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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

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) is a task that aims to segment the target object in all video frames based on a sentence describing the object. Although existing RVOS methods have achieved significant performance, they depend on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Wangbo Zhao , Kepan Nan , Songyang Zhang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Yang You

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

The goal of Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is to localize and segment the sounding source objects from video frames. Research on AVS suffers from data scarcity due to the high cost of fine-grained manual annotations. Recent works attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Kyungbok Lee , You Zhang , Zhiyao Duan

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment a target object throughout a video given a natural language query. Training-free methods for this task follow a common pipeline: a MLLM selects keyframes, grounds the referred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Woojeong Jin , Jaeho Lee , Heeseong Shin , Seungho Jang , Junhwan Heo , Seungryong Kim

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects throughout a video based on a text description. This task has attracted increasing attention in the field of computer vision due to its promising applications in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Tianming Liang , Haichao Jiang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

Large vision models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibit significant limitations when applied to downstream tasks in the wild. Consequently, reference segmentation, which leverages reference images and their corresponding masks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Haoran Wang , Zekun Li , Jian Zhang , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2), a vision foundation model has significantly advanced in prompt-driven video object segmentation, yet their practical deployment remains limited by the high computational and memory cost of processing dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Avilasha Mandal , Chaoning Zhang , Fachrina Dewi Puspitasari , Xudong Wang , Jiaquan Zhang , Caiyan Qin , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Many of the recent successful methods for video object segmentation (VOS) are overly complicated, heavily rely on fine-tuning on the first frame, and/or are slow, and are hence of limited practical use. In this work, we propose FEELVOS as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Paul Voigtlaender , Yuning Chai , Florian Schroff , Hartwig Adam , Bastian Leibe , Liang-Chieh Chen

Segmenting objects with complex shapes, such as wires, bicycles, or structural grids, remains a significant challenge for current segmentation models, including the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and its high-quality variant SAM-HQ. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Luka Vetoshkin , Dmitry Yudin

Current semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) methods usually leverage the entire features of one frame to predict object masks and update memory. This introduces significant redundant computations. To reduce redundancy, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Bo Miao , Mohammed Bennamoun , Yongsheng Gao , Ajmal Mian

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects in videos based on natural language descriptions. However, fixed keyframe-based approaches that couple a vision language model with a separate propagation module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jihwan Hong , Jaeyoung Do

We consider the task of semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). Our approach mitigates shortcomings in previous VOS work by addressing detail preservation and temporal consistency using visual warping. In contrast to prior work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Julia Gong , F. Christopher Holsinger , Serena Yeung

360 video object segmentation (360VOS) aims to predict temporally-consistent masks in 360 videos, offering full-scene coverage, benefiting applications, such as VR/AR and embodied AI. Learning 360VOS model is nontrivial due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Dingwen Xiao , Weiming Zhang , Shiqi Wen , Lin Wang

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

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

Motion Expression guided Video Segmentation is a challenging task that aims at segmenting objects in the video based on natural language expressions with motion descriptions. Unlike the previous referring video object segmentation (RVOS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Bin Cao , Yisi Zhang , Xuanxu Lin , Xingjian He , Bo Zhao , Jing Liu

This paper strives for motion expressions guided video segmentation, which focuses on segmenting objects in video content based on a sentence describing the motion of the objects. Existing referring video object datasets typically focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Xudong Jiang , Chen Change Loy

The current popular methods for video object segmentation (VOS) implement feature matching through several hand-crafted modules that separately perform feature extraction and matching. However, the above hand-crafted designs empirically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Qiangqiang Wu , Tianyu Yang , Wei WU , Antoni Chan

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment and track objects in videos based on natural language expressions, requiring precise alignment between visual content and textual queries. However, existing methods often suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Seunghun Lee , Jiwan Seo , Jeonghoon Kim , Sungho Moon , Siwon Kim , Haeun Yun , Hyogyeong Jeon , Wonhyeok Choi , Jaehoon Jeong , Zane Durante , Sang Hyun Park , Sunghoon Im