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Referring video segmentation aims to segment the corresponding video object described by the language expression. To address this task, we first design a two-stream encoder to extract CNN-based visual features and transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Guang Feng , Lihe Zhang , Zhiwei Hu , Huchuan Lu

Robot-assisted surgery has made significant progress, with instrument segmentation being a critical factor in surgical intervention quality. It serves as the building block to facilitate surgical robot navigation and surgical education for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Hongqiu Wang , Lei Zhu , Guang Yang , Yike Guo , Shichen Zhang , Bo Xu , Yueming Jin

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

The recent transformer-based models have dominated the Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) task due to the superior performance. Most prior works adopt unified DETR framework to generate segmentation masks in query-to-instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Zhuoyan Luo , Yicheng Xiao , Yong Liu , Yitong Wang , Yansong Tang , Xiu Li , Yujiu Yang

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) requires segmenting specific objects in a video guided by a natural language description. The core challenge of RVOS is to anchor abstract linguistic concepts onto a specific set of pixels and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zanyi Wang , Dengyang Jiang , Liuzhuozheng Li , Sizhe Dang , Chengzu Li , Harry Yang , Guang Dai , Mengmeng Wang , Jingdong Wang

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

Semantic segmentation relying solely on RGB data often struggles in challenging conditions such as low illumination and obscured views, limiting its reliability in critical applications like autonomous driving. To address this, integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ce Zhang , Zifu Wan , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara , Yaqi Xie

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

Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to segment arbitrary target objects in video when the ground truth segmentation mask of the initial frame is provided. Due to this limitation of using prior knowledge about the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Suhwan Cho , Heansung Lee , Sungmin Woo , Sungjun Jang , Sangyoun Lee

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

Video object segmentation is a fundamental step in many advanced vision applications. Most existing algorithms are based on handcrafted features such as HOG, super-pixel segmentation or texture-based techniques, while recently deep features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Maryam Sultana , Arif Mahmood , Sajid Javed , Soon Ki Jung

Moving Object Segmentation (MOS) aims to discover, segment, and track objects that move independently of the camera. Current MOS methods, however, exhibit two fundamental limitations: they rely on pre-computed 2D auxiliary modalities such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junyu Xie , Tengda Han , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Traditional reference segmentation tasks have predominantly focused on silent visual scenes, neglecting the integral role of multimodal perception and interaction in human experiences. In this work, we introduce a novel task called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yaoting Wang , Peiwen Sun , Dongzhan Zhou , Guangyao Li , Honggang Zhang , Di Hu

In this work we propose a capsule-based approach for semi-supervised video object segmentation. Current video object segmentation methods are frame-based and often require optical flow to capture temporal consistency across frames which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Kevin Duarte , Yogesh S Rawat , Mubarak Shah

Learning a data-driven spatio-temporal semantic representation of the objects is the key to coherent and consistent labelling in video. This paper proposes to achieve semantic video object segmentation by learning a data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tinghuai Wang

Referring multi-object tracking (RMOT) is an emerging cross-modal task that aims to locate an arbitrary number of target objects and maintain their identities referred by a language expression in a video. This intricate task involves the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Changcheng Xiao , Qiong Cao , Yujie Zhong , Xiang Zhang , Tao Wang , Canqun Yang , Long Lan

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS), as a supervised learning task, relies on sufficient annotated data for a given scene. However, in more realistic scenarios, only minimal annotations are available for a new scene, which poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Guanghui Li , Mingqi Gao , Heng Liu , Xiantong Zhen , Feng Zheng

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to identify, track and segment the objects in a video based on language descriptions, which has received great attention in recent years. However, existing datasets remain focus on short video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Tianming Liang , Haichao Jiang , Yuting Yang , Chaolei Tan , Shuai Li , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

Video Reasoning Segmentation (VRS) aims to segment target objects in videos based on implicit instructions that convey human intent and temporal logic. Existing MLLM-based methods predict masks with a [SEG] token after selecting frames via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junwei Wen , Deshui Miao , Guangming Lu , Xin Li , Wenjie Pei

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects throughout a video based on a text description. This is challenging as it involves deep vision-language understanding, pixel-level dense prediction and spatiotemporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Tianming Liang , Kun-Yu Lin , Chaolei Tan , Jianguo Zhang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu