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The Segment Anything Model (SAM), introduced to the computer vision community by Meta in April 2023, is a groundbreaking tool that allows automated segmentation of objects in images based on prompts such as text, clicks, or bounding boxes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Athulya Sundaresan Geetha , Muhammad Hussain

Video Object Segmentation and Tracking (VOST) presents a complex yet critical challenge in computer vision, requiring robust integration of segmentation and tracking across temporally dynamic frames. Traditional methods have struggled with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Guoping Xu , Jayaram K. Udupa , Yajun Yu , Hua-Chieh Shao , Songlin Zhao , Wei Liu , You Zhang

\noindent Memory has become the central mechanism enabling robust visual object tracking in modern segmentation-based frameworks. Recent methods built upon Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) have demonstrated strong performance by refining how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mohamad Alansari , Muzammal Naseer , Hasan Al Marzouqi , Naoufel Werghi , Sajid Javed

We propose a method to efficiently equip the Segment Anything Model (SAM) with the ability to generate regional captions. SAM presents strong generalizability to segment anything while is short for semantic understanding. By introducing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Xiaoke Huang , Jianfeng Wang , Yansong Tang , Zheng Zhang , Han Hu , Jiwen Lu , Lijuan Wang , Zicheng Liu

Few-shot semantic segmentation has recently attracted great attention. The goal is to develop a model capable of segmenting unseen classes using only a few annotated samples. Most existing approaches adapt a pre-trained model by training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Bernardo Forni , Gabriele Lombardi , Federico Pozzi , Mirco Planamente

Fully supervised deep learning (DL) models for surgical video segmentation have been shown to struggle with non-adversarial, real-world corruptions of image quality including smoke, bleeding, and low illumination. Foundation models for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Yiqing Shen , Hao Ding , Xinyuan Shao , Mathias Unberath

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), developed by Meta AI Research, represents a significant breakthrough in computer vision, offering a robust framework for image and video segmentation. This survey provides a comprehensive exploration of the…

We present EfficientViT-SAM, a new family of accelerated segment anything models. We retain SAM's lightweight prompt encoder and mask decoder while replacing the heavy image encoder with EfficientViT. For the training, we begin with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Zhuoyang Zhang , Han Cai , Song Han

Semantic Segmentation combines two sub-tasks: the identification of pixel-level image masks and the application of semantic labels to those masks. Recently, so-called Foundation Models have been introduced; general models trained on very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 David Balaban , Justin Medich , Pranay Gosar , Justin Hart

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 2 (SAM2) has recently demonstrated exceptional performance in zero-shot prompt segmentation for natural images and videos. However, when the propagation mechanism of SAM2 is applied to medical images, it often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yunhao Bai , Boxiang Yun , Zeli Chen , Qinji Yu , Yingda Xia , Yan Wang

Tracking cells and detecting mitotic events in time-lapse microscopy image sequences is a crucial task in biomedical research. However, it remains highly challenging due to dividing objects, low signal-tonoise ratios, indistinct boundaries,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Zhu Chen , Mert Edgü , Er Jin , Johannes Stegmaier

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), introduced by Meta AI Research as a generic object segmentation model, quickly garnered widespread attention and significantly influenced the academic community. To extend its application to video, Meta…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Lv Tang , Bo Li

The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a big leap in scaling up segmentation models, allowing for powerful zero-shot capabilities and flexible prompting. Despite being trained with 1.1 billion masks, SAM's mask prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Lei Ke , Mingqiao Ye , Martin Danelljan , Yifan Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Fisher Yu

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

The Foundation model for image segmentation, Segment Anything (SAM), has been actively researched in various fields since its proposal. Various researches have been proposed to adapt SAM to specific domains, with one notable approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Joohyeok Kim , Joonhyeon Song , Seohwan Yun , Seongho Yoon , Sangmin Lee

Medical image segmentation and video object segmentation are essential for diagnosing and analyzing diseases by identifying and measuring biological structures. Recent advances in natural domain have been driven by foundation models like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhiling Yan , Weixiang Sun , Rong Zhou , Zhengqing Yuan , Kai Zhang , Yiwei Li , Tianming Liu , Quanzheng Li , Xiang Li , Lifang He , Lichao Sun

The absence of robust segmentation frameworks for noisy liquid phase transmission electron microscopy (LPTEM) videos prevents reliable extraction of particle trajectories, creating a major barrier to quantitative analysis and to connecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Alexander Wang , Max Xu , Risha Goel , Zain Shabeeb , Isabel Panicker , Vida Jamali

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

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) has demonstrated strong performance in object segmentation tasks but faces challenges in visual object tracking, particularly when managing crowded scenes with fast-moving or self-occluding objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Cheng-Yen Yang , Hsiang-Wei Huang , Wenhao Chai , Zhongyu Jiang , Jenq-Neng Hwang