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Recent advances in promptable segmentation, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have enabled flexible, high-quality mask generation across a wide range of visual domains. However, SAM and similar models remain fundamentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Tyler Ward , Abdullah Imran

Video amodal segmentation is a particularly challenging task in computer vision, which requires to deduce the full shape of an object from the visible parts of it. Recently, some studies have achieved promising performance by using motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Ke Fan , Jingshi Lei , Xuelin Qian , Miaopeng Yu , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Zheng Zhang , Yanwei Fu

An "elephant in the room" for most current object detection and localization methods is the lack of explicit modelling of partial visibility due to occlusion by other objects or truncation by the image boundary. Based on a sliding window…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Patrick Ott , Mark Everingham , Jiri Matas

Pre-trained on a large and diverse dataset, the segment anything model (SAM) is the first promptable foundation model in computer vision aiming at object segmentation tasks. In this work, we evaluate SAM for the task of nuclear instance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-26 Kesi Xu , Lea Goetz , Nasir Rajpoot

Anomaly detection in manufacturing pipelines remains a critical challenge, intensified by the complexity and variability of industrial environments. This paper introduces AssemAI, an interpretable image-based anomaly detection system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Renjith Prasad , Chathurangi Shyalika , Ramtin Zand , Fadi El Kalach , Revathy Venkataramanan , Ramy Harik , Amit Sheth

The problem of segmenting a given image into coherent regions is important in Computer Vision and many industrial applications require segmenting a known object into its components. Examples include identifying individual parts of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Srimal Jayawardena , Di Yang , Marcus Hutter

Segment Anything (SAM) provides an unprecedented foundation for human segmentation, but may struggle under occlusion, where keypoints may be partially or fully invisible. We adapt SAM 2.1 for pose-guided segmentation with minimal encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Constantin Kolomiiets , Miroslav Purkrabek , Jiri Matas

In this work, we propose a new segmentation algorithm for images containing convex objects present in multiple shapes with a high degree of overlap. The proposed algorithm is carried out in two steps, first we identify the visible contours,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Kumar Abhinav , Jaideep Singh Chauhan , Debasis Sarkar

Segmentation of overlapping convex objects has various applications, for example, in nanoparticles and cell imaging. Often the segmentation method has to rely purely on edges between the background and foreground making the analyzed images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Sahar Zafari , Mariia Murashkina , Tuomas Eerola , Jouni Sampo , Heikki Kälviäinen , Heikki Haario

The human visual environment is comprised of different surfaces that are distributed in space. The parts of a scene that are visible at any one time are governed by the occlusion of overlapping objects. In this work we consider "dead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Swantje Mahncke , Malte Ott

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at generating precise object masks from input prompts but lacks semantic awareness, failing to associate its generated masks with specific object categories. To address this limitation, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Rohit Kundu , Sudipta Paul , Arindam Dutta , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Background: The segment-anything model (SAM), introduced in April 2023, shows promise as a benchmark model and a universal solution to segment various natural images. It comes without previously-required re-training or fine-tuning specific…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Sheng He , Rina Bao , Jingpeng Li , Jeffrey Stout , Atle Bjornerud , P. Ellen Grant , Yangming Ou

Medical imaging plays a critical role in the diagnosis and treatment planning of various medical conditions, with radiology and pathology heavily reliant on precise image segmentation. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Amin Ranem , Niklas Babendererde , Moritz Fuchs , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

In this paper, we tackle the problem of human de-occlusion which reasons about occluded segmentation masks and invisible appearance content of humans. In particular, a two-stage framework is proposed to estimate the invisible portions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Qiang Zhou , Shiyin Wang , Yitong Wang , Zilong Huang , Xinggang Wang

Natural scene understanding is a challenging task, particularly when encountering images of multiple objects that are partially occluded. This obstacle is given rise by varying object ordering and positioning. Existing scene understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Xiaohang Zhan , Xingang Pan , Bo Dai , Ziwei Liu , Dahua Lin , Chen Change Loy

Segmenting an object in a video presents significant challenges. Each pixel must be accurately labelled, and these labels must remain consistent across frames. The difficulty increases when the segmentation is with arbitrary granularity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Amirhossein Alimohammadi , Sauradip Nag , Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Ghassan Hamarneh , Ali Mahdavi Amiri

The Segmentation Anything Model (SAM) requires labor-intensive data labeling. We present Unsupervised SAM (UnSAM) for promptable and automatic whole-image segmentation that does not require human annotations. UnSAM utilizes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 XuDong Wang , Jingfeng Yang , Trevor Darrell

For augmented reality (AR), it is important that virtual assets appear to `sit among' real world objects. The virtual element should variously occlude and be occluded by real matter, based on a plausible depth ordering. This occlusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Jamie Watson , Mohamed Sayed , Zawar Qureshi , Gabriel J. Brostow , Sara Vicente , Oisin Mac Aodha , Michael Firman

The Segment Anything Model has revolutionized image segmentation with its zero-shot capabilities, yet its reliance on manual prompts hinders fully automated deployment. While integrating object detectors as prompt generators offers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Li Zhang , Pengtao Xie

This paper tackles the problem of object counting in images. Existing approaches rely on extensive training data with point annotations for each object, making data collection labor-intensive and time-consuming. To overcome this, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Zenglin Shi , Ying Sun , Mengmi Zhang