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Promptable segmentation foundation models such as SAM3 have demonstrated strong generalization capabilities through interactive and concept-based prompting. However, their direct applicability to medical image segmentation remains limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Chongcong Jiang , Tianxingjian Ding , Chuhan Song , Jiachen Tu , Ziyang Yan , Yihua Shao , Zhenyi Wang , Yuzhang Shang , Tianyu Han , Yu Tian

The recent Segment Anything Models (SAMs) have emerged as foundational visual models for general interactive segmentation. Despite demonstrating robust generalization abilities, they still suffer performance degradations in scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yuan Yao , Qiushi Yang , Miaomiao Cui , Liefeng Bo

Semantic segmentation, vital for applications ranging from autonomous driving to robotics, faces significant challenges in domains where collecting large annotated datasets is difficult or prohibitively expensive. In such contexts, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Nico Catalano , Matteo Matteucci

Open-set image segmentation poses a significant challenge because existing methods often demand extensive training or fine-tuning and generally struggle to segment unified objects consistently across diverse text reference expressions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zhihua Liu , Amrutha Saseendran , Lei Tong , Xilin He , Fariba Yousefi , Nikolay Burlutskiy , Dino Oglic , Tom Diethe , Philip Teare , Huiyu Zhou , Chen Jin

We propose an approach to semantic segmentation that achieves state-of-the-art supervised performance when applied in a zero-shot setting. It thus achieves results equivalent to those of the supervised methods, on each of the major semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wei Yin , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen , Baichuan Sun , Anton van den Hengel

Deep neural networks are typically trained in a single shot for a specific task and data distribution, but in real world settings both the task and the domain of application can change. The problem becomes even more challenging in dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Donald Shenaj , Francesco Barbato , Umberto Michieli , Pietro Zanuttigh

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a recently proposed prompt-based segmentation model in a generic zero-shot segmentation approach. With the zero-shot segmentation capacity, SAM achieved impressive flexibility and precision on various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Can Cui , Ruining Deng , Quan Liu , Tianyuan Yao , Shunxing Bao , Lucas W. Remedios , Yucheng Tang , Yuankai Huo

The reliance on large labeled datasets presents a significant challenge in medical image segmentation. Few-shot learning offers a potential solution, but existing methods often still require substantial training data. This paper proposes a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Haiyue Zu , Jun Ge , Heting Xiao , Jile Xie , Zhangzhe Zhou , Yifan Meng , Jiayi Ni , Junjie Niu , Linlin Zhang , Li Ni , Huilin Yang

One-shot semantic image segmentation aims to segment the object regions for the novel class with only one annotated image. Recent works adopt the episodic training strategy to mimic the expected situation at testing time. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Tao Chen , Guosen Xie , Yazhou Yao , Qiong Wang , Fumin Shen , Zhenmin Tang , Jian Zhang

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

The recent advancements in large-scale pre-training techniques have significantly enhanced the capabilities of vision foundation models, notably the Segment Anything Model (SAM), which can generate precise masks based on point and box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Anqi Zhang , Guangyu Gao , Jianbo Jiao , Chi Harold Liu , Yunchao Wei

Fine-grained category discovery using only coarse-grained supervision is a cost-effective yet challenging task. Previous training methods focus on aligning query samples with positive samples and distancing them from negatives. They often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Chang Tian , Matthew B. Blaschko , Wenpeng Yin , Mingzhe Xing , Yinliang Yue , Marie-Francine Moens

In semantic segmentation, accurate prediction masks are crucial for downstream tasks such as medical image analysis and image editing. Due to the lack of annotated data, few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) performs poorly in predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Chen-Bin Feng , Qi Lai , Kangdao Liu , Houcheng Su , Chi-Man Vong

The advent of Large Vision Models (LVMs) offers new opportunities for few-shot medical image segmentation. However, existing training-free methods based on LVMs fail to effectively utilize negative prompts, leading to poor performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yufei Liu , Haoke Xiao , Jiaxing Chai , Yongcun Zhang , Rong Wang , Zijie Meng , Zhiming Luo

Semantic segmentation is crucial in remote sensing, where high-resolution satellite images are segmented into meaningful regions. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly improved satellite image segmentation. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Santiago Rivier , Carlos Hinojosa , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

Present-day deep neural networks for video semantic segmentation require a large number of fine-grained pixel-level annotations to achieve the best possible results. Obtaining such annotations, however, is very expensive. On the other hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Samik Some , Vinay P. Namboodiri

3D semantic scene understanding tasks have achieved great success with the emergence of deep learning, but often require a huge amount of manually annotated training data. To alleviate the annotation cost, we propose the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Shichao Dong , Guosheng Lin

Recently, open-vocabulary image classification by vision language pre-training has demonstrated incredible achievements, that the model can classify arbitrary categories without seeing additional annotated images of that category. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Mengde Xu , Zheng Zhang , Fangyun Wei , Yutong Lin , Yue Cao , Han Hu , Xiang Bai

We address the problem of learning new classes for semantic segmentation models from few examples, which is challenging because of the following two reasons. Firstly, it is difficult to learn from limited novel data to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chengjia Jiang , Tao Wang , Sien Li , Jinyang Wang , Shirui Wang , Antonios Antoniou

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation aims to utilize limited labeled images and abundant unlabeled images to achieve label-efficient learning, wherein the weak-to-strong consistency regularization framework, popularized by FixMatch, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Wentao Pan , Zhe Xu , Jiangpeng Yan , Zihan Wu , Raymond Kai-yu Tong , Xiu Li , Jianhua Yao