Image Segmentation Model
Image segmentation models aim to partition images into meaningful regions, a crucial task in computer vision with applications ranging from medical image analysis to autonomous driving. Current research heavily emphasizes leveraging foundation models, like those based on diffusion processes or transformers, and exploring prompt-based approaches for improved performance and flexibility, including interactive and few-shot segmentation. These advancements address challenges such as handling diverse lighting conditions, varying resolutions, and noisy data, while also focusing on efficient model design for resource-constrained environments and robust uncertainty quantification. The resulting improvements in accuracy, efficiency, and reliability have significant implications for various scientific fields and practical applications.
Papers
Surf-CDM: Score-Based Surface Cold-Diffusion Model For Medical Image Segmentation
Fahim Ahmed Zaman, Mathews Jacob, Amanda Chang, Kan Liu, Milan Sonka, Xiaodong Wu
Active contours driven by local and global intensity fitting energy with application to SAR image segmentation and its fast solvers
Guangming Liu, Qi Liu, Jing Liang, Quanying Sun