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calls Mask2Former “Transformer-based universal image segmentation; choose for state-of-the-art panoptic/instance segmentation, but heavy runtime.”
Mask R-CNN for object detection and instance segmentation on Keras and TensorFlow
calls Mask2Former “Choose for transformer-based universal segmentation across instance, semantic, and panoptic tasks, though it is archived.”
SOLO and SOLOv2 for instance segmentation, ECCV 2020 & NeurIPS 2020.
calls Mask2Former “Choose for universal image segmentation with a transformer architecture if you want panoptic/semantic/instance masks in one model, not Mask R-CNN.”
Mask R-CNN for object detection and instance segmentation on Pytorch
calls Mask2Former “Research implementation of a single segmentation model — choose to reproduce Mask2Former, not for a toolkit.”
Object Detection toolkit based on PaddlePaddle. It supports object detection, instance segmentation, multiple object tracking and real-time multi-person keypoint detection.
calls Mask2Former “choose it if you need the archived universal mask-classification segmentation reference and do not need box detection.”
RF-DETR is a real-time object detection and segmentation model architecture developed by Roboflow, SOTA on COCO, designed for fine-tuning. [ICLR 2026]