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Current top-leading solutions for video object segmentation (VOS) typically follow a matching-based regime: for each query frame, the segmentation mask is inferred according to its correspondence to previously processed and the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Yurong Zhang , Liulei Li , Wenguan Wang , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) family has become a widely adopted vision foundation model, but its ability to control segmentation granularity remains limited. Users often need to refine results manually - by adding more prompts or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Junwei Yu , Trevor Darrell , XuDong Wang

Video object segmentation (VOS) describes the task of segmenting a set of objects in each frame of a video. In the semi-supervised setting, the first mask of each object is provided at test time. Following the one-shot principle,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Tim Meinhardt , Laura Leal-Taixe

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant recognition in the field of semantic segmentation due to its versatile capabilities and impressive performance. Despite its success, SAM faces two primary limitations: (1) it relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuchen Li , Li Zhang , Youwei Liang , Pengtao Xie

Large-scale pre-trained audio and image models demonstrate an unprecedented degree of generalization, making them suitable for a wide range of applications. Here, we tackle the specific task of sound-prompted segmentation, aiming to segment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Hugo Malard , Michel Olvera , Stephane Lathuiliere , Slim Essid

Image segmentation methods are usually trained with pixel-level annotations, which require significant human effort to collect. The most common solution to address this constraint is to implement weakly-supervised pipelines trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Miriam Bellver , Amaia Salvador , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation models aim to accurately assign a semantic label to each pixel in an image from a set of arbitrary open-vocabulary texts. In order to learn such pixel-level alignment, current approaches typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zihang Lai

The advent of foundation models signals a new era in artificial intelligence. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is the first foundation model for image segmentation. In this study, we evaluate SAM's ability to segment features from eye…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Virmarie Maquiling , Sean Anthony Byrne , Diederick C. Niehorster , Marcus Nyström , Enkelejda Kasneci

Semantic segmentation plays an important role in intelligent vehicles, providing pixel-level semantic information about the environment. However, the labeling budget is expensive and time-consuming when semantic segmentation model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Weihao Yan , Yeqiang Qian , Yueyuan Li , Tao Li , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Semantic segmentation requires dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. To address this, we present SeSAM, a framework that uses a foundational segmentation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anurag Das , Anna Kukleva , Xinting Hu , Yuki M. Asano , Bernt Schiele

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) aims to segment and recognize objects universally. Trained on extensive high-quality segmentation data, the segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable universal segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Lin Chen , Yingjian Zhu , Qi Yang , Xin Niu , Kun Ding , Shiming Xiang

Pretraining with large-scale 3D volumes has a potential for improving the segmentation performance on a target medical image dataset where the training images and annotations are limited. Due to the high cost of acquiring pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Guotai Wang , Jianghao Wu , Xiangde Luo , Xinglong Liu , Kang Li , Shaoting Zhang

Despite advancements in user-guided video segmentation, extracting complex objects consistently for highly complex scenes is still a labor-intensive task, especially for production. It is not uncommon that a majority of frames need to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Maksym Bekuzarov , Ariana Bermudez , Joon-Young Lee , Hao Li

We introduce the first zero-shot approach for Video Semantic Segmentation (VSS) based on pre-trained diffusion models. A growing research direction attempts to employ diffusion models to perform downstream vision tasks by exploiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Qian Wang , Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Mohit Mendiratta , Fangneng Zhan , Adam Kortylewski , Christian Theobalt , Peter Wonka

Temporal Action Segmentation (TAS) requires dividing videos into action segments, yet the vast space of activities and alternative breakdowns makes collecting comprehensive datasets infeasible. Existing methods remain limited to closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Asim Unmesh , Kaki Ramesh , Mayank Patel , Rahul Jain , Karthik Ramani

Self-supervised Object Segmentation (SOS) aims to segment objects without any annotations. Under conditions of multi-camera inputs, the structural, textural and geometrical consistency among each view can be leveraged to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Xiaoyun Zheng , Liwei Liao , Jianbo Jiao , Feng Gao , Ronggang Wang

Video object segmentation (VOS) is a critical task in the development of video perception and understanding. The Segment-Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), released by Meta AI, is the current state-of-the-art architecture for end-to-end VOS. SAM 2…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Clayton Bromley , Alexander Moore , Amar Saini , Doug Poland , Carmen Carrano

Pixel-level vision tasks, such as semantic segmentation, require extensive and high-quality annotated data, which is costly to obtain. Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSSS) has emerged as a solution to alleviate the labeling burden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Danhui Chen , Ziquan Liu , Chuxi Yang , Dan Wang , Yan Yan , Yi Xu , Xiangyang Ji

For further progress in video object segmentation (VOS), larger, more diverse, and more challenging datasets will be necessary. However, densely labeling every frame with pixel masks does not scale to large datasets. We use a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Paul Voigtlaender , Lishu Luo , Chun Yuan , Yong Jiang , Bastian Leibe

Medical image segmentation often faces the challenge of prohibitively expensive annotation costs. While few-shot learning offers a promising solution to alleviate this burden, conventional approaches still rely heavily on pre-training with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jie Xu , Xiaokang Li , Chengyu Yue , Yuanyuan Wang , Yi Guo