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The goal of this paper is to bypass the need for labelled examples in few-shot video understanding at run time. While proven effective, in many practical video settings even labelling a few examples appears unrealistic. This is especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Pengwan Yang , Yuki M. Asano , Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek

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

Locating and retrieving objects from scene-level point clouds is a challenging problem with broad applications in robotics and augmented reality. This task is commonly formulated as open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Khanh Nguyen , Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Ajmal Mian

Open-vocabulary instance segmentation aims at segmenting novel classes without mask annotations. It is an important step toward reducing laborious human supervision. Most existing works first pretrain a model on captioned images covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Dat Huynh , Jason Kuen , Zhe Lin , Jiuxiang Gu , Ehsan Elhamifar

Segmenting foreground object from a video is a challenging task because of the large deformations of the objects, occlusions, and background clutter. In this paper, we propose a frame-by-frame but computationally efficient approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Aditya Vora , Shanmuganathan Raman

The discrimination of instance embeddings plays a vital role in associating instances across time for online video instance segmentation (VIS). Instance embedding learning is directly supervised by the contrastive loss computed upon the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Kaining Ying , Qing Zhong , Weian Mao , Zhenhua Wang , Hao Chen , Lin Yuanbo Wu , Yifan Liu , Chengxiang Fan , Yunzhi Zhuge , Chunhua Shen

Open-world object detection aims to localize and recognize objects beyond a fixed closed-set label space. It is commonly divided into two categories, i.e., open-vocabulary detection, which assumes a predefined category list at test time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chih-Chung Liu , Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang

Exploring new knowledge is a fundamental human ability that can be mirrored in the development of deep neural networks, especially in the field of object detection. Open world object detection (OWOD) is an emerging area of research that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yiming Li , Yi Wang , Wenqian Wang , Dan Lin , Bingbing Li , Kim-Hui Yap

Occupancy prediction tasks focus on the inference of both geometry and semantic labels for each voxel, which is an important perception mission. However, it is still a semantic segmentation task without distinguishing various instances.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Zichao Dong , Hang Ji , Weikun Zhang , Xufeng Huang , Junbo Chen

Learning long-term spatial-temporal features are critical for many video analysis tasks. However, existing video segmentation methods predominantly rely on static image segmentation techniques, and methods capturing temporal dependency for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Ning Xu , Linjie Yang , Yuchen Fan , Jianchao Yang , Dingcheng Yue , Yuchen Liang , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Thomas Huang

Existing studies typically investigate domain shift and category shift as independent problems, however, in real-world scenarios, the two types of shifts often occur simultaneously and interact, leading to significant degradation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yupeng Zhang , Ruize Han , Fangnan Zhou , Wei Feng , Liang Wan

Despite significant efforts, cutting-edge video segmentation methods still remain sensitive to occlusion and rapid movement, due to their reliance on the appearance of objects in the form of object embeddings, which are vulnerable to these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Qihao Liu , Junfeng Wu , Yi Jiang , Xiang Bai , Alan Yuille , Song Bai

The current state-of-the-art methods for unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) require extensive training on video datasets with mask annotations, limiting their effectiveness in handling challenging scenarios. However, the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Zhenghao Zhang , Shengfan Zhang , Zhichao Wei , Zuozhuo Dai , Siyu Zhu

Humans can easily segment moving objects without knowing what they are. That objectness could emerge from continuous visual observations motivates us to model grouping and movement concurrently from unlabeled videos. Our premise is that a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Runtao Liu , Zhirong Wu , Stella X. Yu , Stephen Lin

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) aims at segmenting images from free-form textual concepts without predefined training classes. While existing vision-language models such as CLIP can generate segmentation masks by leveraging coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Luca Barsellotti , Lorenzo Bianchi , Nicola Messina , Fabio Carrara , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Fabrizio Falchi , Rita Cucchiara

In this paper, we present offline-to-online knowledge distillation (OOKD) for video instance segmentation (VIS), which transfers a wealth of video knowledge from an offline model to an online model for consistent prediction. Unlike previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Hojin Kim , Seunghun Lee , Sunghoon Im

We introduce a method for simultaneously classifying, segmenting and tracking object instances in a video sequence. Our method, named MaskProp, adapts the popular Mask R-CNN to video by adding a mask propagation branch that propagates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Gedas Bertasius , Lorenzo Torresani

Deep neural networks have demonstrated prominent capacities for image classification tasks in a closed set setting, where the test data come from the same distribution as the training data. However, in a more realistic open set scenario,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Feiyang Cai , Zhenkai Zhang , Jie Liu , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is typically formulated in a semi-supervised setting. Given the ground-truth segmentation mask on the first frame, the task of VOS is to track and segment the single or multiple objects of interests in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Kaihua Zhang , Long Wang , Dong Liu , Bo Liu , Qingshan Liu , Zhu Li

Referring video object segmentation (R-VOS) is an emerging cross-modal task that aims to segment the target object referred by a language expression in all video frames. In this work, we propose a simple and unified framework built upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jiannan Wu , Yi Jiang , Peize Sun , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Luo