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The general domain of video segmentation is currently fragmented into different tasks spanning multiple benchmarks. Despite rapid progress in the state-of-the-art, current methods are overwhelmingly task-specific and cannot conceptually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Ali Athar , Alexander Hermans , Jonathon Luiten , Deva Ramanan , Bastian Leibe

The problem of video object segmentation can become extremely challenging when multiple instances co-exist. While each instance may exhibit large scale and pose variations, the problem is compounded when instances occlude each other causing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Xiaoxiao Li , Chen Change Loy

Most model-free visual object tracking methods formulate the tracking task as object location estimation given by a 2D segmentation or a bounding box in each video frame. We argue that this representation is limited and instead propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Denys Rozumnyi , Jiri Matas , Marc Pollefeys , Vittorio Ferrari , Martin R. Oswald

In this paper we present a simple yet effective approach to extend without supervision any object proposal from static images to videos. Unlike previous methods, these spatio-temporal proposals, to which we refer as tracks, are generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Giovanni Cuffaro , Federico Becattini , Claudio Baecchi , Lorenzo Seidenari , Alberto Del Bimbo

Unsupervised localization and segmentation are long-standing robot vision challenges that describe the critical ability for an autonomous robot to learn to decompose images into individual objects without labeled data. These tasks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Xinyu Zhang , Abdeslam Boularias

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is an active research area of the visual domain. One of its fundamental sub-tasks is semi-supervised / one-shot learning: given only the segmentation mask for the first frame, the task is to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Fatemeh Azimi , Benjamin Bischke , Sebastian Palacio , Federico Raue , Joern Hees , Andreas Dengel

Semi-supervised video object segmentation is an interesting yet challenging task in machine learning. In this work, we conduct a series of refinements with the propagation-based video object segmentation method and empirically evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Dongdong Yu , Kai Su , Hengkai Guo , Jian Wang , Kaihui Zhou , Yuanyuan Huang , Minghui Dong , Jie Shao , Changhu Wang

The advancement of visual tracking has continuously been brought by deep learning models. Typically, supervised learning is employed to train these models with expensive labeled data. In order to reduce the workload of manual annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Ning Wang , Wengang Zhou , Yibing Song , Chao Ma , Wei Liu , Houqiang Li

We consider the challenging problem of zero-shot video object segmentation (VOS). That is, segmenting and tracking multiple moving objects within a video fully automatically, without any manual initialization. We treat this as a grouping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Shreyank N Gowda , Panagiotis Eustratiadis , Timothy Hospedales , Laura Sevilla-Lara

Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) faces significant annotation challenges due to its dual requirements of pixel-level masks and temporal consistency labels. While recent unsupervised methods like VideoCutLER eliminate optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Kaixuan Lu , Mehmet Onurcan Kaya , Dim P. Papadopoulos

The current popular methods for video object segmentation (VOS) implement feature matching through several hand-crafted modules that separately perform feature extraction and matching. However, the above hand-crafted designs empirically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Qiangqiang Wu , Tianyu Yang , Wei WU , Antoni Chan

Tracking and segmenting multiple similar objects with distinct or complex parts in long-term videos is particularly challenging due to the ambiguity in identifying target components and the confusion caused by occlusion, background clutter,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xin Li , Deshui Miao , Zhenyu He , Yaowei Wang , Huchuan Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Deep learning for unsupervised image segmentation remains challenging due to the absence of human labels. The common idea is to train a segmentation head, with the supervision of pixel-wise pseudo-labels generated based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yi Zhang , Chengyi Wu

The Third Perception Test challenge was organised as a full-day workshop alongside the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025. Its primary goal is to benchmark state-of-the-art video models and measure the progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Joseph Heyward , Nikhil Parthasarathy , Tyler Zhu , Aravindh Mahendran , João Carreira , Dima Damen , Andrew Zisserman , Viorica Pătrăucean

Unsupervised video object segmentation has often been tackled by methods based on recurrent neural networks and optical flow. Despite their complexity, these kinds of approaches tend to favour short-term temporal dependencies and are thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Zhao Yang , Qiang Wang , Luca Bertinetto , Weiming Hu , Song Bai , Philip H. S. Torr

Small-sized unmanned surface vehicles (USV) are coastal water devices with a broad range of applications such as environmental control and surveillance. A crucial capability for autonomous operation is obstacle detection for timely reaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Borja Bovcon , Jon Muhovič , Duško Vranac , Dean Mozetič , Janez Perš , Matej Kristan

We propose an unsupervised method for detecting and tracking moving objects in 3D, in unlabelled RGB-D videos. The method begins with classic handcrafted techniques for segmenting objects using motion cues: we estimate optical flow and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Adam W. Harley , Yiming Zuo , Jing Wen , Ayush Mangal , Shubhankar Potdar , Ritwick Chaudhry , Katerina Fragkiadaki

The objective of this paper is self-supervised learning of video object segmentation. We develop a unified framework which simultaneously models cross-frame dense correspondence for locally discriminative feature learning and embeds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Liulei Li , Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Jianwu Li , Yi Yang

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) task aims to segment objects in videos. However, previous settings either require time-consuming manual masks of target objects at the first frame during inference or lack the flexibility to specify arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Pinxue Guo , Lingyi Hong , Xinyu Zhou , Shuyong Gao , Wanyun Li , Jinglun Li , Zhaoyu Chen , Xiaoqiang Li , Wei Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang

Large intra-class variation is the result of changes in multiple object characteristics. Images, however, only show the superposition of different variable factors such as appearance or shape. Therefore, learning to disentangle and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Dominik Lorenz , Leonard Bereska , Timo Milbich , Björn Ommer