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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

Image matting refers to predicting the alpha values of unknown foreground areas from natural images. Prior methods have focused on propagating alpha values from known to unknown regions. However, not all natural images have a specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Huanqia Cai , Fanglei Xue , Lele Xu , Lili Guo

Image assessment aims to evaluate the quality and aesthetics of images and has been applied across various scenarios, such as natural and AIGC scenes. Existing methods mostly address these sub-tasks or scenes individually. While some works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Hantao Zhou , Rui Yang , Longxiang Tang , Guanyi Qin , Runze Hu , Xiu Li

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a deep neural network foundational model designed to perform instance segmentation which has gained significant popularity given its zero-shot segmentation ability. SAM operates by generating masks based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Yona Falinie A. Gaus , Neelanjan Bhowmik , Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Toby P. Breckon

Most matting researches resort to advanced semantics to achieve high-quality alpha mattes, and direct low-level features combination is usually explored to complement alpha details. However, we argue that appearance-agnostic integration can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yu Qiao , Yuhao Liu , Ziqi Wei , Yuxin Wang , Qiang Cai , Guofeng Zhang , Xin Yang

Recently, the first foundation model developed specifically for image segmentation tasks was developed, termed the "Segment Anything Model" (SAM). SAM can segment objects in input imagery based on cheap input prompts, such as one (or more)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Simiao Ren , Francesco Luzi , Saad Lahrichi , Kaleb Kassaw , Leslie M. Collins , Kyle Bradbury , Jordan M. Malof

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…

Recently, Meta AI Research approaches a general, promptable Segment Anything Model (SAM) pre-trained on an unprecedentedly large segmentation dataset (SA-1B). Without a doubt, the emergence of SAM will yield significant benefits for a wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Wei Ji , Jingjing Li , Qi Bi , Tingwei Liu , Wenbo Li , Li Cheng

Real-world image matting is essential for applications in content creation and augmented reality. However, it remains challenging due to the complex nature of scenes and the scarcity of high-quality datasets. To address these limitations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Rui Liu

Natural image matting separates the foreground from background in fractional occupancy which can be caused by highly transparent objects, complex foreground (e.g., net or tree), and/or objects containing very fine details (e.g., hairs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Yanan Sun , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

Human instance matting aims to estimate an alpha matte for each human instance in an image, which is challenging as it easily fails in complex cases requiring disentangling mingled pixels belonging to multiple instances along hairy and thin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Siyi Jiao , Wenzheng Zeng , Yerong Li , Huayu Zhang , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang , Mike Zheng Shou

Superpixels are widely used in computer vision to simplify image representation and reduce computational complexity. While traditional methods rely on low-level features, deep learning-based approaches leverage high-level features but also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Julien Walther , Rémi Giraud , Michaël Clément

Semantic segmentation is a core task in computer vision. Existing methods are generally divided into two categories: automatic and interactive. Interactive approaches, exemplified by the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have shown promise as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Yimu Pan , Sitao Zhang , Alison D. Gernand , Jeffery A. Goldstein , James Z. Wang

Background: The segment-anything model (SAM), introduced in April 2023, shows promise as a benchmark model and a universal solution to segment various natural images. It comes without previously-required re-training or fine-tuning specific…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Sheng He , Rina Bao , Jingpeng Li , Jeffrey Stout , Atle Bjornerud , P. Ellen Grant , Yangming Ou

Recently, Segment Anything Model (SAM) shows exceptional performance in generating high-quality object masks and achieving zero-shot image segmentation. However, as a versatile vision model, SAM is primarily trained with large-scale natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Tianyu Yan , Zifu Wan , Xinhao Deng , Pingping Zhang , Yang Liu , Huchuan Lu

Image-to-recipe retrieval is a challenging vision-to-language task of significant practical value. The main challenge of the task lies in the ultra-high redundancy in the long recipe and the large variation reflected in both food item…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Bhanu Prakash Voutharoja , Peng Wang , Lei Wang , Vivienne Guan

Adaptive representations are increasingly indispensable for reducing the in-memory and on-disk footprints of large-scale data. Usual solutions are designed broadly along two themes: reducing data precision, e.g., through compression, or…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Harsh Bhatia , Duong Hoang , Nate Morrical , Valerio Pascucci , Peer-Timo Bremer , Peter Lindstrom

In contrast to the human vision that mainly depends on the shape for recognizing the objects, deep image recognition models are widely known to be biased toward texture. Recently, Meta research team has released the first foundation model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Chaoning Zhang , Yu Qiao , Shehbaz Tariq , Sheng Zheng , Chenshuang Zhang , Chenghao Li , Hyundong Shin , Choong Seon Hong

Local feature detection and description play an important role in many computer vision tasks, which are designed to detect and describe keypoints in "any scene" and "any downstream task". Data-driven local feature learning methods need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jingqian Wu , Rongtao Xu , Zach Wood-Doughty , Changwei Wang , Shibiao Xu , Edmund Y. Lam

Image matting aims to predict alpha values of elaborate uncertainty areas of natural images, like hairs, smoke, and spider web. However, existing methods perform poorly when faced with highly transparent foreground objects due to the large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Huanqia Cai , Fanglei Xue , Lele Xu , Lili Guo