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  1. Performance at What Cost? A Sustainability-Aware Performance Index for Cell and Nucleus Instance Segmentation

    Oct 7, 2026Eiram Mahera Sheikh, Alaa Tharwat, Wolfram SchenckInstance SegmentationCost-Aware Inference

    Department of Engineering and Mathematics, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Interaktion 1, 33619 Bielefeld

  2. Towards benchmarking Western Bluebird detection in the wild

    Oct 6, 2026Estela Monserrat Arriaga Santana, Julian Rosas Scull, Ibeth P. Alarcón +3Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionInstance Segmentation

    Universidad Nacional Aut´onoma de M´exico, Mexico · Universidad Aut´onoma de Tlaxcala, Mexico · The University of Texas at El Paso, USA and INAOE, Mexico

  3. Towards Automatic Video Annotation with ASH: Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation

    Oct 1, 2026Arash Rocky, Q. M. Jonathan WuVideo Object SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, N9B 3P4, Canada

  4. UGO: Unified Architecture for General Multi-Object Tracking by Segmentation

    Sep 29, 2026Jer Pelhan, Alan Lukezic, Matej KristanInstance SegmentationMulti-Object Tracking

    Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana

  5. 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

  6. S4VY: Segment Anything in Feed-Forward 4D Visual Geometry

    Sep 29, 2026Jingdong Zhang, Xin Li, Jan Kautz +2Instance SegmentationPromptable Image Segmentation

    Texas A&M University, College Station · NVIDIA

  7. Learning to Reason with Persistent Object States for Video Instance Segmentation

    Sep 28, 2026Yongxue Xu, Boxue Yang, Ziqian Liu +3Video Object SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Sun Yat-sen University · Fudan University

  8. From UNI2-h to ConvNeXt-T: Lightweight Nuclei Instance Segmentation via Knowledge Distillation

    Sep 28, 2026Wenyan LiEfficient Neural Network InferenceHistopathology Image Segmentation

    School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

  9. BiCC: Bidirectional Connected-Component Loss for Instance-Aware Segmentation

    Sep 24, 2026Luc Bouteille, Frederic Jonske, Jens Kleesiek +1Instance SegmentationMedical Image Segmentation

    Institute for AI in Medicine (IKIM), University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany · Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics (IAR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

  10. SAM-V: Geometry-Aware Segment Anything for Multi-View Instance Segmentation

    Sep 21, 2026Jiangshan Gong, Yuqun Wu, Qiqian Fu +4Multi-View ConsistencyInstance Segmentation

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Meta

  11. SRPR-Net: Semantic and Relational Prompt Refinement for Automated SAM-based Instance Segmentation

    Sep 21, 2026Lufei Liu, Guojie Li, Suncheng Xiang +1Instance SegmentationPromptable Image Segmentation

    Ruijin-XJTLU Intelligent Medicine Institute, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China · School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  12. Socialized UAV Cross-Task Learning: Towards Cross-Granularity Collaboration through Hierarchical Interaction

    Sep 17, 2026Xinjie Yao, Ruipu Zhao, Yunqi Zhu +6Instance SegmentationMulti-Task Learning

    Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia +4

  13. Selective Cotton Boll Localization for Robotic Harvesting: Evaluation of Deep Learning Vision Models Under Field Conditions

    Sep 17, 2026Thevathayarajh Thayananthan, Xin Zhang, Isuru Laddusinghe Badu +6Instance SegmentationObject Detection

    School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602, GA, USA · Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Tifton, 31793, GA, USA · Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602, GA, USA +1

  14. TAPe+ML: A Compact Structured Representation for Multi-Task Computer Vision

    Sep 15, 2026Sergey Kurinov, Alexey UpatovInstance SegmentationMulti-Task Learning

    Comexp Research Lab, TAPe + ML Project, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia · Comexp Research Lab, TAPe + ML Project Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia

  15. Accelerated Decoding of Centroid Positional Encoding for Instance Segmentation

    Sep 15, 2026Carmelo Scribano, Filippo Muzzini, Nedyalko Prisadnikov +6Efficient InferenceGPU Kernel Optimization

    University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy · INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria

  16. EgoMaize: A First-Person Maize Instance Segmentation Benchmark under Severe Field Occlusion

    Sep 14, 2026Jiayi Li, Zihan Zhang, Erhankang Yan +4Plant PhenotypingInstance Segmentation

    College of Computer Science Beijing University of Technology Beijing, China · School of Mathematics, Statistics and Mechanics Beijing University of Technology Beijing, China

  17. CoralscapesV2: Panoptic and Fine-Grained Visual Scene Understanding in Coral Reefs

    Sep 14, 2026Jonathan Sauder, Thomas Ruckli, Gabrielė Strodomskytė +17Panoptic SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    MIT · EPFL · University of Djibouti +7

  18. MorphoOrgaAgent: A Foundation-Model-Based Multi-Agent System for Autonomous Organoid Analysis

    Sep 8, 2026Hanyi Zhang, Maximilian Hoermann, Lion J. Gleiter +5Image SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    Helmholtz AI, Helmholtz Munich - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany · Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany · School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany +4

  19. ENEAS: Embedding-guided Neural Ensemble for Adaptive Segmentation

    Sep 3, 2026Javier del Pino, Salvador Rodríguez, Alejandro Garabito +2Video Object SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    SperidLabs

  20. WireSeg-32K: A Physics-Grounded Synthetic Dataset for Wire Instance Segmentation

    Sep 2, 2026Zilin Dai, Lehong Wang, Yi Yang +1Synthetic-to-Real Domain AdaptationInstance Segmentation

    Harvard University · Carnegie Mellon University

  21. Hardware-Accelerated Instance Segmentation for Resource-Constrained Space Robotics with Criticality Analysis

    Sep 2, 2026Siddhant Shete, Hilmi Dogu Kücüker, Udo Frese +1Instance SegmentationSpace Robotics

    Robotics Innovation Center of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI), Bremen, Germany · University of Bremen, Germany

  22. CoViT: Instance-Correspondence Contrastive Learning for Vision Transformer

    Sep 1, 2026Yisen Wang, Zhirong Wu, Limin WangContrastive LearningInstance Segmentation

    State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology Nanjing University, China

  23. CedarCypress3D: an annotated UAV-LiDAR dataset of individual trees in planted cedar and cypress forests

    Aug 31, 2026Katsuto Shimizu, Fumiaki Kitahara, Tomohiro Nishizono +8Instance Segmentation3D Semantic Segmentation

    Shikoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute · 1Shikoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, 2-915 Asakuranishi, Kochi, Kochi 780-8077, Japan · Department of Forest Management, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute +9

  24. MariSat: A Maritime Dataset for Instance Segmentation of Objects in Satellite and Aerial Images

    Aug 30, 2026Amir Abbes, Ines Harrabi, Lucas Justin Yirepoa Kinda +3Instance SegmentationRemote Sensing Benchmarks

    University of Carthage, SUP’COM, LR11TIC05, MEDIATRON, 2083, Ariana, Tunisia · University of Gabes, Hatem Bettaher IResCoMath Laboratory, Gabes, Tunisia · University of Rouen Normandie, ESIGELEC, IRSEEM, 76000 Rouen, France

  25. Predicting Signed Distance Functions for Visual Instance Segmentation

    Aug 13, 2026Emil Brissman, Joakim Johnander, Michael FelsbergSigned Distance FunctionsInstance Segmentation

    1Computer Vision Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University · 2Saab, Sweden · 3Zenseact, Sweden

  26. Learning from Multimodal Pseudo-Labels for Robust Open-Vocabulary Instance and Panoptic Segmentation

    Aug 12, 2026Duy Tran Thanh, Yeejin Lee, Byeongkeun KangPanoptic SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 232 Gongneung-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 01811, South Korea · Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 232 Gongneung-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 01811, South Korea · School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, South Korea

  27. Topology-Aware Query Selection for Surgical Instrument Instance Segmentation

    Aug 12, 2026Ze Zhang, Yang ZhangInstance SegmentationStructured Prediction

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China · Wuhan United Imaging Surgical Co., Ltd., Wuhan, China

  28. Toward Mask Annotation-Free Surgical Instrument Segmentation from Endoscopic Images Using Text-Prompted Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3)

    Aug 9, 2026Nakul Poudel, Richard Simon, Cristian A. LinteImage SegmentationText-Guided Image Segmentation

    Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA · Biomedical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA

  29. TLNM: Externally Validated Tooth Detection, Numbering and Segmentation from Smartphone Photographs Using Mask R-CNN

    Aug 6, 2026Arash Nedaei, Henna Tiensuu, Elina Väyrynen +2Medical ImagingInstance Segmentation

    Biomimetics and Intelligent Systems Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland · Research Unit of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

  30. From Transparent Labware Segmentation to Collision Avoidance: A Real-Time Edge-Aware Perception Pipeline

    Aug 5, 2026Shijun Ding, Chen Qian, Weiwei Shang +1Image SegmentationInstance Segmentation

  31. NeuroAdaptTrainer: A Fiji/ImageJ Plugin for YOLO-Based Neuron Segmentation, InteractiveCorrection and Transfer Learning

    Aug 5, 2026Daniela Eraso-Casas, Gerard Villarroya-Pique, Esther Serrano-Pertierra +4Image SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    aComputer Sciences Department, University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain · bElectrical Engineering Department, University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain · cBiomedical Engineering Center (BME), University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain +3

  32. Hear to See: Discerning Stateful Listening for Audio-Visual Instance Segmentation

    Aug 4, 2026Leiye Liu, Miao Zhang, Jiahong Jiang +7Video Object SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    Dalian University of Technology Dalian, Liaoning, China · Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA · Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, USA

  33. iFAN: Inference-Aware Learning for Plain Mask Transformers

    Aug 4, 2026Fang Li, Yu He, Haoyang Tong +7Panoptic SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Xi’an Jiaotong University · Beijing Institute of Technology

  34. Better, Stronger, Faster, and Broader: Structured All-Mask Prediction for MLLM-Based Segmentation

    Aug 3, 2026Jiazhen Liu, Mingkuan Feng, Long ChenEfficient Multimodal InferenceImage Segmentation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong.

  35. ZMIS-SAM: Segment Anything Model Enhanced with Wavelet Transform for Zooplankton Microscopy Image Instance Segmentation

    Jul 30, 2026Dekun Yuan, Zhongwei Li, Zheng Qiao +1Instance SegmentationSegment Anything Models

    College of Oceanography and Space Informatics, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, 266580, China

  36. QueenVIS: Rethinking Image-Only Training for Video Instance Segmentation via Query Enrichment

    Jul 27, 2026Arian Kheirandish, Fardin Ayar, Ehsan Javanmardi +2Video UnderstandingInstance Segmentation

    Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran · The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  37. DishSeg24k: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Food Segmentation with Stochastic Expert Decoding

    Jul 25, 2026Yilin Wang, Haochen Shi, Guanyu Chen +4Image SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China +3

  38. Advancing All-Weather Building Damage Mapping to the Instance Level: Outcomes and Insights from the 2026 Bright Challenge

    Jul 23, 2026Hongruixuan Chen, He Huang, Haifeng Wang +19Disaster Damage AssessmentBuilding Damage Assessment

  39. DA-Fusion: Deformable Attention-Based RGB-D Fusion Transformer for Unseen Object Instance Segmentation

    Jul 20, 2026Yesol Park, Hye-Jung Yoon, Juno Kim +1Instance SegmentationMultimodal Fusion

    Interdisciplinary Program in AI, Seoul National University · Artificial Intelligence Institute, Seoul National University · Department of Computer Science, Seoul National University

  40. TMI: Text-to-Image Meets Image-to-Image for Complementary Data Synthesis to Boost Long-Tailed Instance Segmentation

    Jul 9, 2026Hyeonseop Song, Seokhun Choi, Hoseok DoSynthetic Data AugmentationText-Guided Image Editing

    AI Lab, CTO Division, LG Electronics, Republic of Korea

  41. UAV-OVVIS: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Also Need Open-Vocabulary Video Instance Segmentation

    Jul 9, 2026Mingyu Dou, Shi Qiu, Ming Hu +2Video Object SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom +2

  42. A Large-Scale Dataset and a New Method for RemoteSensing Traffic Object Segmentation

    Jul 4, 2026Zhigang Yang, Huiguang Yao, Linmao Tian +2Remote Sensing Image SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    School of Artificial Intelligence, OPtics and ElectroNics (iOPEN), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, Shaanxi, China · School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, Shaanxi, China · School of Software, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, Shaanxi, China

  43. Segmenting, Fast and Slow: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Video Instance Segmentation with Dual-Path Processing

    Jun 30, 2026Luca Barsellotti, Martin Sundermeyer, Mattia Segu +5Video Object SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    ⋆Work done during an internship at Google. · Google · TU Munich; Munich Center for Machine Learning +1

  44. Efficient Remote Sensing Instance Segmentation with Linear-Time State Space Distilled Visual Foundation Models

    Jun 24, 2026Qinzhe Yang, Keyan Chen, Jia Xu +2Remote Sensing Image SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    Shen Yuan Honors College, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · Department of Aerospace Intelligent Science and Technology, School of Astronautics, and with the State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · Qian Xuesen Laboratory of Space Technology, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100094, China

  45. Modular Diffusion Models for Structured Visual Recognition

    Jun 21, 2026Siddhesh Khandelwal, Björn Ommer, Leonid SigalScene Graph GenerationUncertainty Quantification

    Department of Compute Science, University of British Columbia · Vector Institute for AI · CompVis, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich +2

  46. Prompting Diffusion Models for Zero-Shot Instance Segmentation

    Jun 21, 2026Irem Zeynep Alagöz, Nils Morbitzer, Andrea Ramazzina +3Instance SegmentationPromptable Image Segmentation

    Technical University of Munich (TUM) · Munich Center of Machine Learning (MCML) · Mercedes-Benz AG +1

  47. Boundary-by-Mask: Few-Shot Instance Segmentation with Mask-Conditioned Boundary Learning for Texture-Poor Industrial Parts

    Jun 19, 2026Yutaka Yoshinaga, Naoya Chiba, Koichi HashimotoInstance SegmentationIndustrial Inspection

    Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan · Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

  48. Sparse Point-Guided Fusion of Supervised and Self-Supervised Learning Model for Seaweed Segmentation

    Jun 19, 2026Tatsuya Suzuki, Kazuya Ijuin, Hideki Tomimori +2Image SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    Fujitsu Limited Kawasaki, Japan

  49. SA-VIS: Sparse frame Annotations for training Video Instance Segmentation

    Jun 18, 2026Edoardo Mello Rella, Ajad Chhatkuli, Shipra Jain +2Video UnderstandingVideo Object Segmentation

    CVL, ETH Zurich · INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" · Align Technology

  50. Automatic ply-specific analyses of CFRP micrographs using shortest-path-based ply distinction

    Jun 17, 2026Jonas Naumann, Jonas P. Appels, Julius Biermann +3Image SegmentationInstance Segmentation

  51. Vines-DB: An RGB image dataset for multi-species ornamental vine segmentation

    Jun 16, 2026Saroj Burlakoti, Utsav Bhandari, Aaron Etienne +1Agricultural Image AnalysisPlant Phenotyping

    Utah State University · Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, Utah State University, Utah, 84322, USA · Department of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education, Utah State University, Utah, 84322, USA

  52. SegTME-UNI2: A Foundation Model-Based Framework for Generalisable Multiclass Cell Segmentation and LLM-Driven Tumour Microenvironment Characterisation in Histopathology

    Jun 16, 2026Wan Siti Halimatul Munirah Wan Ahmad, Faris Syahmi Samidi, Mohammad Badal Ahmmed +3Computational PathologyMedical Report Generation

    Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, College of Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Kajang, Malaysia · Faculty of Dentistry, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  53. Instance-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Semi-Supervised Learning of an On-Board Multi-Task Dense Prediction Model for Collision Avoidance System

    Jun 15, 2026Gyutae Hwang, Sang Jun LeeCollision AvoidanceInstance Segmentation

    Division of Electronics and Information Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju, 54896, Republic of Korea

  54. GOOSE-M2F: Adapting Mask2Former for High-Fidelity, Long-Tailed Fine-Grained Semantic Segmentation in Unstructured Outdoor Terrain

    Jun 14, 2026Jyothiraditya Lingam, Nikhileswara Rao Sulake, Sai Manikanta Eswar MacharaInstance SegmentationSemantic Segmentation

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Nuzvid, India

  55. Post-Launch Capability Expansion of Vision-Language Models via Prompting for On-Orbit Spacecraft Inspection

    Jun 13, 2026Nicholas A. Welsh, Lennon J. Shikhman, Monty Nehru Attazs +3Instance SegmentationPromptable Image Segmentation

    Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne, FL, USA · University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA

  56. DIMOS: Disentangling Instance-level Moving Object Segmentation

    Jun 11, 2026Hongxiang Huang, Hongwei Ren, Xiaopeng Lin +3Event-Based VisionDisentangled Representation Learning

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) Guangzhou, China

  57. A Turbo-Inference Strategy for Object Detection and Instance Segmentation

    Jun 10, 2026Zhen Zhao, Gang Zhang, Xiaolin Hu +1Instance SegmentationObject Detection

    School of Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100091, China · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China +1

  58. ZODS-RS -- Zero-training Oriented Detection & Segmentation for Remote Sensing

    Jun 9, 2026Zuan Gu, Tianhan Gao, Langxu ZhaoRemote Sensing Small Object DetectionRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Northeastern University, China

  59. Maximum Matching Accuracy: An Instance Segmentation Evaluation Metric Utilizing Globally Optimal Matching

    Jun 8, 2026Kaden Stillwagon, Alexandra D. VandeLoo, Craig R. ForestInstance SegmentationMicroscopy Image Analysis

    College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 30332, Georgia, United States · School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 30332, Georgia, United States · Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 30332, Georgia, United States +1

  60. SegmentAnyTreeV2: Scaling Transformer-Based Tree Instance Segmentation Across Sensors, Platforms, and Forests

    Jun 6, 2026Maciej Wielgosz, Stefano Puliti, Rasmus AstrupTransformerInstance Segmentation

    Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Høgskoleveien 7, 1433 Ås, Norway