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Video instance segmentation is a challenging task that serves as the cornerstone of numerous downstream applications, including video editing and autonomous driving. In this report, we present further improvements to the SOTA VIS method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Tao Zhang , Xingye Tian , Yikang Zhou , Yu Wu , Shunping Ji , Cilin Yan , Xuebo Wang , Xin Tao , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan

We introduce a novel paradigm for offline Video Instance Segmentation (VIS), based on the hypothesis that explicit object-oriented information can be a strong clue for understanding the context of the entire sequence. To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Miran Heo , Sukjun Hwang , Seoung Wug Oh , Joon-Young Lee , Seon Joo Kim

Video instance segmentation (VIS) for low-light content remains highly challenging for both humans and machines alike, due to noise, blur and other adverse conditions. The lack of large-scale annotated datasets and the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Joanne Lin , Ruirui Lin , Yini Li , David Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

The performance of Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) methods has improved significantly with the advent of transformer networks. However, these networks often face challenges in training due to the high annotation cost. To address this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Farnoosh Arefi , Amir M. Mansourian , Shohreh Kasaei

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

While impressive progress has been achieved, video instance segmentation (VIS) methods with per-clip input often fail on challenging videos with occluded objects and crowded scenes. This is mainly because instance queries in these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Minghan Li , Shuai Li , Wangmeng Xiang , Lei Zhang

Training on large-scale datasets can boost the performance of video instance segmentation while the annotated datasets for VIS are hard to scale up due to the high labor cost. What we possess are numerous isolated filed-specific datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Rongkun Zheng , Lu Qi , Xi Chen , Yi Wang , Kun Wang , Yu Qiao , Hengshuang Zhao

Open-vocabulary video instance segmentation strives to segment and track instances belonging to an open set of categories in a videos. The vision-language model Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has shown robust zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wenqi Zhu , Jiale Cao , Jin Xie , Shuangming Yang , Yanwei Pang

In this work, we present SeqFormer for video instance segmentation. SeqFormer follows the principle of vision transformer that models instance relationships among video frames. Nevertheless, we observe that a stand-alone instance query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Junfeng Wu , Yi Jiang , Song Bai , Wenqing Zhang , Xiang Bai

In recent years, significant progress has been made in video instance segmentation (VIS), with many offline and online methods achieving state-of-the-art performance. While offline methods have the advantage of producing temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Junlong Li , Bingyao Yu , Yongming Rao , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

The recent advancement in Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) has largely been driven by the use of deeper and increasingly data-hungry transformer-based models. However, video masks are tedious and expensive to annotate, limiting the scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Lei Ke , Martin Danelljan , Henghui Ding , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Fisher Yu

We propose FlowCut, a simple and capable method for unsupervised video instance segmentation consisting of a three-stage framework to construct a high-quality video dataset with pseudo labels. To our knowledge, our work is the first attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Alp Eren Sari , Paolo Favaro

Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) faces significant annotation challenges due to its dual requirements of pixel-level masks and temporal consistency labels. While recent unsupervised methods like VideoCutLER eliminate optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Kaixuan Lu , Mehmet Onurcan Kaya , Dim P. Papadopoulos

Recently vision transformer has achieved tremendous success on image-level visual recognition tasks. To effectively and efficiently model the crucial temporal information within a video clip, we propose a Temporally Efficient Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Shusheng Yang , Xinggang Wang , Yu Li , Yuxin Fang , Jiemin Fang , Wenyu Liu , Xun Zhao , Ying Shan

Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) faces significant annotation challenges due to its dual requirements of pixel-level masks and temporal consistency labels. While recent unsupervised methods like VideoCutLER eliminate optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Kaixuan Lu , Mehmet Onurcan Kaya , Dim P. Papadopoulos

Instance object segmentation and tracking provide comprehensive quantification of objects across microscope videos. The recent single-stage pixel-embedding based deep learning approach has shown its superior performance compared with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Quan Liu , Isabella M. Gaeta , Mengyang Zhao , Ruining Deng , Aadarsh Jha , Bryan A. Millis , Anita Mahadevan-Jansen , Matthew J. Tyska , Yuankai Huo

Handling occlusion remains a significant challenge for video instance-level tasks like Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) and Video Instance Segmentation (VIS). In this paper, we propose a novel framework, Amodal-Aware Video Instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Minh Tran , Thang Pham , Winston Bounsavy , Tri Nguyen , Ngan Le

Temporally locating objects with arbitrary class texts is the primary pursuit of open-vocabulary Video Instance Segmentation (VIS). Because of the insufficient vocabulary of video data, previous methods leverage image-text pretraining model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Zesen Cheng , Kehan Li , Hao Li , Peng Jin , Chang Liu , Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji , Jie Chen

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

Instance segmentation is a challenging task aiming at classifying and segmenting all object instances of specific classes. While two-stage box-based methods achieve top performances in the image domain, they cannot easily extend their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Xiang Li , Jinglu Wang , Xiao Li , Yan Lu