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Video object segmentation aims at accurately segmenting the target object regions across consecutive frames. It is technically challenging for coping with complicated factors (e.g., shape deformations, occlusion and out of the lens). Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Peng Sun , Peiwen Lin , Guangliang Cheng , Jianping Shi , Jiawan Zhang , Xi Li

This paper studies referring video object segmentation (RVOS) by boosting video-level visual-linguistic alignment. Recent approaches model the RVOS task as a sequence prediction problem and perform multi-modal interaction as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zhuoyan Luo , Yicheng Xiao , Yong Liu , Shuyan Li , Yitong Wang , Yansong Tang , Xiu Li , Yujiu Yang

In this work, we present a new computer vision task named video object of interest segmentation (VOIS). Given a video and a target image of interest, our objective is to simultaneously segment and track all objects in the video that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Siyuan Zhou , Chunru Zhan , Biao Wang , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Li Niu

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) requires segmenting the object in video referred by a natural language query. Existing methods mainly rely on sophisticated pipelines to tackle such cross-modal task, and do not explicitly model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ping Li , Yu Zhang , Li Yuan , Xianghua Xu

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is a core vision-language segmentation task that enables pixel-level understanding of targets via free-form linguistic expressions, supporting critical applications such as human-robot interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yihao Wang , Jusheng Zhang , Ziyi Tang , Keze Wang , Meng Yang

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects in video sequences based on natural language descriptions. While recent advances in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have improved RVOS performance through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Li Zhang , Haoxiang Gao , Zhihao Zhang , Luoxiao Huang , Tao Zhang

Progress on object detection is enabled by datasets that focus the research community's attention on open challenges. This process led us from simple images to complex scenes and from bounding boxes to segmentation masks. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Agrim Gupta , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

This paper proposes a novel framework utilizing multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) for referring video object segmentation (RefVOS). Previous MLLM-based methods commonly struggle with the dilemma between "Ref" and "VOS": they either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Lang Lin , Xueyang Yu , Ziqi Pang , Yu-Xiong Wang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) - the problem of identifying objects in images through natural language sentences - is a challenging task currently mostly solved through supervised learning. However, while collecting referred annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Francisco Eiras , Kemal Oksuz , Adel Bibi , Philip H. S. Torr , Puneet K. Dokania

The encoder-decoder based methods for semi-supervised video object segmentation (Semi-VOS) have received extensive attention due to their superior performances. However, most of them have complex intermediate networks which generate strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Suhwan Cho , MyeongAh Cho , Tae-young Chung , Heansung Lee , Sangyoun Lee

Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to segment target objects in audible videos based on given reference expressions. Prior works typically rely on learning latent embeddings via multimodal fusion to prompt a tunable SAM/SAM2…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jinxing Zhou , Yanghao Zhou , Mingfei Han , Tong Wang , Xiaojun Chang , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer

Video object segmentation (VOS) aims to distinguish and track target objects in a video. Despite the excellent performance achieved by off-the-shell VOS models, existing VOS benchmarks mainly focus on short-term videos lasting about 5…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Lingyi Hong , Zhongying Liu , Wenchao Chen , Chenzhi Tan , Yuang Feng , Xinyu Zhou , Pinxue Guo , Jinglun Li , Zhaoyu Chen , Shuyong Gao , Wei Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang

Semantic segmentation in videos has been a focal point of recent research. However, existing models encounter challenges when faced with unfamiliar categories. To address this, we introduce the Open Vocabulary Video Semantic Segmentation…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Xinhao Li , Yun Liu , Guolei Sun , Min Wu , Le Zhang , Ce Zhu

Inspired by recent advances of deep learning in instance segmentation and object tracking, we introduce video object segmentation problem as a concept of guided instance segmentation. Our model proceeds on a per-frame basis, guided by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Anna Khoreva , Federico Perazzi , Rodrigo Benenson , Bernt Schiele , Alexander Sorkine-Hornung

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) aims to segment a target object described by a natural language expression. Existing methods have evolved by leveraging the vision information into the language tokens. To more effectively exploit visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yubin Cho , Hyunwoo Yu , Kyeongbo Kong , Kyomin Sohn , Bongjoon Hyun , Suk-Ju Kang

For further progress in video object segmentation (VOS), larger, more diverse, and more challenging datasets will be necessary. However, densely labeling every frame with pixel masks does not scale to large datasets. We use a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Paul Voigtlaender , Lishu Luo , Chun Yuan , Yong Jiang , Bastian Leibe

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

Previous works on video object segmentation (VOS) are trained on densely annotated videos. Nevertheless, acquiring annotations in pixel level is expensive and time-consuming. In this work, we demonstrate the feasibility of training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Kun Yan , Xiao Li , Fangyun Wei , Jinglu Wang , Chenbin Zhang , Ping Wang , Yan Lu

Storing intermediate frame segmentations as memory for long-range context modeling, spatial-temporal memory-based methods have recently showcased impressive results in semi-supervised video object segmentation (SVOS). However, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Hantao Zhou , Runze Hu , Xiu Li

Referring video object segmentation aims to segment the object referred by a given language expression. Existing works typically require compressed video bitstream to be decoded to RGB frames before being segmented, which increases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Weidong Chen , Dexiang Hong , Yuankai Qi , Zhenjun Han , Shuhui Wang , Laiyun Qing , Qingming Huang , Guorong Li