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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

Manual annotation of volumetric medical images, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT), is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process. Recent advancements in foundation models for video object segmentation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Yuwen Chen , Zafer Yildiz , Qihang Li , Yaqian Chen , Haoyu Dong , Hanxue Gu , Nicholas Konz , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Surgical video segmentation is a critical task in computer-assisted surgery and is vital for enhancing surgical quality and patient outcomes. Recently, the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) framework has shown superior advancements in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Haofeng Liu , Erli Zhang , Junde Wu , Mingxuan Hong , Yueming Jin

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) has emerged as a powerful tool for video object segmentation and tracking anything. Key components of SAM 2 that drive the impressive video object segmentation performance include a large multistage image…

Video segmentation is essential for advancing robotics and autonomous driving, particularly in open-world settings where continuous perception and object association across video frames are critical. While the Segment Anything Model (SAM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Pinxue Guo , Zixu Zhao , Jianxiong Gao , Chongruo Wu , Tong He , Zheng Zhang , Tianjun Xiao , Wenqiang Zhang

Foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have significantly advanced promptable image segmentation in computer vision. However, extending these capabilities to videos presents substantial challenges, particularly in ensuring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Haiyang Mei , Pengyu Zhang , Mike Zheng Shou

Recent advances in segmentation foundation models have enabled accurate and efficient segmentation across a wide range of natural images and videos, but their utility to medical data remains unclear. In this work, we first present a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Jun Ma , Sumin Kim , Feifei Li , Mohammed Baharoon , Reza Asakereh , Hongwei Lyu , Bo Wang

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…

This study investigates the application and performance of the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) in the challenging task of video camouflaged object segmentation (VCOS). VCOS involves detecting objects that blend seamlessly in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yuli Zhou , Guolei Sun , Yawei Li , Guo-Sen Xie , Luca Benini , Ender Konukoglu

Ultrasound (US) video segmentation remains a challenging problem due to strong inter- and intra-dataset variability, motion artifacts, and limited annotated data. Although foundation models such as Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xing Yao , Ahana Gangopadhyay , Hsi-Ming Chang , Ravi Soni

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) serves as a core foundation model in the field of video segmentation. Building upon the original SAM model, it introduces a memory bank mechanism and demonstrates outstanding performance in tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhaoyuan Ding , Yijing Yang , Han Shu , Xinghao Chen

Video camouflaged object segmentation (VCOS), aiming at segmenting camouflaged objects that seamlessly blend into their environment, is a fundamental vision task with various real-world applications. With the release of SAM2, video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yuli Zhou , Yawei Li , Yuqian Fu , Luca Benini , Ender Konukoglu , Guolei Sun

Promptable video object segmentation and tracking (VOST) has seen significant advances with the emergence of foundation models like Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2); however, their application in surgical video analysis remains challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Guoping Xu , Hua-Chieh Shao , You Zhang

Research has focused on Multi-Modal Semantic Segmentation (MMSS), where pixel-wise predictions are derived from multiple visual modalities captured by diverse sensors. Recently, the large vision model, Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2), has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Chenfei Liao , Xu Zheng , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Haiwei Xue , Yihong Cao , Jiawen Wang , Kailun Yang , Xuming Hu

\noindent Memory has become the central mechanism enabling robust visual object tracking in modern segmentation-based frameworks. Recent methods built upon Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) have demonstrated strong performance by refining how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mohamad Alansari , Muzammal Naseer , Hasan Al Marzouqi , Naoufel Werghi , Sajid Javed

Segmented light field images can serve as a powerful representation in many of computer vision tasks exploiting geometry and appearance of objects, such as object pose tracking. In the light field domain, segmentation presents an additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Nikolai Goncharov , Donald G. Dansereau

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong image-level visual understanding and reasoning, yet their pixel-level perception across both images and videos remains limited. Foundation segmentation models such as the SAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hao Wang , Limeng Qiao , Chi Zhang , Lin Ma , Guanglu Wan , Xiangyuan Lan , Xiaodan Liang

The unprecedented developments in segmentation foundational models have become a dominant force in the field of computer vision, introducing a multitude of previously unexplored capabilities in a wide range of natural images and videos.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Yichi Zhang , Zhenrong Shen

Surgical video segmentation is critical for AI to interpret spatial-temporal dynamics in surgery, yet model performance is constrained by limited annotated data. The SAM2 model, pretrained on natural videos, offers potential for zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Cheng Yuan , Jian Jiang , Kunyi Yang , Lv Wu , Rui Wang , Zi Meng , Haonan Ping , Ziyu Xu , Yifan Zhou , Wanli Song , Hesheng Wang , Yueming Jin , Qi Dou , Yutong Ban

We introduce SAM2Point, a preliminary exploration adapting Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) for zero-shot and promptable 3D segmentation. SAM2Point interprets any 3D data as a series of multi-directional videos, and leverages SAM 2 for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ziyu Guo , Renrui Zhang , Xiangyang Zhu , Chengzhuo Tong , Peng Gao , Chunyuan Li , Pheng-Ann Heng