Zero-Shot and Supervised Bird Image Segmentation Using Foundation Models: A Dual-Pipeline Approach with Grounding DINO~1.5, YOLOv11, and SAM~2.1
Bird image segmentation remains a challenging task in computer vision due to extreme pose diversity, complex plumage patterns, and variable lighting conditions. This paper presents a dual-pipeline framework for binary bird image segmentation leveraging 2025 foundation models. We introduce two operating modes built upon Segment Anything Model 2.1 (SAM 2.1) as a shared frozen backbone: (1) a zero-shot pipeline using Grounding DINO 1.5 to detect birds via the text prompt "bird" before prompting SAM 2.1 with bounding boxes requiring no labelled bird data; and (2) a supervised pipeline that fine-tunes YOLOv11 on the CUB-200-2011 dataset for high-precision detection, again prompting SAM 2.1 for pixel-level masks. The segmentation model is never retrained for new species or domains. On CUB-200-2011 (11,788 images, 200 species), the supervised pipeline achieves IoU 0.912, Dice 0.954, and F1 0.953 outperforming all prior baselines including SegFormer-B2 (IoU 0.842) by +7.0 percentage points. The zero-shot pipeline achieves IoU 0.831 using only a text prompt, the first such result reported on this benchmark. We demonstrate that prompt-based foundation model pipelines outperform task specific end-to-end trained segmentation networks, while requiring only lightweight detector fine-tuning (~1 hour) for domain adaptation. Complete PyTorch implementation, dataset preparation scripts, and trained weights are publicly available.
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