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Using deep learning, we now have the ability to create exceptionally good semantic segmentation systems; however, collecting the prerequisite pixel-wise annotations for training images remains expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Aneesh Rangnekar , Christopher Kanan , Matthew Hoffman

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to bypass the need for laborious pixel-level annotation by using only image-level annotation. Most existing methods rely on Class Activation Maps (CAM) to derive pixel-level pseudo-labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Tianle Chen , Zheda Mai , Ruiwen Li , Wei-lun Chao

Audio-based video object segmentation aims to locate and segment objects in videos conditioned on audio cues, requiring precise understanding of both appearance and motion. Recent audio-driven video segmentation methods extend MLLMs by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhiyu Wang , Xudong Kang , Shutao Li

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model for image segmentation, showing robust zero-shot generalization through prompt engineering. However, relying on manual prompts is impractical for real-world applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yi Chen , Mu-Young Son , Chuanbo Hua , Joo-Young Kim

With the rapid advancement of autonomous driving, vehicle perception, particularly detection and segmentation, has placed increasingly higher demands on algorithmic performance. Pre-trained large segmentation models, especially Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Xiao Wang , Ziwen Wang , Wentao Wu , Anjie Wang , Jiashu Wu , Yantao Pan , Chenglong Li

Foundational models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) are gaining traction in medical imaging segmentation, supporting multiple downstream tasks. However, such models are supervised in nature, still relying on large annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Aishik Konwer , Zhijian Yang , Erhan Bas , Cao Xiao , Prateek Prasanna , Parminder Bhatia , Taha Kass-Hout

Community researchers have developed a range of advanced audio-visual segmentation models aimed at improving the quality of sounding objects' masks. While masks created by these models may initially appear plausible, they occasionally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Peiwen Sun , Honggang Zhang , Di Hu

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to localize sound-producing objects at the pixel level by jointly leveraging auditory and visual information. However, existing methods often suffer from multi-source entanglement and audio-visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Jingqi Tian , Yiheng Du , Haoji Zhang , Yuji Wang , Isaac Ning Lee , Xulong Bai , Tianrui Zhu , Jingxuan Niu , Yansong Tang

Segment Anything Model (SAM), a prompt-driven foundation model for natural image segmentation, has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance. However, SAM does not work when directly applied to medical image segmentation, since SAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Bin Xie , Hao Tang , Bin Duan , Dawen Cai , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

Audio-visual video segmentation~(AVVS) aims to generate pixel-level maps of sound-producing objects within image frames and ensure the maps faithfully adhere to the given audio, such as identifying and segmenting a singing person in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Kexin Li , Zongxin Yang , Lei Chen , Yi Yang , Jun Xiao

The current state-of-the-art methods for unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) require extensive training on video datasets with mask annotations, limiting their effectiveness in handling challenging scenarios. However, the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Zhenghao Zhang , Shengfan Zhang , Zhichao Wei , Zuozhuo Dai , Siyu Zhu

Medical image segmentation is a key task in the imaging workflow, influencing many image-based decisions. Traditional, fully-supervised segmentation models rely on large amounts of labeled training data, typically obtained through manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Tyler Ward , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Reference Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to segment objects in audible videos based on multimodal cues in reference expressions. Previous methods overlook the explicit recognition of expression difficulty and dominant modality in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yuan Zhao , Zhenqi Jia , Yongqiang Zhang

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in computer vision, where each pixel in an image is classified into a category. However, traditional methods face significant challenges, including the need for pixel-level annotations and extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yasufumi Kawano , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) offers immense potential in the field of medical image analysis, enabling accurate object segmentation with limited training data. However, existing FSS techniques heavily rely on annotated semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

Audio and visual signals typically occur simultaneously, and humans possess an innate ability to correlate and synchronize information from these two modalities. Recently, a challenging problem known as Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yuxuan Wang , Jinchao Zhu , Feng Dong , Shuyue Zhu

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is crucial for several applications, from video editing to video data generation. Training a VOS model requires an abundance of manually labeled training videos. The de-facto traditional way of annotating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Thanos Delatolas , Vicky Kalogeiton , Dim P. Papadopoulos

The essence of audio-visual segmentation (AVS) lies in locating and delineating sound-emitting objects within a video stream. While Transformer-based methods have shown promise, their handling of long-range dependencies struggles due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Sitong Gong , Yunzhi Zhuge , Lu Zhang , Yifan Wang , Pingping Zhang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu

Segmentation is a fundamental problem in surgical scene analysis using artificial intelligence. However, the inherent data scarcity in this domain makes it challenging to adapt traditional segmentation techniques for this task. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jay N. Paranjape , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

Language-referred audio-visual segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to segment target objects described by natural language by jointly reasoning over video, audio, and text. Beyond generating segmentation masks, providing rich and interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jinxing Zhou , Yanghao Zhou , Yaoting Wang , Zongyan Han , Jiaqi Ma , Henghui Ding , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Hisham Cholakkal