RobustSAM: Segment Anything Robustly on Degraded Images

Wei-Ting Chen, Yu-Jiet Vong, Sy-Yen Kuo, Sizhou Ma, Jian Wang; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024, pp. 4081-4091

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has emerged as a transformative approach in image segmentation acclaimed for its robust zero-shot segmentation capabilities and flexible prompting system. Nonetheless its performance is challenged by images with degraded quality. Addressing this limitation we propose the Robust Segment Anything Model (RobustSAM) which enhances SAM's performance on low-quality images while preserving its promptability and zero-shot generalization. Our method leverages the pre-trained SAM model with only marginal parameter increments and computational requirements. The additional parameters of RobustSAM can be optimized within 30 hours on eight GPUs demonstrating its feasibility and practicality for typical research laboratories. We also introduce the Robust-Seg dataset a collection of 688K image-mask pairs with different degradations designed to train and evaluate our model optimally. Extensive experiments across various segmentation tasks and datasets confirm RobustSAM's superior performance especially under zero-shot conditions underscoring its potential for extensive real-world application. Additionally our method has been shown to effectively improve the performance of SAM-based downstream tasks such as single image dehazing and deblurring.