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In this paper, we consider the problem of open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS), which aims to segment objects of arbitrary classes instead of pre-defined, closed-set categories. The main contributions are as follows: First, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jilan Xu , Junlin Hou , Yuejie Zhang , Rui Feng , Yi Wang , Yu Qiao , Weidi Xie

Most methods for object instance segmentation require all training examples to be labeled with segmentation masks. This requirement makes it expensive to annotate new categories and has restricted instance segmentation models to ~100…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Ronghang Hu , Piotr Dollár , Kaiming He , Trevor Darrell , Ross Girshick

3D instance segmentation is an important task for real-world applications. To avoid costly manual annotations, existing methods have explored generating pseudo labels by transferring 2D masks from foundation models to 3D. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Juan Wang , Yasutomo Kawanishi , Tomo Miyazaki , Zhijie Wang , Shinichiro Omachi

The current popular methods for video object segmentation (VOS) implement feature matching through several hand-crafted modules that separately perform feature extraction and matching. However, the above hand-crafted designs empirically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Qiangqiang Wu , Tianyu Yang , Wei WU , Antoni Chan

Instance segmentation aims to locate targets in the image and segment each target area at pixel level, which is one of the most important tasks in computer vision. Mask R-CNN is a classic method of instance segmentation, but we find that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Xiaolong Guo , Xiaosong Lan , Kunfeng Wang , Shuxiao Li

Segmentation of objects in a video is challenging due to the nuances such as motion blurring, parallax, occlusions, changes in illumination, etc. Instead of addressing these nuances separately, we focus on building a generalizable solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Silky Singh , Shripad Deshmukh , Mausoom Sarkar , Rishabh Jain , Mayur Hemani , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) is a new and inherently multi-task problem, which aims to detect, segment, and track each instance in a video sequence. Existing approaches are mainly based on single-frame features or single-scale features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Xiangtai Li , Hao He , Yibo Yang , Henghui Ding , Kuiyuan Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Yunhai Tong , Dacheng Tao

We present a conceptually simple, flexible, and general framework for object instance segmentation. Our approach efficiently detects objects in an image while simultaneously generating a high-quality segmentation mask for each instance. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Kaiming He , Georgia Gkioxari , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

Text-to-video diffusion models have made remarkable advancements. Driven by their ability to generate temporally coherent videos, research on zero-shot video editing using these fundamental models has expanded rapidly. To enhance editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Lingling Cai , Kang Zhao , Hangjie Yuan , Yingya Zhang , Shiwei Zhang , Kejie Huang

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

In this report, we introduce our (pretty straightforard) two-step "detect-then-match" video instance segmentation method. The first step performs instance segmentation for each frame to get a large number of instance mask proposals. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Yuming Du , Wen Guo , Yang Xiao , Vincent Lepetit

Image segmentation remains a challenging task in computer vision, demanding robust mask generation and precise classification. Recent mask-based approaches yield high-quality masks by capturing global context. However, accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Sajjad Shahabodini , Mobina Mansoori , Farnoush Bayatmakou , Jamshid Abouei , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Arash Mohammadi

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

Recently, Space-Time Memory Network (STM) based methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). A crucial problem in this task is how to model the dependency both among different frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jianbiao Mei , Mengmeng Wang , Yeneng Lin , Yi Yuan , Yong Liu

Recently, an audio-visual instance segmentation (AVIS) task has been introduced, aiming to identify, segment and track individual sounding instances in videos. However, prevailing methods primarily adopt the offline paradigm, that cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yingjian Zhu , Ying Wang , Yuyang Hong , Ruohao Guo , Kun Ding , Xin Gu , Bin Fan , Shiming Xiang

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to produce pixel-level masks of sound producing objects in videos, by jointly learning from audio and visual signals. However, real-world environments are inherently dynamic, causing audio and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Siddeshwar Raghavan , Gautham Vinod , Bruce Coburn , Fengqing Zhu

Unsupervised video object segmentation has often been tackled by methods based on recurrent neural networks and optical flow. Despite their complexity, these kinds of approaches tend to favour short-term temporal dependencies and are thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Zhao Yang , Qiang Wang , Luca Bertinetto , Weiming Hu , Song Bai , 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

Multimedia event detection is the task of detecting a specific event of interest in an user-generated video on websites. The most fundamental challenge facing this task lies in the enormously varying quality of the video as well as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Minnan Luo , Xiaojun Chang , Chen Gong

This work introduces a new proposal-free instance segmentation method that builds on single-instance segmentation masks predicted across the entire image in a sliding window style. In contrast to related approaches, our method concurrently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Alberto Bailoni , Constantin Pape , Steffen Wolf , Anna Kreshuk , Fred A. Hamprecht