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Prompt-free image segmentation aims to generate accurate masks without manual guidance. Typical pre-trained models, notably Segmentation Anything Model (SAM), generate prompts directly at a single granularity level. However, this approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Qiyang Yu , Yu Fang , Tianrui Li , Xuemei Cao , Yan Chen , Jianghao Li , Fan Min , Yi Zhang

Accurate surgical instrument segmentation is essential in cataract surgery for tasks such as skill assessment and workflow optimization. However, limited annotated data makes it difficult to develop fully automatic models. Prompt-based…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-11 Nuren Zhaksylyk , Ibrahim Almakky , Jay Paranjape , S. Swaroop Vedula , Shameema Sikder , Vishal M. Patel , Mohammad Yaqub

Remote sensing applications increasingly rely on deep learning for scene classification. However, their performance is often constrained by the scarcity of labeled data and the high cost of annotation across diverse geographic and sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Ivica Dimitrovski , Vlatko Spasev , Ivan Kitanovski

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation presents the challenge of labeling each pixel within an image based on a wide range of text descriptions. In this work, we introduce a novel cost-based approach to adapt vision-language foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Seokju Cho , Heeseong Shin , Sunghwan Hong , Anurag Arnab , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Seungryong Kim

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation provides a flexible and fine-grained framework for remote sensing scene analysis via vision-language collaborative interpretation. Current approaches predominantly utilize a three-stage pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Bowen Chen , Jiafan Zhang , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Recent approaches have shown that large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP can improve semantic segmentation performance. These methods typically aim for pixel-level vision-language alignment, but often rely on low resolution image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Anurag Das , Xinting Hu , Li Jiang , Bernt Schiele

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis and autonomous driving and has a problem with the high cost of annotating the labels required in training. To address this problem, semantic segmentation methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Nagito Saito , Shintaro Ito , Koichi Ito , Takafumi Aoki

Extending CLIP models to semantic segmentation remains challenging due to the misalignment between their image-level pre-training objectives and the pixel-level visual understanding required for dense prediction. While prior efforts have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Jinxin Zhou , Jiachen Jiang , Zhihui Zhu

Promptable segmentation foundation models such as SAM3 have demonstrated strong generalization capabilities through interactive and concept-based prompting. However, their direct applicability to medical image segmentation remains limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Chongcong Jiang , Tianxingjian Ding , Chuhan Song , Jiachen Tu , Ziyang Yan , Yihua Shao , Zhenyi Wang , Yuzhang Shang , Tianyu Han , Yu Tian

Interactive medical image segmentation refers to the accurate segmentation of the target of interest through interaction (e.g., click) between the user and the image. It has been widely studied in recent years as it is less dependent on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Ao Chang , Xing Tao , Xin Yang , Yuhao Huang , Xinrui Zhou , Jiajun Zeng , Ruobing Huang , Dong Ni

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) can achieve satisfactory segmentation performance under high-quality box prompts. However, SAM's robustness is compromised by the decline in box quality, limiting its practicality in clinical reality. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Han Zhou , Yan Cao , Haoran Dou , Fajin Dong , Dong Ni

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation in the remote sensing (RS) field requires both language-aligned recognition and fine-grained spatial delineation. Although CLIP offers robust semantic generalization, its global-aligned visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jie Feng , Fengze Li , Junpeng Zhang , Siyu Chen , Yuping Liang , Junying Chen , Ronghua Shang

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental and critical step in many image-guided clinical approaches. Recent success of deep learning-based segmentation methods usually relies on a large amount of labeled data, which is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Rushi Jiao , Yichi Zhang , Le Ding , Rong Cai , Jicong Zhang

Promptable segmentation has emerged as a powerful paradigm in computer vision, enabling users to guide models in parsing complex scenes with prompts such as clicks, boxes, or textual cues. Recent advances, exemplified by the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yoonwoo Jeong , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Minsu Cho , Jaesung Choe

Interactive 3D point cloud segmentation enables efficient annotation of complex 3D scenes through user-guided prompts. However, current approaches are typically restricted in scope to a single domain (indoor or outdoor), and to a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Aniket Gupta , Hanhui Wang , Charles Saunders , Aruni RoyChowdhury , Hanumant Singh , Huaizu Jiang

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

A single biomedical image can be meaningfully segmented in multiple ways, depending on the desired application. For instance, a brain MRI can be segmented according to tissue types, vascular territories, broad anatomical regions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Marianne Rakic , Siyu Gai , Etienne Chollet , John V. Guttag , Adrian V. Dalca

This work introduces a new framework, ProtoSAM, for one-shot medical image segmentation. It combines the use of prototypical networks, known for few-shot segmentation, with SAM - a natural image foundation model. The method proposed creates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Lev Ayzenberg , Raja Giryes , Hayit Greenspan

Cell segmentation is a fundamental task in microscopy image analysis. Several foundation models for cell segmentation have been introduced, virtually all of them are extensions of Segment Anything Model (SAM), improving it for microscopy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Anwai Archit , Constantin Pape

Medical anomaly detection (MAD) and segmentation play a critical role in assisting clinical diagnosis by identifying abnormal regions in medical images and localizing pathological regions. Recent CLIP-based studies are promising for anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Thuy Truong Tran , Minh Kha Do , Phuc Nguyen Duy , Min Hun Lee