Mask2Former model trained on COCO panoptic segmentation (base-sized version, Swin backbone). It was introduced in the paper [Masked-attention Mask Transformer for Universal Image Segmentation
](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01527) and first released in [this repository](https://github.com/facebookresearch/Mask2Former/).
Disclaimer: The team releasing Mask2Former did not write a model card for this model so this model card has been written by the Hugging Face team.
## Model description
Mask2Former addresses instance, semantic and panoptic segmentation with the same paradigm: by predicting a set of masks and corresponding labels. Hence, all 3 tasks are treated as if they were instance segmentation. Mask2Former outperforms the previous SOTA,
[MaskFormer](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06278) both in terms of performance an efficiency by (i) replacing the pixel decoder with a more advanced multi-scale deformable attention Transformer, (ii) adopting a Transformer decoder with masked attention to boost performance without
without introducing additional computation and (iii) improving training efficiency by calculating the loss on subsampled points instead of whole masks.
You can use this particular checkpoint for panoptic segmentation. See the [model hub](https://huggingface.co/models?search=mask2former) to look for other