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Vision-language segmentation models such as SAM3 enable flexible, prompt-driven visual grounding, but inherit large, general-purpose text encoders originally designed for open-ended language understanding. In practice, segmentation prompts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chengxi Zeng , Yuxuan Jiang , Ge Gao , Shuai Wang , Duolikun Danier , Bin Zhu , Stevan Rudinac , David Bull , Fan Zhang

We introduce Grounded SAM, which uses Grounding DINO as an open-set object detector to combine with the segment anything model (SAM). This integration enables the detection and segmentation of any regions based on arbitrary text inputs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Tianhe Ren , Shilong Liu , Ailing Zeng , Jing Lin , Kunchang Li , He Cao , Jiayu Chen , Xinyu Huang , Yukang Chen , Feng Yan , Zhaoyang Zeng , Hao Zhang , Feng Li , Jie Yang , Hongyang Li , Qing Jiang , Lei Zhang

The primary challenge of cross-domain few-shot segmentation (CD-FSS) is the domain disparity between the training and inference phases, which can exist in either the input data or the target classes. Previous models struggle to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Shi-Feng Peng , Guolei Sun , Yong Li , Hongsong Wang , Guo-Sen Xie

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly being regarded as foundation models that can be instructed to solve diverse tasks by prompting, without task-specific training. We examine the seemingly obvious question: how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Niccolo Avogaro , Thomas Frick , Mattia Rigotti , Andrea Bartezzaghi , Filip Janicki , Cristiano Malossi , Konrad Schindler , Roy Assaf

Recent approaches have shown that large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP can improve semantic segmentation performance. These methods typically aim for pixel-level vision-language alignment, but often rely on low resolution image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Anurag Das , Xinting Hu , Li Jiang , Bernt Schiele

Semantic segmentation is an important topic in computer vision with many relevant application in Earth observation. While supervised methods exist, the constraints of limited annotated data has encouraged development of unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Pratik Vora , Sudipan Saha

We present SLIP (SAM+CLIP), an enhanced architecture for zero-shot object segmentation. SLIP combines the Segment Anything Model (SAM) \cite{kirillov2023segment} with the Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Saaketh Koundinya Gundavarapu , Arushi Arora , Shreya Agarwal

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

Prompt learning has recently become a very efficient transfer learning paradigm for Contrastive Language Image Pretraining (CLIP) models. Compared with fine-tuning the entire encoder, prompt learning can obtain highly competitive results by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Guoyizhe Wei , Feng Wang , Anshul Shah , Rama Chellappa

Medical image segmentation often faces the challenge of prohibitively expensive annotation costs. While few-shot learning offers a promising solution to alleviate this burden, conventional approaches still rely heavily on pre-training with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jie Xu , Xiaokang Li , Chengyu Yue , Yuanyuan Wang , Yi Guo

Brain tumor segmentation is important for diagnosis of the tumor, and current deep-learning methods rely on a large set of annotated images for training, with high annotation costs. Unsupervised segmentation is promising to avoid human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Xiaochuan Ma , Jia Fu , Wenjun Liao , Shichuan Zhang , Guotai Wang

Given a single labeled example, in-context segmentation aims to segment corresponding objects. This setting, known as one-shot segmentation in few-shot learning, explores the segmentation model's generalization ability and has been applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Mengshi Qi , Pengfei Zhu , Xiangtai Li , Xiaoyang Bi , Lu Qi , Huadong Ma , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In the rapidly evolving field of AI research, foundational models like BERT and GPT have significantly advanced language and vision tasks. The advent of pretrain-prompting models such as ChatGPT and Segmentation Anything Model (SAM) has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Saiyang Na , Yuzhi Guo , Feng Jiang , Hehuan Ma , Junzhou Huang

Multimodal semantic communication has great potential to enhance downstream task performance by integrating complementary information across modalities. This paper introduces ProMSC-MIS, a novel Prompt-based Multimodal Semantic…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Haoshuo Zhang , Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) made an eye-catching debut recently and inspired many researchers to explore its potential and limitation in terms of zero-shot generalization capability. As the first promptable foundation model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Dongjie Cheng , Ziyuan Qin , Zekun Jiang , Shaoting Zhang , Qicheng Lao , Kang Li

We propose Context-Adaptive Multi-Prompt Embedding, a novel approach to enrich semantic representations in vision-language contrastive learning. Unlike standard CLIP-style models that rely on a single text embedding, our method introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Dahun Kim , Anelia Angelova

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 recently proposed Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a general tool for image segmentation, but it requires additional adaptation and careful fine-tuning for medical image segmentation, especially for small, irregularly-shaped, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yaxi Chen , Aleksandra Ivanova , Shaheer U. Saeed , Rikin Hargunani , Jie Huang , Chaozong Liu , Yipeng Hu

Accurate tongue segmentation is crucial for reliable TCM analysis. Supervised models require large annotated datasets, while SAM-family models remain prompt-driven. We present Memory-SAM, a training-free, human-prompt-free pipeline that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Joongwon Chae , Lihui Luo , Xi Yuan , Dongmei Yu , Zhenglin Chen , Lian Zhang , Peiwu Qin

Most Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) methods heavily rely on mask annotations, which are time-consuming and labor-intensive to acquire. Existing weakly-supervised COD approaches exhibit significantly inferior performance compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Huafeng Chen , Pengxu Wei , Guangqian Guo , Shan Gao