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Referring video object segmentation aims to segment a referent throughout a video sequence according to a natural language expression. It requires aligning the natural language expression with the objects' motions and their dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jiajin Tang , Ge Zheng , Sibei Yang

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the object referred to by the query sentence in the video. Most existing methods require end-to-end training with dense mask annotations, which could be computation-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ci-Siang Lin , Min-Hung Chen , I-Jieh Liu , Chien-Yi Wang , Sifei Liu , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

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

Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to segment specific objects in videos based on natural language expressions involving audio, vision, and text information. This task poses significant challenges in cross-modal reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Dian Jin , Yanghao Zhou , Jinxing Zhou , Jiaqi Ma , Ruohao Guo , Dan Guo

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

Existing Video Object Segmentation (VOS) relies on explicit user instructions, such as categories, masks, or short phrases, restricting their ability to perform complex video segmentation requiring reasoning with world knowledge. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Cilin Yan , Haochen Wang , Shilin Yan , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Guoliang Kang , Weidi Xie , Efstratios Gavves

In this work we propose a capsule-based approach for semi-supervised video object segmentation. Current video object segmentation methods are frame-based and often require optical flow to capture temporal consistency across frames which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Kevin Duarte , Yogesh S Rawat , Mubarak Shah

Reference-based video object segmentation is an emerging topic which aims to segment the corresponding target object in each video frame referred by a given reference, such as a language expression or a photo mask. However, language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Ruolin Yang , Da Li , Conghui Hu , Timothy Hospedales , Honggang Zhang , Yi-Zhe Song

3D referring segmentation is an emerging and challenging vision-language task that aims to segment the object described by a natural language expression in a point cloud scene. The key challenge behind this task is vision-language feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shuting He , Henghui Ding

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

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

The reference-based object segmentation tasks, namely referring image segmentation (RIS), few-shot image segmentation (FSS), referring video object segmentation (RVOS), and video object segmentation (VOS), aim to segment a specific object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jiannan Wu , Yi Jiang , Bin Yan , Huchuan Lu , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Luo

Referring image segmentation is a challenging task that involves generating pixel-wise segmentation masks based on natural language descriptions. The complexity of this task increases with the intricacy of the sentences provided. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hai Nguyen-Truong , E-Ro Nguyen , Tuan-Anh Vu , Minh-Triet Tran , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

Recently, video object segmentation (VOS) referred by multi-modal signals, e.g., language and audio, has evoked increasing attention in both industry and academia. It is challenging for exploring the semantic alignment within modalities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Shilin Yan , Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Wenchao Chen , Wei Zhang , Hongyang Li , Yu Qiao , Hao Dong , Zhongjiang He , Peng Gao

Text-based video segmentation is a challenging task that segments out the natural language referred objects in videos. It essentially requires semantic comprehension and fine-grained video understanding. Existing methods introduce language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Chen Liang , Yu Wu , Yawei Luo , Yi Yang

The combination of audio and vision has long been a topic of interest in the multi-modal community. Recently, a new audio-visual segmentation (AVS) task has been introduced, aiming to locate and segment the sounding objects in a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Shengyi Gao , Zhe Chen , Guo Chen , Wenhai Wang , Tong Lu

Delving into the realm of egocentric vision, the advancement of referring video object segmentation (RVOS) stands as pivotal in understanding human activities. However, existing RVOS task primarily relies on static attributes such as object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Liangyang Ouyang , Ruicong Liu , Yifei Huang , Ryosuke Furuta , Yoichi Sato

As an important step towards visual reasoning, visual grounding (e.g., phrase localization, referring expression comprehension/segmentation) has been widely explored Previous approaches to referring expression comprehension (REC) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Muchen Li , Leonid Sigal

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) aims to segment specific objects in a video according to textual descriptions. We observe that recent RVOS approaches often place excessive emphasis on feature extraction and temporal modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ruixin Zhang , Jiaqing Fan , Yifan Liao , Qian Qiao , Fanzhang Li