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Image segmentation is a long-standing challenge in computer vision, studied continuously over several decades, as evidenced by seminal algorithms such as N-Cut, FCN, and MaskFormer. With the advent of foundation models (FMs), contemporary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tianfei Zhou , Wang Xia , Fei Zhang , Boyu Chang , Wenguan Wang , Ye Yuan , Ender Konukoglu , Daniel Cremers

Recently, large vision model, Segment Anything Model (SAM), has revolutionized the computer vision field, especially for image segmentation. SAM presented a new promptable segmentation paradigm that exhibit its remarkable zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Chenglong Wang , Dexuan Li , Sucheng Wang , Chengxiu Zhang , Yida Wang , Yun Liu , Guang Yang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has recently emerged as a significant breakthrough in foundation models, demonstrating remarkable zero-shot performance in object segmentation tasks. While SAM is designed for generalization, it exhibits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Josh Stein , Maxime Di Folco , Julia A. Schnabel

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has recently gained popularity in the field of image segmentation due to its impressive capabilities in various segmentation tasks and its prompt-based interface. However, recent studies and individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Junde Wu , Wei Ji , Yuanpei Liu , Huazhu Fu , Min Xu , Yanwu Xu , Yueming Jin

Foundation models have taken over natural language processing and image generation domains due to the flexibility of prompting. With the recent introduction of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), this prompt-driven paradigm has entered image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Saikat Roy , Tassilo Wald , Gregor Koehler , Maximilian R. Rokuss , Nico Disch , Julius Holzschuh , David Zimmerer , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating realistic and versatile images from text prompts. Inspired by the recent advancements of language models, there is an increasing interest in further improving the models by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Binxu Li , Minkai Xu , Jiaqi Han , Meihua Dang , Stefano Ermon

The practical applications of diffusion models have been limited by the misalignment between generated images and corresponding text prompts. Recent studies have introduced direct preference optimization (DPO) to enhance the alignment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zijing Hu , Fengda Zhang , Kun Kuang

Advances in machine learning, especially the introduction of transformer architectures and vision transformers, have led to the development of highly capable computer vision foundation models. The segment anything model (known colloquially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Kenneth Ball , Erin Taylor , Nirav Patel , Andrew Bartels , Gary Koplik , James Polly , Jay Hineman

Brain tumor segmentation presents a formidable challenge in the field of Medical Image Segmentation. While deep-learning models have been useful, human expert segmentation remains the most accurate method. The recently released Segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Mohammad Peivandi , Jason Zhang , Michael Lu , Dongxiao Zhu , Zhifeng Kou

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has recently emerged as a groundbreaking foundation model for prompt-driven image segmentation tasks. However, both the original SAM and its medical variants require slice-by-slice manual prompting of target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yichi Zhang , Shiyao Hu , Sijie Ren , Chen Jiang , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

Accurate lesion segmentation is essential in medical image analysis, yet most existing methods are designed for specific anatomical sites or imaging modalities, limiting their generalizability. Recent vision-language foundation models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Guoping Xu , Jayaram K. Udupa , Yubing Tong , Xin Long , Ying Zhang , Jie Deng , Weiguo Lu , You Zhang

Segment anything model (SAM) has emerged as the leading approach for zero-shot learning in segmentation tasks, offering the advantage of avoiding pixel-wise annotations. It is particularly appealing in medical image segmentation, where the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Ziyi Huang , Hongshan Liu , Haofeng Zhang , Xueshen Li , Haozhe Liu , Fuyong Xing , Andrew Laine , Elsa Angelini , Christine Hendon , Yu Gan

Recently, Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated strong generalizability in various instance segmentation tasks. However, its performance is severely dependent on the quality of manual prompts. In addition, the RGB images that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yihan Shang , Wei Wang , Chao Huang , Xinghui Dong

Interactive segmentation is to segment the mask of the target object according to the user's interactive prompts. There are two mainstream strategies: early fusion and late fusion. Current specialist models utilize the early fusion strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Chongkai Yu , Ting Liu , Anqi Li , Xiaochao Qu , Chengjing Wu , Luoqi Liu , Xiaolin Hu

To address prevalent issues in medical imaging, such as data acquisition challenges and label availability, transfer learning from natural to medical image domains serves as a viable strategy to produce reliable segmentation results.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Hao Li , Han Liu , Dewei Hu , Jiacheng Wang , Ipek Oguz

Existing reinforcement learning approaches for Large Language Models typically perform policy optimization at the granularity of individual tokens or entire response sequences. However, such formulations often misalign with the natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Lei Gao , Zhuoming Li , Mengxi Jia , Jiakang Yuan , Hongbo Sun , Hao Sun , Xuelong Li

We propose a straightforward yet highly effective few-shot fine-tuning strategy for adapting the Segment Anything (SAM) to anatomical segmentation tasks in medical images. Our novel approach revolves around reformulating the mask decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Weiyi Xie , Nathalie Willems , Shubham Patil , Yang Li , Mayank Kumar

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 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 emerging scale segmentation model, Segment Anything (SAM), exhibits impressive capabilities in zero-shot segmentation for natural images. However, when applied to medical images, SAM suffers from noticeable performance drop. To make SAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Xinrong Hu , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi