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Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is foundational to numerous computer vision applications, including surveillance, autonomous driving, robotics and generative video editing. However, existing VOS models often struggle with precise mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Elham Soltani Kazemi , Imad Eddine Toubal , Gani Rahmon , Jaired Collins , K. Palaniappan

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is typically formulated in a semi-supervised setting. Given the ground-truth segmentation mask on the first frame, the task of VOS is to track and segment the single or multiple objects of interests in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Kaihua Zhang , Long Wang , Dong Liu , Bo Liu , Qingshan Liu , Zhu Li

We propose an embarrassingly simple point annotation scheme to collect weak supervision for instance segmentation. In addition to bounding boxes, we collect binary labels for a set of points uniformly sampled inside each bounding box. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Bowen Cheng , Omkar Parkhi , Alexander Kirillov

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

In this work, we present a new computer vision task named video object of interest segmentation (VOIS). Given a video and a target image of interest, our objective is to simultaneously segment and track all objects in the video that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Siyuan Zhou , Chunru Zhan , Biao Wang , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Li Niu

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) task aims to segmenting a particular object instance throughout the entire video sequence given only the object mask of the first frame. Recently, Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) is proposed, which is a…

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

It is expensive and labour-extensive to label the pixel-wise object masks in a video. As a result, the amount of pixel-wise annotations in existing video instance segmentation (VIS) datasets is small, limiting the generalization capability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Minghan Li , Lei Zhang

Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) aims at segmenting and categorizing objects in videos from a closed set of training categories, lacking the generalization ability to handle novel categories in real-world videos. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Haochen Wang , Cilin Yan , Shuai Wang , Xiaolong Jiang , XU Tang , Yao Hu , Weidi Xie , Efstratios Gavves

Most methods for object instance segmentation require all training examples to be labeled with segmentation masks. This requirement makes it expensive to annotate new categories and has restricted instance segmentation models to ~100…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Ronghang Hu , Piotr Dollár , Kaiming He , Trevor Darrell , Ross Girshick

Contemporary Video Object Segmentation (VOS) approaches typically consist stages of feature extraction, matching, memory management, and multiple objects aggregation. Recent advanced models either employ a discrete modeling for these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Wanyun Li , Pinxue Guo , Xinyu Zhou , Lingyi Hong , Yangji He , Xiangyu Zheng , Wei Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang

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 propose a new method for video object segmentation (VOS) that addresses object pattern learning from unlabeled videos, unlike most existing methods which rely heavily on extensive annotated data. We introduce a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Xiankai Lu , Wenguan Wang , Jianbing Shen , Yu-Wing Tai , David Crandall , Steven C. H. Hoi

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

Annotating videos with object segmentation masks typically involves a two stage procedure of drawing polygons per object instance for all the frames and then linking them through time. While simple, this is a very tedious, time consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Namdar Homayounfar , Justin Liang , Wei-Chiu Ma , Raquel Urtasun

Significant progress has been made in Video Object Segmentation (VOS), the video object tracking task in its finest level. While the VOS task can be naturally decoupled into image semantic segmentation and video object tracking,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Xuhua Huang , Jiarui Xu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

We propose a new matching-based framework for semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). Recently, state-of-the-art VOS performance has been achieved by matching-based algorithms, in which feature banks are created to store features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Yongqing Liang , Xin Li , Navid Jafari , Qin Chen

We propose a novel solution for semi-supervised video object segmentation. By the nature of the problem, available cues (e.g. video frame(s) with object masks) become richer with the intermediate predictions. However, the existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Seoung Wug Oh , Joon-Young Lee , Ning Xu , Seon Joo Kim

High-quality and consistent annotations are fundamental to the successful development of robust machine learning models. Traditional data annotation methods are resource-intensive and inefficient, often leading to a reliance on third-party…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Amir Ziai , Aneesh Vartakavi

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

Video Instance Segmentation is a fundamental computer vision task that deals with segmenting and tracking object instances across a video sequence. Most existing methods typically accomplish this task by employing a multi-stage top-down…

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