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Semi-supervised video object segmentation (Semi-VOS), which requires only annotating the first frame of a video to segment future frames, has received increased attention recently. Among existing pipelines, the memory-matching-based one is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Weihao Lin , Tao Chen , Chong Yu

Underwater Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is essential for marine exploration, yet open-air methods suffer significant degradation due to color distortion, low contrast, and prevalent camouflage. A primary hurdle is the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Hongshen Zhao , Jingkang Tai , Yuhang Wu , Wenkang Zhang , Xi Lan , Shangyan Wang , Tianyu Zhang , Wankou Yang

Many video enhancement algorithms rely on optical flow to register frames in a video sequence. Precise flow estimation is however intractable; and optical flow itself is often a sub-optimal representation for particular video processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Tianfan Xue , Baian Chen , Jiajun Wu , Donglai Wei , William T. Freeman

Salient object detection (SOD), which aims to identify and locate the most salient pixels or regions in images, has been attracting more and more interest due to its various real-world applications. However, this vision task is quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen

The paper addresses the problem of motion saliency in videos, that is, identifying regions that undergo motion departing from its context. We propose a new unsupervised paradigm to compute motion saliency maps. The key ingredient is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 L. Maczyta , P. Bouthemy , O. Le Meur

Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to segment arbitrary target objects in video when the ground truth segmentation mask of the initial frame is provided. Due to this limitation of using prior knowledge about the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Suhwan Cho , Heansung Lee , Sungmin Woo , Sungjun Jang , Sangyoun Lee

Image saliency detection has recently witnessed rapid progress due to deep convolutional neural networks. However, none of the existing methods is able to identify object instances in the detected salient regions. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Guanbin Li , Yuan Xie , Liang Lin , Yizhou Yu

Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to densely track certain designated objects in videos. One of the main challenges in this task is the existence of background distractors that appear similar to the target objects. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Suhwan Cho , Heansung Lee , Minhyeok Lee , Chaewon Park , Sungjun Jang , Minjung Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Location and appearance are the key cues for video object segmentation. Many sources such as RGB, depth, optical flow and static saliency can provide useful information about the objects. However, existing approaches only utilize the RGB or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Xiaoqi Zhao , Youwei Pang , Jiaxing Yang , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) aims to track objects across frames in a video and segment them based on the initial annotated frame of the target objects. Previous VOS works typically rely on fully annotated videos for training. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Baiyu Chen , Sixian Chan , Xiaoqin Zhang

Given the widespread adoption of depth-sensing acquisition devices, RGB-D videos and related data/media have gained considerable traction in various aspects of daily life. Consequently, conducting salient object detection (SOD) in RGB-D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Ao Mou , Yukang Lu , Jiahao He , Dingyao Min , Keren Fu , Qijun Zhao

Automatic video segmentation plays an important role in a wide range of computer vision and image processing applications. Recently, various methods have been proposed for this purpose. The problem is that most of these methods are far from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-08-16 Akamine Kazuma , Ken Fukuchi , Akisato Kimura , Shigeru Takagi

This paper deals with the scarcity of data for training optical flow networks, highlighting the limitations of existing sources such as labeled synthetic datasets or unlabeled real videos. Specifically, we introduce a framework to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Filippo Aleotti , Matteo Poggi , Stefano Mattoccia

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

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

Salient Object Detection (SOD) aims to identify and segment prominent regions within a scene. Traditional models rely on manually annotated pseudo labels with precise pixel-level accuracy, which is time-consuming. We developed a low-cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Miaoyang He , Shuyong Gao , Tsui Qin Mok , Weifeng Ge , Wengqiang Zhang

For the video salient object detection (VSOD) task, how to excavate the information from the appearance modality and the motion modality has always been a topic of great concern. The two-stream structure, including an RGB appearance stream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Runmin Cong , Weiyu Song , Jianjun Lei , Guanghui Yue , Yao Zhao , Sam Kwong

The appearance of an object can be fleeting when it transforms. As eggs are broken or paper is torn, their color, shape and texture can change dramatically, preserving virtually nothing of the original except for the identity itself. Yet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Pavel Tokmakov , Jie Li , Adrien Gaidon

Rapid progress in adversarial learning has enabled the generation of realistic-looking fake visual content. To distinguish between fake and real visual content, several detection techniques have been proposed. The performance of most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Bilal Yousaf , Muhammad Usama , Waqas Sultani , Arif Mahmood , Junaid Qadir

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) has been targeted by various fully-supervised and self-supervised approaches. While fully-supervised methods demonstrate excellent results, self-supervised ones, which do not use pixel-level ground truth,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Tanveer Hannan , Rajat Koner , Jonathan Kobold , Matthias Schubert