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In the realm of artificial intelligence, the emergence of foundation models, backed by high computing capabilities and extensive data, has been revolutionary. Segment Anything Model (SAM), built on the Vision Transformer (ViT) model with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Xinyang Pu , Hecheng Jia , Linghao Zheng , Feng Wang , Feng Xu

Referring image segmentation is a fundamental vision-language task that aims to segment out an object referred to by a natural language expression from an image. One of the key challenges behind this task is leveraging the referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

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

Accurate segmentation of lesion regions is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment across various diseases. While deep convolutional networks have achieved satisfactory results in medical image segmentation, they face challenges such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yulin Chen , Guoheng Huang , Kai Huang , Zijin Lin , Guo Zhong , Shenghong Luo , Jie Deng , Jian Zhou

Referring image segmentation aims to localize and segment a target object in an image based on a free-form referring expression. The core challenge lies in effectively bridging linguistic descriptions with object-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiachen Li , Hongyun Wang , Jinyu Xu , Wenbo Jiang , Yanchun Ma , Yongjian Liu , Qing Xie , Bolong Zheng

Vision-language segmentation models such as SAM3 enable flexible, prompt-driven visual grounding, but inherit large, general-purpose text encoders originally designed for open-ended language understanding. In practice, segmentation prompts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chengxi Zeng , Yuxuan Jiang , Ge Gao , Shuai Wang , Duolikun Danier , Bin Zhu , Stevan Rudinac , David Bull , Fan Zhang

Recently, developing unified medical image segmentation models gains increasing attention, especially with the advent of the Segment Anything Model (SAM). SAM has shown promising binary segmentation performance in natural domains, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Shuangping Huang , Hao Liang , Qingfeng Wang , Chulong Zhong , Zijian Zhou , Miaojing Shi

Segment anything model (SAM) has emerged as the leading approach for zero-shot learning in segmentation tasks, offering the advantage of avoiding pixel-wise annotations. It is particularly appealing in medical image segmentation, where the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Ziyi Huang , Hongshan Liu , Haofeng Zhang , Xueshen Li , Haozhe Liu , Fuyong Xing , Andrew Laine , Elsa Angelini , Christine Hendon , Yu Gan

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) shows excellent performance in video object segmentation tasks; however, the heavy computational burden hinders its application in real-time video processing. Although there have been efforts to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jing Zhang , Zhikai Li , Xuewen Liu , Qingyi Gu

Semi-supervised learning has attracted much attention due to its less dependence on acquiring abundant annotations from experts compared to fully supervised methods, which is especially important for medical image segmentation which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yichi Zhang , Jin Yang , Yuchen Liu , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

Segment Anything (SAM) has recently pushed the boundaries of segmentation by demonstrating zero-shot generalization and flexible prompting after training on over one billion masks. Despite this, its mask prediction accuracy often falls…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zezhong Fan , Xiaohan Li , Topojoy Biswas , Kaushiki Nag , Kannan Achan

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in medical imaging. Although supervised learning techniques have proven to be effective in performing this task, they heavily depend on large amounts of annotated training data. The recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Ron Keuth , Lasse Hansen , Maren Balks , Ronja Jäger , Anne-Nele Schröder , Ludger Tüshaus , Mattias Heinrich

We present EfficientViT-SAM, a new family of accelerated segment anything models. We retain SAM's lightweight prompt encoder and mask decoder while replacing the heavy image encoder with EfficientViT. For the training, we begin with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Zhuoyang Zhang , Han Cai , Song Han

Segment anything model (SAM), a foundation model with superior versatility and generalization across diverse segmentation tasks, has attracted widespread attention in medical imaging. However, it has been proved that SAM would encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Xian Lin , Yangyang Xiang , Zhehao Wang , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Zengqiang Yan , Li Yu

The precise tracking and segmentation of surgical instruments have led to a remarkable enhancement in the efficiency of surgical procedures. However, the challenge lies in achieving accurate segmentation of surgical instruments while…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Jieming Yu , Long Bai , Guankun Wang , An Wang , Xiaoxiao Yang , Huxin Gao , Hongliang Ren

Updated building footprints with refugee camps from high-resolution satellite imagery can support related humanitarian operations. This study explores the utilization of the "Segment Anything Model" (SAM) and one of its branches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yunya Gao

Present-day deep neural networks for video semantic segmentation require a large number of fine-grained pixel-level annotations to achieve the best possible results. Obtaining such annotations, however, is very expensive. On the other hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Samik Some , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Semantic segmentation is an important topic in computer vision with many relevant application in Earth observation. While supervised methods exist, the constraints of limited annotated data has encouraged development of unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Pratik Vora , Sudipan Saha

Recently, content-aware methods have been employed to reduce bandwidth and enhance the quality of Internet video delivery. These methods involve training distinct content-aware super-resolution (SR) models for each video chunk on the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Rongyu Zhang , Xize Duan , Jiaming Liu , Li Du , Yuan Du , Dan Wang , Shanghang Zhang , Fangxin Wang

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