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Moving object segmentation is a crucial task for achieving a high-level understanding of visual scenes and has numerous downstream applications. Humans can effortlessly segment moving objects in videos. Previous work has largely relied on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Nan Huang , Wenzhao Zheng , Chenfeng Xu , Kurt Keutzer , Shanghang Zhang , Angjoo Kanazawa , Qianqian Wang

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to identify, track and segment the objects in a video based on language descriptions, which has received great attention in recent years. However, existing datasets remain focus on short video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Tianming Liang , Haichao Jiang , Yuting Yang , Chaolei Tan , Shuai Li , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) shows excellent performance in video object segmentation tasks; however, the heavy computational burden hinders its application in real-time video processing. Although there have been efforts to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jing Zhang , Zhikai Li , Xuewen Liu , Qingyi Gu

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) relies on natural language expressions to segment target objects in video, emphasizing modeling dense text-video relations. The current RVOS methods typically use independently pre-trained vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Feiyu Pan , Hao Fang , Xiankai Lu

The objective of this paper is self-supervised representation learning, with the goal of solving semi-supervised video object segmentation (a.k.a. dense tracking). We make the following contributions: (i) we propose to improve the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Fangrui Zhu , Li Zhang , Yanwei Fu , Guodong Guo , Weidi Xie

The referring video object segmentation task (RVOS) aims to segment object instances in a given video referred by a language expression in all video frames. Due to the requirement of understanding cross-modal semantics within individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Leilei Cao , Zhuang Li , Bo Yan , Feng Zhang , Fengliang Qi , Yuchen Hu , Hongbin Wang

Video camouflaged object segmentation (VCOS), aiming at segmenting camouflaged objects that seamlessly blend into their environment, is a fundamental vision task with various real-world applications. With the release of SAM2, video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yuli Zhou , Yawei Li , Yuqian Fu , Luca Benini , Ender Konukoglu , Guolei Sun

Video Object Segmentation and Tracking (VOST) presents a complex yet critical challenge in computer vision, requiring robust integration of segmentation and tracking across temporally dynamic frames. Traditional methods have struggled with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Guoping Xu , Jayaram K. Udupa , Yajun Yu , Hua-Chieh Shao , Songlin Zhao , Wei Liu , You Zhang

Visual Object Tracking (VOT) is widely used in applications like autonomous driving to continuously track targets in videos. Existing methods can be roughly categorized into template matching and autoregressive methods, where the former…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Qianxiong Xu , Lanyun Zhu , Chenxi Liu , Guosheng Lin , Cheng Long , Ziyue Li , Rui Zhao

We present REM, a framework for segmenting a wide range of concepts in video that can be described through natural language. Our method leverages the universal visual-language mapping learned by video diffusion models on Internet-scale data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims at segmenting an object in a video following human instruction. Current state-of-the-art methods fall into an offline pattern, in which each clip independently interacts with text embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Dongming Wu , Tiancai Wang , Yuang Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang , Jianbing Shen

Existing Video Object Segmentation (VOS) relies on explicit user instructions, such as categories, masks, or short phrases, restricting their ability to perform complex video segmentation requiring reasoning with world knowledge. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Cilin Yan , Haochen Wang , Shilin Yan , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Guoliang Kang , Weidi Xie , Efstratios Gavves

Amodal perception requires inferring the full shape of an object that is partially occluded. This task is particularly challenging on two levels: (1) it requires more information than what is contained in the instant retina or imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Jian Yao , Yuxin Hong , Chiyu Wang , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Francesco Locatello , David Wipf , Yanwei Fu , Zheng Zhang

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects throughout a video based on a text description. This is challenging as it involves deep vision-language understanding, pixel-level dense prediction and spatiotemporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Tianming Liang , Kun-Yu Lin , Chaolei Tan , Jianguo Zhang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

Current research workflows for precise video segmentation are often forced into a compromise between labor-intensive manual curation, costly commercial platforms, and/or privacy-compromising cloud-based services. The demand for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Gergely Dinya , András Gelencsér , Krisztina Kupán , Clemens Küpper , Kristóf Karacs , Anna Gelencsér-Horváth

This report presents an Audio-aware Referring Video Object Segmentation (Ref-VOS) pipeline tailored to the MEVIS\_Audio setting, where the referring expression is provided in spoken form rather than as clean text. Compared with a standard…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Deshui Miao , Yameng Gu , Chao Yang , Xin Li , Haijun Zhang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects in video sequences based on natural language descriptions. While recent advances in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have improved RVOS performance through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Li Zhang , Haoxiang Gao , Zhihao Zhang , Luoxiao Huang , Tao Zhang

Conventional approaches to video segmentation are confined to predefined object categories and cannot identify out-of-vocabulary objects, let alone objects that are not identified explicitly but only referred to implicitly in complex text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yiqing Shen , Chenjia Li , Chenxiao Fan , Mathias Unberath

Foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have significantly advanced promptable image segmentation in computer vision. However, extending these capabilities to videos presents substantial challenges, particularly in ensuring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Haiyang Mei , Pengyu Zhang , Mike Zheng Shou

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) is a challenging task that requires the model to segment the object in a video given the language description. MeViS is a recently proposed dataset that contains motion expressions of the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Haobo Yuan , Tao Zhang , Xiangtai Li , Lu Qi , Zilong Huang , Shilin Xu , Jiashi Feng , Ming-Hsuan Yang