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      <PublisherName>IJIRCSTJournal</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer Science and Technology</JournalTitle>
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      <Volume-Issue>Volume 13 Issue 2</Volume-Issue>
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      <IssueTopic>Electrical Engineering</IssueTopic>
      <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage>
      <Season>March - April 2025</Season>
      <SpecialIssue>N</SpecialIssue>
      <SupplementaryIssue>N</SupplementaryIssue>
      <IssueOA>Y</IssueOA>
      <PubDate>
        <Year>2025</Year>
        <Month>04</Month>
        <Day>18</Day>
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      <ArticleType>Computer Sciences</ArticleType>
      <ArticleTitle>Visual-Based Space Debris Segmentation Using an Enhanced Segment Anything Framework</ArticleTitle>
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      <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage>
      <ArticleOA>Y</ArticleOA>
      <FirstPage>79</FirstPage>
      <LastPage>88</LastPage>
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        <Author>
          <FirstName>Svetlana Orlova</FirstName>          
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor>
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                      <FirstName>Mikhail Tarasov</FirstName>          
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor>
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                    <FirstName>Anastasia Belova</FirstName>          
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor>
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                    <FirstName>Alexey Frolov</FirstName>          
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor>
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                    <FirstName>Tatiana Zykova</FirstName>          
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor>
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                    <FirstName>Viktor Melnikov</FirstName>          
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor>
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                    <FirstName>Krzysztof Zalewski</FirstName>          
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor>
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      <DOI>https://doi.org/10.55524/ijircst.2025.13.2.12</DOI>
      <Abstract>Accurate image segmentation remains a cornerstone challenge in computer vision, particularly under open-set conditions where object variability and scene complexity hinder generalization. To address these limitations, we propose a novel visual-based methodology entitled Visual-Based Space Debris Segmentation Using an Enhanced Segment Anything Framework. This approach synergistically integrates an optimized clause-aware prompt mechanism derived from Grounding DINO with a structurally refined version of the Segment Anything Model (SAM). By embedding hierarchical non-maximum suppression and adaptive region purification through connected component filtration, we substantially augment segmentation fidelity. Furthermore, we incorporate ViT-Matte, a vision transformer-based trimap enhancement module, to improve boundary localization and reduce aliasing in edge delineation. Extensive validation on the COCO2017 benchmark reveals that our framework elevates Mean Pixel Accuracy by 6.04%, culminating at 24.74%, thereby substantiating its efficacy in foreground-background discrimination under visually ambiguous scenarios such as orbital debris fields.

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      <AbstractLanguage>English</AbstractLanguage>
      <Keywords>Grounding DINO, ViT-Matte, Space Debris Detection, Open-Set Recognition, Image Segmentation.</Keywords>
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        <Abstract>https://ijircst.org/abstract.php?article_id=1361</Abstract>
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