EoMT
EoMT (Encoder-only Mask Transformer) is a Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture designed for high-quality and efficient image segmentation. It was introduced in the CVPR 2025 highlight paper:
Your ViT is Secretly an Image Segmentation Model
by Tommie Kerssies, Niccolò Cavagnero, Alexander Hermans, Narges Norouzi, Giuseppe Averta, Bastian Leibe, Gijs Dubbelman, and Daan de Geus.
Key Insight: Given sufficient scale and pretraining, a plain ViT along with additional few params can perform segmentation without the need for task-specific decoders or pixel fusion modules. The same model backbone supports semantic, instance, and panoptic segmentation with different post-processing 🤗
The original implementation can be found in this repository.
The HuggingFace model page is available at this link.
How to use
Here is how to use this model for Panoptic Segmentation:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import requests
import torch
from PIL import Image
from transformers import EomtForUniversalSegmentation, AutoImageProcessor
model_id = "tue-mps/coco_panoptic_eomt_small_640_2x"
processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = EomtForUniversalSegmentation.from_pretrained(model_id)
image = Image.open(requests.get("http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg", stream=True).raw)
inputs = processor(
images=image,
return_tensors="pt",
)
with torch.inference_mode():
outputs = model(**inputs)
# Prepare the original image size in the format (height, width)
target_sizes = [(image.height, image.width)]
# Post-process the model outputs to get final segmentation prediction
preds = processor.post_process_panoptic_segmentation(
outputs,
target_sizes=target_sizes,
)
# Visualize the panoptic segmentation mask
plt.imshow(preds[0]["segmentation"])
plt.axis("off")
plt.title("Panoptic Segmentation")
plt.show()
Citation
If you find our work useful, please consider citing us as:
@inproceedings{kerssies2025eomt,
author = {Kerssies, Tommie and Cavagnero, Niccolò and Hermans, Alexander and Norouzi, Narges and Averta, Giuseppe and Leibe, Bastian and Dubbelman, Gijs and de Geus, Daan},
title = {Your ViT is Secretly an Image Segmentation Model},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year = {2025},
}