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The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model that has revolutionised image segmentation. To apply SAM to surgical instrument segmentation, a common approach is to locate precise points or boxes of instruments and then use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Wenxi Yue , Jing Zhang , Kun Hu , Yong Xia , Jiebo Luo , Zhiyong Wang

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

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

Verbal-prompted segmentation is inherently limited by the expressiveness of natural language and struggles with uncommon, instance-specific, or difficult-to-describe objects: scenarios frequently encountered in manufacturing and 3D printing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhenran Tang , Rohan Nagabhirava , Changliu Liu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at general image segmentation but has limited ability to understand natural language, which restricts its direct application in Referring Expression Segmentation (RES). Toward this end, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Wei Tang , Xuejing Liu , Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li

As large-scale foundation models trained on billions of image--mask pairs covering a vast diversity of scenes, objects, and contexts, SAM and its upgraded version, SAM~2, have significantly influenced multiple fields within computer vision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiaoqi Zhao , Youwei Pang , Shijie Chang , Yuan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Chenyang Yu , Hanqi Liu , Jiaming Zuo , Jinsong Ouyang , Weisi Lin , Georges El Fakhri , Huchuan Lu , Xiaofeng Liu

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), originally designed for general-purpose segmentation tasks, has been used recently for polyp segmentation. Nonetheless, fine-tuning SAM with data from new imaging centers or clinics poses significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Md Mostafijur Rahman , Mustafa Munir , Debesh Jha , Ulas Bagci , Radu Marculescu

Purpose: Accurate tool segmentation is essential in computer-aided procedures. However, this task conveys challenges due to artifacts' presence and the limited training data in medical scenarios. Methods that generalize to unseen data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Kanyifeechukwu J. Oguine , Roger D. Soberanis-Mukul , Nathan Drenkow , Mathias Unberath

Medical image processing usually requires a model trained with carefully crafted datasets due to unique image characteristics and domain-specific challenges, especially in pathology. Primitive detection and segmentation in digitized tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Xiangxue Wang , Yiping Jiao , Xiao Gan , Wenlong Ming , Jun Xu

Image segmentation is a critical enabler for tasks ranging from medical diagnostics to autonomous driving. However, the correct segmentation semantics - where are boundaries located? what segments are logically similar? - change depending…

Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits remarkable zero-shot segmentation capability; however, its prohibitive computational costs make edge deployment challenging. Although post-training quantization (PTQ) offers a promising compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jing Zhang , Zhikai Li , Chengzhi Hu , Xuewen Liu , Qingyi Gu

Purpose: The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated impressive performance with point, text or bounding box prompts, in various applications. However, in safety-critical surgical tasks, prompting is not possible due to (i) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuyang Sheng , Sophia Bano , Matthew J. Clarkson , Mobarakol Islam

Semantic segmentation is a core task in computer vision. Existing methods are generally divided into two categories: automatic and interactive. Interactive approaches, exemplified by the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have shown promise as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Yimu Pan , Sitao Zhang , Alison D. Gernand , Jeffery A. Goldstein , James Z. Wang

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

Recent advances in promptable segmentation, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have enabled flexible, high-quality mask generation across a wide range of visual domains. However, SAM and similar models remain fundamentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Tyler Ward , Abdullah Imran

The emergence of large models, also known as foundation models, has brought significant advancements to AI research. One such model is Segment Anything (SAM), which is designed for image segmentation tasks. However, as with other foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Tianrun Chen , Lanyun Zhu , Chaotao Ding , Runlong Cao , Yan Wang , Zejian Li , Lingyun Sun , Papa Mao , Ying Zang

Pixel-level segmentation is essential in remote sensing, where foundational vision models like CLIP and Segment Anything Model(SAM) have demonstrated significant capabilities in zero-shot segmentation tasks. Despite their advances,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xing Zi , Kairui Jin , Xian Tao , Jun Li , Ali Braytee , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Mukesh Prasad

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has revolutionized interactive segmentation through spatial prompting. While existing work primarily focuses on automating prompts in various settings, real-world annotation workflows involve iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Prithwijit Chowdhury , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

This study presents a novel multimodal medical image zero-shot segmentation algorithm named the text-visual-prompt segment anything model (TV-SAM) without any manual annotations. The TV-SAM incorporates and integrates the large language…

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved notable progress in medical image segmentation. To achieve effective SSL, a model needs to be able to efficiently learn from limited labeled data and effectively exploiting knowledge from abundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Juzheng Miao , Cheng Chen , Keli Zhang , Jie Chuai , Quanzheng Li , Pheng-Ann Heng