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Instance segmentation, a cornerstone task in computer vision, has wide-ranging applications in diverse industries. The advent of deep learning and artificial intelligence has underscored the criticality of training effective models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Chih-Chung Hsu , Chia-Ming Lee

Self-supervised Object Segmentation (SOS) aims to segment objects without any annotations. Under conditions of multi-camera inputs, the structural, textural and geometrical consistency among each view can be leveraged to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Xiaoyun Zheng , Liwei Liao , Jianbo Jiao , Feng Gao , Ronggang Wang

The increasing ubiquity of video content and the corresponding demand for efficient access to meaningful information have elevated video summarization and video highlights as a vital research area. However, many state-of-the-art methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pritam Mishra , Coloma Ballester , Dimosthenis Karatzas

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

In the booming video era, video segmentation attracts increasing research attention in the multimedia community. Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims at segmenting objects in all target frames of a video, given annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xiaohao Xu , Jinglu Wang , Xiang Ming , Yan Lu

We propose a self-supervised spatio-temporal matching method, coined Motion-Aware Mask Propagation (MAMP), for video object segmentation. MAMP leverages the frame reconstruction task for training without the need for annotations. During…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Bo Miao , Mohammed Bennamoun , Yongsheng Gao , Ajmal Mian

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) requires segmenting specific objects in a video guided by a natural language description. The core challenge of RVOS is to anchor abstract linguistic concepts onto a specific set of pixels and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zanyi Wang , Dengyang Jiang , Liuzhuozheng Li , Sizhe Dang , Chengzu Li , Harry Yang , Guang Dai , Mengmeng Wang , Jingdong Wang

Instance segmentation is an active topic in computer vision that is usually solved by using supervised learning approaches over very large datasets composed of object level masks. Obtaining such a dataset for any new domain can be very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Zhenzhen Weng , Mehmet Giray Ogut , Shai Limonchik , Serena Yeung

Current benchmarks for video segmentation are limited to annotating only salient objects (i.e., foreground instances). Despite their impressive architectural designs, previous works trained on these benchmarks have struggled to adapt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Sangbeom Lim , Seongchan Kim , Seungjun An , Seokju Cho , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Seungryong Kim

Present-day deep neural networks for video semantic segmentation require a large number of fine-grained pixel-level annotations to achieve the best possible results. Obtaining such annotations, however, is very expensive. On the other hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Samik Some , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Video instance segmentation (VIS) is a new and critical task in computer vision. To date, top-performing VIS methods extend the two-stage Mask R-CNN by adding a tracking branch, leaving plenty of room for improvement. In contrast, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Dongfang Liu , Yiming Cui , Wenbo Tan , Yingjie Chen

Existing 3D instance segmentation methods frequently encounter issues with over-segmentation, leading to redundant and inaccurate 3D proposals that complicate downstream tasks. This challenge arises from their unsupervised merging approach,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Phuc Nguyen , Minh Luu , Anh Tran , Cuong Pham , Khoi Nguyen

Generalizing open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation (OV-3DIS) to diverse, unstructured, and mesh-free environments is crucial for robotics and AR/VR, yet remains a significant challenge. We attribute this to two key limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zhishan Zhou , Siyuan Wei , Zengran Wang , Chunjie Wang , Xiaosheng Yan , Xiao Liu

Although deep learning methods have achieved advanced video object recognition performance in recent years, perceiving heavily occluded objects in a video is still a very challenging task. To promote the development of occlusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jiyang Qi , Yan Gao , Yao Hu , Xinggang Wang , Xiaoyu Liu , Xiang Bai , Serge Belongie , Alan Yuille , Philip H. S. Torr , Song Bai

Learning descriptive spatio-temporal object models from data is paramount for the task of semi-supervised video object segmentation. Most existing approaches mainly rely on models that estimate the segmentation mask based on a reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Sergi Caelles , Albert Pumarola , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Alberto Sanfeliu , Luc Van Gool

Few-shot video object segmentation (FS-VOS) aims at segmenting video frames using a few labelled examples of classes not seen during initial training. In this paper, we present a simple but effective temporal transductive inference (TTI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Mennatullah Siam , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Richard P. Wildes

We approach video object segmentation (VOS) by splitting the task into two sub-tasks: bounding box level tracking, followed by bounding box segmentation. Following this paradigm, we present BoLTVOS (Box-Level Tracking for VOS), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Paul Voigtlaender , Jonathon Luiten , Bastian Leibe

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

Exploring dense matching between the current frame and past frames for long-range context modeling, memory-based methods have demonstrated impressive results in video object segmentation (VOS) recently. Nevertheless, due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Junke Wang , Dongdong Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Chong Luo , Chuanxin Tang , Xiyang Dai , Yucheng Zhao , Yujia Xie , Lu Yuan , Yu-Gang Jiang

Video object segmentation (VOS) is a highly challenging problem since the initial mask, defining the target object, is only given at test-time. The main difficulty is to effectively handle appearance changes and similar background objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Andreas Robinson , Felix Järemo Lawin , Martin Danelljan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Michael Felsberg