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Semantic segmentation is a challenging task in the absence of densely labelled data. Only relying on class activation maps (CAM) with image-level labels provides deficient segmentation supervision. Prior works thus consider pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Lian Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Ferdous Sohel , Dan Xu

Semantic Segmentation combines two sub-tasks: the identification of pixel-level image masks and the application of semantic labels to those masks. Recently, so-called Foundation Models have been introduced; general models trained on very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 David Balaban , Justin Medich , Pranay Gosar , Justin Hart

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS), a fundamental computer vision task, which aims to segment out the object within only class-level labels. The traditional methods adopt the CNN-based network and utilize the class activation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingliang Deng , Zonghan Li

Accurate segmentation of polyps and skin lesions is essential for diagnosing colorectal and skin cancers. While various segmentation methods for polyps and skin lesions using fully supervised deep learning techniques have been developed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Encheng Su , Hu Cao , Alois Knoll

In this paper, we introduce a novel learning scheme named weakly semi-supervised instance segmentation (WSSIS) with point labels for budget-efficient and high-performance instance segmentation. Namely, we consider a dataset setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Beomyoung Kim , Joonhyun Jeong , Dongyoon Han , Sung Ju Hwang

Recent mainstream weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) approaches mainly relies on image-level classification learning, which has limited representation capacity. In this paper, we propose a novel semantic learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Junliang Chen , Xiaodong Zhao , Minmin Liu , Linlin Shen

Segmenting anything is a ground-breaking step toward artificial general intelligence, and the Segment Anything Model (SAM) greatly fosters the foundation models for computer vision. We could not be more excited to probe the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ge-Peng Ji , Deng-Ping Fan , Peng Xu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bowen Zhou , Luc Van Gool

Semantic segmentations of pathological entities have crucial clinical value in computational pathology workflows. Foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have been recently proposed for universal use in segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Jingwei Zhang , Ke Ma , Saarthak Kapse , Joel Saltz , Maria Vakalopoulou , Prateek Prasanna , Dimitris Samaras

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) serves as a fundamental model for semantic segmentation and demonstrates remarkable generalization capabilities across a wide range of downstream scenarios. In this empirical study, we examine SAM's…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 An Wang , Mobarakol Islam , Mengya Xu , Yang Zhang , Hongliang Ren

Foundation models are experiencing a surge in popularity. The Segment Anything model (SAM) asserts an ability to segment a wide spectrum of objects but required supervised training at unprecedented scale. We compared SAM's performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Danielle Ferreira , Rima Arnaout

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with only image-level supervision is a challenging task. Most existing methods exploit Class Activation Maps (CAM) to generate pixel-level pseudo labels for supervised training. However, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Ruiwen Li , Zheda Mai , Chiheb Trabelsi , Zhibo Zhang , Jongseong Jang , Scott Sanner

Segment Anything Model (SAM), a new AI model from Meta AI released in April 2023, is an ambitious tool designed to identify and separate individual objects within a given image through semantic interpretation. The advanced capabilities of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Gabriel Bellon de Carvalho , Jurandy Almeida

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) achieves remarkable promptable segmentation given high-quality prompts which, however, often require good skills to specify. To make SAM robust to casual prompts, this paper presents the first comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Qi Fan , Xin Tao , Lei Ke , Mingqiao Ye , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Zhongyuan Wang , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

We present a weakly supervised model that jointly performs both semantic- and instance-segmentation -- a particularly relevant problem given the substantial cost of obtaining pixel-perfect annotation for these tasks. In contrast to many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Qizhu Li , Anurag Arnab , Philip H. S. Torr

Development of new materials in hard drive designs requires characterization of nanoscale materials through grain segmentation. The high-throughput quickly changing research environment makes zero-shot generalization an incredibly desirable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Kai Nichols , Matthew Hauwiller , Nicholas Propes , Shaowei Wu , Stephanie Hernandez , Mike Kautzky

Segmentation quality assessment (SQA) plays a critical role in the deployment of a medical image based AI system. Users need to be informed/alerted whenever an AI system generates unreliable/incorrect predictions. With the introduction of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Yizhe Zhang , Shuo Wang , Tao Zhou , Qi Dou , Danny Z. Chen

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) employing weak forms of labels has been actively studied to alleviate the annotation cost of acquiring pixel-level labels. However, classifiers trained on biased datasets tend to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 JuneHyoung Kwon , Eunju Lee , Yunsung Cho , YoungBin Kim

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated impressive generalization in prompt-based segmentation. Yet, the potential of semantic text prompts remains underexplored compared to traditional spatial prompts like points and boxes. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Shayan Jalilian , Abdul Bais

Segment Anything (SAM) has recently pushed the boundaries of segmentation by demonstrating zero-shot generalization and flexible prompting after training on over one billion masks. Despite this, its mask prediction accuracy often falls…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zezhong Fan , Xiaohan Li , Topojoy Biswas , Kaushiki Nag , Kannan Achan

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant attention for its impressive performance in image segmentation. However, it lacks proficiency in referring video object segmentation (RVOS) due to the need for precise user-interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yonglin Li , Jing Zhang , Xiao Teng , Long Lan , Xinwang Liu