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The Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3) advances visual understanding with Promptable Concept Segmentation (PCS) across images and videos, but its unified architecture (shared vision backbone, DETR-style detector, dense-memory tracker) remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Chengxi Zeng , Yuxuan Jiang , Aaron Zhang

Segment Anything 3 (SAM3) has established a powerful foundation that robustly detects, segments, and tracks specified targets in videos. However, in its original implementation, its group-level collective memory selection is suboptimal for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Ruiqi Shen , Chang Liu , Henghui Ding

In this work, we propose SAM3D, a novel framework that is able to predict masks in 3D point clouds by leveraging the Segment-Anything Model (SAM) in RGB images without further training or finetuning. For a point cloud of a 3D scene with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yunhan Yang , Xiaoyang Wu , Tong He , Hengshuang Zhao , Xihui Liu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a deep neural network foundational model designed to perform instance segmentation which has gained significant popularity given its zero-shot segmentation ability. SAM operates by generating masks based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Yona Falinie A. Gaus , Neelanjan Bhowmik , Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Toby P. Breckon

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

Is Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3) capable in segmenting Any Pathology Images? Digital pathology segmentation spans tissue-level and nuclei-level scales, where traditional methods often suffer from high annotation costs and poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Qiuyu Kong , Shakiba Sharifi , Yiming Wang , Marco Cristani , Zanxi Ruan

The rapid rise of large-scale foundation models has reshaped the landscape of image segmentation, with models such as Segment Anything achieving unprecedented versatility across diverse vision tasks. However, previous generations-including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Tianrun Chen , Runlong Cao , Xinda Yu , Lanyun Zhu , Chaotao Ding , Deyi Ji , Cheng Chen , Qi Zhu , Chunyan Xu , Papa Mao , Ying Zang

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…

Segment Anything Models (SAMs) like SEEM and SAM have demonstrated great potential in learning to segment anything. The core design of SAMs lies with Promptable Segmentation, which takes a handcrafted prompt as input and returns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jiaxing Huang , Kai Jiang , Jingyi Zhang , Han Qiu , Lewei Lu , Shijian Lu , Eric Xing

Localizing object parts precisely is essential for tasks such as object recognition and robotic manipulation. Recent part segmentation methods require extensive training data and labor-intensive annotations. Segment-Anything Model (SAM) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 S. B. van Rooij , G. J. Burghouts

Segmenting 3D assets into their constituent parts is crucial for enhancing 3D understanding, facilitating model reuse, and supporting various applications such as part generation. However, current methods face limitations such as poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Changfeng Ma , Yang Li , Xinhao Yan , Jiachen Xu , Yunhan Yang , Chunshi Wang , Zibo Zhao , Yanwen Guo , Zhuo Chen , Chunchao Guo

Training segmentation models for medical images continues to be challenging due to the limited availability of data annotations. Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a foundation model that is intended to segment user-defined objects of interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Maciej A. Mazurowski , Haoyu Dong , Hanxue Gu , Jichen Yang , Nicholas Konz , Yixin Zhang

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

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

We propose a method to efficiently equip the Segment Anything Model (SAM) with the ability to generate regional captions. SAM presents strong generalizability to segment anything while is short for semantic understanding. By introducing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Xiaoke Huang , Jianfeng Wang , Yansong Tang , Zheng Zhang , Han Hu , Jiwen Lu , Lijuan Wang , Zicheng Liu

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

Single-point annotation in visual tasks, with the goal of minimizing labelling costs, is becoming increasingly prominent in research. Recently, visual foundation models, such as Segment Anything (SAM), have gained widespread usage due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhaoyang Wei , Pengfei Chen , Xuehui Yu , Guorong Li , Jianbin Jiao , Zhenjun Han

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at generating precise object masks from input prompts but lacks semantic awareness, failing to associate its generated masks with specific object categories. To address this limitation, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Rohit Kundu , Sudipta Paul , Arindam Dutta , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

We introduce SAM4MLLM, an innovative approach which integrates the Segment Anything Model (SAM) with Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for pixel-aware tasks. Our method enables MLLMs to learn pixel-level location information without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yi-Chia Chen , Wei-Hua Li , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Chu-Song Chen

Segmenting and recognizing diverse object parts is crucial in computer vision and robotics. Despite significant progress in object segmentation, part-level segmentation remains underexplored due to complex boundaries and scarce annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xinjian Wu , Ruisong Zhang , Jie Qin , Shijie Ma , Cheng-Lin Liu