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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

Promptable segmentation has emerged as a powerful paradigm in computer vision, enabling users to guide models in parsing complex scenes with prompts such as clicks, boxes, or textual cues. Recent advances, exemplified by the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yoonwoo Jeong , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Minsu Cho , Jaesung Choe

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful vision foundation model that is revolutionizing the traditional paradigm of segmentation. Despite this, a reliance on prompting each frame and large computational cost limit its usage in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zijian Wu , Adam Schmidt , Peter Kazanzides , Septimiu E. Salcudean

The ability to segment objects based on open-ended language prompts remains a critical challenge, requiring models to ground textual semantics into precise spatial masks while handling diverse and unseen categories. We present OpenWorldSAM,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shiting Xiao , Rishabh Kabra , Yuhang Li , Donghyun Lee , Joao Carreira , Priyadarshini Panda

Existing perception models achieve great success by learning from large amounts of labeled data, but they still struggle with open-world scenarios. To alleviate this issue, researchers introduce open-set perception tasks to detect or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Zhi Tang

Segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, with prompt-driven methods gaining prominence due to their flexibility. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at point-prompted segmentation, while text-based models, often leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Suzhe Xu , Jialin Peng , Chengyuan Zhang

Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation (UVOS) aims at discovering objects and tracking them through videos. For accurate UVOS, we observe if one can locate precise segment proposals on key frames, subsequent processes are much simpler.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Jialin Yuan , Jay Patravali , Hung Nguyen , Chanho Kim , Li Fuxin

Video segmentation is essential for advancing robotics and autonomous driving, particularly in open-world settings where continuous perception and object association across video frames are critical. While the Segment Anything Model (SAM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Pinxue Guo , Zixu Zhao , Jianxiong Gao , Chongruo Wu , Tong He , Zheng Zhang , Tianjun Xiao , Wenqiang Zhang

Given a single labeled example, in-context segmentation aims to segment corresponding objects. This setting, known as one-shot segmentation in few-shot learning, explores the segmentation model's generalization ability and has been applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Mengshi Qi , Pengfei Zhu , Xiangtai Li , Xiaoyang Bi , Lu Qi , Huadong Ma , Ming-Hsuan Yang

We present IMAS, a method that segments the primary objects in videos without manual annotation in training or inference. Previous methods in unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) have demonstrated the effectiveness of motion as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Long Lian , Zhirong Wu , Stella X. Yu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at generating precise object masks from input prompts but lacks semantic awareness, failing to associate its generated masks with specific object categories. To address this limitation, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Rohit Kundu , Sudipta Paul , Arindam Dutta , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), with its prompt-driven paradigm, exhibits strong generalization in generic segmentation tasks. However, applying SAM to remote sensing (RS) images still faces two major challenges. First, manually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Hanbo Bi , Yulong Xu , Ya Li , Yongqiang Mao , Boyuan Tong , Chongyang Li , Chunbo Lang , Wenhui Diao , Hongqi Wang , Yingchao Feng , Xian Sun

In digital pathology, precise nuclei segmentation is pivotal yet challenged by the diversity of tissue types, staining protocols, and imaging conditions. Recently, the segment anything model (SAM) revealed overwhelming performance in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Zhen Chen , Qing Xu , Xinyu Liu , Yixuan Yuan

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is foundational to numerous computer vision applications, including surveillance, autonomous driving, robotics and generative video editing. However, existing VOS models often struggle with precise mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Elham Soltani Kazemi , Imad Eddine Toubal , Gani Rahmon , Jaired Collins , K. Palaniappan

Medical image segmentation is a crucial and time-consuming task in clinical care, where mask precision is extremely important. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) offers a promising approach, as it provides an interactive interface based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Julien Khlaut , Elodie Ferreres , Daniel Tordjman , Hélène Philippe , Tom Boeken , Pierre Manceron , Corentin Dancette

Video object segmentation aims at accurately segmenting the target object regions across consecutive frames. It is technically challenging for coping with complicated factors (e.g., shape deformations, occlusion and out of the lens). Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Peng Sun , Peiwen Lin , Guangliang Cheng , Jianping Shi , Jiawan Zhang , Xi Li

Current state-of-the-art object detection and segmentation methods work well under the closed-world assumption. This closed-world setting assumes that the list of object categories is available during training and deployment. However, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Weiyao Wang , Matt Feiszli , Heng Wang , Du Tran

Amodal perception requires inferring the full shape of an object that is partially occluded. This task is particularly challenging on two levels: (1) it requires more information than what is contained in the instant retina or imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Jian Yao , Yuxin Hong , Chiyu Wang , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Francesco Locatello , David Wipf , Yanwei Fu , Zheng Zhang

Online unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) uses the previous frames as its input to automatically separate the primary object(s) from a streaming video without using any further manual annotation. A major challenge is that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Lin Xi , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhong Liu , Zhengguo Li

Weakly supervised video object segmentation (WSVOS) enables the identification of segmentation maps without requiring an extensive training dataset of object masks, relying instead on coarse video labels indicating object presence. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Guiqiu Liao , Matjaz Jogan , Sai Koushik , Eric Eaton , Daniel A. Hashimoto