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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

Segmentation is an essential step for remote sensing image processing. This study aims to advance the application of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), an innovative image segmentation model by Meta AI, in the field of remote sensing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Lucas Prado Osco , Qiusheng Wu , Eduardo Lopes de Lemos , Wesley Nunes Gonçalves , Ana Paula Marques Ramos , Jonathan Li , José Marcato Junior

Segment Anything Model (SAM) is an advanced foundational model for image segmentation, which is gradually being applied to remote sensing images (RSIs). Due to the domain gap between RSIs and natural images, traditional methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Nanqing Liu , Xun Xu , Yongyi Su , Haojie Zhang , Heng-Chao Li

While large visual models (LVM) demonstrated significant potential in image understanding, due to the application of large-scale pre-training, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) has also achieved great success in the field of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jiaqi Yang , Yaning Zhang , Jingxi Hu , Xiangjian He , Linlin Shen , Guoping Qiu

Multi-class multi-instance segmentation is the task of identifying masks for multiple object classes and multiple instances of the same class within an image. The foundational Segment Anything Model (SAM) is designed for promptable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Mariia Khan , Yue Qiu , Yuren Cong , Jumana Abu-Khalaf , David Suter , Bodo Rosenhahn

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits promise in generic object segmentation and offers potential for various applications. Existing methods have applied SAM to surgical instrument segmentation (SIS) by tuning SAM-based frameworks with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Wenxi Yue , Jing Zhang , Kun Hu , Qiuxia Wu , Zongyuan Ge , Yong Xia , Jiebo Luo , Zhiyong Wang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated strong and versatile segmentation capabilities, along with intuitive prompt-based interactions. However, customizing SAM for medical image segmentation requires massive amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhonghao Yan , Zijin Yin , Tianyu Lin , Xiangzhu Zeng , Kongming Liang , Zhanyu Ma

Few-shot segmentation is the problem of learning to identify specific types of objects (e.g., airplanes) in images from a small set of labeled reference images. The current state of the art is driven by resource-intensive construction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Savinay Nagendra , Kashif Rashid , Chaopeng Shen , Daniel Kifer

Although the Segment Anything Model (SAM) is highly effective in natural image segmentation, it requires dependencies on prompts, which limits its applicability to medical imaging where manual prompts are often unavailable. Existing efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Mengmeng Zhang , Xingyuan Dai , Yicheng Sun , Jing Wang , Yueyang Yao , Xiaoyan Gong , Fuze Cong , Feiyue Wang , Yisheng Lv

The advent of foundation models signals a new era in artificial intelligence. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is the first foundation model for image segmentation. In this study, we evaluate SAM's ability to segment features from eye…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Virmarie Maquiling , Sean Anthony Byrne , Diederick C. Niehorster , Marcus Nyström , Enkelejda Kasneci

The success of large language models has inspired the computer vision community to explore image segmentation foundation model that is able to zero/few-shot generalize through prompt engineering. Segment-Anything(SAM), among others, is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Haojie Zhang , Yongyi Su , Xun Xu , Kui Jia

In semantic segmentation, accurate prediction masks are crucial for downstream tasks such as medical image analysis and image editing. Due to the lack of annotated data, few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) performs poorly in predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chen-Bin Feng , Qi Lai , Kangdao Liu , Houcheng Su , Chi-Man Vong

Driven by large-data pre-training, Segment Anything Model (SAM) has been demonstrated as a powerful and promptable framework, revolutionizing the segmentation models. Despite the generality, customizing SAM for specific visual concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Renrui Zhang , Zhengkai Jiang , Ziyu Guo , Shilin Yan , Junting Pan , Xianzheng Ma , Hao Dong , Peng Gao , Hongsheng Li

In this paper, we explore the zero-shot capability of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) for food image segmentation. To address the lack of class-specific information in SAM-generated masks, we propose a novel framework, called FoodSAM. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Xing Lan , Jiayi Lyu , Hanyu Jiang , Kun Dong , Zehai Niu , Yi Zhang , Jian Xue

The interactive segmentation task consists in the creation of object segmentation masks based on user interactions. The most common way to guide a model towards producing a correct segmentation consists in clicks on the object and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Robin Schön , Julian Lorenz , Katja Ludwig , Rainer Lienhart

Camouflaged object detection (COD) approaches heavily rely on pixel-level annotated datasets. Weakly-supervised COD (WSCOD) approaches use sparse annotations like scribbles or points to reduce annotation effort, but this can lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jian Hu , Jiayi Lin , Weitong Cai , Shaogang Gong

Medical image segmentation is a key task in the imaging workflow, influencing many image-based decisions. Traditional, fully-supervised segmentation models rely on large amounts of labeled training data, typically obtained through manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Tyler Ward , Meredith K. Owen , O'Kira Coleman , Brian Noehren , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Local feature detection and description play an important role in many computer vision tasks, which are designed to detect and describe keypoints in "any scene" and "any downstream task". Data-driven local feature learning methods need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jingqian Wu , Rongtao Xu , Zach Wood-Doughty , Changwei Wang , Shibiao Xu , Edmund Y. Lam

Recently, Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated strong generalizability in various instance segmentation tasks. However, its performance is severely dependent on the quality of manual prompts. In addition, the RGB images that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yihan Shang , Wei Wang , Chao Huang , Xinghui Dong

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