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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

Large foundation models, known for their strong zero-shot generalization, have excelled in visual and language applications. However, applying them to medical image segmentation, a domain with diverse imaging types and target labels,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Junde Wu , Jiayuan Zhu , Yueming Jin , Min Xu

Semantic segmentation labels are expensive and time consuming to acquire. Hence, pretraining is commonly used to improve the label-efficiency of segmentation models. Typically, the encoder of a segmentation model is pretrained as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Emmanuel Brempong Asiedu , Simon Kornblith , Ting Chen , Niki Parmar , Matthias Minderer , Mohammad Norouzi

Recent advances in language modeling have witnessed the rise of highly desirable emergent capabilities, such as reasoning and in-context learning. However, vision models have yet to exhibit comparable progress in these areas. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jike Zhong , Yuxiang Lai , Xiaofeng Yang , Konstantinos Psounis

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

Segmentation is vital for ophthalmology image analysis. But its various modal images hinder most of the existing segmentation algorithms applications, as they rely on training based on a large number of labels or hold weak generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Zhongxi Qiu , Yan Hu , Heng Li , Jiang Liu

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has attracted widespread attention for its superior interactive segmentation capabilities with visual prompts while lacking further exploration of text prompts. In this paper, we empirically investigate what…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yuxuan Zhang , Tianheng Cheng , Lianghui Zhu , Rui Hu , Lei Liu , Heng Liu , Longjin Ran , Xiaoxin Chen , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a promptable segmentation model recently introduced by Meta AI that has demonstrated its prowess across various fields beyond just image segmentation. SAM can accurately segment images across diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Junzhang Chen , Xiangzhi Bai

In this paper, we explore a principal way to enhance the quality of widely pre-existing coarse masks, enabling them to serve as reliable training data for segmentation models to reduce the annotation cost. In contrast to prior refinement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yuqi Lin , Hengjia Li , Wenqi Shao , Zheng Yang , Jun Zhao , Xiaofei He , Ping Luo , Kaipeng Zhang

Segmentation is a fundamental vision task underlying numerous downstream applications. Recent promptable segmentation models, such as Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3), extend segmentation from category-agnostic mask prediction to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shuang Liang , Zeqing Wang , Yuxian Li , Xihui Liu , Han Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel Visual Reference Prompt (VRP) encoder that empowers the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to utilize annotated reference images as prompts for segmentation, creating the VRP-SAM model. In essence, VRP-SAM can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yanpeng Sun , Jiahui Chen , Shan Zhang , Xinyu Zhang , Xiaofan Li , Qiang Chen , Gang Zhang , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Zechao Li

Semantic Segmentation combines two sub-tasks: the identification of pixel-level image masks and the application of semantic labels to those masks. Recently, so-called Foundation Models have been introduced; general models trained on very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 David Balaban , Justin Medich , Pranay Gosar , Justin Hart

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation with weak labels is a long-lived ill-posed problem. Mainstream methods mainly focus on improving the quality of pseudo labels. In this report, we attempt to explore the potential of 'prompt to masks'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Peng-Tao Jiang , Yuqi Yang

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 widely used for segmenting a diverse range of objects in natural images from simple user prompts like points or bounding boxes. However, SAM's performance decreases substantially when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tristan Piater , Björn Barz , Alexander Freytag

Pretrained visual-language models have demonstrated impressive zero-shot abilities in image captioning, when accompanied by hand-crafted prompts. Meanwhile, hand-crafted prompts utilize human prior knowledge to guide the model. However, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Hongchen Wei , Zhenzhong Chen

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

Prompt engineering has shown remarkable success with large language models, yet its systematic exploration in computer vision remains limited. In semantic segmentation, both textual and visual prompts offer distinct advantages: textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Gabriele Rosi , Fabio Cermelli

The universality of deep neural networks across different modalities and their generalization capabilities to unseen domains play an essential role in medical image segmentation. The recent segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Qing Xu , Jiaxuan Li , Xiangjian He , Chenxin Li , Fiseha B. Tesem , Wenting Duan , Zhen Chen , Rong Qu , Jonathan M. Garibaldi , Chang Wen Chen

Text prompts are crucial for generalizing pre-trained open-set object detection models to new categories. However, current methods for text prompts are limited as they require manual feedback when generalizing to new categories, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Qibo Chen , Weizhong Jin , Shuchang Li , Mengdi Liu , Li Yu , Jian Jiang , Xiaozheng Wang