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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

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) requires segmenting the object in video referred by a natural language query. Existing methods mainly rely on sophisticated pipelines to tackle such cross-modal task, and do not explicitly model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ping Li , Yu Zhang , Li Yuan , Xianghua Xu

The robust association of the same objects across video frames in complex scenes is crucial for many applications, especially Multiple Object Tracking (MOT). Current methods predominantly rely on labeled domain-specific video datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Siyuan Li , Lei Ke , Martin Danelljan , Luigi Piccinelli , Mattia Segu , Luc Van Gool , Fisher Yu

Large-scale Video Object Segmentation (LSVOS) addresses the challenge of accurately tracking and segmenting objects in long video sequences, where difficulties stem from object reappearance, small-scale targets, heavy occlusions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yujie Xie , Hongyang Zhang , Zhihui Liu , Shihai Ruan

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

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment objects in a video described by a natural language expression. However, most existing approaches focus on segmenting only the referred object (typically the actor), even when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Woojeong Jin , Seongchan Kim , Jaeho Lee , Seungryong Kim

The task of referring video object segmentation aims to segment the object in the frames of a given video to which the referring expressions refer. Previous methods adopt multi-stage approach and design complex pipelines to obtain promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhiwei Hu , Bo Chen , Yuan Gao , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment specific objects in a video according to textual descriptions. We observe that recent RVOS approaches often place excessive emphasis on feature extraction and temporal modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ruixin Zhang , Jiaqing Fan , Yifan Liao , Qian Qiao , Fanzhang Li

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS), as a supervised learning task, relies on sufficient annotated data for a given scene. However, in more realistic scenarios, only minimal annotations are available for a new scene, which poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Guanghui Li , Mingqi Gao , Heng Liu , Xiantong Zhen , Feng Zheng

Motion expression video segmentation is designed to segment objects in accordance with the input motion expressions. In contrast to the conventional Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS), it places emphasis on motion as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Hao Fang , Runmin Cong , Xiankai Lu , Zhiyang Chen , Wei Zhang

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the target instance referred by a given text expression in a video clip. The text expression normally contains sophisticated description of the instance's appearance, action, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Linfeng Yuan , Miaojing Shi , Zijie Yue , Qijun Chen

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

Tracking and segmenting multiple similar objects with distinct or complex parts in long-term videos is particularly challenging due to the ambiguity in identifying target components and the confusion caused by occlusion, background clutter,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xin Li , Deshui Miao , Zhenyu He , Yaowei Wang , Huchuan Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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

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

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

The objective of this paper is a model that is able to discover, track and segment multiple moving objects in a video. We make four contributions: First, we introduce an object-centric segmentation model with a depth-ordered layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Junyu Xie , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

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

Reasoning Video Object Segmentation (ReasonVOS) is a challenging task that requires stable object segmentation across video sequences using implicit and complex textual inputs. Previous methods fine-tune Multimodal Large Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhengtong Zhu , Jiaqing Fan , Zhixuan Liu , Fanzhang Li

Recent efforts in video reasoning segmentation (VRS) integrate large language models (LLMs) with perception models to localize and track objects via textual instructions, achieving barely satisfactory results in simple scenarios. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Rongkun Zheng , Lu Qi , Xi Chen , Yi Wang , Kun Wang , Yu Qiao , Hengshuang Zhao