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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

We introduce a novel framework called RefineVIS for Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) that achieves good object association between frames and accurate segmentation masks by iteratively refining the representations using sequence context.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Andre Abrantes , Jiang Wang , Peng Chu , Quanzeng You , Zicheng Liu

Video instance segmentation (VIS) is the task that requires simultaneously classifying, segmenting and tracking object instances of interest in video. Recent methods typically develop sophisticated pipelines to tackle this task. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Yuqing Wang , Zhaoliang Xu , Xinlong Wang , Chunhua Shen , Baoshan Cheng , Hao Shen , Huaxia Xia

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

Modeling temporal visual context across frames is critical for video instance segmentation (VIS) and other video understanding tasks. In this paper, we propose a fast online VIS model named CrossVIS. For temporal information modeling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shusheng Yang , Yuxin Fang , Xinggang Wang , Yu Li , Chen Fang , Ying Shan , Bin Feng , Wenyu Liu

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

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

Current state-of-the-art Video Object Segmentation (VOS) methods rely on dense per-object mask annotations both during training and testing. This requires time-consuming and costly video annotation mechanisms. We propose a novel Point-VOS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Idil Esen Zulfikar , Sabarinath Mahadevan , Paul Voigtlaender , Bastian Leibe

We present a high-performance method that can achieve mask-level instance segmentation with only bounding-box annotations for training. While this setting has been studied in the literature, here we show significantly stronger performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Zhi Tian , Chunhua Shen , Xinlong Wang , Hao Chen

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

Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) jointly tackles multi-object detection, tracking, and segmentation in video sequences. In the past, VIS methods mirrored the fragmentation of these subtasks in their architectural design, hence missing out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Adrià Caelles , Tim Meinhardt , Guillem Brasó , Laura Leal-Taixé

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

In recent years, the state-of-the-art in unsupervised video instance segmentation has heavily relied on synthetic video data, generated from object-centric image datasets such as ImageNet. However, video synthesis by artificially shifting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Leon Sick , Lukas Hoyer , Dominik Engel , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Open-Vocabulary Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) is attracting increasing attention due to its ability to segment and track arbitrary objects. However, the recent Open-Vocabulary VIS attempts obtained unsatisfactory results, especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Hao Fang , Peng Wu , Yawei Li , Xinxin Zhang , Xiankai Lu

Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) aims at segmenting and categorizing objects in videos from a closed set of training categories, lacking the generalization ability to handle novel categories in real-world videos. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Haochen Wang , Cilin Yan , Shuai Wang , Xiaolong Jiang , XU Tang , Yao Hu , Weidi Xie , Efstratios Gavves

Video instance segmentation requires classifying, segmenting, and tracking every object across video frames. Unlike existing approaches that rely on masks, boxes, or category labels, we propose UVIS, a novel Unsupervised Video Instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Shuaiyi Huang , Saksham Suri , Kamal Gupta , Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Ser-nam Lim , Abhinav Shrivastava

Video Instance Segmentation is a fundamental computer vision task that deals with segmenting and tracking object instances across a video sequence. Most existing methods typically accomplish this task by employing a multi-stage top-down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Jyoti Kini , Mubarak Shah

Existing instance segmentation models learn task-specific information using manual mask annotations from base (training) categories. These mask annotations require tremendous human effort, limiting the scalability to annotate novel (new)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Vibashan VS , Ning Yu , Chen Xing , Can Qin , Mingfei Gao , Juan Carlos Niebles , Vishal M. Patel , Ran Xu

Video instance segmentation aims at predicting object segmentation masks for each frame, as well as associating the instances across multiple frames. Recent end-to-end video instance segmentation methods are capable of performing object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Quanzeng You , Jiang Wang , Peng Chu , Andre Abrantes , Zicheng Liu

In this paper we present a new computer vision task, named video instance segmentation. The goal of this new task is simultaneous detection, segmentation and tracking of instances in videos. In words, it is the first time that the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Linjie Yang , Yuchen Fan , Ning Xu