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We propose a light-weight variational framework for online tracking of object segmentations in videos based on optical flow and image boundaries. While high-end computer vision methods on this task rely on sequence specific training of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Amirhossein Kardoost , Sabine Müller , Joachim Weickert , Margret Keuper

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) has emerged as a powerful foundation model for object segmentation in both images and videos, paving the way for various downstream video applications. The crucial design of SAM 2 for video segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Shuangrui Ding , Rui Qian , Xiaoyi Dong , Pan Zhang , Yuhang Zang , Yuhang Cao , Yuwei Guo , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

Training segmentation models for medical images continues to be challenging due to the limited availability of data annotations. Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a foundation model that is intended to segment user-defined objects of interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Maciej A. Mazurowski , Haoyu Dong , Hanxue Gu , Jichen Yang , Nicholas Konz , Yixin Zhang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has established itself as a powerful zero-shot image segmentation model, enabled by efficient point-centric annotation and prompt-based models. While click and brush interactions are both well explored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Frano Rajič , Lei Ke , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu

Segment Anything (SAM) has recently pushed the boundaries of segmentation by demonstrating zero-shot generalization and flexible prompting after training on over one billion masks. Despite this, its mask prediction accuracy often falls…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zezhong Fan , Xiaohan Li , Topojoy Biswas , Kaushiki Nag , Kannan Achan

Learning a data-driven spatio-temporal semantic representation of the objects is the key to coherent and consistent labelling in video. This paper proposes to achieve semantic video object segmentation by learning a data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tinghuai Wang

This paper presents a novel approach for segmenting moving objects in unconstrained environments using guided convolutional neural networks. This guiding process relies on foreground masks from independent algorithms (i.e. state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Diego Ortego , Kevin McGuinness , Juan C. SanMiguel , Eric Arazo , José M. Martínez , Noel E. O'Connor

Image segmentation is a critical task in microscopy, essential for accurately analyzing and interpreting complex visual data. This task can be performed using custom models trained on domain-specific datasets, transfer learning from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Kamyar Barakati , Utkarsh Pratiush , Sheryl L. Sanchez , Aditya Raghavan , Delia J. Milliron , Mahshid Ahmadi , Philip D. Rack , Sergei V. Kalinin

Segmenting foreground object from a video is a challenging task because of the large deformations of the objects, occlusions, and background clutter. In this paper, we propose a frame-by-frame but computationally efficient approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Aditya Vora , Shanmuganathan Raman

The goal of video segmentation is to turn video data into a set of concrete motion clusters that can be easily interpreted as building blocks of the video. There are some works on similar topics like detecting scene cuts in a video, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Hajar Sadeghi Sokeh , Vasileios Argyriou , Dorothy Monekosso , Paolo Remagnino

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful vision foundation model that is revolutionizing the traditional paradigm of segmentation. Despite this, a reliance on prompting each frame and large computational cost limit its usage in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zijian Wu , Adam Schmidt , Peter Kazanzides , Septimiu E. Salcudean

We present an approach for object segmentation in videos that combines frame-level object detection with concepts from object tracking and motion segmentation. The approach extracts temporally consistent object tubes based on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Benjamin Drayer , Thomas Brox

Existing deep learning based unsupervised video object segmentation methods still rely on ground-truth segmentation masks to train. Unsupervised in this context only means that no annotated frames are used during inference. As obtaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Sahir Shrestha , Mohammad Ali Armin , Hongdong Li , Nick Barnes

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) has emerged as a powerful tool for video object segmentation and tracking anything. Key components of SAM 2 that drive the impressive video object segmentation performance include a large multistage image…

Video object segmentation (VOS) is a critical task in the development of video perception and understanding. The Segment-Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), released by Meta AI, is the current state-of-the-art architecture for end-to-end VOS. SAM 2…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Clayton Bromley , Alexander Moore , Amar Saini , Doug Poland , Carmen Carrano

Semi-supervised video object segmentation is a task of segmenting the target object in a video sequence given only a mask annotation in the first frame. The limited information available makes it an extremely challenging task. Most previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Yunyao Mao , Ning Wang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Segmentation is an essential step for remote sensing image processing. This study aims to advance the application of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), an innovative image segmentation model by Meta AI, in the field of remote sensing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Lucas Prado Osco , Qiusheng Wu , Eduardo Lopes de Lemos , Wesley Nunes Gonçalves , Ana Paula Marques Ramos , Jonathan Li , José Marcato Junior

Unsupervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to detect the most prominent object in a video. Recently, two-stream approaches that leverage both RGB images and optical flow have gained significant attention, but their performance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Suhwan Cho , Minhyeok Lee , Jungho Lee , Donghyeong Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Object permanence in humans is a fundamental cue that helps in understanding persistence of objects, even when they are fully occluded in the scene. Present day methods in object segmentation do not account for this amodal nature of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Kaihua Chen , Deva Ramanan , Tarasha Khurana

We propose a new approach to learn to segment multiple image objects without manual supervision. The method can extract objects form still images, but uses videos for supervision. While prior works have considered motion for segmentation, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Laurynas Karazija , Subhabrata Choudhury , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi