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Referring image segmentation segments an image from a language expression. With the aim of producing high-quality masks, existing methods often adopt iterative learning approaches that rely on RNNs or stacked attention layers to refine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment objects in a video described by a natural language expression. However, most existing approaches focus on segmenting only the referred object (typically the actor), even when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Woojeong Jin , Seongchan Kim , Jaeho Lee , Seungryong Kim

Multimodal referring segmentation aims to segment target objects in visual scenes, such as images, videos, and 3D scenes, based on referring expressions in text or audio format. This task plays a crucial role in practical applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Henghui Ding , Song Tang , Shuting He , Chang Liu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS), as a supervised learning task, relies on sufficient annotated data for a given scene. However, in more realistic scenarios, only minimal annotations are available for a new scene, which poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Guanghui Li , Mingqi Gao , Heng Liu , Xiantong Zhen , Feng Zheng

This report presents an Audio-aware Referring Video Object Segmentation (Ref-VOS) pipeline tailored to the MEVIS\_Audio setting, where the referring expression is provided in spoken form rather than as clean text. Compared with a standard…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Deshui Miao , Yameng Gu , Chao Yang , Xin Li , Haijun Zhang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is crucial for several applications, from video editing to video data generation. Training a VOS model requires an abundance of manually labeled training videos. The de-facto traditional way of annotating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Thanos Delatolas , Vicky Kalogeiton , Dim P. Papadopoulos

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a fundamental vision-language task that outputs object masks based on text descriptions. Many works have achieved considerable progress for RIS, including different fusion method designs. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jianzong Wu , Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Henghui Ding , Yunhai Tong , Dacheng Tao

In this paper we introduce a Transformer-based approach to video object segmentation (VOS). To address compounding error and scalability issues of prior work, we propose a scalable, end-to-end method for VOS called Sparse Spatiotemporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Brendan Duke , Abdalla Ahmed , Christian Wolf , Parham Aarabi , Graham W. Taylor

Recently, by introducing large-scale dataset and strong transformer network, video-language pre-training has shown great success especially for retrieval. Yet, existing video-language transformer models do not explicitly fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Alex Jinpeng Wang , Yixiao Ge , Guanyu Cai , Rui Yan , Xudong Lin , Ying Shan , Xiaohu Qie , Mike Zheng Shou

Current top-leading solutions for video object segmentation (VOS) typically follow a matching-based regime: for each query frame, the segmentation mask is inferred according to its correspondence to previously processed and the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Yurong Zhang , Liulei Li , Wenguan Wang , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the target referent in an image conditioning on a natural language expression. Existing one-stage methods employ per-pixel classification frameworks, which attempt straightforwardly to align…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiajin Tang , Ge Zheng , Cheng Shi , Sibei Yang

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

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ci-Siang Lin , I-Jieh Liu , Min-Hung Chen , Chien-Yi Wang , Sifei Liu , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

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

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 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

Referring segmentation grounds natural-language queries to pixel-level masks, but extending it to complex scenarios with multiple instances, cross-category groups, or open-ended target sets remains challenging. Previous Large Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhuo Li , Shuangrui Ding , Yuhang Zang , Shengyuan Ding , Long Xing , Yibin Wang , Qiaosheng Zhang , Jiaqi Wang

Conventional approaches to video segmentation are confined to predefined object categories and cannot identify out-of-vocabulary objects, let alone objects that are not identified explicitly but only referred to implicitly in complex text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yiqing Shen , Chenjia Li , Chenxiao Fan , Mathias Unberath

In this paper, we show that transferring knowledge from other domains of video understanding combined with large-scale learning can improve robustness of Video Object Segmentation (VOS) under complex circumstances. Namely, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Volodymyr Fedynyak , Yaroslav Romanus , Oles Dobosevych , Igor Babin , Roman Riazantsev

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