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Reasoning video object segmentation predicts pixel-level masks in videos from natural-language queries that may involve implicit and temporally grounded references. However, existing methods are developed and evaluated in an offline regime,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jinyuan Liu , Yang Wang , Zeyu Zhao , Weixin Li , Song Wang , Ruize Han

Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) jointly tackles multi-object detection, tracking, and segmentation in video sequences. In the past, VIS methods mirrored the fragmentation of these subtasks in their architectural design, hence missing out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Adrià Caelles , Tim Meinhardt , Guillem Brasó , Laura Leal-Taixé

Deep neural networks deliver state-of-the-art visual recognition, but they rely on large datasets, which are time-consuming to annotate. These datasets are typically annotated in two stages: (1) determining the presence of object classes at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Michael Gygli , Vittorio Ferrari

Surgical video segmentation is crucial for computer-assisted surgery, enabling precise localization and tracking of instruments and tissues. Interactive Video Object Segmentation (iVOS) models such as Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Haofeng Liu , Ziyue Wang , Sudhanshu Mishra , Mingqi Gao , Guanyi Qin , Chang Han Low , Alex Y. W. Kong , Yueming Jin

Referring video object segmentation (R-VOS) is an emerging cross-modal task that aims to segment the target object referred by a language expression in all video frames. In this work, we propose a simple and unified framework built upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jiannan Wu , Yi Jiang , Peize Sun , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Luo

Video object segmentation can be considered as one of the most challenging computer vision problems. Indeed, so far, no existing solution is able to effectively deal with the peculiarities of real-world videos, especially in cases of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Simone Palazzo , Concetto Spampinato , Daniela Giordano

We address the highly challenging problem of video object segmentation. Given only the initial mask, the task is to segment the target in the subsequent frames. In order to effectively handle appearance changes and similar background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Andreas Robinson , Felix Järemo Lawin , Martin Danelljan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Michael Felsberg

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

While Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) has seen rapid progress, current approaches struggle to predict high-quality masks with accurate boundary details. Moreover, the predicted segmentations often fluctuate over time, suggesting that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Lei Ke , Henghui Ding , Martin Danelljan , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Fisher Yu

Referring-based Video Object Segmentation is a multimodal problem that requires producing fine-grained segmentation results guided by external cues. Traditional approaches to this task typically involve training specialized models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Tuyen Tran , Thao Minh Le , Truyen Tran

Understanding objects in videos in terms of fine-grained localization masks and detailed semantic properties is a fundamental task in video understanding. In this paper, we propose VoCap, a flexible video model that consumes a video and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jasper Uijlings , Xingyi Zhou , Xiuye Gu , Arsha Nagrani , Anurag Arnab , Alireza Fathi , David Ross , Cordelia Schmid

We introduce VISOR, a new dataset of pixel annotations and a benchmark suite for segmenting hands and active objects in egocentric video. VISOR annotates videos from EPIC-KITCHENS, which comes with a new set of challenges not encountered in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Ahmad Darkhalil , Dandan Shan , Bin Zhu , Jian Ma , Amlan Kar , Richard Higgins , Sanja Fidler , David Fouhey , Dima Damen

We tackle the task of semi-supervised video object segmentation, i.e. segmenting the pixels belonging to an object in the video using the ground truth pixel mask for the first frame. We build on the recently introduced one-shot video object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Paul Voigtlaender , Bastian Leibe

Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to segment a few moving objects in a video sequence, where these objects are specified by annotation of first frame. The optical flow has been considered in many existing semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ziyang Liu , Jingmeng Liu , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhengguo Li

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is a vital task in computer vision, focusing on distinguishing foreground objects from the background across video frames. Our work draws inspiration from the Cutie model, and we investigate the effects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Xinyu Liu , Jing Zhang , Kexin Zhang , Yuting Yang , Licheng Jiao , Shuyuan Yang

In order to learn object segmentation models in videos, conventional methods require a large amount of pixel-wise ground truth annotations. However, collecting such supervised data is time-consuming and labor-intensive. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Yi-Wen Chen , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Chu-Ya Yang , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang

This paper proposes a large-scale multi-modal dataset for referring motion expression video segmentation, focusing on segmenting and tracking target objects in videos based on language description of objects' motions. Existing referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-13 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Kaining Ying , Xudong Jiang , Chen Change Loy , Yu-Gang Jiang

Multiple object video object segmentation is a challenging task, specially for the zero-shot case, when no object mask is given at the initial frame and the model has to find the objects to be segmented along the sequence. In our work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Carles Ventura , Miriam Bellver , Andreu Girbau , Amaia Salvador , Ferran Marques , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Given an object mask, Semi-supervised Video Object Segmentation (SVOS) technique aims to track and segment the object across video frames, serving as a fundamental task in computer vision. Although recent memory-based methods demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Guanyi Qin , Ziyue Wang , Daiyun Shen , Haofeng Liu , Hantao Zhou , Junde Wu , Runze Hu , Yueming Jin

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