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Limited data is a common problem in remote sensing due to the high cost of obtaining annotated samples. In the few-shot segmentation task, models are typically trained on base classes with abundant annotations and later adapted to novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-07 Steve Andreas Immanuel , Woojin Cho , Junhyuk Heo , Darongsae Kwon

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), a foundational model designed for promptable segmentation tasks, demonstrates exceptional generalization capabilities, making it highly promising for natural scene image segmentation. However, SAM's lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Linghao Zheng , Xinyang Pu , Feng Xu

Weakly supervised visual recognition using inexact supervision is a critical yet challenging learning problem. It significantly reduces human labeling costs and traditionally relies on multi-instance learning and pseudo-labeling. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Lianghui Zhu , Junwei Zhou , Yan Liu , Xin Hao , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

The construction industry represents a major sector in terms of resource consumption. Recycled construction material has high reuse potential, but quality monitoring of the aggregates is typically still performed with manual methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yu Zhou , Pelle Thielmann , Ayush Chamoli , Bruno Mirbach , Didier Stricker , Jason Rambach

Multi-view segmentation in Remote Sensing (RS) seeks to segment images from diverse perspectives within a scene. Recent methods leverage 3D information extracted from an Implicit Neural Field (INF), bolstering result consistency across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zipeng Qi , Chenyang Liu , Zili Liu , Hao Chen , Yongchang Wu , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Sh

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), with its prompt-driven paradigm, exhibits strong generalization in generic segmentation tasks. However, applying SAM to remote sensing (RS) images still faces two major challenges. First, manually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Hanbo Bi , Yulong Xu , Ya Li , Yongqiang Mao , Boyuan Tong , Chongyang Li , Chunbo Lang , Wenhui Diao , Hongqi Wang , Yingchao Feng , Xian Sun

Land cover maps are a pivotal element in a wide range of Earth Observation (EO) applications. However, annotating large datasets to develop supervised systems for remote sensing (RS) semantic segmentation is costly and time-consuming.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Valerio Marsocci , Nicolas Gonthier , Anatol Garioud , Simone Scardapane , Clément Mallet

Semantic segmentation is a significant perception task in autonomous driving. It suffers from the risks of adversarial examples. In the past few years, deep learning has gradually transitioned from convolutional neural network (CNN) models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Jun Yan , Pengyu Wang , Danni Wang , Weiquan Huang , Daniel Watzenig , Huilin Yin

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

Automated feature detection in historical maps can significantly accelerate the reconstruction of the geospatial past. However, this process is often constrained by the time-consuming task of manually digitizing sufficient high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Xue Xia , Daiwei Zhang , Wenxuan Song , Wei Huang , Lorenz Hurni

In geographical image segmentation, performance is often constrained by the limited availability of training data and a lack of generalizability, particularly for segmenting mobility infrastructure such as roads, sidewalks, and crosswalks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Rafi Ibn Sultan , Chengyin Li , Hui Zhu , Prashant Khanduri , Marco Brocanelli , Dongxiao Zhu

Remote sensing has become critical for understanding environmental dynamics, urban planning, and disaster management. However, traditional remote sensing workflows often rely on explicit segmentation or detection methods, which struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Kaiyu Li , Zepeng Xin , Li Pang , Chao Pang , Yupeng Deng , Jing Yao , Guisong Xia , Deyu Meng , Zhi Wang , Xiangyong Cao

The climate crisis we are facing calls for significant improvements in our understanding of natural phenomena, with clouds being identified as a dominant source of uncertainty. To this end, the emerging field of 3D computed cloud tomography…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-01 Changrak Choi , Anthony B. Davis

Deep learning models trained with large amounts of data have become a recent and effective approach to predictive problem solving -- these have become known as "foundation models" as they can be used as fundamental tools for other…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 José Guilherme de Almeida , Nuno M. Rodrigues , Sara Silva , Nickolas Papanikolaou

The prominence of generalized foundation models in vision-language integration has witnessed a surge, given their multifarious applications. Within the natural domain, the procurement of vision-language datasets to construct these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Keumgang Cha , Donggeun Yu , Junghoon Seo

The emergence of large models, also known as foundation models, has brought significant advancements to AI research. One such model is Segment Anything (SAM), which is designed for image segmentation tasks. However, as with other foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Tianrun Chen , Lanyun Zhu , Chaotao Ding , Runlong Cao , Yan Wang , Zejian Li , Lingyun Sun , Papa Mao , Ying Zang

Recent advances in Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) have opened new opportunities for zero-shot text-guided segmentation of remote sensing imagery. However, most existing approaches still rely on additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Jose Sosa , Danila Rukhovich , Anis Kacem , Djamila Aouada

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery plays a pivotal role in extracting precise information for diverse down-stream applications. Recent development of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), an advanced general-purpose segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Xianping Ma , Qianqian Wu , Xingyu Zhao , Xiaokang Zhang , Man-On Pun , Bo Huang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used for reforestation and forest monitoring, including seed dispersal in hard-to-reach terrains. However, a detailed understanding of the forest floor remains a challenge due to high natural…

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), introduced to the computer vision community by Meta in April 2023, is a groundbreaking tool that allows automated segmentation of objects in images based on prompts such as text, clicks, or bounding boxes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Athulya Sundaresan Geetha , Muhammad Hussain