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Toward Robust In-Context Segmentation via Concept Guidance

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arXiv:2606. 28149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In-context segmentation (ICS) requires a model to segment target regions in a query image using only a few reference images and their corresponding masks, without updating any parameters.

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