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The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits remarkable versatility and zero-shot learning abilities, owing largely to its extensive training data (SA-1B). Recognizing SAM's dependency on manual guidance given its category-agnostic nature, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Xiyu Qi , Yifan Wu , Yongqiang Mao , Wenhui Zhang , Yidan Zhang

This paper presents a depth-enhanced YOLO-SAM2 framework for detecting ballast insufficiency in railway tracks using RGB-D data. Although YOLOv8 provides reliable localization, the RGB-only model shows limited safety performance, achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Shiyu Liu , Dylan Lester , Husnu Narman , Ammar Alzarrad , Pingping Zhu

Current zero-shot Camouflaged Object Segmentation methods typically employ a two-stage pipeline (discover-then-segment): using MLLMs to obtain visual prompts, followed by SAM segmentation. However, relying solely on MLLMs for camouflaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yilong Yang , Jianxin Tian , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao

Deep learning has advanced two fundamentally different paradigms for instance segmentation: specialized models optimized through task-specific fine-tuning and generalist foundation models capable of zero-shot segmentation. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ranjan Sapkota , Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis , Manoj Karkee , Nikolaos D. Tselikas

Leveraging the extensive training data from SA-1B, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrates remarkable generalization and zero-shot capabilities. However, as a category-agnostic instance segmentation method, SAM heavily relies on prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Hao Chen , Haotian Zhang , Wenyuan Li , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Precise segmentation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-captured images plays a vital role in tasks such as crop yield estimation and plant health assessment in banana plantations. By identifying and classifying planted areas, crop area can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Ang He , Ximei Wu , Xing Xu , Jing Chen , Xiaobin Guo , Sheng Xu

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) demonstrated impressive zero-shot capabilities on natural images but faces challenges in biomedical segmentation due to significant domain shifts and prompt dependency. To address these limitations, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hinako Mitsuoka , Kazuhiro Hotta

Training segmentation models for medical images continues to be challenging due to the limited availability of data annotations. Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a foundation model that is intended to segment user-defined objects of interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Maciej A. Mazurowski , Haoyu Dong , Hanxue Gu , Jichen Yang , Nicholas Konz , Yixin Zhang

Multi-Modal LLMs (MLLMs) demonstrate strong visual grounding capabilities on popular object detection benchmarks like OdinW-13 and RefCOCO. However, state-of-the-art models still struggle to generalize to out-of-distribution classes, tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Gautam Rajendrakumar Gare , Neehar Peri , Matvei Popov , Shruti Jain , John Galeotti , Deva Ramanan

Bilevel optimization (BLO) is a popular approach with many applications including hyperparameter optimization, neural architecture search, adversarial robustness and model-agnostic meta-learning. However, the approach suffers from time and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Valerii Likhosherstov , Xingyou Song , Krzysztof Choromanski , Jared Davis , Adrian Weller

Powered by massive curated training data, Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated its impressive generalization capabilities in open-world scenarios with the guidance of prompts. However, the vanilla SAM is class agnostic and heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Duojun Huang , Xinyu Xiong , Jie Ma , Jichang Li , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma , Guanbin Li

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) can achieve satisfactory segmentation performance under high-quality box prompts. However, SAM's robustness is compromised by the decline in box quality, limiting its practicality in clinical reality. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yuhao Huang , Xin Yang , Han Zhou , Yan Cao , Haoran Dou , Fajin Dong , Dong Ni

In this paper, we address the challenge of image resolution variation for the Segment Anything Model (SAM). SAM, known for its zero-shot generalizability, exhibits a performance degradation when faced with datasets with varying image sizes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yiran Song , Qianyu Zhou , Xiangtai Li , Deng-Ping Fan , Xuequan Lu , Lizhuang Ma

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has recently emerged as a groundbreaking foundation model for prompt-driven image segmentation tasks. However, both the original SAM and its medical variants require slice-by-slice manual prompting of target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yichi Zhang , Shiyao Hu , Sijie Ren , Chen Jiang , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi

Vision-language foundation models (VLMs) show promise for diverse imaging tasks but often underperform on medical benchmarks. Prior efforts to improve performance include model finetuning, which requires large domain-specific datasets and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Arnav Singhvi , Vasiliki Bikia , Asad Aali , Akshay Chaudhari , Roxana Daneshjou

This paper introduces a new Segment Anything Model with Depth Perception (DSAM) for Camouflaged Object Detection (COD). DSAM exploits the zero-shot capability of SAM to realize precise segmentation in the RGB-D domain. It consists of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zhenni Yu , Xiaoqin Zhang , Li Zhao , Yi Bin , Guobao Xiao

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated strong performance in image segmentation of natural scene images. However, its effectiveness diminishes markedly when applied to specific scientific domains, such as Scanning Probe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yao Shen , Ziwei Wei , Chunmeng Liu , Shuming Wei , Qi Zhao , Kaiyang Zeng , Guangyao Li

Segment Anything Models (SAMs) like SEEM and SAM have demonstrated great potential in learning to segment anything. The core design of SAMs lies with Promptable Segmentation, which takes a handcrafted prompt as input and returns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jiaxing Huang , Kai Jiang , Jingyi Zhang , Han Qiu , Lewei Lu , Shijian Lu , Eric Xing

Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a foundation model for semantic segmentation and shows excellent generalization capability with the prompts. In this empirical study, we investigate the robustness and zero-shot generalizability of the SAM in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 An Wang , Mobarakol Islam , Mengya Xu , Yang Zhang , Hongliang Ren

Weakly supervised landslide extraction aims to identify landslide regions from remote sensing data using models trained with weak labels, particularly image-level labels. However, it is often challenged by the imprecise boundaries of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jian Wang , Xiaokang Zhang , Xianping Ma , Weikang Yu , Pedram Ghamisi