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Medical image segmentation is a crucial and time-consuming task in clinical care, where mask precision is extremely important. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) offers a promising approach, as it provides an interactive interface based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Julien Khlaut , Elodie Ferreres , Daniel Tordjman , Hélène Philippe , Tom Boeken , Pierre Manceron , Corentin Dancette

Advances in machine learning, especially the introduction of transformer architectures and vision transformers, have led to the development of highly capable computer vision foundation models. The segment anything model (known colloquially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Kenneth Ball , Erin Taylor , Nirav Patel , Andrew Bartels , Gary Koplik , James Polly , Jay Hineman

The Reference Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) task generates segmentation masks for specified objects in images based on textual descriptions, which has attracted widespread attention and research interest. Current RRSIS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Shuyang Li , Shuang Wang , Zhuangzhuang Sun , Jing Xiao

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

Extracting high-fidelity 2D contours from Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images is critical for calibrating Optical Proximity Correction (OPC) models. While foundation models like Segment Anything 2 (SAM2) are promising, adapting them…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Da Chen , Guangyu Hu , Kaihong Xu , Kaichao Liang , Songjiang Li , Wei Yang , XiangYu Wen , Mingxuan Yuan

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

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

We propose SAM-Road, an adaptation of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) for extracting large-scale, vectorized road network graphs from satellite imagery. To predict graph geometry, we formulate it as a dense semantic segmentation task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Congrui Hetang , Haoru Xue , Cindy Le , Tianwei Yue , Wenping Wang , Yihui He

Language-Guided object recognition in remote sensing imagery is crucial for large-scale mapping and automated data annotation. However, existing open-vocabulary and visual grounding methods rely on explicit category cues, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yijie Zheng , Weijie Wu , Qingyun Li , Xuehui Wang , Xu Zhou , Aiai Ren , Jun Shen , Long Zhao , Guoqing Li , Xue Yang

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

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

Purpose: The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated impressive performance with point, text or bounding box prompts, in various applications. However, in safety-critical surgical tasks, prompting is not possible due to (i) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuyang Sheng , Sophia Bano , Matthew J. Clarkson , Mobarakol Islam

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) aims to segment target objects in remote sensing (RS) images based on textual descriptions. Although Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has shown remarkable performance in various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Fu Rong , Meng Lan , Qian Zhang , Lefei Zhang

Pixel-level segmentation is essential in remote sensing, where foundational vision models like CLIP and Segment Anything Model(SAM) have demonstrated significant capabilities in zero-shot segmentation tasks. Despite their advances,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xing Zi , Kairui Jin , Xian Tao , Jun Li , Ali Braytee , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Mukesh Prasad

In the semantic segmentation of remote sensing images, acquiring complete ground objects is critical for achieving precise analysis. However, this task is severely hindered by two major challenges: high intra-class variance and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Junyi Wang , Jinjiang Li , Guodong Fan , Yakun Ju , Xiang Fang , Alex C. Kot

In geographical image segmentation, performance is often constrained by the limited availability of training data and a lack of generalizability, particularly for segmenting mobility infrastructure such as roads, sidewalks, and crosswalks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Rafi Ibn Sultan , Chengyin Li , Hui Zhu , Prashant Khanduri , Marco Brocanelli , Dongxiao Zhu

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

Prompt-free image segmentation aims to generate accurate masks without manual guidance. Typical pre-trained models, notably Segmentation Anything Model (SAM), generate prompts directly at a single granularity level. However, this approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Qiyang Yu , Yu Fang , Tianrui Li , Xuemei Cao , Yan Chen , Jianghao Li , Fan Min , Yi Zhang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model for image segmentation, showing robust zero-shot generalization through prompt engineering. However, relying on manual prompts is impractical for real-world applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yi Chen , Mu-Young Son , Chuanbo Hua , Joo-Young Kim

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has exhibited outstanding performance in various image segmentation tasks. Despite being trained with over a billion masks, SAM faces challenges in mask prediction quality in numerous scenarios, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Zhaozhi Xie , Bochen Guan , Weihao Jiang , Muyang Yi , Yue Ding , Hongtao Lu , Lei Zhang