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Action segmentation is the task of temporally segmenting every frame of an untrimmed video. Weakly supervised approaches to action segmentation, especially from transcripts have been of considerable interest to the computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Yaser Souri , Alexander Richard , Luca Minciullo , Juergen Gall

We propose a simple, yet powerful approach for unsupervised object segmentation in videos. We introduce an objective function whose minimum represents the mask of the main salient object over the input sequence. It only relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Georgy Ponimatkin , Nermin Samet , Yang Xiao , Yuming Du , Renaud Marlet , Vincent Lepetit

We propose a novel algorithm for weakly supervised semantic segmentation based on image-level class labels only. In weakly supervised setting, it is commonly observed that trained model overly focuses on discriminative parts rather than the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Seunghoon Hong , Donghun Yeo , Suha Kwak , Honglak Lee , Bohyung Han

We consider the task of semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). Our approach mitigates shortcomings in previous VOS work by addressing detail preservation and temporal consistency using visual warping. In contrast to prior work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Julia Gong , F. Christopher Holsinger , Serena Yeung

Specular reflections pose a significant challenge for object segmentation, as their sharp intensity transitions often mislead both conventional algorithms and deep learning based methods. However, as the specular reflection must lie on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Katja Kossira , Yunxuan Zhu , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Semi-supervised Video Object Segmentation aims to segment a specified target throughout a video sequence, initialized by a first-frame mask. Previous methods rely heavily on appearance-based pattern matching and thus exhibit limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhixiong Zhang , Shuangrui Ding , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuhang Zang , Yuhang Cao , Jiaqi Wang

We address an essential problem in computer vision, that of unsupervised object segmentation in video, where a main object of interest in a video sequence should be automatically separated from its background. An efficient solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Emanuela Haller , Marius Leordeanu

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is fundamental to video understanding. Transformer-based methods show significant performance improvement on semi-supervised VOS. However, existing work faces challenges segmenting visually similar objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Ye Yu , Jialin Yuan , Gaurav Mittal , Li Fuxin , Mei Chen

We introduce a novel semi-supervised video segmentation approach based on an efficient video representation, called as "super-trajectory". Each super-trajectory corresponds to a group of compact trajectories that exhibit consistent motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Wenguan Wang , Jianbing Shen , Jianwen Xie , Fatih Porikli

Segmentation of an object from a video is a challenging task in multimedia applications. Depending on the application, automatic or interactive methods are desired; however, regardless of the application type, efficient computation of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Ozan Sener , Kemal Ugur , A. Aydin Alatan

Current benchmarks for video segmentation are limited to annotating only salient objects (i.e., foreground instances). Despite their impressive architectural designs, previous works trained on these benchmarks have struggled to adapt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Sangbeom Lim , Seongchan Kim , Seungjun An , Seokju Cho , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Seungryong Kim

Traditional video reasoning segmentation methods rely on supervised fine-tuning, which limits generalization to out-of-distribution scenarios and lacks explicit reasoning. To address this, we propose \textbf{VideoSeg-R1}, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zishan Xu , Yifu Guo , Yuquan Lu , Fengyu Yang , Junxin Li

Learning-based methods for visual segmentation have made progress on particular types of segmentation tasks, but are limited by the necessary supervision, the narrow definitions of fixed tasks, and the lack of control during inference for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Kate Rakelly , Evan Shelhamer , Trevor Darrell , Alexei A. Efros , Sergey Levine

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is foundational to numerous computer vision applications, including surveillance, autonomous driving, robotics and generative video editing. However, existing VOS models often struggle with precise mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Elham Soltani Kazemi , Imad Eddine Toubal , Gani Rahmon , Jaired Collins , K. Palaniappan

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) aims to track objects across frames in a video and segment them based on the initial annotated frame of the target objects. Previous VOS works typically rely on fully annotated videos for training. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Baiyu Chen , Sixian Chan , Xiaoqin Zhang

The appearance of an object can be fleeting when it transforms. As eggs are broken or paper is torn, their color, shape and texture can change dramatically, preserving virtually nothing of the original except for the identity itself. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Pavel Tokmakov , Jie Li , Adrien Gaidon

Image segmentation is a key topic in image processing and computer vision with applications such as scene understanding, medical image analysis, robotic perception, video surveillance, augmented reality, and image compression, among many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Shervin Minaee , Yuri Boykov , Fatih Porikli , Antonio Plaza , Nasser Kehtarnavaz , Demetri Terzopoulos

How to make a segmentation model efficiently adapt to a specific video and to online target appearance variations are fundamentally crucial issues in the field of video object segmentation. In this work, a graph memory network is developed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Xiankai Lu , Wenguan Wang , Martin Danelljan , Tianfei Zhou , Jianbing Shen , Luc Van Gool

Current state-of-the-art approaches for Semi-supervised Video Object Segmentation (Semi-VOS) propagates information from previous frames to generate segmentation mask for the current frame. This results in high-quality segmentation across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Hyojin Park , Jayeon Yoo , Seohyeong Jeong , Ganesh Venkatesh , Nojun Kwak

In Video Instance Segmentation (VIS), current approaches either focus on the quality of the results, by taking the whole video as input and processing it offline; or on speed, by handling it frame by frame at the cost of competitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Çağan Selim Çoban , Oğuzhan Keskin , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Fatma Güney