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The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has emerged as a foundation model for universal segmentation. Owing to its generalizable visual representations, SAM2 has been successfully applied to various downstream tasks. However, extending SAM2 to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jiyuan Liu , Jia Lin , Xiaofei Zhou , Runmin Cong , Deyang Liu , Zhi Liu

Segmentation is a fundamental problem in surgical scene analysis using artificial intelligence. However, the inherent data scarcity in this domain makes it challenging to adapt traditional segmentation techniques for this task. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jay N. Paranjape , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) aims to segment target objects in remote sensing (RS) images based on textual descriptions. Although Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has shown remarkable performance in various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Fu Rong , Meng Lan , Qian Zhang , Lefei Zhang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), a foundation model pretrained on millions of images and segmentation masks, has significantly advanced semantic segmentation, a fundamental task in computer vision. Despite its strengths, SAM encounters two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Li Zhang , Youwei Liang , Ruiyi Zhang , Amirhosein Javadi , Pengtao Xie

With the emergence of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) as a foundational model for image segmentation, its application has been extensively studied across various domains, including the medical field. However, its potential in the context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 SeungKyu Kim , Hyun-Jic Oh , Seonghui Min , Won-Ki Jeong

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

Instance segmentation is a challenging task aiming at classifying and segmenting all object instances of specific classes. While two-stage box-based methods achieve top performances in the image domain, they cannot easily extend their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Xiang Li , Jinglu Wang , Xiao Li , Yan Lu

Analyzing octopuses in their natural habitats is challenging due to their camouflage capability, rapid changes in skin texture and color, non-rigid body deformations, and frequent occlusions, all of which are compounded by variable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Alan de Aguiar , Michaella Pereira Andrade , Charles Morphy D. Santos , João Paulo Gois

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a state-of-the-art research advancement in natural image segmentation, achieving impressive results with input prompts such as points and bounding boxes. However, our evaluation and recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Junlong Cheng , Jin Ye , Zhongying Deng , Jianpin Chen , Tianbin Li , Haoyu Wang , Yanzhou Su , Ziyan Huang , Jilong Chen , Lei Jiang , Hui Sun , Junjun He , Shaoting Zhang , Min Zhu , Yu Qiao

Amodal segmentation is a challenging task that aims to predict the complete geometric shape of objects, including their occluded regions. Although existing methods primarily focus on amodal segmentation within the training domain, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Bo Zhang , Zhuotao Tian , Xin Tao , Songlin Tang , Jun Yu , Wenjie Pei

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) has demonstrated strong performance in object segmentation tasks and has become the state-of-the-art for visual object tracking. The model stores information from previous frames in a memory bank, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Alen Adamyan , Tomáš Čížek , Matej Straka , Klara Janouskova , Martin Schmid

We present Segment Anything Model (SAM) 3, a unified model that detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and videos based on concept prompts, which we define as either short noun phrases (e.g., "yellow school bus"), image exemplars,…

Real-time video segmentation is a promising opportunity for AI-assisted surgery, offering intraoperative guidance by identifying tools and anatomical structures. Despite growing interest in surgical video segmentation, annotation protocols…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Utku Ozbulak , Seyed Amir Mousavi , Francesca Tozzi , Niki Rashidian , Wouter Willaert , Wesley De Neve , Joris Vankerschaver

Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3) advances open-vocabulary segmentation through promptable concept segmentation, enabling users to segment all instances associated with a given concept using short noun-phrase (NP) prompts. While effective for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jingjing Li , Yue Feng , Yuchen Guo , Jincai Huang , Wei Ji , Qi Bi , Yongri Piao , Miao Zhang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Qiang Chen , Shihao Zou , Huchuan Lu , Li Cheng

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits a capability to segment a wide array of objects in natural images, serving as a versatile perceptual tool for various downstream image segmentation tasks. In contrast, medical image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yizhe Zhang , Tao Zhou , Shuo Wang , Ye Wu , Pengfei Gu , Danny Z. Chen

Since the release of Segment Anything 2 (SAM2), the medical imaging community has been actively evaluating its performance for 3D medical image segmentation. However, different studies have employed varying evaluation pipelines, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yufan He , Pengfei Guo , Yucheng Tang , Andriy Myronenko , Vishwesh Nath , Ziyue Xu , Dong Yang , Can Zhao , Daguang Xu , Wenqi Li

Online, real-time, and fine-grained 3D segmentation constitutes a fundamental capability for embodied intelligent agents to perceive and comprehend their operational environments. Recent advancements employ predefined object queries to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hanshi Wang , Zijian Cai , Jin Gao , Yiwei Zhang , Weiming Hu , Ke Wang , Zhipeng Zhang

In recent years, the state-of-the-art in unsupervised video instance segmentation has heavily relied on synthetic video data, generated from object-centric image datasets such as ImageNet. However, video synthesis by artificially shifting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Leon Sick , Lukas Hoyer , Dominik Engel , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Recent years have seen remarkable progress in semantic segmentation. Yet, it remains a challenging task to apply segmentation techniques to video-based applications. Specifically, the high throughput of video streams, the sheer cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Yule Li , Jianping Shi , Dahua Lin

The objective of this paper is motion segmentation -- discovering and segmenting the moving objects in a video. This is a much studied area with numerous careful, and sometimes complex, approaches and training schemes including:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Junyu Xie , Charig Yang , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman