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Vision-language models (VLMs) excel in visual understanding but often lack reliable grounding capabilities and actionable inference rates. Integrating them with open-vocabulary object detection (OVD), instance segmentation, and tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Bastian Pätzold , Jan Nogga , Sven Behnke

Audio-visual semantic segmentation (AVSS) aims to segment and classify sounding objects in videos with acoustic cues. However, most approaches operate on the close-set assumption and only identify pre-defined categories from training data,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Ruohao Guo , Liao Qu , Dantong Niu , Yanyu Qi , Wenzhen Yue , Ji Shi , Bowei Xing , Xianghua Ying

The referring video object segmentation task (RVOS) aims to segment object instances in a given video referred by a language expression in all video frames. Due to the requirement of understanding cross-modal semantics within individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Leilei Cao , Zhuang Li , Bo Yan , Feng Zhang , Fengliang Qi , Yuchen Hu , Hongbin Wang

Semantic segmentation and object detection research have recently achieved rapid progress. However, the former task has no notion of different instances of the same object, and the latter operates at a coarse, bounding-box level. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Anurag Arnab , Philip H. S Torr

Audio-visual segmentation aims to separate sounding objects from videos by predicting pixel-level masks based on audio signals. Existing methods primarily concentrate on closed-set scenarios and direct audio-visual alignment and fusion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengkai Chen , Yifang Yin , Jinming Cao , Shili Xiang , Zhenguang Liu , Roger Zimmermann

Recently, transformer-based image segmentation methods have achieved notable success against previous solutions. While for video domains, how to effectively model temporal context with the attention of object instances across frames remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Xiang Li , Jinglu Wang , Xiao Li , Yan Lu

Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to segment a few moving objects in a video sequence, where these objects are specified by annotation of first frame. The optical flow has been considered in many existing semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ziyang Liu , Jingmeng Liu , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhengguo Li

Unsupervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to detect and segment the most salient object in videos. The primary techniques used in unsupervised VOS are 1) the collaboration of appearance and motion information; and 2) temporal fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Suhwan Cho , Minhyeok Lee , Seunghoon Lee , Dogyoon Lee , Heeseung Choi , Ig-Jae Kim , Sangyoun Lee

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

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

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 describe our two-stage instance segmentation framework we use to compete in the challenge. The first stage of our framework consists of an object detector, which generates object proposals in the format of bounding boxes. Then, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Yuming Du , Wen Guo , Yang Xiao , Vincent Lepetit

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

Existing state-of-the-art methods for Video Object Segmentation (VOS) learn low-level pixel-to-pixel correspondences between frames to propagate object masks across video. This requires a large amount of densely annotated video data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Ali Athar , Jonathon Luiten , Alexander Hermans , Deva Ramanan , Bastian Leibe

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the target instance in a video, referred by a text expression. Conventional approaches are mostly supervised learning, requiring expensive pixel-level mask annotations. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Miaojing Shi , Jun Huang , Zijie Yue , Hanli Wang

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) has recently generated great popularity in computer vision due to its widespread applications. Existing RVOS setting contains elaborately trimmed videos, with text-referred objects always appearing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mingqi Gao , Jinyu Yang , Jingnan Luo , Xiantong Zhen , Jungong Han , Giovanni Montana , Feng Zheng

Open-World Object Detection (OWOD) extends object detection problem to a realistic and dynamic scenario, where a detection model is required to be capable of detecting both known and unknown objects and incrementally learning newly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Ruohuan Fang , Guansong Pang , Lei Zhou , Xiao Bai , Jin Zheng

Video Object Segmentation, and video processing in general, has been historically dominated by methods that rely on the temporal consistency and redundancy in consecutive video frames. When the temporal smoothness is suddenly broken, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Sergi Caelles , Yuhua Chen , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Laura Leal-Taixé , Daniel Cremers , Luc Van Gool

Video instance segmentation requires detecting, segmenting, and tracking objects in videos, typically relying on costly video annotations. This paper introduces a method that eliminates video annotations by utilizing image datasets. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Zhangjing Yang , Dun Liu , Xin Wang , Zhe Li , Barathwaj Anandan , Yi Wu

Despite significant progress in semi-supervised learning for image object detection, several key issues are yet to be addressed for video object detection: (1) Achieving good performance for supervised video object detection greatly depends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Tanvir Mahmud , Chun-Hao Liu , Burhaneddin Yaman , Diana Marculescu