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Existing instance segmentation models learn task-specific information using manual mask annotations from base (training) categories. These mask annotations require tremendous human effort, limiting the scalability to annotate novel (new)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Vibashan VS , Ning Yu , Chen Xing , Can Qin , Mingfei Gao , Juan Carlos Niebles , Vishal M. Patel , Ran Xu

The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a big leap in scaling up segmentation models, allowing for powerful zero-shot capabilities and flexible prompting. Despite being trained with 1.1 billion masks, SAM's mask prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Lei Ke , Mingqiao Ye , Martin Danelljan , Yifan Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Fisher Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong capabilities in broad knowledge representation, yet they are inherently deficient in pixel-level perceptual understanding. Although the Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hao Wang , Limeng Qiao , Zequn Jie , Zhijian Huang , Chengjian Feng , Qingfang Zheng , Lin Ma , Xiangyuan Lan , Xiaodan Liang

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…

This paper introduces SAMAug, a novel visual point augmentation method for the Segment Anything Model (SAM) that enhances interactive image segmentation performance. SAMAug generates augmented point prompts to provide more information about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Haixing Dai , Chong Ma , Zhiling Yan , Zhengliang Liu , Enze Shi , Yiwei Li , Peng Shu , Xiaozheng Wei , Lin Zhao , Zihao Wu , Fang Zeng , Dajiang Zhu , Wei Liu , Quanzheng Li , Lichao Sun , Shu Zhang Tianming Liu , Xiang Li

Although most existing multi-modal salient object detection (SOD) methods demonstrate effectiveness through training models from scratch, the limited multi-modal data hinders these methods from reaching optimality. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Kunpeng Wang , Danying Lin , Chenglong Li , Zhengzheng Tu , Bin Luo

Recently, open-vocabulary learning has emerged to accomplish segmentation for arbitrary categories of text-based descriptions, which popularizes the segmentation system to more general-purpose application scenarios. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jie Qin , Jie Wu , Pengxiang Yan , Ming Li , Ren Yuxi , Xuefeng Xiao , Yitong Wang , Rui Wang , Shilei Wen , Xin Pan , Xingang Wang

Although the Segment Anything Model (SAM) is highly effective in natural image segmentation, it requires dependencies on prompts, which limits its applicability to medical imaging where manual prompts are often unavailable. Existing efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Mengmeng Zhang , Xingyuan Dai , Yicheng Sun , Jing Wang , Yueyang Yao , Xiaoyan Gong , Fuze Cong , Feiyue Wang , Yisheng Lv

Visual Foundation Models (VFMs) such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have significantly advanced broad use of image segmentation. However, SAM and its variants necessitate substantial manual effort for prompt generation and additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Minjae Lee , Sungwoo Hur , Soojin Hwang , Won Hwa Kim

Multimodal image fusion and semantic segmentation are critical for autonomous driving. Despite advancements, current models often struggle with segmenting densely packed elements due to a lack of comprehensive fusion features for guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Daixun Li , Weiying Xie , Mingxiang Cao , Yunke Wang , Yusi Zhang , Leyuan Fang , Yunsong Li , Chang Xu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) made an eye-catching debut recently and inspired many researchers to explore its potential and limitation in terms of zero-shot generalization capability. As the first promptable foundation model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Dongjie Cheng , Ziyuan Qin , Zekun Jiang , Shaoting Zhang , Qicheng Lao , Kang Li

In semantic segmentation, accurate prediction masks are crucial for downstream tasks such as medical image analysis and image editing. Due to the lack of annotated data, few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) performs poorly in predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chen-Bin Feng , Qi Lai , Kangdao Liu , Houcheng Su , Chi-Man Vong

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) family has become a widely adopted vision foundation model, but its ability to control segmentation granularity remains limited. Users often need to refine results manually - by adding more prompts or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Junwei Yu , Trevor Darrell , XuDong Wang

This paper studies open-vocabulary segmentation (OVS) through calibrating in-vocabulary and domain-biased embedding space with generalized contextual prior of CLIP. As the core of open-vocabulary understanding, alignment of visual content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yong Liu , Sule Bai , Guanbin Li , Yitong Wang , Yansong Tang

Recently, Segment Anything Model (SAM) shows exceptional performance in generating high-quality object masks and achieving zero-shot image segmentation. However, as a versatile vision model, SAM is primarily trained with large-scale natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Tianyu Yan , Zifu Wan , Xinhao Deng , Pingping Zhang , Yang Liu , Huchuan Lu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has garnered significant attention for its versatile segmentation abilities and intuitive prompt-based interface. However, its application in medical imaging presents challenges, requiring either substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhiheng Cheng , Qingyue Wei , Hongru Zhu , Yan Wang , Liangqiong Qu , Wei Shao , Yuyin Zhou

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

In digital pathology, precise nuclei segmentation is pivotal yet challenged by the diversity of tissue types, staining protocols, and imaging conditions. Recently, the segment anything model (SAM) revealed overwhelming performance in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Zhen Chen , Qing Xu , Xinyu Liu , Yixuan Yuan

Domain Generalization in Semantic Segmentation (DG-SS) aims to enable segmentation models to perform robustly in unseen environments. However, conventional DG-SS methods are restricted to a fixed set of known categories, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Dong Zhao , Qi Zang , Nan Pu , Wenjing Li , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

Although SAM-based single-source domain generalization models for medical image segmentation can mitigate the impact of domain shift on the model in cross-domain scenarios, these models still face two major challenges. First, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Huanli Zhuo , Leilei Ma , Haifeng Zhao , Shiwei Zhou , Dengdi Sun , Yanping Fu