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Robust and accurate segmentation of scenes has become one core functionality in various visual recognition and navigation tasks. This has inspired the recent development of Segment Anything Model (SAM), a foundation model for general mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Aoran Xiao , Weihao Xuan , Heli Qi , Yun Xing , Naoto Yokoya , Shijian Lu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has recently emerged as a groundbreaking foundation model for prompt-driven image segmentation tasks. However, both the original SAM and its medical variants require slice-by-slice manual prompting of target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yichi Zhang , Shiyao Hu , Sijie Ren , Chen Jiang , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

The availability of large-scale remote sensing video data underscores the importance of high-quality interactive segmentation. However, challenges such as small object sizes, ambiguous features, and limited generalization make it difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhe Shan , Yang Liu , Lei Zhou , Cheng Yan , Heng Wang , Xia Xie

Recently, the first foundation model developed specifically for image segmentation tasks was developed, termed the "Segment Anything Model" (SAM). SAM can segment objects in input imagery based on cheap input prompts, such as one (or more)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Simiao Ren , Francesco Luzi , Saad Lahrichi , Kaleb Kassaw , Leslie M. Collins , Kyle Bradbury , Jordan M. Malof

Entity Segmentation (ES) aims at identifying and segmenting distinct entities within an image without the need for predefined class labels. This characteristic makes ES well-suited to open-world applications with adaptation to diverse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Weiming Zhang , Dingwen Xiao , Lei Chen , Lin Wang

Recent video foundation models such as SAM2 excel at prompted video segmentation by treating masks as a general-purpose primitive. However, many real-world settings require unprompted segmentation that aims to detect and track all objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Miran Heo , Sukjun Hwang , Min-Hung Chen , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Albert Gu , Seon Joo Kim , Ryo Hachiuma

Semantic segmentation requires dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. To address this, we present SeSAM, a framework that uses a foundational segmentation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anurag Das , Anna Kukleva , Xinting Hu , Yuki M. Asano , Bernt Schiele

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery plays a pivotal role in extracting precise information for diverse down-stream applications. Recent development of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), an advanced general-purpose segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Xianping Ma , Qianqian Wu , Xingyu Zhao , Xiaokang Zhang , Man-On Pun , Bo Huang

Pixel-level vision tasks, such as semantic segmentation, require extensive and high-quality annotated data, which is costly to obtain. Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSSS) has emerged as a solution to alleviate the labeling burden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Danhui Chen , Ziquan Liu , Chuxi Yang , Dan Wang , Yan Yan , Yi Xu , Xiangyang Ji

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

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

End-to-end medical image segmentation is of great value for computer-aided diagnosis dominated by task-specific models, usually suffering from poor generalization. With recent breakthroughs brought by the segment anything model (SAM) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xian Lin , Yangyang Xiang , Li Yu , Zengqiang Yan

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a foundational model for image segmentation tasks, known for its strong generalization across diverse applications. However, its impressive performance comes with significant computational and resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xiaorui Sun , Jun Liu , Heng Tao Shen , Xiaofeng Zhu , Ping Hu

Foundational models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) are gaining traction in medical imaging segmentation, supporting multiple downstream tasks. However, such models are supervised in nature, still relying on large annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Aishik Konwer , Zhijian Yang , Erhan Bas , Cao Xiao , Prateek Prasanna , Parminder Bhatia , Taha Kass-Hout

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at general image segmentation but has limited ability to understand natural language, which restricts its direct application in Referring Expression Segmentation (RES). Toward this end, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Wei Tang , Xuejing Liu , Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li

The development of compact and energy-efficient wearable sensors has led to an increase in the availability of biosignals. To analyze these continuously recorded, and often multidimensional, time series at scale, being able to conduct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Knut J. Strømmen , Jim Tørresen , Ulysse Côté-Allard

Segment Anything Model (SAM), known for its remarkable zero-shot segmentation capabilities, has garnered significant attention in the community. Nevertheless, its performance is challenged when dealing with what we refer to as visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Guangqian Guo , Pengfei Chen , Yong Guo , Huafeng Chen , Boqiang Zhang , Shan Gao

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), a foundational model designed for promptable segmentation tasks, demonstrates exceptional generalization capabilities, making it highly promising for natural scene image segmentation. However, SAM's lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Linghao Zheng , Xinyang Pu , Feng Xu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a deep neural network foundational model designed to perform instance segmentation which has gained significant popularity given its zero-shot segmentation ability. SAM operates by generating masks based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Yona Falinie A. Gaus , Neelanjan Bhowmik , Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Toby P. Breckon

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