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The performance of image segmentation models has historically been constrained by the high cost of collecting large-scale annotated data. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) alleviates this original problem through a promptable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Miguel Espinosa , Chenhongyi Yang , Linus Ericsson , Steven McDonagh , Elliot J. Crowley

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model that introduced revolutionary advancements in natural image segmentation. However, its performance remains sub-optimal when delineating the intricate structure of biomedical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Xiangru Li , Yifei Zhang , Liang Zhao

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has achieved impressive performance in many computer vision tasks. However, as a large-scale model, the immense memory and computation costs hinder its practical deployment. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Chengtao Lv , Hong Chen , Jinyang Guo , Yifu Ding , Xianglong Liu

The recently introduced Segment Anything Model (SAM), a Visual Foundation Model (VFM), has demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot segmentation tasks across diverse natural image datasets. Despite its success, SAM encounters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Chunpeng Zhou , Kangjie Ning , Qianqian Shen , Sheng Zhou , Zhi Yu , Haishuai Wang

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

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated exceptional performance and versatility, making it a promising tool for various related tasks. In this report, we explore the application of SAM in Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Weixuan Sun , Zheyuan Liu , Yanhao Zhang , Yiran Zhong , Nick Barnes

Recently, promptable segmentation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have demonstrated robust zero-shot generalization capabilities on static images. These promptable models exhibit denoising abilities for imprecise prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Tao Zhou , Wenhan Luo , Qi Ye , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment new classes using few annotated images. While recent FSS methods have shown considerable improvements by leveraging Segment Anything Model (SAM), they face two critical limitations: insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shuai Chen , Fanman Meng , Liming Lei , Haoran Wei , Chenhao Wu , Qingbo Wu , Linfeng Xu , Hongliang Li

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant attention in the field of image segmentation due to its impressive capabilities and prompt-based interface. While SAM has already been extensively evaluated in various domains, its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-01 Botond Fazekas , José Morano , Dmitrii Lachinov , Guilherme Aresta , Hrvoje Bogunović

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits a capability to segment a wide array of objects in natural images, serving as a versatile perceptual tool for various downstream image segmentation tasks. In contrast, medical image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yizhe Zhang , Tao Zhou , Shuo Wang , Ye Wu , Pengfei Gu , Danny Z. Chen

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has recently shown its powerful effectiveness in visual segmentation tasks. However, there is less exploration concerning how SAM works on audio-visual tasks, such as visual sound localization and segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Shentong Mo , Yapeng Tian

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

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

The objective of this paper is motion segmentation -- discovering and segmenting the moving objects in a video. This is a much studied area with numerous careful, and sometimes complex, approaches and training schemes including:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Junyu Xie , Charig Yang , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), a profound vision foundation model pretrained on a large-scale dataset, breaks the boundaries of general segmentation and sparks various downstream applications. This paper introduces Hi-SAM, a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Maoyuan Ye , Jing Zhang , Juhua Liu , Chenyu Liu , Baocai Yin , Cong Liu , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao

Automated feature detection in historical maps can significantly accelerate the reconstruction of the geospatial past. However, this process is often constrained by the time-consuming task of manually digitizing sufficient high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Xue Xia , Daiwei Zhang , Wenxuan Song , Wei Huang , Lorenz Hurni

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

Recent studies have highlighted the potential of adapting the Segment Anything Model (SAM) for various downstream tasks. However, constructing a more powerful and generalizable encoder to further enhance performance remains an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xinyu Xiong , Zihuang Wu , Lei Zhang , Lei Lu , Ming Li , Guanbin Li

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) achieves strong open-vocabulary segmentation, but its ViT-based image encoders dominate inference latency and memory. Existing activation compression methods, such as token merging, reduce the token length…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hoai-Chau Tran , Chi H. Nguyen , Duy M. H. Nguyen , Mathias Niepert , Fan Lai , Khoa D. Doan

Large foundation models, known for their strong zero-shot generalization capabilities, can be applied to a wide range of downstream tasks. However, developing foundation models for medical image segmentation poses a significant challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Sihan Yang , Jiadong Feng , Xuande Mi , Haixia Bi , Hai Zhang , Jian Sun