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The goal of Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is to localize and segment the sounding source objects from video frames. Research on AVS suffers from data scarcity due to the high cost of fine-grained manual annotations. Recent works attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Kyungbok Lee , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan

Semantic Segmentation combines two sub-tasks: the identification of pixel-level image masks and the application of semantic labels to those masks. Recently, so-called Foundation Models have been introduced; general models trained on very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 David Balaban , Justin Medich , Pranay Gosar , Justin Hart

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) shows excellent performance in video object segmentation tasks; however, the heavy computational burden hinders its application in real-time video processing. Although there have been efforts to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jing Zhang , Zhikai Li , Xuewen Liu , Qingyi Gu

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

Ultrasound (US) video segmentation remains a challenging problem due to strong inter- and intra-dataset variability, motion artifacts, and limited annotated data. Although foundation models such as Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xing Yao , Ahana Gangopadhyay , Hsi-Ming Chang , Ravi Soni

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) serves as a core foundation model in the field of video segmentation. Building upon the original SAM model, it introduces a memory bank mechanism and demonstrates outstanding performance in tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhaoyuan Ding , Yijing Yang , Han Shu , Xinghao Chen

Tracking cells and detecting mitotic events in time-lapse microscopy image sequences is a crucial task in biomedical research. However, it remains highly challenging due to dividing objects, low signal-tonoise ratios, indistinct boundaries,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Zhu Chen , Mert Edgü , Er Jin , Johannes Stegmaier

The ability to segment objects based on open-ended language prompts remains a critical challenge, requiring models to ground textual semantics into precise spatial masks while handling diverse and unseen categories. We present OpenWorldSAM,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shiting Xiao , Rishabh Kabra , Yuhang Li , Donghyun Lee , Joao Carreira , Priyadarshini Panda

Large vision models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibit significant limitations when applied to downstream tasks in the wild. Consequently, reference segmentation, which leverages reference images and their corresponding masks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Haoran Wang , Zekun Li , Jian Zhang , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2), a vision foundation model has significantly advanced in prompt-driven video object segmentation, yet their practical deployment remains limited by the high computational and memory cost of processing dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Avilasha Mandal , Chaoning Zhang , Fachrina Dewi Puspitasari , Xudong Wang , Jiaquan Zhang , Caiyan Qin , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

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

Amodal instance segmentation, which aims to detect and segment both visible and invisible parts of objects in images, plays a crucial role in various applications including autonomous driving, robotic manipulation, and scene understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Wei-En Tai , Yu-Lin Shih , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Hwann-Tzong Chen

Medical image segmentation and video object segmentation are essential for diagnosing and analyzing diseases by identifying and measuring biological structures. Recent advances in natural domain have been driven by foundation models like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhiling Yan , Weixiang Sun , Rong Zhou , Zhengqing Yuan , Kai Zhang , Yiwei Li , Tianming Liu , Quanzheng Li , Xiang Li , Lifang He , Lichao Sun

Inspired by Segment Anything 2, which generalizes segmentation from images to videos, we propose SAM2MOT--a novel segmentation-driven paradigm for multi-object tracking that breaks away from the conventional detection-association framework.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Junjie Jiang , Zelin Wang , Manqi Zhao , Yin Li , DongSheng Jiang

Given a single labeled example, in-context segmentation aims to segment corresponding objects. This setting, known as one-shot segmentation in few-shot learning, explores the segmentation model's generalization ability and has been applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Mengshi Qi , Pengfei Zhu , Xiangtai Li , Xiaoyang Bi , Lu Qi , Huadong Ma , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Spannotation is an open source user-friendly tool developed for image annotation for semantic segmentation specifically in autonomous navigation tasks. This study provides an evaluation of Spannotation, demonstrating its effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Samuel O. Folorunsho , William R. Norris

Nucleus segmentation is an important analysis task in digital pathology. However, methods for automatic segmentation often struggle with new data from a different distribution, requiring users to manually annotate nuclei and retrain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Titus Griebel , Anwai Archit , Constantin Pape

Recently, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) gains lots of attention rapidly due to its impressive segmentation performance on images. Regarding its strong ability on image segmentation and high interactivity with different prompts, we found…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Jinyu Yang , Mingqi Gao , Zhe Li , Shang Gao , Fangjing Wang , Feng Zheng

As the successor to the Segment Anything Model (SAM), the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) not only improves performance in image segmentation but also extends its capabilities to video segmentation. However, its effectiveness in segmenting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Leiping Jie

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2), a prompt-guided video foundation model, has remarkably performed in video object segmentation, drawing significant attention in the community. Due to the high similarity between camouflaged objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xin Zhang , Keren Fu , Qijun Zhao