tailiang Guo1,2
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  • 1College of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350116, China
  • 2Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, China
  • 3School of Advanced Manufacturing, Fuzhou University, Quanzhou, Fujian 362200, China
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    Aiming at the problem that the single-stage YOLACT algorithm based on bounding box detection lacks the location and extraction of the region of interest, and the issue that two bounding boxes overlap and are difficult to distinguish, this paper proposes an anchor-free instance segmentation method based on the improved YOLACTR algorithm. The mask generation is decoupled into feature learning and convolution kernel learning, and the feature aggregation network is used to generate mask features. By adding position information to the feature map, multi-layer transformer and two-way attention are used to obtain dynamic convolution kernels. The experimental results show that this method achieves a mask accuracy (AP) of 35.2% on the MS COCO public dataset. Compared with the YOLACT algorithm, this method improves the mask accuracy by 25.7%, the small target detection accuracy by 37.1%, the medium target detection accuracy by 25.8%, and the large target detection accuracy by 21.9%. Compared with YOLACT, Mask R-CNN, SOLO, and other methods, our algorithm shows significant advantages in segmentation accuracy and edge detail preservation, especially excelling in overlapping object segmentation and small target detection, effectively solving the problem of incorrect segmentation in instance boundary overlap regions that traditional methods face.

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    Ting Mei, Jingwei Zhao, Shanling Lin, Ziyu Xie, Zhixian Lin, Tailiang Guo. Anchor-free instance segmentation algorithm based on YOLACTR[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2025, 52(5): 240265

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    Paper Information

    Category: Article

    Received: Nov. 12, 2024

    Accepted: Apr. 8, 2025

    Published Online: Jul. 18, 2025

    The Author Email: Shanling Lin (林珊玲)

    DOI:10.12086/oee.2025.240265

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