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This report presents an Audio-aware Referring Video Object Segmentation (Ref-VOS) pipeline tailored to the MEVIS\_Audio setting, where the referring expression is provided in spoken form rather than as clean text. Compared with a standard…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Deshui Miao , Yameng Gu , Chao Yang , Xin Li , Haijun Zhang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) is a per-pixel binary labeling problem which aims at separating the foreground object from the background in the video without using the ground truth (GT) mask of the foreground object. Most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Youngjo Lee , Hongje Seong , Euntai Kim

Current state-of-the-art Video Object Segmentation (VOS) methods rely on dense per-object mask annotations both during training and testing. This requires time-consuming and costly video annotation mechanisms. We propose a novel Point-VOS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Idil Esen Zulfikar , Sabarinath Mahadevan , Paul Voigtlaender , Bastian Leibe

The goal of this work is to segment the objects in an image that are referred to by a sequence of linguistic descriptions (referring expressions). We propose a deep neural network with recurrent layers that output a sequence of binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Alba Herrera-Palacio , Carles Ventura , Carina Silberer , Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc , Gemma Boleda , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Referring expressions are natural language descriptions that identify a particular object within a scene and are widely used in our daily conversations. In this work, we focus on segmenting the object in an image specified by a referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Yi-Wen Chen , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Tiantian Wang , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) has recently generated great popularity in computer vision due to its widespread applications. Existing RVOS setting contains elaborately trimmed videos, with text-referred objects always appearing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mingqi Gao , Jinyu Yang , Jingnan Luo , Xiantong Zhen , Jungong Han , Giovanni Montana , Feng Zheng

Referring Video Object Segmentation (R-VOS) methods face challenges in maintaining consistent object segmentation due to temporal context variability and the presence of other visually similar objects. We propose an end-to-end R-VOS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Bo Miao , Mohammed Bennamoun , Yongsheng Gao , Mubarak Shah , Ajmal Mian

Video object segmentation (VOS) is a highly challenging problem since the initial mask, defining the target object, is only given at test-time. The main difficulty is to effectively handle appearance changes and similar background objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Andreas Robinson , Felix Järemo Lawin , Martin Danelljan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Michael Felsberg

In the booming video era, video segmentation attracts increasing research attention in the multimedia community. Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims at segmenting objects in all target frames of a video, given annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xiaohao Xu , Jinglu Wang , Xiang Ming , Yan Lu

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) requires tracking and segmenting an object throughout a video according to a given natural language expression, demanding both complex motion understanding and the alignment of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Seongchan Kim , Woojeong Jin , Sangbeom Lim , Heeji Yoon , Hyunwook Choi , Seungryong Kim

Egocentric Referring Video Object Segmentation (Ego-RVOS) aims to segment the specific object actively involved in a human action, as described by a language query, within first-person videos. This task is critical for understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Haijing Liu , Zhiyuan Song , Hefeng Wu , Tao Pu , Keze Wang , Liang Lin

The referring video object segmentation task (RVOS) involves segmentation of a text-referred object instance in the frames of a given video. Due to the complex nature of this multimodal task, which combines text reasoning, video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Adam Botach , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Chaim Baskin

Current top-leading solutions for video object segmentation (VOS) typically follow a matching-based regime: for each query frame, the segmentation mask is inferred according to its correspondence to previously processed and the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Yurong Zhang , Liulei Li , Wenguan Wang , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

Referring image segmentation is a fundamental vision-language task that aims to segment out an object referred to by a natural language expression from an image. One of the key challenges behind this task is leveraging the referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

In recent years, the task of segmenting foreground objects from background in a video, i.e. video object segmentation (VOS), has received considerable attention. In this paper, we propose a single end-to-end trainable deep neural network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Ye Lyu , George Vosselman , Gui-Song Xia , Michael Ying Yang

Many of the recent successful methods for video object segmentation (VOS) are overly complicated, heavily rely on fine-tuning on the first frame, and/or are slow, and are hence of limited practical use. In this work, we propose FEELVOS as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Paul Voigtlaender , Yuning Chai , Florian Schroff , Hartwig Adam , Bastian Leibe , Liang-Chieh Chen

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) is a challenging task that requires the model to segment the object in a video given the language description. MeViS is a recently proposed dataset that contains motion expressions of the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Haobo Yuan , Tao Zhang , Xiangtai Li , Lu Qi , Zilong Huang , Shilin Xu , Jiashi Feng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Referring-based Video Object Segmentation is a multimodal problem that requires producing fine-grained segmentation results guided by external cues. Traditional approaches to this task typically involve training specialized models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Tuyen Tran , Thao Minh Le , Truyen Tran

Audio-based Referring Video Object Segmentation (ARVOS) requires grounding audio queries into pixel-level object masks over time, posing challenges in bridging acoustic signals with spatio-temporal visual representations. In this report, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jihwan Hong , Jaeyoung Do

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is an emerging task in computer vision, which segments the target instances in images based on text descriptions. However, its development is plagued by the expensive segmentation labels. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Minglang Huang , Yiyi Zhou , Gen Luo , Guannan Jiang , Weilin Zhuang , Xiaoshuai Sun