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Motion Expression guided Video Segmentation is a challenging task that aims at segmenting objects in the video based on natural language expressions with motion descriptions. Unlike the previous referring video object segmentation (RVOS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Bin Cao , Yisi Zhang , Xuanxu Lin , Xingjian He , Bo Zhao , Jing Liu

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

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

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

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment a target object throughout a video given a natural language query. Training-free methods for this task follow a common pipeline: a MLLM selects keyframes, grounds the referred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Woojeong Jin , Jaeho Lee , Heeseong Shin , Seungho Jang , Junhwan Heo , Seungryong Kim

Current semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) methods usually leverage the entire features of one frame to predict object masks and update memory. This introduces significant redundant computations. To reduce redundancy, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Bo Miao , Mohammed Bennamoun , Yongsheng Gao , Ajmal Mian

This paper proposes a large-scale multi-modal dataset for referring motion expression video segmentation, focusing on segmenting and tracking target objects in videos based on language description of objects' motions. Existing referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-13 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Kaining Ying , Xudong Jiang , Chen Change Loy , Yu-Gang Jiang

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment objects in videos based on textual queries. Current methods mainly rely on large-scale supervised fine-tuning (SFT) of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Haichao Jiang , Tianming Liang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

This paper strives for motion expressions guided video segmentation, which focuses on segmenting objects in video content based on a sentence describing the motion of the objects. Existing referring video object datasets typically focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Xudong Jiang , Chen Change Loy

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the target object in a video sequence described by a language expression. Typical multimodal Transformer based RVOS approaches process video sequence in a frame-independent manner…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Meng Lan , Fu Rong , Zuchao Li , Wei Yu , Lefei Zhang

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

Reasoning video object segmentation predicts pixel-level masks in videos from natural-language queries that may involve implicit and temporally grounded references. However, existing methods are developed and evaluated in an offline regime,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jinyuan Liu , Yang Wang , Zeyu Zhao , Weixin Li , Song Wang , Ruize Han

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment out the object in a video referred by an expression. Current RVOS methods view referring expressions as unstructured sequences, neglecting their crucial semantic structure essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Huihui Xu , Jiashi Lin , Haoyu Chen , Junjun He , Lei Zhu

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is typically formulated in a semi-supervised setting. Given the ground-truth segmentation mask on the first frame, the task of VOS is to track and segment the single or multiple objects of interests in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Kaihua Zhang , Long Wang , Dong Liu , Bo Liu , Qingshan Liu , Zhu Li

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

Referring Video Object Segmentation is an emerging multi-modal task that aims to segment objects in the video given a natural language expression. In this work, we build two instance-centric models and fuse predicted results from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Bin Cao , Yisi Zhang , Hanyi Wang , Xingjian He , Jing Liu

Video Instance Segmentation is a fundamental computer vision task that deals with segmenting and tracking object instances across a video sequence. Most existing methods typically accomplish this task by employing a multi-stage top-down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Jyoti Kini , Mubarak Shah

Video object segmentation (VOS) aims at pixel-level object tracking given only the annotations in the first frame. Due to the large visual variations of objects in video and the lack of training samples, it remains a difficult task despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Qiang Zhou , Zilong Huang , Lichao Huang , Yongchao Gong , Han Shen , Chang Huang , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the target instance referred by a given text expression in a video clip. The text expression normally contains sophisticated description of the instance's appearance, action, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Linfeng Yuan , Miaojing Shi , Zijie Yue , Qijun Chen

Conventional few-shot object segmentation methods learn object segmentation from a few labelled support images with strongly labelled segmentation masks. Recent work has shown to perform on par with weaker levels of supervision in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Mennatullah Siam , Naren Doraiswamy , Boris N. Oreshkin , Hengshuai Yao , Martin Jagersand