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Unsupervised semantic segmentation (USS) aims to achieve high-quality segmentation without manual pixel-level annotations. Existing USS models provide coarse category classification for regions, but the results often have blurry and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Tingting Li , Gensheng Pei , Xinhao Cai , Huafeng Liu , Qiong Wang , Yazhou Yao

The objective of Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is to localise the sounding objects within visual scenes by accurately predicting pixel-wise segmentation masks. To tackle the task, it involves a comprehensive consideration of both the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jinxiang Liu , Yu Wang , Chen Ju , Chaofan Ma , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie

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

Brain tumor segmentation presents a formidable challenge in the field of Medical Image Segmentation. While deep-learning models have been useful, human expert segmentation remains the most accurate method. The recently released Segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Mohammad Peivandi , Jason Zhang , Michael Lu , Dongxiao Zhu , Zhifeng Kou

The recently introduced Segment Anything Model (SAM), a Visual Foundation Model (VFM), has demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot segmentation tasks across diverse natural image datasets. Despite its success, SAM encounters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Chunpeng Zhou , Kangjie Ning , Qianqian Shen , Sheng Zhou , Zhi Yu , Haishuai Wang

We propose Semantic-Fast-SAM (SFS), a semantic segmentation framework that combines the Fast Segment Anything model with a semantic labeling pipeline to achieve real-time performance without sacrificing accuracy. FastSAM is an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Byunghyun Kim

Semantic segmentation is a core computer vision problem, but the high costs of data annotation have hindered its wide application. Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) offers a cost-efficient workaround to extensive labeling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Elham Ravanbakhsh , Cheng Niu , Yongqing Liang , J. Ramanujam , Xin Li

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has set a new standard in interactive image segmentation, offering robust performance across various tasks. However, its significant computational requirements limit its deployment in real-time or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 Kunal Dasharath Patil , Gowthamaan Palani , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

Foundation models have taken over natural language processing and image generation domains due to the flexibility of prompting. With the recent introduction of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), this prompt-driven paradigm has entered image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Saikat Roy , Tassilo Wald , Gregor Koehler , Maximilian R. Rokuss , Nico Disch , Julius Holzschuh , David Zimmerer , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation with weak labels is a long-lived ill-posed problem. Mainstream methods mainly focus on improving the quality of pseudo labels. In this report, we attempt to explore the potential of 'prompt to masks'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Peng-Tao Jiang , Yuqi Yang

The recently released Segment Anything Model (SAM) has shown powerful zero-shot segmentation capabilities through a semi-automatic annotation setup in which the user can provide a prompt in the form of clicks or bounding boxes. There is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Benjamin Towle , Xin Chen , Ke Zhou

High annotation costs are a major bottleneck for the training of semantic segmentation systems. Therefore, methods working with less annotation effort are of special interest. This paper studies the problem of semi-supervised semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Olga Zatsarynna , Johann Sawatzky , Juergen Gall

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

Segmentation is the assigning of a semantic class to every pixel in an image and is a prerequisite for various statistical analysis tasks in materials science, like phase quantification, physics simulations or morphological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ronan Docherty , Isaac Squires , Antonis Vamvakeros , Samuel J. Cooper

Weakly supervised instance segmentation using only bounding box annotations has recently attracted much research attention. Most of the current efforts leverage low-level image features as extra supervision without explicitly exploiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Ruihuang Li , Chenhang He , Yabin Zhang , Shuai Li , Liyi Chen , Lei Zhang

Segment anything model (SAM) addresses two practical yet challenging segmentation tasks: \textbf{segment anything (SegAny)}, which utilizes a certain point to predict the mask for a single object of interest, and \textbf{segment everything…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Chaoning Zhang , Dongshen Han , Sheng Zheng , Jinwoo Choi , Tae-Ho Kim , Choong Seon Hong

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a state-of-the-art research advancement in natural image segmentation, achieving impressive results with input prompts such as points and bounding boxes. However, our evaluation and recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Junlong Cheng , Jin Ye , Zhongying Deng , Jianpin Chen , Tianbin Li , Haoyu Wang , Yanzhou Su , Ziyan Huang , Jilong Chen , Lei Jiang , Hui Sun , Junjun He , Shaoting Zhang , Min Zhu , Yu Qiao

Segmenting and recognizing diverse object parts is crucial in computer vision and robotics. Despite significant progress in object segmentation, part-level segmentation remains underexplored due to complex boundaries and scarce annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xinjian Wu , Ruisong Zhang , Jie Qin , Shijie Ma , Cheng-Lin Liu

Powered by massive curated training data, Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated its impressive generalization capabilities in open-world scenarios with the guidance of prompts. However, the vanilla SAM is class agnostic and heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Duojun Huang , Xinyu Xiong , Jie Ma , Jichang Li , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma , Guanbin Li

Current AI-assisted skin image diagnosis has achieved dermatologist-level performance in classifying skin cancer, driven by rapid advancements in deep learning architectures. However, unlike traditional vision tasks, skin images in general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Xin Hu , Janet Wang , Jihun Hamm , Rie R Yotsu , Zhengming Ding