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Previous works based on Segment Anything Model (SAM) have achieved promising performance in unified scene text detection and layout analysis. However, the typical reliance on pixel-level text segmentation for sampling thousands of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xike Zhang , Maoyuan Ye , Juhua Liu , Bo Du

Open-set image segmentation poses a significant challenge because existing methods often demand extensive training or fine-tuning and generally struggle to segment unified objects consistently across diverse text reference expressions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zhihua Liu , Amrutha Saseendran , Lei Tong , Xilin He , Fariba Yousefi , Nikolay Burlutskiy , Dino Oglic , Tom Diethe , Philip Teare , Huiyu Zhou , Chen Jin

The ability to segment objects based on open-ended language prompts remains a critical challenge, requiring models to ground textual semantics into precise spatial masks while handling diverse and unseen categories. We present OpenWorldSAM,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shiting Xiao , Rishabh Kabra , Yuhang Li , Donghyun Lee , Joao Carreira , Priyadarshini Panda

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

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) made an eye-catching debut recently and inspired many researchers to explore its potential and limitation in terms of zero-shot generalization capability. As the first promptable foundation model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Dongjie Cheng , Ziyuan Qin , Zekun Jiang , Shaoting Zhang , Qicheng Lao , Kang Li

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at general image segmentation but has limited ability to understand natural language, which restricts its direct application in Referring Expression Segmentation (RES). Toward this end, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Wei Tang , Xuejing Liu , Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a recently proposed prompt-based segmentation model in a generic zero-shot segmentation approach. With the zero-shot segmentation capacity, SAM achieved impressive flexibility and precision on various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Can Cui , Ruining Deng , Quan Liu , Tianyuan Yao , Shunxing Bao , Lucas W. Remedios , Yucheng Tang , Yuankai Huo

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model that introduced revolutionary advancements in natural image segmentation. However, its performance remains sub-optimal when delineating the intricate structure of biomedical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Xiangru Li , Yifei Zhang , Liang Zhao

The emerging scale segmentation model, Segment Anything (SAM), exhibits impressive capabilities in zero-shot segmentation for natural images. However, when applied to medical images, SAM suffers from noticeable performance drop. To make SAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Xinrong Hu , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has garnered significant attention for its versatile segmentation abilities and intuitive prompt-based interface. However, its application in medical imaging presents challenges, requiring either substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhiheng Cheng , Qingyue Wei , Hongru Zhu , Yan Wang , Liangqiong Qu , Wei Shao , Yuyin Zhou

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

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 recent advancements in large-scale pre-training techniques have significantly enhanced the capabilities of vision foundation models, notably the Segment Anything Model (SAM), which can generate precise masks based on point and box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Anqi Zhang , Guangyu Gao , Jianbo Jiao , Chi Harold Liu , Yunchao Wei

Large foundation models, known for their strong zero-shot generalization, have excelled in visual and language applications. However, applying them to medical image segmentation, a domain with diverse imaging types and target labels,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Junde Wu , Jiayuan Zhu , Yueming Jin , Min Xu

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

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

Foundation models such as the recently introduced Segment Anything Model (SAM) have achieved remarkable results in image segmentation tasks. However, these models typically require user interaction through handcrafted prompts such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mélanie Gaillochet , Christian Desrosiers , Hervé Lombaert

The remarkable capabilities of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) for tackling image segmentation tasks in an intuitive and interactive manner has sparked interest in the design of effective visual prompts. Such interest has led to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jorge Quesada , Zoe Fowler , Mohammad Alotaibi , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

Segmentation models such as Segment Anything Model (SAM) and SAM2 achieve strong prompt-driven zero-shot performance. However, their training on natural images limits domain transfer to medical data. Consequently, accurate segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tal Grossman , Noa Cahan , Lev Ayzenberg , Hayit Greenspan

Nucleus instance segmentation in histology images is crucial for a broad spectrum of clinical applications. Current dominant algorithms rely on regression of nuclear proxy maps. Distinguishing nucleus instances from the estimated maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Zhongyi Shui , Yunlong Zhang , Kai Yao , Chenglu Zhu , Sunyi Zheng , Jingxiong Li , Honglin Li , Yuxuan Sun , Ruizhe Guo , Lin Yang