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The Segmentation Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has proven to be a powerful foundation model for promptable visual object segmentation in both images and videos, capable of storing object-aware memories and transferring them temporally through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Syed Hesham Syed Ariff , Yun Liu , Guolei Sun , Jing Yang , Henghui Ding , Xue Geng , Xudong Jiang

The existing crowd counting models require extensive training data, which is time-consuming to annotate. To tackle this issue, we propose a simple yet effective crowd counting method by utilizing the Segment-Everything-Everywhere Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jia Wan , Qiangqiang Wu , Wei Lin , Antoni B. Chan

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) aims to track objects across frames in a video and segment them based on the initial annotated frame of the target objects. Previous VOS works typically rely on fully annotated videos for training. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Baiyu Chen , Sixian Chan , Xiaoqin Zhang

Foundation models have taken over natural language processing and image generation domains due to the flexibility of prompting. With the recent introduction of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), this prompt-driven paradigm has entered image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Saikat Roy , Tassilo Wald , Gregor Koehler , Maximilian R. Rokuss , Nico Disch , Julius Holzschuh , David Zimmerer , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

The recently released Segment Anything Model (SAM) has shown powerful zero-shot segmentation capabilities through a semi-automatic annotation setup in which the user can provide a prompt in the form of clicks or bounding boxes. There is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Benjamin Towle , Xin Chen , Ke Zhou

Object counting is a fundamental task in computer vision, with broad applicability in many real-world scenarios. Fully-supervised counting methods require costly point-level annotations per object. Few weakly-supervised methods leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xiaowen Zhang , Zijie Yue , Yong Luo , Cairong Zhao , Qijun Chen , Miaojing Shi

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to bypass the need for laborious pixel-level annotation by using only image-level annotation. Most existing methods rely on Class Activation Maps (CAM) to derive pixel-level pseudo-labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Tianle Chen , Zheda Mai , Ruiwen Li , Wei-lun Chao

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) emerges as a powerful vision foundation model to generate high-quality 2D segmentation results. This paper aims to generalize SAM to segment 3D objects. Rather than replicating the data acquisition and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Jiazhong Cen , Jiemin Fang , Zanwei Zhou , Chen Yang , Lingxi Xie , Xiaopeng Zhang , Wei Shen , Qi Tian

We introduce a new task of open-world object counting in videos: given a text description, or an image example, that specifies the target object, the objective is to enumerate all the unique instances of the target objects in the video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Niki Amini-Naieni , Andrew Zisserman

Recognizing objects from sparse and noisy events becomes extremely difficult when paired images and category labels do not exist. In this paper, we study label-free event-based object recognition where category labels and paired images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Hoonhee Cho , Hyeonseong Kim , Yujeong Chae , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is an active research area of the visual domain. One of its fundamental sub-tasks is semi-supervised / one-shot learning: given only the segmentation mask for the first frame, the task is to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Fatemeh Azimi , Benjamin Bischke , Sebastian Palacio , Federico Raue , Joern Hees , Andreas Dengel

Understanding objects in videos in terms of fine-grained localization masks and detailed semantic properties is a fundamental task in video understanding. In this paper, we propose VoCap, a flexible video model that consumes a video and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jasper Uijlings , Xingyi Zhou , Xiuye Gu , Arsha Nagrani , Anurag Arnab , Alireza Fathi , David Ross , Cordelia Schmid

We propose the SAL (Segment Anything in Lidar) method consisting of a text-promptable zero-shot model for segmenting and classifying any object in Lidar, and a pseudo-labeling engine that facilitates model training without manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Aljoša Ošep , Tim Meinhardt , Francesco Ferroni , Neehar Peri , Deva Ramanan , Laura Leal-Taixé

Object permanence in humans is a fundamental cue that helps in understanding persistence of objects, even when they are fully occluded in the scene. Present day methods in object segmentation do not account for this amodal nature of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Kaihua Chen , Deva Ramanan , Tarasha Khurana

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), developed by Meta AI Research, represents a significant breakthrough in computer vision, offering a robust framework for image and video segmentation. This survey provides a comprehensive exploration of the…

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance and brought a range of unexplored capabilities to natural image segmentation tasks. However, as a very important branch of image segmentation, the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Bin Xie , Hao Tang , Dawen Cai , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

Learning object segmentation in image and video datasets without human supervision is a challenging problem. Humans easily identify moving salient objects in videos using the gestalt principle of common fate, which suggests that what moves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Silky Singh , Shripad Deshmukh , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Segment anything model (SAM) addresses two practical yet challenging segmentation tasks: \textbf{segment anything (SegAny)}, which utilizes a certain point to predict the mask for a single object of interest, and \textbf{segment everything…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Chaoning Zhang , Dongshen Han , Sheng Zheng , Jinwoo Choi , Tae-Ho Kim , Choong Seon Hong

Extracting small objects from remote sensing imagery plays a vital role in various applications, including urban planning, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. While current research primarily focuses on small object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Chenhao Wang , Yingrui Ji , Yu Meng , Yunjian Zhang , Yao Zhu

Instance segmentation of surgical instruments is a long-standing research problem, crucial for the development of many applications for computer-assisted surgery. This problem is commonly tackled via fully-supervised training of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Luca Sestini , Benoit Rosa , Elena De Momi , Giancarlo Ferrigno , Nicolas Padoy