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We study the problem of unsupervised discovery and segmentation of object parts, which, as an intermediate local representation, are capable of finding intrinsic object structure and providing more explainable recognition results. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Shilong Liu , Lei Zhang , Xiao Yang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

We describe an unsupervised method to detect and segment portions of images of live scenes that, at some point in time, are seen moving as a coherent whole, which we refer to as objects. Our method first partitions the motion field by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yanchao Yang , Brian Lai , Stefano Soatto

Temporal action segmentation is typically achieved by discovering the dramatic variances in global visual descriptors. In this paper, we explore the merits of local features by proposing the unsupervised framework of Object-centric Temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yuerong Li , Zhengrong Xue , Huazhe Xu

Traditionally, object tracking and segmentation are treated as two separate problems and solved independently. However, in this paper, we argue that tracking and segmentation are actually closely related and solving one should help the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Yicong Tian , Mubarak Shah

This paper tackles the problem of semi-supervised video object segmentation, that is, segmenting an object in a sequence given its mask in the first frame. One of the main challenges in this scenario is the change of appearance of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Sergi Caelles , Yuhua Chen , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Luc Van Gool

Unsupervised domain adaptation is critical in various computer vision tasks, such as object detection, instance segmentation, and semantic segmentation, which aims to alleviate performance degradation caused by domain-shift. Most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Congcong Li , Dawei Du , Libo Zhang , Longyin Wen , Tiejian Luo , Yanjun Wu , Pengfei Zhu

This paper tackles the task of semi-supervised video object segmentation, i.e., the separation of an object from the background in a video, given the mask of the first frame. We present One-Shot Video Object Segmentation (OSVOS), based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Sergi Caelles , Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Laura Leal-Taixé , Daniel Cremers , Luc Van Gool

Recent cutting-edge feature aggregation paradigms for video object detection rely on inferring feature correspondence. The feature correspondence estimation problem is fundamentally difficult due to poor image quality, motion blur, etc, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Hao Luo , Lichao Huang , Han Shen , Yuan Li , Chang Huang , Xinggang Wang

One object class may show large variations due to diverse illuminations, backgrounds and camera viewpoints. Traditional object detection methods often perform worse under unconstrained video environments. To address this problem, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Dapeng Luo , Zhipeng Zeng , Nong Sang , Xiang Wu , Longsheng Wei , Quanzheng Mou , Jun Cheng , Chen Luo

Matching-based networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance for video object segmentation (VOS) tasks by storing every-k frames in an external memory bank for future inference. Storing the intermediate frames' predictions provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Ali Pourganjalikhan , Charalambos Poullis

Generic object detection has been immensely promoted by the development of deep convolutional neural networks in the past decade. However, in the domain shift circumstance, the changes in weather, illumination, etc., often cause domain gap,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Hang Yang , Shan Jiang , Xinge Zhu , Mingyang Huang , Zhiqiang Shen , Chunxiao Liu , Jianping Shi

This paper presents a novel yet intuitive approach to unsupervised feature learning. Inspired by the human visual system, we explore whether low-level motion-based grouping cues can be used to learn an effective visual representation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Deepak Pathak , Ross Girshick , Piotr Dollár , Trevor Darrell , Bharath Hariharan

Embodied agents must detect and localize objects of interest, e.g. traffic participants for self-driving cars. Supervision in the form of bounding boxes for this task is extremely expensive. As such, prior work has looked at unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yihong Sun , Bharath Hariharan

We introduce a new architecture for unsupervised object-centric representation learning and multi-object detection and segmentation, which uses a translation-equivariant attention mechanism to predict the coordinates of the objects present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Bruno Sauvalle , Arnaud de La Fortelle

Video instance segmentation (VIS) aims at classifying, segmenting and tracking object instances in video sequences. Recent transformer-based neural networks have demonstrated their powerful capability of modeling spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Xiang Li , Jinglu Wang , Xiaohao Xu , Bhiksha Raj , Yan Lu

The ability to detect and track objects in the visual world is a crucial skill for any intelligent agent, as it is a necessary precursor to any object-level reasoning process. Moreover, it is important that agents learn to track objects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Eric Crawford , Joelle Pineau

Referring video object segmentation aims to segment and track a target object in a video using a natural language prompt. Existing methods typically fuse visual and textual features in a highly entangled manner, processing multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Suhwan Cho , Seunghoon Lee , Minhyeok Lee , Jungho Lee , Sangyoun Lee

We present IMAS, a method that segments the primary objects in videos without manual annotation in training or inference. Previous methods in unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) have demonstrated the effectiveness of motion as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Long Lian , Zhirong Wu , Stella X. Yu

Object parts serve as crucial intermediate representations in various downstream tasks, but part-level representation learning still has not received as much attention as other vision tasks. Previous research has established that Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jiahao Xia , Wenjian Huang , Min Xu , Jianguo Zhang , Haimin Zhang , Ziyu Sheng , Dong Xu

Reasoning Video Object Segmentation (ReasonVOS) is a challenging task that requires stable object segmentation across video sequences using implicit and complex textual inputs. Previous methods fine-tune Multimodal Large Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhengtong Zhu , Jiaqing Fan , Zhixuan Liu , Fanzhang Li