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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 segmentation aims to segment the target objects in images or videos based on the textual query. Despite remarkable progress over the past years, existing works always assume that the user-provided queries are already precise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuting Yang , Haichao Jiang , Tianming Liang , Quan Zhang , Jian-Fang Hu

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

In this paper, we introduce a variant of video object segmentation (VOS) that bridges interactive and semi-automatic approaches, termed Lazy Video Object Segmentation (ziVOS). In contrast, to both tasks, which handle video object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Stéphane Vujasinović , Stefan Becker , Sebastian Bullinger , Norbert Scherer-Negenborn , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Video object segmentation aims at accurately segmenting the target object regions across consecutive frames. It is technically challenging for coping with complicated factors (e.g., shape deformations, occlusion and out of the lens). Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Peng Sun , Peiwen Lin , Guangliang Cheng , Jianping Shi , Jiawan Zhang , Xi Li

The Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) task aims to segment sounding objects in the visual space using audio cues. However, in this work, it is recognized that previous AVS methods show a heavy reliance on detrimental segmentation preferences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yaoting Wang , Peiwen Sun , Yuanchao Li , Honggang Zhang , Di Hu

The appearance of an object can be fleeting when it transforms. As eggs are broken or paper is torn, their color, shape and texture can change dramatically, preserving virtually nothing of the original except for the identity itself. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Pavel Tokmakov , Jie Li , Adrien Gaidon

Existing state-of-the-art methods for Video Object Segmentation (VOS) learn low-level pixel-to-pixel correspondences between frames to propagate object masks across video. This requires a large amount of densely annotated video data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Ali Athar , Jonathon Luiten , Alexander Hermans , Deva Ramanan , Bastian Leibe

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

The video topic segmentation (VTS) task segments videos into intelligible, non-overlapping topics, facilitating efficient comprehension of video content and quick access to specific content. VTS is also critical to various downstream video…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hai Yu , Chong Deng , Qinglin Zhang , Jiaqing Liu , Qian Chen , Wen Wang

Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to densely track certain designated objects in videos. One of the main challenges in this task is the existence of background distractors that appear similar to the target objects. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Suhwan Cho , Heansung Lee , Minhyeok Lee , Chaewon Park , Sungjun Jang , Minjung Kim , Sangyoun Lee

We present READMem (Robust Embedding Association for a Diverse Memory), a modular framework for semi-automatic video object segmentation (sVOS) methods designed to handle unconstrained videos. Contemporary sVOS works typically aggregate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Stéphane Vujasinović , Sebastian Bullinger , Stefan Becker , Norbert Scherer-Negenborn , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) aims to track objects across frames in a video and segment them based on the initial annotated frame of the target objects. Previous VOS works typically rely on fully annotated videos for training. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Baiyu Chen , Sixian Chan , Xiaoqin Zhang

Video instance segmentation (VIS) aims to segment and associate all instances of predefined classes for each frame in videos. Prior methods usually obtain segmentation for a frame or clip first, and merge the incomplete results by tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Huaijia Lin , Ruizheng Wu , Shu Liu , Jiangbo Lu , Jiaya Jia

In this paper, we address several inadequacies of current video object segmentation pipelines. Firstly, a cyclic mechanism is incorporated to the standard semi-supervised process to produce more robust representations. By relying on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Yuxi Li , Ning Xu , Jinlong Peng , John See , Weiyao Lin

Current state-of-the-art approaches for Semi-supervised Video Object Segmentation (Semi-VOS) propagates information from previous frames to generate segmentation mask for the current frame. This results in high-quality segmentation across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Hyojin Park , Jayeon Yoo , Seohyeong Jeong , Ganesh Venkatesh , Nojun Kwak

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) has emerged as an increasingly important problem with availability of larger datasets and more complex and realistic settings, which involve long videos with global motion (e.g, in egocentric settings),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Raghav Goyal , Wan-Cyuan Fan , Mennatullah Siam , Leonid Sigal

Open-vocabulary image semantic segmentation (OVS) seeks to segment images into semantic regions across an open set of categories. Existing OVS methods commonly depend on foundational vision-language models and utilize similarity computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Qinglong Cao , Yuntian Chen , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) requires identifying objects from images based on textual descriptions. We observe that existing methods significantly underperform on motion-related queries compared to appearance-based ones. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chaeyun Kim , Seunghoon Yi , Yejin Kim , Yohan Jo , Joonseok Lee

Weakly supervised instance segmentation reduces the cost of annotations required to train models. However, existing approaches which rely only on image-level class labels predominantly suffer from errors due to (a) partial segmentation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Qing Liu , Vignesh Ramanathan , Dhruv Mahajan , Alan Yuille , Zhenheng Yang