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Reasoning Video Object Segmentation (ReasonVOS) is a challenging task that requires stable object segmentation across video sequences using implicit and complex textual inputs. Previous methods fine-tune Multimodal Large Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhengtong Zhu , Jiaqing Fan , Zhixuan Liu , Fanzhang 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

We present READMem (Robust Embedding Association for a Diverse Memory), a modular framework for semi-automatic video object segmentation (sVOS) methods designed to handle unconstrained videos. Contemporary sVOS works typically aggregate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Stéphane Vujasinović , Sebastian Bullinger , Stefan Becker , Norbert Scherer-Negenborn , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Referring image segmentation segments an image from a language expression. With the aim of producing high-quality masks, existing methods often adopt iterative learning approaches that rely on RNNs or stacked attention layers to refine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Referring-based Video Object Segmentation is a multimodal problem that requires producing fine-grained segmentation results guided by external cues. Traditional approaches to this task typically involve training specialized models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Tuyen Tran , Thao Minh Le , Truyen Tran

The crux of Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) lies in modeling dense text-video relations to associate abstract linguistic concepts with dynamic visual contents at pixel-level. Current RVOS methods typically use vision and language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zikun Zhou , Wentao Xiong , Li Zhou , Xin Li , Zhenyu He , Yaowei Wang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) achieves strong open-vocabulary segmentation, but its ViT-based image encoders dominate inference latency and memory. Existing activation compression methods, such as token merging, reduce the token length…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hoai-Chau Tran , Chi H. Nguyen , Duy M. H. Nguyen , Mathias Niepert , Fan Lai , Khoa D. Doan

Referring image segmentation is a fundamental vision-language task that aims to segment out an object referred to by a natural language expression from an image. One of the key challenges behind this task is leveraging the referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Referential Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment all objects in a video that match a given natural language description, bridging the gap between vision and language understanding. Recent work, such as Sa2VA, combines Large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Ran Hong , Feng Lu , Leilei Cao , An Yan , Youhai Jiang , Fengjie Zhu

We investigate Referring Image Segmentation (RIS), which outputs a segmentation map corresponding to the natural language description. Addressing RIS efficiently requires considering the interactions happening across visual and linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Kanishk Jain , Vineet Gandhi

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims at segmenting an object in a video following human instruction. Current state-of-the-art methods fall into an offline pattern, in which each clip independently interacts with text embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Dongming Wu , Tiancai Wang , Yuang Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang , Jianbing Shen

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) achieves remarkable promptable segmentation given high-quality prompts which, however, often require good skills to specify. To make SAM robust to casual prompts, this paper presents the first comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Qi Fan , Xin Tao , Lei Ke , Mingqiao Ye , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Zhongyuan Wang , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Robust and accurate segmentation of scenes has become one core functionality in various visual recognition and navigation tasks. This has inspired the recent development of Segment Anything Model (SAM), a foundation model for general mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Aoran Xiao , Weihao Xuan , Heli Qi , Yun Xing , Naoto Yokoya , Shijian Lu

The Reference Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) task generates segmentation masks for specified objects in images based on textual descriptions, which has attracted widespread attention and research interest. Current RRSIS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Shuyang Li , Shuang Wang , Zhuangzhuang Sun , Jing Xiao

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), a foundational model designed for promptable segmentation tasks, demonstrates exceptional generalization capabilities, making it highly promising for natural scene image segmentation. However, SAM's lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Linghao Zheng , Xinyang Pu , Feng Xu

The referring video object segmentation task (RVOS) involves segmentation of a text-referred object instance in the frames of a given video. Due to the complex nature of this multimodal task, which combines text reasoning, video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Adam Botach , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Chaim Baskin

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the object referred to by the query sentence throughout the entire video. Most existing methods require end-to-end training with dense mask annotations, which could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ci-Siang Lin , I-Jieh Liu , Min-Hung Chen , Chien-Yi Wang , Sifei Liu , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Many of the recent successful methods for video object segmentation (VOS) are overly complicated, heavily rely on fine-tuning on the first frame, and/or are slow, and are hence of limited practical use. In this work, we propose FEELVOS as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Paul Voigtlaender , Yuning Chai , Florian Schroff , Hartwig Adam , Bastian Leibe , Liang-Chieh Chen

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful vision foundation model that is revolutionizing the traditional paradigm of segmentation. Despite this, a reliance on prompting each frame and large computational cost limit its usage in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zijian Wu , Adam Schmidt , Peter Kazanzides , Septimiu E. Salcudean

The task of referring video object segmentation aims to segment the object in the frames of a given video to which the referring expressions refer. Previous methods adopt multi-stage approach and design complex pipelines to obtain promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhiwei Hu , Bo Chen , Yuan Gao , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai