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Interactive image segmentation is a topic of many studies in image processing. In a conventional approach, a user marks some pixels of the object(s) of interest and background, and an algorithm propagates these labels to the rest of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Fabricio Aparecido Breve

The goal of interactive image segmentation is to delineate specific regions within an image via visual or language prompts. Low-latency and high-quality interactive segmentation with diverse prompts remain challenging for existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Qin Liu , Jaemin Cho , Mohit Bansal , Marc Niethammer

The task of unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to cluster pixels into semantically meaningful groups. Specifically, pixels assigned to the same cluster should share high-level semantic properties like their object or part category.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Simon Vandenhende , Luc Van Gool

Segmentation of organs or lesions from medical images plays an essential role in many clinical applications such as diagnosis and treatment planning. Though Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have achieved the state-of-the-art performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Xiangde Luo , Guotai Wang , Tao Song , Jingyang Zhang , Michael Aertsen , Jan Deprest , Sebastien Ourselin , Tom Vercauteren , Shaoting Zhang

Interactive segmentation methods rely on user inputs to iteratively update the selection mask. A click specifying the object of interest is arguably the most simple and intuitive interaction type, and thereby the most common choice for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Andrey Moskalenko , Vlad Shakhuro , Anna Vorontsova , Anton Konushin , Anton Antonov , Alexander Krapukhin , Denis Shepelev , Konstantin Soshin

Interactive segmentation, a computer vision technique where a user provides guidance to help an algorithm segment a feature of interest in an image, has achieved outstanding accuracy and efficient human-computer interaction. However, few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Zhe Wang , Shoukun Sun , Xiang Que , Xiaogang Ma , Carmen Galaz Garcia

Due to low tissue contrast, irregular object appearance, and unpredictable location variation, segmenting the objects from different medical imaging modalities (e.g., CT, MR) is considered as an important yet challenging task. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Jinquan Sun , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao , Lei Wang , Luping Zhou , Wanqi Yang , Dinggang Shen

In current interactive instance segmentation works, the user is granted a free hand when providing clicks to segment an object; clicks are allowed on background pixels and other object instances far from the target object. This form of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Soumajit Majumder , Angela Yao

The increasing availability of digital 3D environments, whether through image-based 3D reconstruction, generation, or scans obtained by robots, is driving innovation across various applications. These come with a significant demand for 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Andrea Simonelli , Norman Müller , Peter Kontschieder

During interactive segmentation, a model and a user work together to delineate objects of interest in a 3D point cloud. In an iterative process, the model assigns each data point to an object (or the background), while the user corrects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Yuanwen Yue , Sabarinath Mahadevan , Jonas Schult , Francis Engelmann , Bastian Leibe , Konrad Schindler , Theodora Kontogianni

Most state-of-the-art instance segmentation methods rely on large amounts of pixel-precise ground-truth annotations for training, which are expensive to create. Interactive segmentation networks help generate such annotations based on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Amit Kumar Rana , Sabarinath Mahadevan , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe

Instance segmentation is essential for numerous computer vision applications, including robotics, human-computer interaction, and autonomous driving. Currently, popular models bring impressive performance in instance segmentation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Cuong Manh Hoang

Interactive segmentation uses real-time user inputs, such as mouse clicks, to iteratively refine model predictions. Although not originally designed to address distribution shifts, this paradigm naturally lends itself to such challenges. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Wentian Xu , Ziyun Liang , Harry Anthony , Yasin Ibrahim , Felix Cohen , Guang Yang , Konstantinos Kamnitsas

Image segmentation is often performed on medical images for identifying diseases in clinical evaluation. Hence it has become one of the major research areas. Conventional image segmentation techniques are unable to provide satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Pratik Kalshetti , Manas Bundele , Parag Rahangdale , Dinesh Jangra , Chiranjoy Chattopadhyay , Gaurav Harit , Abhay Elhence

Recent advancements in deep learning-based interactive segmentation methods have significantly improved pathology image segmentation. Most existing approaches utilize user-provided positive and negative clicks to guide the segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tiantong Wang , Minfan Zhao , Jun Shi , Hannan Wang , Yue Dai

Interactive segmentation algorithms based on click points have garnered significant attention from researchers in recent years. However, existing studies typically use sparse click maps as model inputs to segment specific target objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Long Xu , Shanghong Li , Yongquan Chen , Junkang Chen , Rui Huang , Feng Wu

Interactive image segmentation enables annotators to efficiently perform pixel-level annotation for segmentation tasks. However, the existing interactive segmentation pipeline suffers from inefficient computations of interactive models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 You Huang , Hao Yang , Ke Sun , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao , Guannan Jiang , Rongrong Ji

In this paper, we present a novel architecture for interactive segmentation in winter sports contexts. The field of interactive segmentation deals with the prediction of high-quality segmentation masks by informing the network about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Robin Schön , Julian Lorenz , Daniel Kienzle , Rainer Lienhart

Automatic segmentation has great potential to facilitate morphological measurements while simultaneously increasing efficiency. Nevertheless often users want to edit the segmentation to their own needs and will need different tools for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Gustav Bredell , Christine Tanner , Ender Konukoglu

Existing interactive point cloud segmentation approaches primarily focus on the object segmentation, which aim to determine which points belong to the object of interest guided by user interactions. This paper concentrates on an unexplored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Peng Zhang , Ting Wu , Jinsheng Sun , Weiqing Li , Zhiyong Su