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The reliance on large labeled datasets presents a significant challenge in medical image segmentation. Few-shot learning offers a potential solution, but existing methods often still require substantial training data. This paper proposes a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Haiyue Zu , Jun Ge , Heting Xiao , Jile Xie , Zhangzhe Zhou , Yifan Meng , Jiayi Ni , Junjie Niu , Linlin Zhang , Li Ni , Huilin Yang

Although new vision foundation models such as Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) have significantly enhanced zero-shot image segmentation capabilities, reliance on human-provided prompts poses significant challenges in adapting SAM2 to medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yang Xing , Jiong Wu , Yuheng Bu , Kuang Gong

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 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

As large-scale foundation models trained on billions of image--mask pairs covering a vast diversity of scenes, objects, and contexts, SAM and its upgraded version, SAM~2, have significantly influenced multiple fields within computer vision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiaoqi Zhao , Youwei Pang , Shijie Chang , Yuan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Chenyang Yu , Hanqi Liu , Jiaming Zuo , Jinsong Ouyang , Weisi Lin , Georges El Fakhri , Huchuan Lu , Xiaofeng Liu

Video segmentation is essential for advancing robotics and autonomous driving, particularly in open-world settings where continuous perception and object association across video frames are critical. While the Segment Anything Model (SAM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Pinxue Guo , Zixu Zhao , Jianxiong Gao , Chongruo Wu , Tong He , Zheng Zhang , Tianjun Xiao , Wenqiang Zhang

In this paper, we introduce an open-vocabulary panoptic segmentation model that effectively unifies the strengths of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) with the vision-language CLIP model in an end-to-end framework. While SAM excels in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Vibashan VS , Shubhankar Borse , Hyojin Park , Debasmit Das , Vishal Patel , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli

Segment anything model (SAM) addresses two practical yet challenging segmentation tasks: \textbf{segment anything (SegAny)}, which utilizes a certain point to predict the mask for a single object of interest, and \textbf{segment everything…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Chaoning Zhang , Dongshen Han , Sheng Zheng , Jinwoo Choi , Tae-Ho Kim , Choong Seon Hong

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) exhibits strong generalisation for promptable segmentation in video clips; however, its integration with the audio modality remains underexplored. Existing approaches either convert audio into visual prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuyuan Liu , Yuanhong Chen , Chong Wang , Junlin Han , Junde Wu , Can Peng , Jingkun Chen , Yu Tian , Gustavo Carneiro

This paper investigates the fundamental discontinuity between the latest two Segment Anything Models: SAM2 and SAM3. We explain why the expertise in prompt-based segmentation of SAM2 does not transfer to the multimodal concept-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ranjan Sapkota , Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis , Manoj Karkee

We introduce SAM2Point, a preliminary exploration adapting Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) for zero-shot and promptable 3D segmentation. SAM2Point interprets any 3D data as a series of multi-directional videos, and leverages SAM 2 for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ziyu Guo , Renrui Zhang , Xiangyang Zhu , Chengzhuo Tong , Peng Gao , Chunyuan Li , Pheng-Ann Heng

Few-shot segmentation aims to segment unseen object categories from just a handful of annotated examples. This requires mechanisms that can both identify semantically related objects across images and accurately produce segmentation masks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Claudia Cuttano , Gabriele Trivigno , Giuseppe Averta , Carlo Masone

The performance of image segmentation models has historically been constrained by the high cost of collecting large-scale annotated data. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) alleviates this original problem through a promptable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Miguel Espinosa , Chenhongyi Yang , Linus Ericsson , Steven McDonagh , Elliot J. Crowley

Existing perception models achieve great success by learning from large amounts of labeled data, but they still struggle with open-world scenarios. To alleviate this issue, researchers introduce open-set perception tasks to detect or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Zhi Tang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), developed by Meta AI Research, represents a significant breakthrough in computer vision, offering a robust framework for image and video segmentation. This survey provides a comprehensive exploration of the…

Fully supervised deep learning (DL) models for surgical video segmentation have been shown to struggle with non-adversarial, real-world corruptions of image quality including smoke, bleeding, and low illumination. Foundation models for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Yiqing Shen , Hao Ding , Xinyuan Shao , Mathias Unberath

Leveraging the extensive training data from SA-1B, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrates remarkable generalization and zero-shot capabilities. However, as a category-agnostic instance segmentation method, SAM heavily relies on prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Hao Chen , Haotian Zhang , Wenyuan Li , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Medical image segmentation is a crucial and time-consuming task in clinical care, where mask precision is extremely important. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) offers a promising approach, as it provides an interactive interface based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Julien Khlaut , Elodie Ferreres , Daniel Tordjman , Hélène Philippe , Tom Boeken , Pierre Manceron , Corentin Dancette

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits remarkable versatility and zero-shot learning abilities, owing largely to its extensive training data (SA-1B). Recognizing SAM's dependency on manual guidance given its category-agnostic nature, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Xiyu Qi , Yifan Wu , Yongqiang Mao , Wenhui Zhang , Yidan Zhang

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2), a prompt-guided video foundation model, has remarkably performed in video object segmentation, drawing significant attention in the community. Due to the high similarity between camouflaged objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xin Zhang , Keren Fu , Qijun Zhao