# SPT: Sequence Prompt Transformer for Interactive Image Segmentation

Source: [SPT: Sequence Prompt Transformer for Interactive Image Segmentation](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa76381e209131cea6bedd>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-27T06:44:57.967Z

Authors: Senlin Cheng, Haopeng Sun

Published: 2024-12-13T15:49:18.000Z

## Abstract

Interactive segmentation aims to extract objects of interest from an image based on user-provided clicks. In real-world applications, there is often a need to segment a series of images featuring the same target object. However, existing methods typically process one image at a time, failing to consider the sequential nature of the images. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel method called Sequence Prompt Transformer (SPT), the first to utilize sequential image information for interactive segmentation. Our model comprises two key components: (1) Sequence Prompt Transformer (SPT) for acquiring information from sequence of images, clicks and masks to improve accurate. (2) Top-k Prompt Selection (TPS) selects precise prompts for SPT to further enhance the segmentation effect. Additionally, we create the ADE20K-Seq benchmark to better evaluate model performance. We evaluate our approach on multiple benchmark datasets and show that our model surpasses state-of-the-art methods across all datasets.

## Recorded benchmark results

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10224>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.10224.pdf>)
