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Surgical instrument segmentation (SIS) on endoscopic images stands as a long-standing and essential task in the context of computer-assisted interventions for boosting minimally invasive surgery. Given the recent surge of deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Mingyu Sheng , Jianan Fan , Dongnan Liu , Ron Kikinis , Weidong Cai

Foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have significantly advanced promptable image segmentation in computer vision. However, extending these capabilities to videos presents substantial challenges, particularly in ensuring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Haiyang Mei , Pengyu Zhang , Mike Zheng Shou

Medical image segmentation is fundamental for biomedical discovery. Existing methods lack generalizability and demand extensive, time-consuming manual annotation for new clinical application. Here, we propose MedSAM-3, a text promptable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Anglin Liu , Rundong Xue , Xu R. Cao , Yifan Shen , Yi Lu , Xiang Li , Qianqian Chen , Jintai Chen

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) is an emerging cross-modality task that aims to generate pixel-level maps of the target objects referred by given textual expressions. The main concept involves learning an accurate alignment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Baoli Sun , Xinzhu Ma , Ning Wang , Zhihui Wang , Zhiyong Wang

Image segmentation beyond predefined categories is a key challenge in remote sensing, where novel and unseen classes often emerge during inference. Open-vocabulary image Segmentation addresses these generalization issues in traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Saikat Dutta , Akhil Vasim , Siddhant Gole , Hamid Rezatofighi , Biplab Banerjee

Widely adopted medical image segmentation methods, although efficient, are primarily deterministic and remain poorly amenable to natural language prompts. Thus, they lack the capability to estimate multiple proposals, human interaction, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yuan Lin , Murong Xu , Marc Hölle , Chinmay Prabhakar , Andreas Maier , Vasileios Belagiannis , Bjoern Menze , Suprosanna Shit

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to automatically partition images into semantically meaningful regions by identifying global semantic categories within an image corpus without any form of annotation. Building upon recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Oliver Hahn , Nikita Araslanov , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

The general domain of video segmentation is currently fragmented into different tasks spanning multiple benchmarks. Despite rapid progress in the state-of-the-art, current methods are overwhelmingly task-specific and cannot conceptually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Ali Athar , Alexander Hermans , Jonathon Luiten , Deva Ramanan , Bastian Leibe

Surgical instrument segmentation is crucial in surgical scene understanding, thereby facilitating surgical safety. Existing algorithms directly detected all instruments of pre-defined categories in the input image, lacking the capability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zhen Chen , Zongming Zhang , Wenwu Guo , Xingjian Luo , Long Bai , Jinlin Wu , Hongliang Ren , Hongbin Liu

Audio-visual segmentation aims to separate sounding objects from videos by predicting pixel-level masks based on audio signals. Existing methods primarily concentrate on closed-set scenarios and direct audio-visual alignment and fusion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengkai Chen , Yifang Yin , Jinming Cao , Shili Xiang , Zhenguang Liu , Roger Zimmermann

Integration of diverse visual prompts like clicks, scribbles, and boxes in interactive image segmentation significantly facilitates users' interaction as well as improves interaction efficiency. However, existing studies primarily encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xu Zhang , Kailun Yang , Jiacheng Lin , Jin Yuan , Zhiyong Li , Shutao Li

Surgical video understanding is crucial for facilitating Computer-Assisted Surgery (CAS) systems. Despite significant progress in existing studies, two major limitations persist, including inadequate visual content perception and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhen Chen , Xingjian Luo , Kun Yuan , Jinlin Wu , Danny T. M. Chan , Nassir Navab , Hongbin Liu , Zhen Lei , Jiebo Luo

Promptable foundation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) produce high-quality masks but remain semantically blind, relying on external prompts to specify categories. Existing vision-language approaches address this limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shayan Jalilian , Abdul Bais

We present IMAS, a method that segments the primary objects in videos without manual annotation in training or inference. Previous methods in unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) have demonstrated the effectiveness of motion as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Long Lian , Zhirong Wu , Stella X. Yu

The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) 2 has demonstrated remarkable foundational competence in semantic segmentation, with its memory mechanism and mask decoder further addressing challenges in video tracking and object occlusion, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Jieming Yu , An Wang , Wenzhen Dong , Mengya Xu , Mobarakol Islam , Jie Wang , Long Bai , Hongliang Ren

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation models often suffer from domain shift, where the models trained on a source domain do not generalize well to other unseen domains. As a prompt-driven foundation model with powerful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Yifan Gao , Wei Xia , Dingdu Hu , Wenkui Wang , Xin Gao

Interactive video object segmentation is a crucial video task, having various applications from video editing to data annotating. However, current approaches struggle to accurately segment objects across diverse domains. Recently, Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xiaoli Wei , Zhaoqing Wang , Yandong Guo , Chunxia Zhang , Tongliang Liu , Mingming Gong

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

Image segmentation is a crucial vision task that groups pixels within an image into semantically meaningful segments, which is pivotal in obtaining a fine-grained understanding of real-world scenes. However, an increasing privacy concern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ye Sun , Hao Zhang , Tiehua Zhang , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Building a unified model with a single set of parameters to efficiently handle diverse types of medical lesion segmentation has become a crucial objective for AI-assisted diagnosis. Existing unified segmentation approaches typically rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jiawei Xu , Qiangqiang Zhou , Dandan Zhu , Yong Chen , Yugen Yi , Xiaoqi Zhao