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Medical image and video segmentation is a critical task for precision medicine, which has witnessed considerable progress in developing task or modality-specific and generalist models for 2D images. However, there have been limited studies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Jun Ma , Zongxin Yang , Sumin Kim , Bihui Chen , Mohammed Baharoon , Adibvafa Fallahpour , Reza Asakereh , Hongwei Lyu , Bo Wang

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

Recent advances in medical image segmentation have been driven by deep learning; however, most existing methods remain limited by modality-specific designs and exhibit poor adaptability to dynamic medical imaging scenarios. The Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Guoping Xu , Christopher Kabat , You Zhang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) was originally designed for label-agnostic mask generation. Does this model also possess inherent semantic understanding, of value to broader visual tasks? In this work we follow a multi-staged approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Miguel Espinosa , Chenhongyi Yang , Linus Ericsson , Steven McDonagh , Elliot J. Crowley

Autonomous-driving perception systems require robust Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) to operate reliably in dynamic environments. MOT maintains consistent object identities across frames while preserving spatial accuracy. Recent foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Diogo Mendonça , Tiago Barros , Cristiano Premebida , Urbano J. Nunes

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment objects in a video according to textual descriptions, which requires the integration of multimodal information and temporal dynamics perception. The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Fu Rong , Meng Lan , Qian Zhang , Lefei Zhang

Medical image segmentation plays a pivotal role in clinical diagnostics and treatment planning, yet existing models often face challenges in generalization and in handling both 2D and 3D data uniformly. In this paper, we introduce Medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Jiayuan Zhu , Abdullah Hamdi , Yunli Qi , Yueming Jin , Junde Wu

Moving object segmentation is a crucial task for achieving a high-level understanding of visual scenes and has numerous downstream applications. Humans can effortlessly segment moving objects in videos. Previous work has largely relied on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Nan Huang , Wenzhao Zheng , Chenfeng Xu , Kurt Keutzer , Shanghang Zhang , Angjoo Kanazawa , Qianqian Wang

The recently released Segment Anything Model (SAM) has shown powerful zero-shot segmentation capabilities through a semi-automatic annotation setup in which the user can provide a prompt in the form of clicks or bounding boxes. There is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Benjamin Towle , Xin Chen , Ke Zhou

Multi-class multi-instance segmentation is the task of identifying masks for multiple object classes and multiple instances of the same class within an image. The foundational Segment Anything Model (SAM) is designed for promptable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Mariia Khan , Yue Qiu , Yuren Cong , Jumana Abu-Khalaf , David Suter , Bodo Rosenhahn

In this work, we study amodal video instance segmentation for automated driving. Previous works perform amodal video instance segmentation relying on methods trained on entirely labeled video data with techniques borrowed from standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jasmin Breitenstein , Franz Jünger , Andreas Bär , Tim Fingscheidt

Surgical video segmentation is critical for AI to interpret spatial-temporal dynamics in surgery, yet model performance is constrained by limited annotated data. The SAM2 model, pretrained on natural videos, offers potential for zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Cheng Yuan , Jian Jiang , Kunyi Yang , Lv Wu , Rui Wang , Zi Meng , Haonan Ping , Ziyu Xu , Yifan Zhou , Wanli Song , Hesheng Wang , Yueming Jin , Qi Dou , Yutong Ban

Most state-of-the-art instance segmentation methods rely on large amounts of pixel-precise ground-truth annotations for training, which are expensive to create. Interactive segmentation networks help generate such annotations based on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Amit Kumar Rana , Sabarinath Mahadevan , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe

Foundation models have shown strong performance in multi-object segmentation with visual prompts, yet histopathology images remain challenging due to high cellular density, heterogeneity, and the gap between pixel-level supervision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yonghuang Wu , Wenwen Zeng , Xuan Xie , Chengqian Zhao , Guoqing Wu , Jinhua Yu

Surgical video segmentation is a critical task in computer-assisted surgery, essential for enhancing surgical quality and patient outcomes. Recently, the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) framework has demonstrated remarkable advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Ming Yin , Fu Wang , Xujiong Ye , Yanda Meng , Zeyu Fu

Segment anything model (SAM) addresses two practical yet challenging segmentation tasks: \textbf{segment anything (SegAny)}, which utilizes a certain point to predict the mask for a single object of interest, and \textbf{segment everything…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Chaoning Zhang , Dongshen Han , Sheng Zheng , Jinwoo Choi , Tae-Ho Kim , Choong Seon Hong

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant attention for its impressive performance in image segmentation. However, it lacks proficiency in referring video object segmentation (RVOS) due to the need for precise user-interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yonglin Li , Jing Zhang , Xiao Teng , Long Lan , Xinwang Liu

Surgical video segmentation is a critical task in computer-assisted surgery and is vital for enhancing surgical quality and patient outcomes. Recently, the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) framework has shown superior advancements in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Haofeng Liu , Erli Zhang , Junde Wu , Mingxuan Hong , Yueming Jin

We introduce SAMPro3D for zero-shot instance segmentation of 3D scenes. Given the 3D point cloud and multiple posed RGB-D frames of 3D scenes, our approach segments 3D instances by applying the pretrained Segment Anything Model (SAM) to 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Mutian Xu , Xingyilang Yin , Lingteng Qiu , Yang Liu , Xin Tong , Xiaoguang Han

Semantic segmentation requires dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and time-consuming to acquire. To address this, we present SeSAM, a framework that uses a foundational segmentation model, i.e. Segment Anything Model (SAM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anurag Das , Anna Kukleva , Xinting Hu , Yuki M. Asano , Bernt Schiele