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Referring remote sensing image segmentation (RRSIS) enables the precise delineation of regions within remote sensing imagery through natural language descriptions, serving critical applications in disaster response, urban development, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhe Dong , Yuzhe Sun , Tianzhu Liu , Yanfeng Gu

Unsupervised video object segmentation aims to automatically segment moving objects over an unconstrained video without any user annotation. So far, only few unsupervised online methods have been reported in literature and their performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Tao Zhuo , Zhiyong Cheng , Peng Zhang , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli

3D referring segmentation is an emerging and challenging vision-language task that aims to segment the object described by a natural language expression in a point cloud scene. The key challenge behind this task is vision-language feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shuting He , Henghui Ding

Reference-based video object segmentation is an emerging topic which aims to segment the corresponding target object in each video frame referred by a given reference, such as a language expression or a photo mask. However, language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Ruolin Yang , Da Li , Conghui Hu , Timothy Hospedales , Honggang Zhang , Yi-Zhe Song

We address semi-supervised video object segmentation, the task of automatically generating accurate and consistent pixel masks for objects in a video sequence, given the first-frame ground truth annotations. Towards this goal, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Jonathon Luiten , Paul Voigtlaender , Bastian Leibe

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

We introduce a novel framework called RefineVIS for Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) that achieves good object association between frames and accurate segmentation masks by iteratively refining the representations using sequence context.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Andre Abrantes , Jiang Wang , Peng Chu , Quanzeng You , Zicheng Liu

We consider the problem of referring camouflaged object detection (Ref-COD), a new task that aims to segment specified camouflaged objects based on a small set of referring images with salient target objects. We first assemble a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xuying Zhang , Bowen Yin , Zheng Lin , Qibin Hou , Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to find a segmentation mask given a referring expression grounded to a region of the input image. Collecting labelled datasets for this task, however, is notoriously costly and labor-intensive. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Seonghoon Yu , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Jeany Son

Most recent semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) methods rely on fine-tuning deep convolutional neural networks online using the given mask of the first frame or predicted masks of subsequent frames. However, the online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Yingjie Yin , De Xu , Xingang Wang , Lei Zhang

Video instance segmentation requires classifying, segmenting, and tracking every object across video frames. Unlike existing approaches that rely on masks, boxes, or category labels, we propose UVIS, a novel Unsupervised Video Instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Shuaiyi Huang , Saksham Suri , Kamal Gupta , Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Ser-nam Lim , Abhinav Shrivastava

Segmentation of objects in a video is challenging due to the nuances such as motion blurring, parallax, occlusions, changes in illumination, etc. Instead of addressing these nuances separately, we focus on building a generalizable solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Silky Singh , Shripad Deshmukh , Mausoom Sarkar , Rishabh Jain , Mayur Hemani , Balaji Krishnamurthy

This paper proposes a novel framework utilizing multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) for referring video object segmentation (RefVOS). Previous MLLM-based methods commonly struggle with the dilemma between "Ref" and "VOS": they either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Lang Lin , Xueyang Yu , Ziqi Pang , Yu-Xiong Wang

We study fine-grained referring image segmentation via a decoupled reason-then-segment pipeline. A vision-language model (VLM) receives an image and a natural-language query, reasons about the scene, and emits structured spatial prompts: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Sandesh Hegde , Jaison Saji Chacko , Debarshi Banerjee , Uma Mahesh

Robot-assisted surgery has made significant progress, with instrument segmentation being a critical factor in surgical intervention quality. It serves as the building block to facilitate surgical robot navigation and surgical education for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Hongqiu Wang , Lei Zhu , Guang Yang , Yike Guo , Shichen Zhang , Bo Xu , Yueming Jin

Inspired by recent advances of deep learning in instance segmentation and object tracking, we introduce video object segmentation problem as a concept of guided instance segmentation. Our model proceeds on a per-frame basis, guided by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Anna Khoreva , Federico Perazzi , Rodrigo Benenson , Bernt Schiele , Alexander Sorkine-Hornung

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RefVOS) seeks to segment target objects in videos guided by natural language descriptions, demanding both temporal reasoning and fine-grained visual comprehension. Existing sampling strategies for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ming Dai , Sen Yang , Boqiang Duan , Wankou Yang , Jingdong Wang

In this work, we propose a novel Reversible Recursive Instance-level Object Segmentation (R2-IOS) framework to address the challenging instance-level object segmentation task. R2-IOS consists of a reversible proposal refinement sub-network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Xiaodan Liang , Yunchao Wei , Xiaohui Shen , Zequn Jie , Jiashi Feng , Liang Lin , Shuicheng Yan

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is a core vision-language segmentation task that enables pixel-level understanding of targets via free-form linguistic expressions, supporting critical applications such as human-robot interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yihao Wang , Jusheng Zhang , Ziyi Tang , Keze Wang , Meng Yang

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