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Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment objects in videos guided by natural language descriptions. We propose FS-RVOS, a Transformer-based model with two key components: a cross-modal affinity module and an instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Heng Liu , Guanghui Li , Mingqi Gao , Xiantong Zhen , Feng Zheng , Yang Wang

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

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

The current state-of-the-art methods for unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) require extensive training on video datasets with mask annotations, limiting their effectiveness in handling challenging scenarios. However, the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Zhenghao Zhang , Shengfan Zhang , Zhichao Wei , Zuozhuo Dai , Siyu Zhu

Amodal perception requires inferring the full shape of an object that is partially occluded. This task is particularly challenging on two levels: (1) it requires more information than what is contained in the instant retina or imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Jian Yao , Yuxin Hong , Chiyu Wang , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Francesco Locatello , David Wipf , Yanwei Fu , Zheng Zhang

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) is an emerging cross-modality task that aims to generate pixel-level maps of the target objects referred by given textual expressions. The main concept involves learning an accurate alignment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Baoli Sun , Xinzhu Ma , Ning Wang , Zhihui Wang , Zhiyong Wang

Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to segment arbitrary target objects in video when the ground truth segmentation mask of the initial frame is provided. Due to this limitation of using prior knowledge about the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Suhwan Cho , Heansung Lee , Sungmin Woo , Sungjun Jang , Sangyoun Lee

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

Given an object mask, Semi-supervised Video Object Segmentation (SVOS) technique aims to track and segment the object across video frames, serving as a fundamental task in computer vision. Although recent memory-based methods demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Guanyi Qin , Ziyue Wang , Daiyun Shen , Haofeng Liu , Hantao Zhou , Junde Wu , Runze Hu , Yueming Jin

Exploring dense matching between the current frame and past frames for long-range context modeling, memory-based methods have demonstrated impressive results in video object segmentation (VOS) recently. Nevertheless, due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Junke Wang , Dongdong Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Chong Luo , Chuanxin Tang , Xiyang Dai , Yucheng Zhao , Yujia Xie , Lu Yuan , Yu-Gang Jiang

Recently, Space-Time Memory Network (STM) based methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). A crucial problem in this task is how to model the dependency both among different frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jianbiao Mei , Mengmeng Wang , Yeneng Lin , Yi Yuan , Yong Liu

Video amodal segmentation is a particularly challenging task in computer vision, which requires to deduce the full shape of an object from the visible parts of it. Recently, some studies have achieved promising performance by using motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Ke Fan , Jingshi Lei , Xuelin Qian , Miaopeng Yu , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Zheng Zhang , Yanwei Fu

Unsupervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to detect the most salient object in a video sequence at the pixel level. In unsupervised VOS, most state-of-the-art methods leverage motion cues obtained from optical flow maps in addition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Suhwan Cho , Minhyeok Lee , Seunghoon Lee , Chaewon Park , Donghyeong Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Recently, removing objects from videos and filling in the erased regions using deep video inpainting (VI) algorithms has attracted considerable attention. Usually, a video sequence and object segmentation masks for all frames are required…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Sangjin Lee , Suhwan Cho , Sangyoun Lee

Open-vocabulary Video Instance Segmentation (OpenVIS) can simultaneously detect, segment, and track arbitrary object categories in a video, without being constrained to categories seen during training. In this work, we propose InstFormer, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Pinxue Guo , Tony Huang , Peiyang He , Xuefeng Liu , Tianjun Xiao , Zhaoyu Chen , Wenqiang Zhang

This paper addresses the task of unsupervised video multi-object segmentation. Current approaches follow a two-stage paradigm: 1) detect object proposals using pre-trained Mask R-CNN, and 2) conduct generic feature matching for temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Tianfei Zhou , Jianwu Li , Xueyi Li , Ling Shao

We propose MinVIS, a minimal video instance segmentation (VIS) framework that achieves state-of-the-art VIS performance with neither video-based architectures nor training procedures. By only training a query-based image instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 De-An Huang , Zhiding Yu , Anima Anandkumar

Referential Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment all objects in a video that match a given natural language description, bridging the gap between vision and language understanding. Recent work, such as Sa2VA, combines Large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Ran Hong , Feng Lu , Leilei Cao , An Yan , Youhai Jiang , Fengjie Zhu

Predicting and tracking objects in real-world scenarios is a critical challenge in Video Object Segmentation (VOS) tasks. Unsupervised VOS (UVOS) has the additional challenge of finding an initial segmentation of salient objects, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Mohammad Mohammadzadeh Kalati , Farhad Maleki , Ian McQuillan

We propose a method for unsupervised video object segmentation by transferring the knowledge encapsulated in image-based instance embedding networks. The instance embedding network produces an embedding vector for each pixel that enables…

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