Image Segmentation

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Image segmentation assigns each pixel or voxel to a meaningful region, object, or structure, enabling tasks such as measuring anatomy, mapping land, and understanding scenes. Methods range from thresholding and variational contours to U-Net-style networks, transformers, and foundation models such as SAM, often guided by text, points, boxes, or reference images. Current work also explores learning from sparse labels, synthetic data, multiple modalities, and video, with benchmarks spanning medical scans, natural images, remote sensing, and microscopy. A central challenge is balancing accurate boundaries and topology with reliable performance on new domains, limited annotations, uncertainty, and practical limits on speed and memory.

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401 papers24 papers in the last four weeks, up 9% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. Analyzing Condensation on Patterned Surfaces via Deep Learning

    Oct 29, 2026Tae E. Cooper, Michael Gee, Sheila Whitman +5Image SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    School of Electrical, Computing, and Software Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. · John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. · Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. +3

  2. The Power Watershed as a Differentiable Segmentation Layer

    Oct 28, 2026Galia Akl, Laurent Najman, Hugues TalbotImage SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    AUB · LIGM, KUSTAR · OPIS, CVN

  3. On Detection Reliability for Small Object Segmentation

    Oct 25, 2026Olivier RukundoImage SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering University of Limerick

  4. DROA-CLIPSeg: Prompt-Guided Thin Crack Segmentation in Low-Light Conditions

    Oct 24, 2026Vinita Shukla, Partibha Jangra, Vinayak Pathak +2Crack SegmentationImage Segmentation

    Indian Institute of Technology Mandi · Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

  5. Real-Time Localisation of Dorsal Anatomical Regions on Dairy Cows in Commercial Rotary Parlours from RGB-D

    Oct 23, 2026Vineet Prasad, Shiron Melvin, Sheikh Azid +1Anatomical Landmark DetectionPrecision Livestock Farming

    School of Engineering and Energy, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

  6. WeVisOne-VL: Unified Visual Perception from Objects to Pixels

    Oct 22, 2026Tianming Liang, Junyi Pan, Yuxi Li +5Image MattingFine-Grained Visual Perception

    WeChat Vision, Tencent Inc.

  7. Existence of Minimizers for the Gaussian Mumford-Shah Model via Covariance Floors on the Value Distribution

    Oct 21, 2026Faian ConradImage Segmentation

    IGPM, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

  8. LLMSeg: Training-Free Text-Prompted Image Segmentation with B-Splines

    Oct 21, 2026Abdullah HamdiImage SegmentationText-Guided Image Segmentation

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

  9. Weakly Supervised Fish Segmentation through Point-Supervised Tracking and Motion-Informed Language

    Oct 21, 2026Vedanth Kallakuri, Katherine A. SkinnerImage SegmentationVideo Object Segmentation

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

  10. TEMPL: A Resource-Efficient and Transparent Model-Free Framework for Pseudo-Label Generation in Material CT Scans

    Oct 20, 2026Ashiqur Rahman, Venkata Devesh Reddy Seethi, Austin Yunker +2Image SegmentationPseudo-Labeling

    Department of Computer Science, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA · Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA

  11. TRACE: Topology-Aware Reconnection via Prediction-Adaptive Connectivity Enforcement for Thin-Structure Segmentation

    Oct 15, 2026Junho Moon, Ikbeom JangThin-Structure SegmentationImage Segmentation

    Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin, Republic of Korea

  12. From Human Corrections to Learned Segmentations: A Critical Mathematical Review of Information, Learning, and Human Effort

    Oct 14, 2026Jon SporringHuman-in-the-Loop AIHuman-in-the-Loop Annotation

    Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

  13. FETALFusion: Resolution-Aware State-Space Modeling for Multi-Domain Fetal Head Segmentation

    Oct 13, 2026Ammar Bhilwarawala, Mainak BandyopadhyayMedical Image SegmentationUltrasound Image Segmentation

    School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University Bhubaneswar, India

  14. A unified three-branch deep learning framework for automated detection and counting of wildlife in aerial imagery

    Oct 12, 2026Zeyu Xu, Tiejun Wang, Andrew Skidmore +5Image MatchingWildlife Monitoring

    School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, China · Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands · Boma and Badingilo National Parks, African Parks, Juba, South Sudan +3

  15. Protein Crystallization Segmentation and Classification Using Subordinate Color Channel in Fluorescence Microscopy Images

    Oct 11, 2026Truong X. Tran, Marc L. Pusey, Ramazan S. AygunFluorescence MicroscopyMicroscopy Image Analysis

    Data Media Lab, Computer Science Department, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA. · XpressGenes, Inc, Huntsville, Alabama, USA. · Chemistry Departement, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA.

  16. Region Aware Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks for Image Segmentation

    Oct 10, 2026Jack Roberts, Praneeth Tummala, Kavi Sarna +1Channel AttentionImage Segmentation

    Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA · Department of Computer Science, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, USA

  17. Stride Independent Patching for Deep Learning

    Oct 8, 2026Olivier RukundoImage SegmentationSemantic Segmentation

    Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering; University of Limerick

  18. UltraLight Luma: A Novel Edge-Deployable Perception Network for Crop-Row Segmentation in Agricultural Robotics

    Oct 8, 2026Dhanushka Balasingham, Shamod Ginigaddarage, Hanojhan Rajahrajasingh +2Image SegmentationAgricultural Robotics

    Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Malabe, Sri Lanka · Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS), University of Lincoln, UK

  19. Skeleton-Guided Progressive Test-Time Adaptation for Thin Curvilinear Structures

    Oct 8, 2026Boa Jang, JunGyu Lee, Gwanho Lee +2Image SegmentationTest-Time Adaptation

    Seoul National University · Seoul National University Hospital · Yonsei University +1

  20. One-Shot Adaptive Segmentation For Scientific Images

    Oct 7, 2026Tejaswi V. Panchagnula, Allison M. Davis, Fengqing ZhuImage SegmentationVision Foundation Model Adaptation

    Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana, USA 47907

  21. Playing with Kruskal: algorithms for flat and hierarchical watershed cuts

    Oct 7, 2026Jean Cousty, Laurent Najman, Benjamin Perret +1Image Segmentation

    LIGM · KUSTAR, LIGM · CRIStAL

  22. FrontVeg V2: A Training-Free Software Framework for Foreground-Aware Zero-Shot Plant Trait Segmentation in High-Resolution Images of Trellised Crops

    Oct 5, 2026Abdoul Djalil Ousseini Hamza, Herearii Metuarea, Corentin Lothod{é} +6Image SegmentationPlant Phenotyping

    IRHS-IMHORPHEN,DPT SPE · GAFL · SVQV,BAP +2

  23. MorphoBranch: A Fine-Structure-Preserving Workbench for Morphometric Analysis of Branched Cellular Structures

    Oct 1, 2026Song Zhiying, Ling Hanyi, Wu Junyi +1Image SegmentationMicroscopy Image Analysis

    School of Data Science, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, 310018, China · College of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China · School of Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, 310018, China

  24. Seeing as Humans Do: Learning from Motion to Segment Anything Without Supervision

    Sep 30, 2026Weijian Jian, Xiaoyue Zhang, Bin Xiao +5Image SegmentationSelf-Supervised Learning

    AI Research · Independent Researcher · University of Ottawa +1

  25. Sparse cubical complexes for efficient topology-preservation in image data

    Sep 29, 2026Alexander H. Berger, Marco Fontana, Daniel Rueckert +3Image SegmentationTopology-Preserving Image Segmentation

    Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA · Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany · Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK +3

  26. ProGuT: Label-Efficient Panoptic Segmentation for Forest Scenes

    Sep 29, 2026Pankaj Deoli, Karsten BernsImage SegmentationPanoptic Segmentation

    Robotics Research Lab, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau Gottlieb-Daimler-Str. 48, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

  27. UnfoldCRF: Structured Mask Refinement with Image-Conditioned Latent Regions

    Sep 27, 2026Chunming He, Rihan Zhang, Lei Xu +5Image SegmentationConditional Random Fields

    Duke University · EPFL · National University of Singapore +2

  28. When Noise Meets Long-Tail: Feature-Threshold Dual Calibration for Robust Pseudo-Labeling

    Sep 27, 2026Ping Guo, Zhiqi Huang, Xinran LiImage SegmentationLong-Tail Learning

    Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems, Waseda University, Kitakyushu, Japan · School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

  29. Overlapping Visual Grouping Without Semantic Priors

    Sep 23, 2026Teemu Saukkio, Hashem Haghbayan, Juha PlosilaImage Segmentation

    University of Turku, Faculty of Technology, Department of Computing, Turku, Finland

  30. Initialization and Stopping Tolerance in CPU Dermoscopic Segmentation

    Sep 22, 2026Wenhao Xu, Yixian Kong, Ting Pan +2Image SegmentationMedical Image Segmentation

    Zhengzhou Police University, Zhengzhou, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China · Qilu University of Technology and Jinan Supercomputing Center, Jinan, China