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The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model that has revolutionised image segmentation. To apply SAM to surgical instrument segmentation, a common approach is to locate precise points or boxes of instruments and then use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Wenxi Yue , Jing Zhang , Kun Hu , Yong Xia , Jiebo Luo , Zhiyong Wang

Promptable foundation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) produce high-quality masks but remain semantically blind, relying on external prompts to specify categories. Existing vision-language approaches address this limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shayan Jalilian , Abdul Bais

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…

The remarkable capabilities of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) for tackling image segmentation tasks in an intuitive and interactive manner has sparked interest in the design of effective visual prompts. Such interest has led to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jorge Quesada , Zoe Fowler , Mohammad Alotaibi , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

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

The Segment-Anything Model (SAM) is a vision foundation model for segmentation with a prompt-driven framework. SAM generates class-agnostic masks based on user-specified instance-referring prompts. However, adapting SAM for automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Hussni Mohd Zakir , Eric Tatt Wei Ho

Foundation models such as the recently introduced Segment Anything Model (SAM) have achieved remarkable results in image segmentation tasks. However, these models typically require user interaction through handcrafted prompts such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mélanie Gaillochet , Christian Desrosiers , Hervé Lombaert

Segment Anything Model (SAM) is one of the pioneering prompt-based foundation models for image segmentation and has been rapidly adopted for various medical imaging applications. However, in clinical settings, creating effective prompts is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Chengyin Li , Prashant Khanduri , Yao Qiang , Rafi Ibn Sultan , Indrin Chetty , Dongxiao Zhu

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved notable progress in medical image segmentation. To achieve effective SSL, a model needs to be able to efficiently learn from limited labeled data and effectively exploiting knowledge from abundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Juzheng Miao , Cheng Chen , Keli Zhang , Jie Chuai , Quanzheng Li , Pheng-Ann Heng

Purpose: The Segment Anything Model (SAM) promises to ease the annotation bottleneck in medical segmentation, but overlapping anatomy and blurred boundaries make its point prompts ambiguous, leading to cycles of manual refinement to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Adrien Meyer , Lorenzo Arboit , Giuseppe Massimiani , Shih-Min Yin , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

The ability to segment objects based on open-ended language prompts remains a critical challenge, requiring models to ground textual semantics into precise spatial masks while handling diverse and unseen categories. We present OpenWorldSAM,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shiting Xiao , Rishabh Kabra , Yuhang Li , Donghyun Lee , Joao Carreira , Priyadarshini Panda

Recent advances in promptable segmentation, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have enabled flexible, high-quality mask generation across a wide range of visual domains. However, SAM and similar models remain fundamentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Tyler Ward , Abdullah Imran

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant attention because of its ability to segment various objects in images given a prompt. The recently developed SAM 2 has extended this ability to video inputs. This opens an opportunity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Haoyu Dong , Hanxue Gu , Yaqian Chen , Jichen Yang , Yuwen Chen , Maciej A. Mazurowski

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) made an eye-catching debut recently and inspired many researchers to explore its potential and limitation in terms of zero-shot generalization capability. As the first promptable foundation model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Dongjie Cheng , Ziyuan Qin , Zekun Jiang , Shaoting Zhang , Qicheng Lao , Kang Li

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

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated strong performance in image segmentation of natural scene images. However, its effectiveness diminishes markedly when applied to specific scientific domains, such as Scanning Probe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yao Shen , Ziwei Wei , Chunmeng Liu , Shuming Wei , Qi Zhao , Kaiyang Zeng , Guangyao Li

Segment Anything Model (SAM), a prompt-driven foundation model for natural image segmentation, has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance. However, SAM does not work when directly applied to medical image segmentation, since SAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Bin Xie , Hao Tang , Bin Duan , Dawen Cai , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated impressive performance in zero-shot promptable segmentation on natural images. The recently released Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) claims to outperform SAM on images and extends the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Sourya Sengupta , Satrajit Chakrabarty , Ravi Soni

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

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