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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

Modern approaches typically formulate semantic segmentation as a per-pixel classification task, while instance-level segmentation is handled with an alternative mask classification. Our key insight: mask classification is sufficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Bowen Cheng , Alexander G. Schwing , Alexander Kirillov

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to precisely outline audible objects in a visual scene at the pixel level. Existing AVS methods require fine-grained annotations of audio-mask pairs in supervised learning fashion. This limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Swapnil Bhosale , Haosen Yang , Diptesh Kanojia , Xiatian Zhu

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the target instance in a video, referred by a text expression. Conventional approaches are mostly supervised learning, requiring expensive pixel-level mask annotations. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Miaojing Shi , Jun Huang , Zijie Yue , Hanli Wang

Semantic segmentation has been widely investigated in the community, in which the state of the art techniques are based on supervised models. Those models have reported unprecedented performance at the cost of requiring a large set of high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Rihuan Ke , Angelica Aviles-Rivero , Saurabh Pandey , Saikumar Reddy , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In this paper, the task of video panoptic segmentation is studied and two different methods to solve the task will be proposed. Video panoptic segmentation (VPS) is a recently introduced computer vision task that requires classifying and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Jake Rap , Panagiotis Meletis

Real-time semantic video segmentation is a challenging task due to the strict requirements of inference speed. Recent approaches mainly devote great efforts to reducing the model size for high efficiency. In this paper, we rethink this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Junyi Feng , Songyuan Li , Xi Li , Fei Wu , Qi Tian , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Haibin Ling

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is an active research area of the visual domain. One of its fundamental sub-tasks is semi-supervised / one-shot learning: given only the segmentation mask for the first frame, the task is to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Fatemeh Azimi , Benjamin Bischke , Sebastian Palacio , Federico Raue , Joern Hees , Andreas Dengel

Semantic segmentation (i.e. image parsing) aims to annotate each image pixel with its corresponding semantic class label. Spatially consistent labeling of the image requires an accurate description and modeling of the local contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Hasan F. Ates , Sercan Sunetci

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

We propose Semantic-Fast-SAM (SFS), a semantic segmentation framework that combines the Fast Segment Anything model with a semantic labeling pipeline to achieve real-time performance without sacrificing accuracy. FastSAM is an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Byunghyun Kim

In this paper, we present a detailed design of dynamic video segmentation network (DVSNet) for fast and efficient semantic video segmentation. DVSNet consists of two convolutional neural networks: a segmentation network and a flow network.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Yu-Syuan Xu , Tsu-Jui Fu , Hsuan-Kung Yang , Chun-Yi Lee

In this paper, we introduce 3rd place solution for PVUW2023 VSS track. Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision with numerous real-world applications. We have explored various image-level visual backbones and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Shijie Chang , Zeqi Hao , Ben Kang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Jiawen Zhu , Zhenyu Chen , Lihe Zhang , Lu Zhang , Huchuan Lu

In recent years, the task of segmenting foreground objects from background in a video, i.e. video object segmentation (VOS), has received considerable attention. In this paper, we propose a single end-to-end trainable deep neural network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Ye Lyu , George Vosselman , Gui-Song Xia , Michael Ying Yang

Video question-answering is a fundamental task in the field of video understanding. Although current vision--language models (VLMs) equipped with Video Transformers have enabled temporal modeling and yielded superior results, they are at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wei Han , Hui Chen , Min-Yen Kan , Soujanya Poria

Promptable segmentation has emerged as a powerful paradigm in computer vision, enabling users to guide models in parsing complex scenes with prompts such as clicks, boxes, or textual cues. Recent advances, exemplified by the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yoonwoo Jeong , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Minsu Cho , Jaesung Choe

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RefVOS) seeks to segment target objects in videos guided by natural language descriptions, demanding both temporal reasoning and fine-grained visual comprehension. Existing sampling strategies for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ming Dai , Sen Yang , Boqiang Duan , Wankou Yang , Jingdong Wang

We present a recurrent model for semantic instance segmentation that sequentially generates binary masks and their associated class probabilities for every object in an image. Our proposed system is trainable end-to-end from an input image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Amaia Salvador , Miriam Bellver , Victor Campos , Manel Baradad , Ferran Marques , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for semantic segmentation typically requires to collect a large amount of accurate pixel-level annotations, a hard and expensive task. In contrast, simple image tags are easier to gather. With…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Carolina Redondo-Cabrera , Marcos Baptista-Ríos , Roberto J. López-Sastre

Video Panoptic Segmentation (VPS) is a challenging task that is extends from image panoptic segmentation.VPS aims to simultaneously classify, track, segment all objects in a video, including both things and stuff. Due to its wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Biao Wu , Diankai Zhang , Si Gao , Chengjian Zheng , Shaoli Liu , Ning Wang