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The Segment Anything Model (SAM) enables promptable, high-quality segmentation but is often too computationally expensive for latency-critical settings. TinySAM is a lightweight, distilled SAM variant that preserves strong zero-shot mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Kenneth Xu , Songhan Wu

While promptable segmentation (\textit{e.g.}, SAM) has shown promise for various segmentation tasks, it still requires manual visual prompts for each object to be segmented. In contrast, task-generic promptable segmentation aims to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Chao Yin , Hao Li , Kequan Yang , Jide Li , Pinpin Zhu , Xiaoqiang Li

Accurate segmentation and measurement of lithography scanning electron microscope (SEM) images are crucial for ensuring precise process control, optimizing device performance, and advancing semiconductor manufacturing yield. Lithography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xinyu He , Botong Zhao , Bingbing Li , Shujing Lyu , Jiwei Shen , Yue Lu

The estimation of implicit cross-frame correspondences and the high computational cost have long been major challenges in video semantic segmentation (VSS) for driving scenes. Prior works utilize keyframes, feature propagation, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Diandian Guo , Deng-Ping Fan , Tongyu Lu , Christos Sakaridis , Luc Van Gool

The recent advancements in large foundation models have driven the success of open-set image segmentation, a task focused on segmenting objects beyond predefined categories. Among various prompt types (such as points, boxes, texts, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xiaoqi Wang , Clint Sebastian , Wenbin He , Liu Ren

Natural scene analysis and remote sensing imagery offer immense potential for advancements in large-scale language-guided context-aware data utilization. This potential is particularly significant for enhancing performance in downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Lei Li

While Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has advanced open-vocabulary predictions, its performance on semantic segmentation remains suboptimal. This shortfall primarily stems from its spatial-invariant semantic features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yuheng Shi , Minjing Dong , Chang Xu

Computed tomography (CT) is extensively used for accurate visualization and segmentation of organs and lesions. While deep learning models such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yuheng Li , Yuxiang Lai , Maria Thor , Deborah Marshall , Zachary Buchwald , David S. Yu , Xiaofeng Yang

Most publicly available medical segmentation datasets are only partially labeled, with annotations provided for a subset of anatomical structures. When multiple datasets are combined for training, this incomplete annotation poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jiong Wu , Yang Xing , Boxiao Yu , Wei Shao , Kuang Gong

In this paper, we introduce an open-vocabulary panoptic segmentation model that effectively unifies the strengths of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) with the vision-language CLIP model in an end-to-end framework. While SAM excels in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Vibashan VS , Shubhankar Borse , Hyojin Park , Debasmit Das , Vishal Patel , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) and CLIP are remarkable vision foundation models (VFMs). SAM, a prompt driven segmentation model, excels in segmentation tasks across diverse domains, while CLIP is renowned for its zero shot recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Sidra Aleem , Fangyijie Wang , Mayug Maniparambil , Eric Arazo , Julia Dietlmeier , Guenole Silvestre , Kathleen Curran , Noel E. O'Connor , Suzanne Little

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

Promptable segmentation has emerged as a powerful paradigm in computer vision, enabling users to guide models in parsing complex scenes with prompts such as clicks, boxes, or textual cues. Recent advances, exemplified by the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yoonwoo Jeong , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Minsu Cho , Jaesung Choe

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) aims at segmenting images from free-form textual concepts without predefined training classes. While existing vision-language models such as CLIP can generate segmentation masks by leveraging coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Luca Barsellotti , Lorenzo Bianchi , Nicola Messina , Fabio Carrara , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Fabrizio Falchi , Rita Cucchiara

Accurate and generalizable object segmentation in ultrasound imaging remains a significant challenge due to anatomical variability, diverse imaging protocols, and limited annotated data. In this study, we propose a prompt-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Hamza Rasaee , Taha Koleilat , Hassan Rivaz

In this study, we propose NOVO (NO text, Visual-Only prompts), a novel framework that bridges vision-language models (VLMs) and segmentation models through visual-only prompts. Unlike prior approaches that feed text-derived SEG token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Kyung-Yoon Yoon , Yeong-Jun Cho

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

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in computer vision that involves segmenting images into semantically meaningful regions at the pixel level. However, existing approaches often rely on expensive human annotations as supervision for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jun Chen , Deyao Zhu , Guocheng Qian , Bernard Ghanem , Zhicheng Yan , Chenchen Zhu , Fanyi Xiao , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Sean Chang Culatana

Recently, open-vocabulary image classification by vision language pre-training has demonstrated incredible achievements, that the model can classify arbitrary categories without seeing additional annotated images of that category. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Mengde Xu , Zheng Zhang , Fangyun Wei , Yutong Lin , Yue Cao , Han Hu , Xiang Bai

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