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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 object segmentation (VOS) aims to distinguish and track target objects in a video. Despite the excellent performance achieved by off-the-shell VOS models, existing VOS benchmarks mainly focus on short-term videos lasting about 5…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Lingyi Hong , Zhongying Liu , Wenchao Chen , Chenzhi Tan , Yuang Feng , Xinyu Zhou , Pinxue Guo , Jinglun Li , Zhaoyu Chen , Shuyong Gao , Wei Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang

Existing Video Object Segmentation (VOS) relies on explicit user instructions, such as categories, masks, or short phrases, restricting their ability to perform complex video segmentation requiring reasoning with world knowledge. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Cilin Yan , Haochen Wang , Shilin Yan , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Guoliang Kang , Weidi Xie , Efstratios Gavves

Contemporary Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) methods typically adhere to a pre-train then fine-tune regime, where a segmentation model trained on images is fine-tuned on videos. However, the lack of temporal knowledge in the pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Qing Zhong , Peng-Tao Jiang , Wen Wang , Guodong Ding , Lin Wu , Kaiqi Huang

In this paper we present a new computer vision task, named video instance segmentation. The goal of this new task is simultaneous detection, segmentation and tracking of instances in videos. In words, it is the first time that the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Linjie Yang , Yuchen Fan , Ning Xu

Object segmentation and object tracking are fundamental research area in the computer vision community. These two topics are diffcult to handle some common challenges, such as occlusion, deformation, motion blur, and scale variation. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Rui Yao , Guosheng Lin , Shixiong Xia , Jiaqi Zhao , Yong Zhou

The objective of this paper is self-supervised representation learning, with the goal of solving semi-supervised video object segmentation (a.k.a. dense tracking). We make the following contributions: (i) we propose to improve the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Fangrui Zhu , Li Zhang , Yanwei Fu , Guodong Guo , Weidi Xie

Open-vocabulary Video Instance Segmentation (OpenVIS) can simultaneously detect, segment, and track arbitrary object categories in a video, without being constrained to categories seen during training. In this work, we propose InstFormer, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Pinxue Guo , Tony Huang , Peiyang He , Xuefeng Liu , Tianjun Xiao , Zhaoyu Chen , Wenqiang Zhang

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) aims to track and segment specific objects across entire video sequences, yet it remains highly challenging under complex real-world scenarios. The MOSEv1 and LVOS dataset, adopted in the MOSEv1 challenge on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Tingmin Li , Yixuan Li , Yang Yang

Domain shift has always been one of the primary issues in video object segmentation (VOS), for which models suffer from degeneration when tested on unfamiliar datasets. Recently, many online methods have emerged to narrow the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Jinshuo Zhang , Zhicheng Wang , Songyan Zhang , Gang Wei

As a milestone for video object segmentation, one-shot video object segmentation (OSVOS) has achieved a large margin compared to the conventional optical-flow based methods regarding to the segmentation accuracy. Its excellent performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Yu Liu , Yutong Dai , Anh-Dzung Doan , Lingqiao Liu , Ian Reid

Large-scale Video Object Segmentation (LSVOS) addresses the challenge of accurately tracking and segmenting objects in long video sequences, where difficulties stem from object reappearance, small-scale targets, heavy occlusions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yujie Xie , Hongyang Zhang , Zhihui Liu , Shihai Ruan

Video object segmentation (VOS) describes the task of segmenting a set of objects in each frame of a video. In the semi-supervised setting, the first mask of each object is provided at test time. Following the one-shot principle,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Tim Meinhardt , Laura Leal-Taixe

Recent DETR-based methods have advanced the development of Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) through transformers' efficiency and capability in modeling spatial and temporal information. Despite harvesting remarkable progress, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Rongkun Zheng , Lu Qi , Xi Chen , Yi Wang , Kun Wang , Yu Qiao , Hengshuang Zhao

Until recently, the Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) community operated under the common belief that offline methods are generally superior to a frame by frame online processing. However, the recent success of online methods questions this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Tim Meinhardt , Matt Feiszli , Yuchen Fan , Laura Leal-Taixe , Rakesh Ranjan

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

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

In recent years, significant progress has been made in video instance segmentation (VIS), with many offline and online methods achieving state-of-the-art performance. While offline methods have the advantage of producing temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Junlong Li , Bingyao Yu , Yongming Rao , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) relies on natural language expressions to segment target objects in video. In this year, LSVOS Challenge RVOS Track replaced the origin YouTube-RVOS benchmark with MeViS. MeViS focuses on referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Hao Fang , Feiyu Pan , Xiankai Lu , Wei Zhang , Runmin Cong

Existing video instance segmentation (VIS) approaches generally follow a closed-world assumption, where only seen category instances are identified and spatio-temporally segmented at inference. Open-world formulation relaxes the close-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Omkar Thawakar , Sanath Narayan , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Salman Khan , Jorma Laaksonen , Mubarak Shah , Fahad Shahbaz Khan