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Segment anything model (SAM) demonstrates strong generalization ability on natural image segmentation. However, its direct adaptation in medical image segmentation tasks shows significant performance drops. It also requires an excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Heng Guo , Jianfeng Zhang , Jiaxing Huang , Tony C. W. Mok , Dazhou Guo , Ke Yan , Le Lu , Dakai Jin , Minfeng Xu

The recent introduction of \texttt{SAM3} has revolutionized Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) through \textit{promptable concept segmentation}, which grounds pixel predictions in flexible concept prompts. However, this reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Gensheng Pei , Xiruo Jiang , Yazhou Yao , Xiangbo Shu , Fumin Shen , Byeungwoo Jeon

The performance of image segmentation models has historically been constrained by the high cost of collecting large-scale annotated data. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) alleviates this original problem through a promptable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Miguel Espinosa , Chenhongyi Yang , Linus Ericsson , Steven McDonagh , Elliot J. Crowley

Foundation models such as Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3) enable flexible text-guided medical image segmentation, yet their predictions remain highly sensitive to prompt formulation. Even semantically equivalent descriptions can yield…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yonghuang Wu , Zhenyang Liang , Wenwen Zeng , Xuan Xie , Jinhua Yu

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 interactive segmentation task consists in the creation of object segmentation masks based on user interactions. The most common way to guide a model towards producing a correct segmentation consists in clicks on the object and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Robin Schön , Julian Lorenz , Katja Ludwig , Rainer Lienhart

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

\noindent Memory has become the central mechanism enabling robust visual object tracking in modern segmentation-based frameworks. Recent methods built upon Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) have demonstrated strong performance by refining how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mohamad Alansari , Muzammal Naseer , Hasan Al Marzouqi , Naoufel Werghi , Sajid Javed

Foundational models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) are gaining traction in medical imaging segmentation, supporting multiple downstream tasks. However, such models are supervised in nature, still relying on large annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Aishik Konwer , Zhijian Yang , Erhan Bas , Cao Xiao , Prateek Prasanna , Parminder Bhatia , Taha Kass-Hout

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

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

Segmenting objects with complex shapes, such as wires, bicycles, or structural grids, remains a significant challenge for current segmentation models, including the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and its high-quality variant SAM-HQ. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Luka Vetoshkin , Dmitry Yudin

In light of the diminishing returns of traditional methods for enhancing transmission rates, the domain of semantic communication presents promising new frontiers. Focusing on image transmission, this paper explores the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shehbaz Tariq , Brian Estadimas Arfeto , Chaoning Zhang , Hyundong Shin

Segmenting 3D objects into parts is a long-standing challenge in computer vision. To overcome taxonomy constraints and generalize to unseen 3D objects, recent works turn to open-world part segmentation. These approaches typically transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zhe Zhu , Le Wan , Rui Xu , Yiheng Zhang , Honghua Chen , Zhiyang Dou , Cheng Lin , Yuan Liu , Mingqiang Wei

We introduce SAM2Point, a preliminary exploration adapting Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) for zero-shot and promptable 3D segmentation. SAM2Point interprets any 3D data as a series of multi-directional videos, and leverages SAM 2 for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ziyu Guo , Renrui Zhang , Xiangyang Zhu , Chengzhuo Tong , Peng Gao , Chunyuan Li , Pheng-Ann Heng

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

Open-world referring segmentation requires grounding unconstrained language expressions to precise pixel-level regions. Existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit strong open-world visual grounding, but their outputs remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuan Yao , Qiushi Yang , Humen Zhong , Jiangning Wei , Yifang Men , Shuai Bai , Miaomiao Cui , Zhibo Yang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits promise in generic object segmentation and offers potential for various applications. Existing methods have applied SAM to surgical instrument segmentation (SIS) by tuning SAM-based frameworks with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Wenxi Yue , Jing Zhang , Kun Hu , Qiuxia Wu , Zongyuan Ge , Yong Xia , Jiebo Luo , Zhiyong Wang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) achieves remarkable promptable segmentation given high-quality prompts which, however, often require good skills to specify. To make SAM robust to casual prompts, this paper presents the first comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Qi Fan , Xin Tao , Lei Ke , Mingqiao Ye , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Zhongyuan Wang , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Purpose: The Segment Anything Model (SAM) promises to ease the annotation bottleneck in medical segmentation, but overlapping anatomy and blurred boundaries make its point prompts ambiguous, leading to cycles of manual refinement to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Adrien Meyer , Lorenzo Arboit , Giuseppe Massimiani , Shih-Min Yin , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy