DC-SAM: In-Context Segment Anything in Images and Videos via Dual
  Consistency
Authors: name: Mengshi Qi; name: Pengfei Zhu; name: Xiangtai Li; name: Xiaoyang Bi; name: Lu Qi; name: Huadong Ma; name: Ming-Hsuan Yang
Published: 2025-04-16 13:41:59

Abstract: 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 to various vision tasks, including scene understanding and image/video
editing. While recent Segment Anything Models have achieved state-of-the-art
results in interactive segmentation, these approaches are not directly
applicable to in-context segmentation. In this work, we propose the Dual
Consistency SAM (DC-SAM) method based on prompt-tuning to adapt SAM and SAM2
for in-context segmentation of both images and videos. Our key insights are to
enhance the features of the SAM's prompt encoder in segmentation by providing
high-quality visual prompts. When generating a mask prior, we fuse the SAM
features to better align the prompt encoder. Then, we design a cycle-consistent
cross-attention on fused features and initial visual prompts. Next, a
dual-branch design is provided by using the discriminative positive and
negative prompts in the prompt encoder. Furthermore, we design a simple
mask-tube training strategy to adopt our proposed dual consistency method into
the mask tube. Although the proposed DC-SAM is primarily designed for images,
it can be seamlessly extended to the video domain with the support of SAM2.
Given the absence of in-context segmentation in the video domain, we manually
curate and construct the first benchmark from existing video segmentation
datasets, named In-Context Video Object Segmentation (IC-VOS), to better assess
the in-context capability of the model. Extensive experiments demonstrate that
our method achieves 55.5 (+1.4) mIoU on COCO-20i, 73.0 (+1.1) mIoU on
PASCAL-5i, and a J&F score of 71.52 on the proposed IC-VOS benchmark. Our
source code and benchmark are available at https://github.com/zaplm/DC-SAM.