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Modern Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) typically operate in low-level Variational Autoencoder (VAE) latent spaces that are primarily optimized for pixel-level reconstruction. To unify vision generation and understanding, a burgeoning trend…

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Open-vocabulary segmentation enables pixel-level recognition from an open set of textual categories, allowing generalization beyond fixed classes. Despite great potential in remote sensing, progress in this area remains largely limited to…

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Medical image segmentation remains challenging due to limited fine-grained annotations, complex anatomical structures, and image degradation from noise, low contrast, or illumination variation. We propose TAMISeg, a text-guided segmentation…

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We present LlamaSeg, a visual autoregressive framework that unifies multiple image segmentation tasks via natural language instructions. We reformulate image segmentation as a visual generation problem, representing masks as "visual" tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jiru Deng , Tengjin Weng , Tianyu Yang , Wenhan Luo , Zhiheng Li , Wenhao Jiang

Recent "segment anything" efforts show promise by learning from large-scale data, but adapting such models directly to medical images remains challenging due to the complexity of medical data, noisy annotations, and continual learning…

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Medical image segmentation is an important analysis task in clinical practice and research. Deep learning has massively advanced the field, but current approaches are mostly based on models trained for a specific task. Training such models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Anwai Archit , Luca Freckmann , Constantin Pape

Visual-language models have advanced the development of universal models, yet their application in medical imaging remains constrained by specific functional requirements and the limited data. Current general-purpose models are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Kaini Wang , Ling Yang , Siping Zhou , Guangquan Zhou , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui , Shuo Li

Foundation models for medical image segmentation have achieved remarkable performance. Adaptive fine-tuning of natural image segmentation foundation models is crucial for medical image segmentation tasks. However, some limitations exist in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xinwei Zhang , Hu Chen , Zhe Yuan , Sukun Tian , Peng Feng

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation is a challenging task that requires segmenting novel object categories at inference time. Recent studies have explored vision-language pre-training to handle this task, but suffer from unrealistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Chaofan Ma , Yuhuan Yang , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Recent advancements in foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have shown strong performance in various vision tasks, particularly image segmentation, due to their impressive zero-shot segmentation capabilities.…

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The development of medical vision-language foundation models has attracted significant attention in the field of medicine and healthcare due to their promising prospect in various clinical applications. While previous studies have commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Weijian Huang , Cheng Li , Hong-Yu Zhou , Jiarun Liu , Hao Yang , Yong Liang , Guangming Shi , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Frame-level visual features are generally aggregated in time with the techniques such as LSTM, Fisher Vectors, NetVLAD etc. to produce a robust video-level representation. We here introduce a learnable aggregation technique whose primary…

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Referring image segmentation aims to predict the foreground mask of the object referred by a natural language sentence. Multimodal context of the sentence is crucial to distinguish the referent from the background. Existing methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Tianrui Hui , Si Liu , Shaofei Huang , Guanbin Li , Sansi Yu , Faxi Zhang , Jizhong Han

Widely adopted medical image segmentation methods, although efficient, are primarily deterministic and remain poorly amenable to natural language prompts. Thus, they lack the capability to estimate multiple proposals, human interaction, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yuan Lin , Murong Xu , Marc Hölle , Chinmay Prabhakar , Andreas Maier , Vasileios Belagiannis , Bjoern Menze , Suprosanna Shit

Medical image fusion integrates the complementary diagnostic information of the source image modalities for improved visualization and analysis of underlying anomalies. Recently, deep learning-based models have excelled the conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-19 Manisha Das , Deep Gupta , Petia Radeva , Ashwini M Bakde

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has drawn significant attention from researchers who work on medical image segmentation because of its generalizability. However, researchers have found that SAM may have limited performance on medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yihao Liu , Jiaming Zhang , Andres Diaz-Pinto , Haowei Li , Alejandro Martin-Gomez , Amir Kheradmand , Mehran Armand

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation models aim to accurately assign a semantic label to each pixel in an image from a set of arbitrary open-vocabulary texts. In order to learn such pixel-level alignment, current approaches typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zihang Lai

Deep networks are now ubiquitous in large-scale multi-center imaging studies. However, the direct aggregation of images across sites is contraindicated for downstream statistical and deep learning-based image analysis due to inconsistent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Mengwei Ren , Neel Dey , James Fishbaugh , Guido Gerig

In recent years, the growing demand for medical imaging diagnosis has placed a significant burden on radiologists. As a solution, Medical Vision-Language Pre-training (Med-VLP) methods have been proposed to learn universal representations…

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