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Click-based interactive segmentation aims to generate target masks via human clicking, which facilitates efficient pixel-level annotation and image editing. In such a task, target ambiguity remains a problem hindering the accuracy and…

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The interactive segmentation task consists in the creation of object segmentation masks based on user interactions. The most common way to guide a model towards producing a correct segmentation consists in clicks on the object and…

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Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved notable progress in medical image segmentation. To achieve effective SSL, a model needs to be able to efficiently learn from limited labeled data and effectively exploiting knowledge from abundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Juzheng Miao , Cheng Chen , Keli Zhang , Jie Chuai , Quanzheng Li , Pheng-Ann Heng

Foundation models for volumetric medical image segmentation have emerged as powerful tools in clinical workflows, enabling radiologists to delineate regions of interest through intuitive clicks. While these models demonstrate promising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Yifan Gao , Jiaxi Sheng , Wenbin Wu , Haoyue Li , Yaoxian Dong , Chaoyang Ge , Feng Yuan , Xin Gao

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) and CLIP are remarkable vision foundation models (VFMs). SAM, a prompt driven segmentation model, excels in segmentation tasks across diverse domains, while CLIP is renowned for its zero shot recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Sidra Aleem , Fangyijie Wang , Mayug Maniparambil , Eric Arazo , Julia Dietlmeier , Guenole Silvestre , Kathleen Curran , Noel E. O'Connor , Suzanne Little

3D scene understanding, e.g., point cloud semantic and instance segmentation, often requires large-scale annotated training data, but clearly, point-wise labels are too tedious to prepare. While some recent methods propose to train a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Zhengzhe Liu , Xiaojuan Qi , Chi-Wing Fu

Recently, proposal-free instance segmentation has received increasing attention due to its concise and efficient pipeline. Generally, proposal-free methods generate instance-agnostic semantic segmentation labels and instance-aware features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Naiyu Gao , Yanhu Shan , Yupei Wang , Xin Zhao , Yinan Yu , Ming Yang , Kaiqi Huang

Weakly supervised image segmentation with image-level labels has drawn attention due to the high cost of pixel-level annotations. Traditional methods using Class Activation Maps (CAMs) often highlight only the most discriminative regions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Qingchen Tang , Lei Fan , Maurice Pagnucco , Yang Song

Semantic segmentations of pathological entities have crucial clinical value in computational pathology workflows. Foundation models, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have been recently proposed for universal use in segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Jingwei Zhang , Ke Ma , Saarthak Kapse , Joel Saltz , Maria Vakalopoulou , Prateek Prasanna , Dimitris Samaras

Medical image segmentation of anatomical structures and pathology is crucial in modern clinical diagnosis, disease study, and treatment planning. To date, great progress has been made in deep learning-based segmentation techniques, but most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Taha Koleilat , Hojat Asgariandehkordi , Hassan Rivaz , Yiming Xiao

A central challenge for the task of semantic segmentation is the prohibitive cost of obtaining dense pixel-level annotations to supervise model training. In this work, we show that in order to achieve a good level of segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Gyungin Shin , Weidi Xie , Samuel Albanie

Leveraging the extensive training data from SA-1B, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrates remarkable generalization and zero-shot capabilities. However, as a category-agnostic instance segmentation method, SAM heavily relies on prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Hao Chen , Haotian Zhang , Wenyuan Li , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated strong and versatile segmentation capabilities, along with intuitive prompt-based interactions. However, customizing SAM for medical image segmentation requires massive amounts of…

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Task-free online continual learning has recently emerged as a realistic paradigm for addressing continual learning in dynamic, real-world environments, where data arrive in a non-stationary stream without clear task boundaries and can only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Seoyoung Park , Haemin Lee , Hankook Lee

The Segment Anything model (SAM) has shown a generalized ability to group image pixels into patches, but applying it to semantic-aware segmentation still faces major challenges. This paper presents SAM-CP, a simple approach that establishes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Pengfei Chen , Lingxi Xie , Xinyue Huo , Xuehui Yu , Xiaopeng Zhang , Yingfei Sun , Zhenjun Han , Qi Tian

From the simple measurement of tissue attributes in pathology workflow to designing an explainable diagnostic/prognostic AI tool, access to accurate semantic segmentation of tissue regions in histology images is a prerequisite. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Mostafa Jahanifar , Neda Zamani Tajeddin , Navid Alemi Koohbanani , Nasir Rajpoot

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

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

Interactive segmentation allows users to extract target masks by making positive/negative clicks. Although explored by many previous works, there is still a gap between academic approaches and industrial needs: first, existing models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Xi Chen , Zhiyan Zhao , Yilei Zhang , Manni Duan , Donglian Qi , Hengshuang Zhao