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Nearly all existing counting methods are designed for a specific object class. Our work, however, aims to create a counting model able to count any class of object. To achieve this goal, we formulate counting as a matching problem, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Erika Lu , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

We present Segment Anything Model (SAM) 3, a unified model that detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and videos based on concept prompts, which we define as either short noun phrases (e.g., "yellow school bus"), image exemplars,…

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) has emerged as a powerful tool for video object segmentation and tracking anything. Key components of SAM 2 that drive the impressive video object segmentation performance include a large multistage image…

Industrial X-ray computed tomography (XCT) is a powerful tool for non-destructive characterization of materials and manufactured components. XCT commonly accompanied by advanced image analysis and computer vision algorithms to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Anika Tabassum , Amirkoushyar Ziabari

As the successor to the Segment Anything Model (SAM), the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) not only improves performance in image segmentation but also extends its capabilities to video segmentation. However, its effectiveness in segmenting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Leiping Jie

Local feature detection and description play an important role in many computer vision tasks, which are designed to detect and describe keypoints in "any scene" and "any downstream task". Data-driven local feature learning methods need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jingqian Wu , Rongtao Xu , Zach Wood-Doughty , Changwei Wang , Shibiao Xu , Edmund Y. Lam

Current class-agnostic counting methods can generalise to unseen classes but usually require reference images to define the type of object to be counted, as well as instance annotations during training. Reference-less class-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Michael Hobley , Victor Prisacariu

This work studies the problem of few-shot object counting, which counts the number of exemplar objects (i.e., described by one or several support images) occurring in the query image. The major challenge lies in that the target objects can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhiyuan You , Kai Yang , Wenhan Luo , Xin Lu , Lei Cui , Xinyi Le

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has shown impressive zero-shot transfer performance for various computer vision tasks recently. However, its heavy computation costs remain daunting for practical applications. MobileSAM proposes to replace the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Ao Wang , Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has exhibited outstanding performance in various image segmentation tasks. Despite being trained with over a billion masks, SAM faces challenges in mask prediction quality in numerous scenarios, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Zhaozhi Xie , Bochen Guan , Weihao Jiang , Muyang Yi , Yue Ding , Hongtao Lu , Lei Zhang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a recently developed large model for general-purpose segmentation for computer vision tasks. SAM was trained using 11 million images with over 1 billion masks and can produce segmentation results for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yizhe Zhang , Tao Zhou , Shuo Wang , Peixian Liang , Danny Z. Chen

Following the successful paradigm shift of large language models, leveraging pre-training on a massive corpus of data and fine-tuning on different downstream tasks, generalist models have made their foray into computer vision. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Andrea Moglia , Matteo Leccardi , Matteo Cavicchioli , Alice Maccarini , Marco Marcon , Luca Mainardi , Pietro Cerveri

Visual foundation models have achieved remarkable results in zero-shot image classification and segmentation, but zero-shot change detection remains an open problem. In this paper, we propose the segment any change models (AnyChange), a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zhuo Zheng , Yanfei Zhong , Liangpei Zhang , Stefano Ermon

In this paper, we examine the recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) on medical images, and report both quantitative and qualitative zero-shot segmentation results on nine medical image segmentation benchmarks, covering various imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Peilun Shi , Jianing Qiu , Sai Mu Dalike Abaxi , Hao Wei , Frank P. -W. Lo , Wu Yuan

Surgical video segmentation is critical for AI to interpret spatial-temporal dynamics in surgery, yet model performance is constrained by limited annotated data. The SAM2 model, pretrained on natural videos, offers potential for zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Cheng Yuan , Jian Jiang , Kunyi Yang , Lv Wu , Rui Wang , Zi Meng , Haonan Ping , Ziyu Xu , Yifan Zhou , Wanli Song , Hesheng Wang , Yueming Jin , Qi Dou , Yutong Ban

This paper assesses trending AI foundation models, especially emerging computer vision foundation models and their performance in natural landscape feature segmentation. While the term foundation model has quickly garnered interest from the…

Class-agnostic counting (CAC) has numerous potential applications across various domains. The goal is to count objects of an arbitrary category during testing, based on only a few annotated exemplars. In this paper, we point out that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Class-agnostic object counting aims to count object instances of an arbitrary class at test time. It is challenging but also enables many potential applications. Current methods require human-annotated exemplars as inputs which are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

In this paper, a Segment Anything Model (SAM)-based pedestrian infrastructure segmentation workflow is designed and optimized, which is capable of efficiently processing multi-sourced geospatial data including LiDAR data and satellite…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Jiahao Xia , Gavin Gong , Jiawei Liu , Zhigang Zhu , Hao Tang

Big model has emerged as a new research paradigm that can be applied to various down-stream tasks with only minor effort for domain adaption. Correspondingly, this study tackles Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) leveraging the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Guoying Liang , Su Yang