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The segment anything model (SAM) was released as a foundation model for image segmentation. The promptable segmentation model was trained by over 1 billion masks on 11M licensed and privacy-respecting images. The model supports zero-shot…

Detecting acoustic shadows in ultrasound images is important in many clinical and engineering applications. Real-time feedback of acoustic shadows can guide sonographers to a standardized diagnostic viewing plane with minimal artifacts and…

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits remarkable versatility and zero-shot learning abilities, owing largely to its extensive training data (SA-1B). Recognizing SAM's dependency on manual guidance given its category-agnostic nature, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Xiyu Qi , Yifan Wu , Yongqiang Mao , Wenhui Zhang , Yidan Zhang

Existing methods for instance segmentation in videos typically involve multi-stage pipelines that follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm and model a video clip as a sequence of images. Multiple networks are used to detect objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Ali Athar , Sabarinath Mahadevan , Aljoša Ošep , Laura Leal-Taixé , Bastian Leibe

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

Few-shot segmentation aims to segment unseen object categories from just a handful of annotated examples. This requires mechanisms that can both identify semantically related objects across images and accurately produce segmentation masks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Claudia Cuttano , Gabriele Trivigno , Giuseppe Averta , Carlo Masone

Shadows, formed by the occlusion of light, play an essential role in visual perception and directly influence scene understanding, image quality, and visual realism. This paper presents a unified survey and benchmark of deep-learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Xiaowei Hu , Zhenghao Xing , Tianyu Wang , Chi-Wing Fu , Pheng-Ann Heng

"Background subtraction" is an old technique for finding moving objects in a video sequence for example, cars driving on a freeway. The idea is that subtracting the current image from a timeaveraged background image will leave only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Nir Friedman , Stuart Russell

Shadow detection is a fundamental and challenging task in many computer vision applications. Intuitively, most shadows come from the occlusion of light by the object itself, resulting in the object and its shadow being contiguous (referred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Yonghui Wang , Shaokai Liu , Li Li , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Recent advances in segmentation foundation models have enabled accurate and efficient segmentation across a wide range of natural images and videos, but their utility to medical data remains unclear. In this work, we first present a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Jun Ma , Sumin Kim , Feifei Li , Mohammed Baharoon , Reza Asakereh , Hongwei Lyu , Bo Wang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is the first foundation model for general image segmentation. It has achieved impressive results on various natural image segmentation tasks. However, medical image segmentation (MIS) is more challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Lian Liu , Han Zhou , Ao Chang , Xinrui Zhou , Rusi Chen , Junxuan Yu , Jiongquan Chen , Chaoyu Chen , Sijing Liu , Haozhe Chi , Xindi Hu , Kejuan Yue , Lei Li , Vicente Grau , Deng-Ping Fan , Fajin Dong , Dong Ni

In the realm of artificial intelligence, the emergence of foundation models, backed by high computing capabilities and extensive data, has been revolutionary. Segment Anything Model (SAM), built on the Vision Transformer (ViT) model with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Xinyang Pu , Hecheng Jia , Linghao Zheng , Feng Wang , Feng Xu

We propose Segment Any Mesh, a novel zero-shot mesh part segmentation method that overcomes the limitations of shape analysis-based, learning-based, and contemporary approaches. Our approach operates in two phases: multimodal rendering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 George Tang , William Zhao , Logan Ford , David Benhaim , Paul Zhang

Present-day deep neural networks for video semantic segmentation require a large number of fine-grained pixel-level annotations to achieve the best possible results. Obtaining such annotations, however, is very expensive. On the other hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Samik Some , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Amodal segmentation is a challenging task that aims to predict the complete geometric shape of objects, including their occluded regions. Although existing methods primarily focus on amodal segmentation within the training domain, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Bo Zhang , Zhuotao Tian , Xin Tao , Songlin Tang , Jun Yu , Wenjie Pei

The absence of robust segmentation frameworks for noisy liquid phase transmission electron microscopy (LPTEM) videos prevents reliable extraction of particle trajectories, creating a major barrier to quantitative analysis and to connecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Alexander Wang , Max Xu , Risha Goel , Zain Shabeeb , Isabel Panicker , Vida Jamali

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

This paper presents the Autonomous Driving Segment Anything Model (AD-SAM), a fine-tuned vision foundation model for semantic segmentation in autonomous driving (AD). AD-SAM extends the Segment Anything Model (SAM) with a dual-encoder and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Mario Camarena , Het Patel , Fatemeh Nazari , Evangelos Papalexakis , Mohamadhossein Noruzoliaee , Jia Chen

Recently segment anything model (SAM) has attracted widespread concerns, and it is often treated as a vision foundation model for universal segmentation. Some researchers have attempted to directly apply the foundation model to the RGB-D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jia Lin , Xiaofei Zhou , Jiyuan Liu , Runmin Cong , Guodao Zhang , Zhi Liu , Jiyong Zhang

Previous work has reported that vision foundation models show promising zero-shot performance in eye image segmentation. Here we examine whether the latest iteration of the Segment Anything Model, SAM3, offers better eye image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Diederick C. Niehorster , Marcus Nyström