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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

Real-time motion detection in non-stationary scenes is a difficult task due to dynamic background, changing foreground appearance and limited computational resource. These challenges degrade the performance of the existing methods in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Junjie Huang , Wei Zou , Zheng Zhu , Jiagang Zhu

Optical flow is an easily conceived and precious cue for advancing unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS). Most of the previous methods directly extract and fuse the motion and appearance features for segmenting target objects in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Gensheng Pei , Fumin Shen , Yazhou Yao , Guo-Sen Xie , Zhenmin Tang , Jinhui Tang

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

Moving object segmentation (MOS) in dynamic scenes is an important, challenging, but under-explored research topic for autonomous driving, especially for sequences obtained from moving ego vehicles. Most segmentation methods leverage motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Zhuyun Zhou , Zongwei Wu , Danda Pani Paudel , Rémi Boutteau , Fan Yang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte , Dominique Ginhac

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

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors with pixels that independently and asynchronously respond to brightness changes at microsecond resolution, offering the potential to handle visual tasks in challenging scenarios. However, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Sheng Zhong , Zhongyang Ren , Xiya Zhu , Dehao Yuan , Cornelia Fermuller , Yi Zhou

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of motion vectors extracted from AV1-encoded video streams and their application in accelerating optical flow estimation. We demonstrate that motion vectors from AV1 video codec can serve as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Julien Zouein , Vibhoothi Vibhoothi , Anil Kokaram

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is typically formulated in a semi-supervised setting. Given the ground-truth segmentation mask on the first frame, the task of VOS is to track and segment the single or multiple objects of interests in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Kaihua Zhang , Long Wang , Dong Liu , Bo Liu , Qingshan Liu , Zhu Li

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) task aims to segment objects in videos. However, previous settings either require time-consuming manual masks of target objects at the first frame during inference or lack the flexibility to specify arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Pinxue Guo , Lingyi Hong , Xinyu Zhou , Shuyong Gao , Wanyun Li , Jinglun Li , Zhaoyu Chen , Xiaoqiang Li , Wei Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang

Separating moving and static objects from a moving camera viewpoint is essential for 3D reconstruction, autonomous navigation, and scene understanding in robotics. Existing approaches often rely primarily on optical flow, which struggles to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Masahiro Ogawa , Qi An , Atsushi Yamashita

Weakly supervised instance segmentation has gained popularity because it reduces high annotation cost of pixel-level masks required for model training. Recent approaches for weakly supervised instance segmentation detect and segment objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Jun Ikeda , Junichiro Mori

We present IMAS, a method that segments the primary objects in videos without manual annotation in training or inference. Previous methods in unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) have demonstrated the effectiveness of motion as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Long Lian , Zhirong Wu , Stella X. Yu

Existing optical flow methods make generic, spatially homogeneous, assumptions about the spatial structure of the flow. In reality, optical flow varies across an image depending on object class. Simply put, different objects move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Laura Sevilla-Lara , Deqing Sun , Varun Jampani , Michael J. Black

This paper proposes a framework for the interactive video object segmentation (VOS) in the wild where users can choose some frames for annotations iteratively. Then, based on the user annotations, a segmentation algorithm refines the masks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Zhaoyuan Yin , Jia Zheng , Weixin Luo , Shenhan Qian , Hanling Zhang , Shenghua Gao

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is one of the most fundamental and challenging tasks in computer vision and has a wide range of applications. Most existing methods rely on spatiotemporal memory networks to extract frame-level features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Mengjiao Wang , Junpei Zhang , Xu Liu , Yuting Yang , Mengru Ma

Detecting and segmenting individual objects, regardless of their category, is crucial for many applications such as action detection or robotic interaction. While this problem has been well-studied under the classic formulation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Achal Dave , Pavel Tokmakov , Deva Ramanan

Multiple object video object segmentation is a challenging task, specially for the zero-shot case, when no object mask is given at the initial frame and the model has to find the objects to be segmented along the sequence. In our work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Carles Ventura , Miriam Bellver , Andreu Girbau , Amaia Salvador , Ferran Marques , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

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

Unsupervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to detect the most prominent object in a video. Recently, two-stream approaches that leverage both RGB images and optical flow have gained significant attention, but their performance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Suhwan Cho , Minhyeok Lee , Jungho Lee , Donghyeong Kim , Sangyoun Lee