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Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment unseen classes using a few annotated samples. Typically, a prototype representing the foreground class is extracted from annotated support image(s) and is matched to features representing each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Haoyan Guan , Michael Spratling

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) expects models trained on base classes to work on novel classes with the help of a few support images. However, when there exists a domain gap between the base and novel classes, the state-of-the-art FSS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yuhang Lu , Xinyi Wu , Zhenyao Wu , Song Wang

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 (SAM) has recently emerged as a significant breakthrough in foundation models, demonstrating remarkable zero-shot performance in object segmentation tasks. While SAM is designed for generalization, it exhibits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Josh Stein , Maxime Di Folco , Julia A. Schnabel

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has demonstrated remarkable promptable visual segmentation capabilities in video data, showing potential for extension to medical image segmentation (MIS) tasks involving 3D volumes and temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Meng Lan , Lefei Zhang , Xiaomeng Li

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

Few-shot segmentation is the problem of learning to identify specific types of objects (e.g., airplanes) in images from a small set of labeled reference images. The current state of the art is driven by resource-intensive construction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Savinay Nagendra , Kashif Rashid , Chaopeng Shen , Daniel Kifer

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has achieved remarkable successes in the realm of natural image segmentation, but its deployment in the medical imaging sphere has encountered challenges. Specifically, the model struggles with medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Shreyank N Gowda , David A. Clifton

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a recently developed all-range foundation model for image segmentation. It can use sparse manual prompts such as bounding boxes to generate pixel-level segmentation in natural images but struggles in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xing Yao , Han Liu , Dewei Hu , Daiwei Lu , Ange Lou , Hao Li , Ruining Deng , Gabriel Arenas , Baris Oguz , Nadav Schwartz , Brett C Byram , Ipek Oguz

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) endeavors to segment unseen classes with only a few labeled samples. Current FSS methods are commonly built on the assumption that their training and application scenarios share similar domains, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Weizhao He , Yang Zhang , Wei Zhuo , Linlin Shen , Jiaqi Yang , Songhe Deng , Liang Sun

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated impressive performance in zero-shot promptable segmentation on natural images. The recently released Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) claims to outperform SAM on images and extends the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Sourya Sengupta , Satrajit Chakrabarty , Ravi Soni

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) methods perform image segmentation for a particular object class in a target (query) image, using a small set of (support) image-mask pairs. Recent deep neural network based FSS methods leverage high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Siddhartha Gairola , Mayur Hemani , Ayush Chopra , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Existing few-shot medical image segmentation (FSMIS) models fail to address a practical issue in medical imaging: the domain shift caused by different imaging techniques, which limits the applicability to current FSMIS tasks. To overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yuntian Bo , Yazhou Zhu , Lunbo Li , Haofeng Zhang

End-to-end medical image segmentation is of great value for computer-aided diagnosis dominated by task-specific models, usually suffering from poor generalization. With recent breakthroughs brought by the segment anything model (SAM) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xian Lin , Yangyang Xiang , Li Yu , Zengqiang Yan

Foreground segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, encompassing various subdivision tasks. Previous research has typically designed task-specific architectures for each task, leading to a lack of unification. Moreover, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Zuyao You , Lingyu Kong , Lingchen Meng , Zuxuan Wu

Surgical image segmentation is highly challenging, primarily due to scarcity of annotated data. Generalist prompted segmentation models like the Segment-Anything Model (SAM) can help tackle this task, but because they require image-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Aditya Murali , Farahdiba Zarin , Adrien Meyer , Pietro Mascagni , Didier Mutter , Nicolas Padoy

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model for image segmentation, showing robust zero-shot generalization through prompt engineering. However, relying on manual prompts is impractical for real-world applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yi Chen , Mu-Young Son , Chuanbo Hua , Joo-Young Kim

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance and brought a range of unexplored capabilities to natural image segmentation tasks. However, as a very important branch of image segmentation, the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Bin Xie , Hao Tang , Dawen Cai , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

Advances in machine learning, especially the introduction of transformer architectures and vision transformers, have led to the development of highly capable computer vision foundation models. The segment anything model (known colloquially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Kenneth Ball , Erin Taylor , Nirav Patel , Andrew Bartels , Gary Koplik , James Polly , Jay Hineman

Large foundation models, known for their strong zero-shot generalization, have excelled in visual and language applications. However, applying them to medical image segmentation, a domain with diverse imaging types and target labels,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Junde Wu , Jiayuan Zhu , Yueming Jin , Min Xu