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Visual object tracking is the problem of predicting a target object's state in a video. Generally, bounding-boxes have been used to represent states, and a surge of effort has been spent by the community to produce efficient causal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Matteo Dunnhofer , Niki Martinel , Christian Micheloni

We address an essential problem in computer vision, that of unsupervised object segmentation in video, where a main object of interest in a video sequence should be automatically separated from its background. An efficient solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Emanuela Haller , Marius Leordeanu

Modern video object segmentation (VOS) algorithms have achieved remarkably high performance in a sequential processing order, while most of currently prevailing pipelines still show some obvious inadequacy like accumulative error, unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yuxi Li , Ning Xu , Wenjie Yang , John See , Weiyao Lin

Video object segmentation is challenging due to the factors like rapidly fast motion, cluttered backgrounds, arbitrary object appearance variation and shape deformation. Most existing methods only explore appearance information between two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Kaihua Zhang , Xuejun Li , Qingshan Liu

Video object segmentation is a fundamental research problem in computer vision. Recent techniques have often applied attention mechanism to object representation learning from video sequences. However, due to temporal changes in the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Quang-Trung Truong , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

Video object segmentation (VOS) aims to segment specified target objects throughout a video. Although state-of-the-art methods have achieved impressive performance (e.g., 90+% J&F) on benchmarks such as DAVIS and YouTube-VOS, these datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Henghui Ding , Kaining Ying , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Xudong Jiang , Yu-Gang Jiang , Philip H. S. Torr , Song Bai

The presence of objects that are confusingly similar to the tracked target, poses a fundamental challenge in appearance-based visual tracking. Such distractor objects are easily misclassified as the target itself, leading to eventual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Christoph Mayer , Martin Danelljan , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

This paper studies the problem of semi-supervised video object segmentation(VOS). Multiple works have shown that memory-based approaches can be effective for video object segmentation. They are mostly based on pixel-level matching, both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Li Hu , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Pan Pan , Yinghui Xu , Rong Jin

As a computer vision task, automatic object segmentation remains challenging in specialized image domains without massive labeled data, such as synthetic aperture sonar images, remote sensing, biomedical imaging, etc. In any domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hassan Baker , Matthew S. Emigh , Austin J. Brockmeier

Visual object tracking and segmentation in omnidirectional videos are challenging due to the wide field-of-view and large spherical distortion brought by 360{\deg} images. To alleviate these problems, we introduce a novel representation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yinzhe Xu , Huajian Huang , Yingshu Chen , Sai-Kit Yeung

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is fundamental to video understanding. Transformer-based methods show significant performance improvement on semi-supervised VOS. However, existing work faces challenges segmenting visually similar objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Ye Yu , Jialin Yuan , Gaurav Mittal , Li Fuxin , Mei Chen

Inspired by recent advances of deep learning in instance segmentation and object tracking, we introduce video object segmentation problem as a concept of guided instance segmentation. Our model proceeds on a per-frame basis, guided by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Anna Khoreva , Federico Perazzi , Rodrigo Benenson , Bernt Schiele , Alexander Sorkine-Hornung

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

Semi-supervised video object segmentation aims to separate a target object from a video sequence, given the mask in the first frame. Most of current prevailing methods utilize information from additional modules trained in other domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Yizhuo Zhang , Zhirong Wu , Houwen Peng , Stephen Lin

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

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is foundational to numerous computer vision applications, including surveillance, autonomous driving, robotics and generative video editing. However, existing VOS models often struggle with precise mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Elham Soltani Kazemi , Imad Eddine Toubal , Gani Rahmon , Jaired Collins , K. Palaniappan

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

Space-time memory (STM) network methods have been dominant in semi-supervised video object segmentation (SVOS) due to their remarkable performance. In this work, we identify three key aspects where we can improve such methods; i)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Evangelos Skartados , Konstantinos Georgiadis , Mehmet Kerim Yucel , Koskinas Ioannis , Armando Domi , Anastasios Drosou , Bruno Manganelli , Albert Saa-Garriga

We propose an end-to-end learning framework for segmenting generic objects in both images and videos. Given a novel image or video, our approach produces a pixel-level mask for all "object-like" regions---even for object categories never…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Bo Xiong , Suyog Dutt Jain , Kristen Grauman

We study the problem of segmenting moving objects in unconstrained videos. Given a video, the task is to segment all the objects that exhibit independent motion in at least one frame. We formulate this as a learning problem and design our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Pavel Tokmakov , Cordelia Schmid , Karteek Alahari