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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

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

Recent advancements in biomedical image analysis have been significantly driven by the Segment Anything Model (SAM). This transformative technology, originally developed for general-purpose computer vision, has found rapid application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ho Hin Lee , Yu Gu , Theodore Zhao , Yanbo Xu , Jianwei Yang , Naoto Usuyama , Cliff Wong , Mu Wei , Bennett A. Landman , Yuankai Huo , Alberto Santamaria-Pang , Hoifung Poon

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) represents a significant breakthrough into foundation models for computer vision, providing a large-scale image segmentation model. However, despite SAM's zero-shot performance, its segmentation masks lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Xianjie Liu , Keren Fu , Yao Jiang , Qijun Zhao

Medical image segmentation has immense clinical applicability but remains a challenge despite advancements in deep learning. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits potential in this field, yet the requirement for expertise intervention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yinsong Xu , Jiaqi Tang , Aidong Men , Qingchao Chen

The recently proposed Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a general tool for image segmentation, but it requires additional adaptation and careful fine-tuning for medical image segmentation, especially for small, irregularly-shaped, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yaxi Chen , Aleksandra Ivanova , Shaheer U. Saeed , Rikin Hargunani , Jie Huang , Chaozong Liu , Yipeng Hu

We present Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), a foundation model towards solving promptable visual segmentation in images and videos. We build a data engine, which improves model and data via user interaction, to collect the largest video…

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

Motivated by the success of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) in promptable segmentation, recent studies leverage SAM to develop training-free solutions for few-shot segmentation, which aims to predict object masks in the target image based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jiahao Nie , Yun Xing , Wenbin An , Qingsong Zhao , Jiawei Shao , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot , Shijian Lu , Xuelong Li

Semantic segmentation is one of the most fundamental tasks in image understanding with a long history of research, and subsequently a myriad of different approaches. Traditional methods strive to train models up from scratch, requiring vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Naomi Kombol , Ivan Martinović , Siniša Šegvić

Amodal instance segmentation, which aims to detect and segment both visible and invisible parts of objects in images, plays a crucial role in various applications including autonomous driving, robotic manipulation, and scene understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Wei-En Tai , Yu-Lin Shih , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Hwann-Tzong Chen

Entity Segmentation (ES) aims at identifying and segmenting distinct entities within an image without the need for predefined class labels. This characteristic makes ES well-suited to open-world applications with adaptation to diverse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Weiming Zhang , Dingwen Xiao , Lei Chen , Lin Wang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to bypass the need for laborious pixel-level annotation by using only image-level annotation. Most existing methods rely on Class Activation Maps (CAM) to derive pixel-level pseudo-labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Tianle Chen , Zheda Mai , Ruiwen Li , Wei-lun Chao

Vision foundation models have achieved remarkable progress across various image analysis tasks. In the image segmentation task, foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) enable generalizable zero-shot segmentation through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Xingxin He , Yifan Hu , Zhaoye Zhou , Mohamed Jarraya , Fang Liu

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

Segmentation is vital for ophthalmology image analysis. But its various modal images hinder most of the existing segmentation algorithms applications, as they rely on training based on a large number of labels or hold weak generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Zhongxi Qiu , Yan Hu , Heng Li , Jiang Liu

We introduce the Segment Anything (SA) project: a new task, model, and dataset for image segmentation. Using our efficient model in a data collection loop, we built the largest segmentation dataset to date (by far), with over 1 billion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Alexander Kirillov , Eric Mintun , Nikhila Ravi , Hanzi Mao , Chloe Rolland , Laura Gustafson , Tete Xiao , Spencer Whitehead , Alexander C. Berg , Wan-Yen Lo , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

Medical image segmentation has been traditionally approached by training or fine-tuning the entire model to cater to any new modality or dataset. However, this approach often requires tuning a large number of parameters during training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jay N. Paranjape , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

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