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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

Contemporary Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) methods typically adhere to a pre-train then fine-tune regime, where a segmentation model trained on images is fine-tuned on videos. However, the lack of temporal knowledge in the pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Qing Zhong , Peng-Tao Jiang , Wen Wang , Guodong Ding , Lin Wu , Kaiqi Huang

Instance segmentation is a fundamental skill for many robotic applications. We propose a self-supervised method that uses grasp interactions to collect segmentation supervision for an instance segmentation model. When a robot grasps an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 YuXuan Liu , Xi Chen , Pieter Abbeel

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

Temporal segmentation of long videos is an important problem, that has largely been tackled through supervised learning, often requiring large amounts of annotated training data. In this paper, we tackle the problem of self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Sathyanarayanan N. Aakur , Sudeep Sarkar

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

Instance level video object segmentation is an important technique for video editing and compression. To capture the temporal coherence, in this paper, we develop MaskRNN, a recurrent neural net approach which fuses in each frame the output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Yuan-Ting Hu , Jia-Bin Huang , Alexander G. Schwing

Despite significant efforts, cutting-edge video segmentation methods still remain sensitive to occlusion and rapid movement, due to their reliance on the appearance of objects in the form of object embeddings, which are vulnerable to these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Qihao Liu , Junfeng Wu , Yi Jiang , Xiang Bai , Alan Yuille , Song Bai

Video instance segmentation (VIS) is a challenging vision task that aims to detect, segment, and track objects in videos. Conventional VIS methods rely on densely-annotated object masks which are expensive. We reduce the human annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Shuaiyi Huang , De-An Huang , Zhiding Yu , Shiyi Lan , Subhashree Radhakrishnan , Jose M. Alvarez , Abhinav Shrivastava , Anima Anandkumar

Video Reasoning Segmentation (VRS) aims to segment target objects in videos based on implicit instructions that convey human intent and temporal logic. Existing MLLM-based methods predict masks with a [SEG] token after selecting frames via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junwei Wen , Deshui Miao , Guangming Lu , Xin Li , Wenjie Pei

We present a weakly supervised model that jointly performs both semantic- and instance-segmentation -- a particularly relevant problem given the substantial cost of obtaining pixel-perfect annotation for these tasks. In contrast to many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Qizhu Li , Anurag Arnab , Philip H. S. Torr

The objective of this paper is self-supervised representation learning, with the goal of solving semi-supervised video object segmentation (a.k.a. dense tracking). We make the following contributions: (i) we propose to improve the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Fangrui Zhu , Li Zhang , Yanwei Fu , Guodong Guo , Weidi Xie

Video segmentation aims at partitioning video sequences into meaningful segments based on objects or regions of interest within frames. Current video segmentation models are often derived from image segmentation techniques, which struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Chen Liang , Qiang Guo , Xiaochao Qu , Luoqi Liu , Ting Liu

Video segmentation -- partitioning video frames into multiple segments or objects -- plays a critical role in a broad range of practical applications, from enhancing visual effects in movie, to understanding scenes in autonomous driving, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Tianfei Zhou , Fatih Porikli , David Crandall , Luc Van Gool , Wenguan Wang

Unsupervised pixel-level video understanding remains challenging in real-world scenarios, where motion blur, occlusion, and fast object dynamics often cause temporal drift and flickering pseudo-labels.We propose VVitCutLER, an unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhijing Lu , Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Conventional few-shot object segmentation methods learn object segmentation from a few labelled support images with strongly labelled segmentation masks. Recent work has shown to perform on par with weaker levels of supervision in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Mennatullah Siam , Naren Doraiswamy , Boris N. Oreshkin , Hengshuai Yao , Martin Jagersand

An intuition on human segmentation is that when a human is moving in a video, the video-context (e.g., appearance and motion clues) may potentially infer reasonable mask information for the whole human body. Inspired by this, based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Xiaodan Liang , Yunchao Wei , Liang Lin , Yunpeng Chen , Xiaohui Shen , Jianchao Yang , Shuicheng Yan

Small sample instance segmentation is a very challenging task, and many existing methods follow the training strategy of meta-learning which pre-train models on support set and fine-tune on query set. The pre-training phase, which is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ruting Chi , Zhiyi Huang , Yuexing Han

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is an active research area of the visual domain. One of its fundamental sub-tasks is semi-supervised / one-shot learning: given only the segmentation mask for the first frame, the task is to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Fatemeh Azimi , Benjamin Bischke , Sebastian Palacio , Federico Raue , Joern Hees , Andreas Dengel

Segmenting an object in a video presents significant challenges. Each pixel must be accurately labelled, and these labels must remain consistent across frames. The difficulty increases when the segmentation is with arbitrary granularity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Amirhossein Alimohammadi , Sauradip Nag , Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Ghassan Hamarneh , Ali Mahdavi Amiri