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Motion segmentation from a single moving camera presents a significant challenge in the field of computer vision. This challenge is compounded by the unknown camera movements and the lack of depth information of the scene. While deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yuxiang Huang , Yuhao Chen , John Zelek

Human beings have the ability to continuously analyze a video and immediately extract the motion components. We want to adopt this paradigm to provide a coherent and stable motion segmentation over the video sequence. In this perspective,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Etienne Meunier , Patrick Bouthemy

This work addresses motion-guided few-shot video object segmentation (FSVOS), which aims to segment dynamic objects in videos based on a few annotated examples with the same motion patterns. Existing FSVOS datasets and methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Kaining Ying , Hengrui Hu , Henghui Ding

In moving camera videos, motion segmentation is commonly performed using the image plane motion of pixels, or optical flow. However, objects that are at different depths from the camera can exhibit different optical flows even if they share…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Manjunath Narayana , Allen Hanson , Erik Learned-Miller

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

Semi-supervised video object segmentation aims to separate a target object from a video sequence, given the mask in the first frame. Most of current prevailing methods utilize information from additional modules trained in other domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Yizhuo Zhang , Zhirong Wu , Houwen Peng , Stephen Lin

This paper tackles the problem of semi-supervised video object segmentation, that is, segmenting an object in a sequence given its mask in the first frame. One of the main challenges in this scenario is the change of appearance of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Sergi Caelles , Yuhua Chen , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Luc Van Gool

We propose a simple, yet powerful approach for unsupervised object segmentation in videos. We introduce an objective function whose minimum represents the mask of the main salient object over the input sequence. It only relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Georgy Ponimatkin , Nermin Samet , Yang Xiao , Yuming Du , Renaud Marlet , Vincent Lepetit

This paper addresses the task of unsupervised video multi-object segmentation. Current approaches follow a two-stage paradigm: 1) detect object proposals using pre-trained Mask R-CNN, and 2) conduct generic feature matching for temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Tianfei Zhou , Jianwu Li , Xueyi Li , Ling Shao

We propose a novel self-supervised Video Object Segmentation (VOS) approach that strives to achieve better object-background discriminability for accurate object segmentation. Distinct from previous self-supervised VOS methods, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Jyoti Kini , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan , Mubarak Shah

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

Video Object Segmentation and Tracking (VOST) presents a complex yet critical challenge in computer vision, requiring robust integration of segmentation and tracking across temporally dynamic frames. Traditional methods have struggled with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Guoping Xu , Jayaram K. Udupa , Yajun Yu , Hua-Chieh Shao , Songlin Zhao , Wei Liu , You Zhang

Video instance segmentation requires classifying, segmenting, and tracking every object across video frames. Unlike existing approaches that rely on masks, boxes, or category labels, we propose UVIS, a novel Unsupervised Video Instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Shuaiyi Huang , Saksham Suri , Kamal Gupta , Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Ser-nam Lim , Abhinav Shrivastava

In this paper, we propose an unsupervised video object co-segmentation framework based on the primary object proposals to extract the common foreground object(s) from a given video set. In addition to the objectness attributes and motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Michael Ying Yang , Matthias Reso , Jun Tang , Wentong Liao , Bodo Rosenhahn

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 2018-09-11 Ning Xu , Linjie Yang , Yuchen Fan , Dingcheng Yue , Yuchen Liang , Jianchao Yang , Thomas Huang

This paper proposes an end-to-end trainable network, SegFlow, for simultaneously predicting pixel-wise object segmentation and optical flow in videos. The proposed SegFlow has two branches where useful information of object segmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Jingchun Cheng , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Shengjin Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Unsupervised video segmentation plays an important role in a wide variety of applications from object identification to compression. However, to date, fast motion, motion blur and occlusions pose significant challenges. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Yuan-Ting Hu , Jia-Bin Huang , Alexander G. Schwing

Visual effects (VFX) production often struggles with slow, resource-intensive mask generation. This paper presents an automated video segmentation pipeline that creates temporally consistent instance masks. It employs machine learning for:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Johannes Merz , Lucien Fostier

Video object segmentation (VOS) aims to segment specified target objects throughout a video. Although state-of-the-art methods have achieved impressive performance (e.g., 90+% J&F) on benchmarks such as DAVIS and YouTube-VOS, these datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Henghui Ding , Kaining Ying , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Xudong Jiang , Yu-Gang Jiang , Philip H. S. Torr , Song Bai

We present an approach for object segmentation in videos that combines frame-level object detection with concepts from object tracking and motion segmentation. The approach extracts temporally consistent object tubes based on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Benjamin Drayer , Thomas Brox