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Benefiting from the inductive biases learned from large-scale datasets, open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) leverages the power of vision-language models, such as CLIP, to achieve remarkable progress without requiring task-specific…

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In this paper, we consider the problem of open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS), which aims to segment objects of arbitrary classes instead of pre-defined, closed-set categories. The main contributions are as follows: First, we…

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The recent works on Video Object Segmentation achieved remarkable results by matching dense semantic and instance-level features between the current and previous frames for long-time propagation. Nevertheless, global feature matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Volodymyr Fedynyak , Yaroslav Romanus , Bohdan Hlovatskyi , Bohdan Sydor , Oles Dobosevych , Igor Babin , Roman Riazantsev

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) is a challenging task that requires the model to segment the object in a video given the language description. MeViS is a recently proposed dataset that contains motion expressions of the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Haobo Yuan , Tao Zhang , Xiangtai Li , Lu Qi , Zilong Huang , Shilin Xu , Jiashi Feng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In this work we present a novel solution for Video Instance Segmentation(VIS), that is automatically generating instance level segmentation masks along with object class and tracking them in a video. Our method improves the masks from…

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In the booming video era, video segmentation attracts increasing research attention in the multimedia community. Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims at segmenting objects in all target frames of a video, given annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xiaohao Xu , Jinglu Wang , Xiang Ming , Yan Lu

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…

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Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is fundamental to video understanding. Transformer-based methods show significant performance improvement on semi-supervised VOS. However, existing work faces challenges segmenting visually similar objects in…

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Tracking geographic entities from historical maps, such as buildings, offers valuable insights into cultural heritage, urbanization patterns, environmental changes, and various historical research endeavors. However, linking these entities…

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Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) requires tracking and segmenting an object throughout a video according to a given natural language expression, demanding both complex motion understanding and the alignment of visual…

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Current state-of-the-art object detection and segmentation methods work well under the closed-world assumption. This closed-world setting assumes that the list of object categories is available during training and deployment. However, many…

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Most existing underwater instance segmentation approaches are constrained by close-vocabulary prediction, limiting their ability to recognize novel marine categories. To support evaluation, we introduce \textbf{MARIS} (\underline{Mar}ine…

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We propose a method for unsupervised video object segmentation by transferring the knowledge encapsulated in image-based instance embedding networks. The instance embedding network produces an embedding vector for each pixel that enables…

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Training on large-scale datasets can boost the performance of video instance segmentation while the annotated datasets for VIS are hard to scale up due to the high labor cost. What we possess are numerous isolated filed-specific datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Rongkun Zheng , Lu Qi , Xi Chen , Yi Wang , Kun Wang , Yu Qiao , Hengshuang Zhao

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

Video text-based visual question answering (Video TextVQA) aims to answer questions by explicitly reading and reasoning about the text involved in a video. Most works in this field follow a frame-level framework which suffers from redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yan Zhang , Gangyan Zeng , Daiqing Wu , Huawen Shen , Binbin Li , Yu Zhou , Can Ma , Xiaojun Bi

Video instance segmentation on mobile devices is an important yet very challenging edge AI problem. It mainly suffers from (1) heavy computation and memory costs for frame-by-frame pixel-level instance perception and (2) complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Renhong Zhang , Tianheng Cheng , Shusheng Yang , Haoyi Jiang , Shuai Zhang , Jiancheng Lyu , Xin Li , Xiaowen Ying , Dashan Gao , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

We propose an approach for Open-World Instance Segmentation (OWIS), a task that aims to segment arbitrary unknown objects in images by generalizing from a limited set of annotated object classes during training. Our Segment Object System…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Christian Wilms , Tim Rolff , Maris Hillemann , Robert Johanson , Simone Frintrop

Current state-of-the-art Video Object Segmentation (VOS) methods rely on dense per-object mask annotations both during training and testing. This requires time-consuming and costly video annotation mechanisms. We propose a novel Point-VOS…

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