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In this paper, we propose Contextual Guided Segmentation (CGS) framework for video instance segmentation in three passes. In the first pass, i.e., preview segmentation, we propose Instance Re-Identification Flow to estimate main properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Trung-Nghia Le , Tam V. Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran

Current semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) methods usually leverage the entire features of one frame to predict object masks and update memory. This introduces significant redundant computations. To reduce redundancy, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Bo Miao , Mohammed Bennamoun , Yongsheng Gao , Ajmal Mian

The problem of video object segmentation can become extremely challenging when multiple instances co-exist. While each instance may exhibit large scale and pose variations, the problem is compounded when instances occlude each other causing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Xiaoxiao Li , Chen Change Loy

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 2025-12-09 Kaixuan Lu , Mehmet Onurcan Kaya , Dim P. Papadopoulos

The task of video object segmentation with referring expressions (language-guided VOS) is to, given a linguistic phrase and a video, generate binary masks for the object to which the phrase refers. Our work argues that existing benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Miriam Bellver , Carles Ventura , Carina Silberer , Ioannis Kazakos , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

In this paper, we propose a new multi-modal task, termed audio-visual instance segmentation (AVIS), which aims to simultaneously identify, segment and track individual sounding object instances in audible videos. To facilitate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ruohao Guo , Xianghua Ying , Yaru Chen , Dantong Niu , Guangyao Li , Liao Qu , Yanyu Qi , Jinxing Zhou , Bowei Xing , Wenzhen Yue , Ji Shi , Qixun Wang , Peiliang Zhang , Buwen Liang

Video instance segmentation (VIS) for low-light content remains highly challenging for both humans and machines alike, due to noise, blur and other adverse conditions. The lack of large-scale annotated datasets and the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Joanne Lin , Ruirui Lin , Yini Li , David Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Video anomaly detection (VAD) with weak supervision has achieved remarkable performance in utilizing video-level labels to discriminate whether a video frame is normal or abnormal. However, current approaches are inherently limited to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Peng Wu , Xuerong Zhou , Guansong Pang , Yujia Sun , Jing Liu , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Existing methods for instance segmentation in videos typically involve multi-stage pipelines that follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm and model a video clip as a sequence of images. Multiple networks are used to detect objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Ali Athar , Sabarinath Mahadevan , Aljoša Ošep , Laura Leal-Taixé , Bastian Leibe

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to detect the objects beyond the set of classes observed during training. This work introduces a straightforward and efficient strategy that utilizes pre-trained vision-language models (VLM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shilin Xu , Xiangtai Li , Size Wu , Wenwei Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Chen Change Loy

Instance segmentation is a fundamental vision task that aims to recognize and segment each object in an image. However, it requires costly annotations such as bounding boxes and segmentation masks for learning. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Xinlong Wang , Zhiding Yu , Shalini De Mello , Jan Kautz , Anima Anandkumar , Chunhua Shen , Jose M. Alvarez

In this work, we present a new computer vision task named video object of interest segmentation (VOIS). Given a video and a target image of interest, our objective is to simultaneously segment and track all objects in the video that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Siyuan Zhou , Chunru Zhan , Biao Wang , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Li Niu

Tracking and segmenting multiple similar objects with distinct or complex parts in long-term videos is particularly challenging due to the ambiguity in identifying target components and the confusion caused by occlusion, background clutter,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xin Li , Deshui Miao , Zhenyu He , Yaowei Wang , Huchuan Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

An object detector's ability to detect and flag \textit{novel} objects during open-world deployments is critical for many real-world applications. Unfortunately, much of the work in open object detection today is disjointed and fails to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Matthew Inkawhich , Nathan Inkawhich , Hao Yang , Jingyang Zhang , Randolph Linderman , Yiran Chen

Video object segmentation (VOS) aims at segmenting a particular object throughout the entire video clip sequence. The state-of-the-art VOS methods have achieved excellent performance (e.g., 90+% J&F) on existing datasets. However, since the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Xudong Jiang , Philip H. S. Torr , Song Bai

Video instance segmentation (VIS) has gained significant attention for its capability in tracking and segmenting object instances across video frames. However, most of the existing VIS approaches unrealistically assume that the categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Jiahua Dong , Hui Yin , Wenqi Liang , Hanbin Zhao , Henghui Ding , Nicu Sebe , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) is an emerging cross-modality task that aims to generate pixel-level maps of the target objects referred by given textual expressions. The main concept involves learning an accurate alignment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Baoli Sun , Xinzhu Ma , Ning Wang , Zhihui Wang , Zhiyong Wang

For online video instance segmentation (VIS), fully utilizing the information from previous frames in an efficient manner is essential for real-time applications. Most previous methods follow a two-stage approach requiring additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Su Ho Han , Sukjun Hwang , Seoung Wug Oh , Yeonchool Park , Hyunwoo Kim , Min-Jung Kim , Seon Joo Kim

This paper presents a novel framework called HST for semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). HST extracts image and video features using the latest Swin Transformer and Video Swin Transformer to inherit their inductive bias for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jun-Sang Yoo , Hongjae Lee , Seung-Won Jung

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) aims to track objects across frames in a video and segment them based on the initial annotated frame of the target objects. Previous VOS works typically rely on fully annotated videos for training. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Baiyu Chen , Sixian Chan , Xiaoqin Zhang