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As research interests in medical image analysis become increasingly fine-grained, the cost for extensive annotation also rises. One feasible way to reduce the cost is to annotate with coarse-grained superclass labels while using limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Linrui Dai , Wenhui Lei , Xiaofan Zhang

High-quality labeled datasets are essential for deep learning. Traditional manual annotation methods are not only costly and inefficient but also pose challenges in specialized domains where expert knowledge is needed. Self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Zhaocong liu , Fa Zhang , Lin Cheng , Huanxi Deng , Xiaoyan Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Chichun Zhou

This work aims to leverage pre-trained foundation models, such as contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) and segment anything model (SAM), to address weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) using image-level labels. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xiaobo Yang , Xiaojin Gong

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) family has become a widely adopted vision foundation model, but its ability to control segmentation granularity remains limited. Users often need to refine results manually - by adding more prompts or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Junwei Yu , Trevor Darrell , XuDong Wang

We present a zero-shot segmentation approach for agricultural imagery that leverages Plantnet, a large-scale plant classification model, in conjunction with its DinoV2 backbone and the Segment Anything Model (SAM). Rather than collecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Simon Ravé , Jean-Christophe Lombardo , Pejman Rasti , Alexis Joly , David Rousseau

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) offers immense potential in the field of medical image analysis, enabling accurate object segmentation with limited training data. However, existing FSS techniques heavily rely on annotated semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

Glass surface segmentation from RGB images is a challenging task, since glass as a transparent material distinctly lacks visual characteristics. However, glass segmentation is critical for scene understanding and robotics, as transparent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Risto Ojala , Tristan Ellison , Mo Chen

Representation of semantic context and local details is the essential issue for building modern semantic segmentation models. However, the interrelationship between semantic context and local details is not well explored in previous works.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Chen Shi , Xiangtai Li , Yanran Wu , Yunhai Tong , Yi Xu

Semantic segmentation is a challenging vision problem that usually necessitates the collection of large amounts of finely annotated data, which is often quite expensive to obtain. Coarsely annotated data provides an interesting alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Isay Katsman , Rohun Tripathi , Andreas Veit , Serge Belongie

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

Accurate identification of fungi species presents a unique challenge in computer vision due to fine-grained inter-species variation and high intra-species variation. This paper presents our approach for the FungiCLEF 2025 competition, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Jason Kahei Tam , Murilo Gustineli , Anthony Miyaguchi

Few-shot semantic segmentation has attracted growing interest for its ability to generalize to novel object categories using only a few annotated samples. To address data scarcity, recent methods incorporate multiple foundation models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Wei Zhuo , Zhiyue Tang , Wufeng Xue , Hao Ding , Junkai Ji , Linlin Shen

Foundation models such as the recently introduced Segment Anything Model (SAM) have achieved remarkable results in image segmentation tasks. However, these models typically require user interaction through handcrafted prompts such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mélanie Gaillochet , Christian Desrosiers , Hervé Lombaert

Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in medical imaging. Although supervised learning techniques have proven to be effective in performing this task, they heavily depend on large amounts of annotated training data. The recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Ron Keuth , Lasse Hansen , Maren Balks , Ronja Jäger , Anne-Nele Schröder , Ludger Tüshaus , Mattias Heinrich

Deep learning-based object detection has revolutionized Precision Livestock Farming (PLF), yet a critical barrier remains: high-performance Foundation Models (such as SAM 3) are too computationally intensive for edge deployment, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Marcos Vinicius Mendes Faria , Thiago Borges Pereira , Isabella C. F. S. Condotta , Thiago Meireles Paixão , Francisco de Assis Boldt

Reasoning Segmentation requires models to interpret complex, context-dependent linguistic queries to achieve pixel-level localization. Current dominant approaches rely heavily on Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) or Reinforcement Learning (RL).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Kai Ye , Xiaotong You , Jianghang Lin , Jiayi Ji , Pingyang Dai , Liujuan Cao

Medical image segmentation requires not only accuracy but also robustness under challenging imaging conditions. In this study, we show that a carefully configured DeepLabv3 model can achieve high performance in segmenting induced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Maoquan Zhang , Bisser Raytchev , Xiujuan Sun

Instance segmentation enables the analysis of spatial and temporal properties of cells in microscopy images by identifying the pixels belonging to each cell. However, progress is constrained by the scarcity of high-quality labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kaden Stillwagon , Alexandra Dunnum VandeLoo , Benjamin Magondu , Craig R. Forest

SAM3 advances open-vocabulary semantic segmentation by introducing a prompt-driven mask generation paradigm. However, in multi-class open-vocabulary scenarios, masks generated independently from different category prompts lack a unified and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yanhui Chen , Baoyao Yang , Siqi Liu , Jingchao Wang

The remote sensing (RS) domain suffers from a lack of densely labeled datasets, which are costly to obtain. Thus, models that can segment RS imagery well without supervised fine-tuning are valuable, but existing solutions fall behind…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ryan Faulkenberry , Saurabh Prasad