transformers/docs/source/en/model_doc/mask2former.md

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# Mask2Former

## Overview

The Mask2Former model was proposed in [Masked-attention Mask Transformer for Universal Image Segmentation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01527) by Bowen Cheng, Ishan Misra, Alexander G. Schwing, Alexander Kirillov, Rohit Girdhar. Mask2Former is a unified framework for panoptic, instance and semantic segmentation and features significant performance and efficiency improvements over [MaskFormer](maskformer).

The abstract from the paper is the following:

*Image segmentation groups pixels with different semantics, e.g., category or instance membership. Each choice
of semantics defines a task. While only the semantics of each task differ, current research focuses on designing specialized architectures for each task. We present Masked-attention Mask Transformer (Mask2Former), a new architecture capable of addressing any image segmentation task (panoptic, instance or semantic). Its key components include masked attention, which extracts localized features by constraining cross-attention within predicted mask regions. In addition to reducing the research effort by at least three times, it outperforms the best specialized architectures by a significant margin on four popular datasets. Most notably, Mask2Former sets a new state-of-the-art for panoptic segmentation (57.8 PQ on COCO), instance segmentation (50.1 AP on COCO) and semantic segmentation (57.7 mIoU on ADE20K).*

Tips:
- Mask2Former uses the same preprocessing and postprocessing steps as [MaskFormer](maskformer). Use [`Mask2FormerImageProcessor`] or [`AutoImageProcessor`] to prepare images and optional targets for the model.
- To get the final segmentation, depending on the task, you can call [`~Mask2FormerImageProcessor.post_process_semantic_segmentation`] or [`~Mask2FormerImageProcessor.post_process_instance_segmentation`] or [`~Mask2FormerImageProcessor.post_process_panoptic_segmentation`]. All three tasks can be solved using [`Mask2FormerForUniversalSegmentation`] output, panoptic segmentation accepts an optional `label_ids_to_fuse` argument to fuse instances of the target object/s (e.g. sky) together.

<img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/transformers/model_doc/mask2former_architecture.jpg" alt="drawing" width="600"/>

<small> Mask2Former architecture. Taken from the <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01527">original paper.</a> </small>

This model was contributed by [Shivalika Singh](https://huggingface.co/shivi) and [Alara Dirik](https://huggingface.co/adirik). The original code can be found [here](https://github.com/facebookresearch/Mask2Former).

## Resources

A list of official Hugging Face and community (indicated by 🌎) resources to help you get started with Mask2Former.

- Demo notebooks regarding inference + fine-tuning Mask2Former on custom data can be found [here](https://github.com/NielsRogge/Transformers-Tutorials/tree/master/Mask2Former).

If you're interested in submitting a resource to be included here, please feel free to open a Pull Request and we will review it.
The resource should ideally demonstrate something new instead of duplicating an existing resource.

## MaskFormer specific outputs

[[autodoc]] models.mask2former.modeling_mask2former.Mask2FormerModelOutput

[[autodoc]] models.mask2former.modeling_mask2former.Mask2FormerForUniversalSegmentationOutput

## Mask2FormerConfig

[[autodoc]] Mask2FormerConfig

## Mask2FormerModel

[[autodoc]] Mask2FormerModel
    - forward

## Mask2FormerForUniversalSegmentation

[[autodoc]] Mask2FormerForUniversalSegmentation
    - forward

## Mask2FormerImageProcessor

[[autodoc]] Mask2FormerImageProcessor
    - preprocess
    - encode_inputs
    - post_process_semantic_segmentation
    - post_process_instance_segmentation
    - post_process_panoptic_segmentation