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*This model was published in HF papers on 2025-03-24 and contributed to Hugging Face Transformers on 2026-02-02.*

# EoMT-DINOv3

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## Overview

The **EoMT-DINOv3** family extends the [Encoder-only Mask Transformer](eomt) architecture with
Vision Transformers that are pre-trained using [DINOv3](dinov3). The update delivers stronger segmentation quality across ADE20K and COCO
benchmarks while preserving the encoder-only design that made EoMT attractive for real-time applications.

Compared to the DINOv2-based models, the DINOv3 variants leverage rotary position embeddings, optional gated MLP blocks
and the latest pre-training recipes from Meta AI. These changes yield measurable performance gains across semantic,
instance and panoptic segmentation tasks, as highlighted in the [DINOv3 model zoo](https://github.com/tue-mps/eomt/blob/master/model_zoo/dinov3.md).

The original EoMT architecture was introduced in the CVPR 2025 Highlight paper *[Your ViT is Secretly an Image
Segmentation Model](https://huggingface.co/papers/2503.19108)* by Tommie Kerssies, Niccolò Cavagnero, Alexander Hermans,
Narges Norouzi, Giuseppe Averta, Bastian Leibe, Gijs Dubbelman and Daan de Geus. The DINOv3 upgrade keeps the same
lightweight segmentation head and query-based inference strategy while swapping the encoder for DINOv3 ViT checkpoints.

Tips:

* The configuration exposes DINOv3-specific knobs such as `rope_theta` and `use_gated_mlp`. Large DINOv3 backbones
  such as `dinov3-vitg14` expect `use_gated_mlp=True`.
* DINOv3 models can operate on a broader range of resolutions thanks to rotary position embeddings. The image processor
  still defaults to square crops but custom sizes can be supplied through `AutoImageProcessor`.
* The pre-trained checkpoints hosted by the TU/e Mobile Perception Systems Lab provide delta weights that should be
  combined with the upstream DINOv3 backbones. The conversion utilities in the
  [official repository](https://github.com/tue-mps/eomt) describe this workflow in detail.

This model was contributed by [nielsr](https://huggingface.co/nielsr).
The original code can be found [here](https://github.com/tue-mps/eomt).

## Usage examples

Below is a minimal example showing how to run panoptic segmentation with a DINOv3-backed EoMT model. The same
image processor can be reused for semantic or instance segmentation simply by swapping the checkpoint.

```python
import requests
import torch
from PIL import Image

from transformers import AutoImageProcessor, AutoModelForUniversalSegmentation


model_id = "tue-mps/eomt-dinov3-coco-panoptic-base-640"
processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForUniversalSegmentation.from_pretrained(model_id).to("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu", device_map="auto")

image = Image.open(requests.get("http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg", stream=True).raw)

inputs = processor(images=image, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

with torch.inference_mode():
    outputs = model(**inputs)

segmentation = processor.post_process_panoptic_segmentation(outputs, target_sizes=[image.size[::-1]])[0]
list(segmentation.keys())
['segmentation', 'segments_info']
```

## EomtDinov3Config

[[autodoc]] EomtDinov3Config

## EomtDinov3PreTrainedModel

[[autodoc]] EomtDinov3PreTrainedModel
    - forward

## EomtDinov3ForUniversalSegmentation

[[autodoc]] EomtDinov3ForUniversalSegmentation
