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Open-vocabulary Video Instance Segmentation (OpenVIS) can simultaneously detect, segment, and track arbitrary object categories in a video, without being constrained to categories seen during training. In this work, we propose InstFormer, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Pinxue Guo , Tony Huang , Peiyang He , Xuefeng Liu , Tianjun Xiao , Zhaoyu Chen , Wenqiang Zhang

Recently, an audio-visual instance segmentation (AVIS) task has been introduced, aiming to identify, segment and track individual sounding instances in videos. However, prevailing methods primarily adopt the offline paradigm, that cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yingjian Zhu , Ying Wang , Yuyang Hong , Ruohao Guo , Kun Ding , Xin Gu , Bin Fan , Shiming Xiang

Instance level video object segmentation is an important technique for video editing and compression. To capture the temporal coherence, in this paper, we develop MaskRNN, a recurrent neural net approach which fuses in each frame the output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Yuan-Ting Hu , Jia-Bin Huang , Alexander G. Schwing

The goal of video segmentation is to turn video data into a set of concrete motion clusters that can be easily interpreted as building blocks of the video. There are some works on similar topics like detecting scene cuts in a video, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Hajar Sadeghi Sokeh , Vasileios Argyriou , Dorothy Monekosso , Paolo Remagnino

This work addresses the task of instance-aware semantic segmentation. Our key motivation is to design a simple method with a new modelling-paradigm, which therefore has a different trade-off between advantages and disadvantages compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Alexander Kirillov , Evgeny Levinkov , Bjoern Andres , Bogdan Savchynskyy , Carsten Rother

It is expensive and labour-extensive to label the pixel-wise object masks in a video. As a result, the amount of pixel-wise annotations in existing video instance segmentation (VIS) datasets is small, limiting the generalization capability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Minghan Li , Lei Zhang

Previous works on video object segmentation (VOS) are trained on densely annotated videos. Nevertheless, acquiring annotations in pixel level is expensive and time-consuming. In this work, we demonstrate the feasibility of training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Kun Yan , Xiao Li , Fangyun Wei , Jinglu Wang , Chenbin Zhang , Ping Wang , Yan Lu

In this work we present a novel solution for Video Instance Segmentation(VIS), that is automatically generating instance level segmentation masks along with object class and tracking them in a video. Our method improves the masks from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Vidit Goel , Jiachen Li , Shubhika Garg , Harsh Maheshwari , Humphrey Shi

Visual effects (VFX) production often struggles with slow, resource-intensive mask generation. This paper presents an automated video segmentation pipeline that creates temporally consistent instance masks. It employs machine learning for:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Johannes Merz , Lucien Fostier

The performance of Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) methods has improved significantly with the advent of transformer networks. However, these networks often face challenges in training due to the high annotation cost. To address this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Farnoosh Arefi , Amir M. Mansourian , Shohreh Kasaei

Recently, transformer-based methods have achieved impressive results on Video Instance Segmentation (VIS). However, most of these top-performing methods run in an offline manner by processing the entire video clip at once to predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Zitong Zhan , Daniel McKee , Svetlana Lazebnik

Generating long, high-quality videos remains a challenge due to the complex interplay of spatial and temporal dynamics and hardware limitations. In this work, we introduce MaskFlow, a unified video generation framework that combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Michael Fuest , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Unsupervised video object segmentation aims to segment a target object in the video without a ground truth mask in the initial frame. This challenging task requires extracting features for the most salient common objects within a video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Seunghoon Lee , Chaewon Park , Sangyoun Lee

Traditionally, algorithms that learn to segment object instances in 2D images have heavily relied on large amounts of human-annotated data. Only recently, novel approaches have emerged tackling this problem in an unsupervised fashion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Leon Sick , Dominik Engel , Sebastian Hartwig , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Instance segmentation is a fundamental skill for many robotic applications. We propose a self-supervised method that uses grasp interactions to collect segmentation supervision for an instance segmentation model. When a robot grasps an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 YuXuan Liu , Xi Chen , Pieter Abbeel

Recently, memory-based approaches show promising results on semi-supervised video object segmentation. These methods predict object masks frame-by-frame with the help of frequently updated memory of the previous mask. Different from this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Kwanyong Park , Sanghyun Woo , Seoung Wug Oh , In So Kweon , Joon-Young Lee

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

3D instance segmentation is an important task for real-world applications. To avoid costly manual annotations, existing methods have explored generating pseudo labels by transferring 2D masks from foundation models to 3D. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Juan Wang , Yasutomo Kawanishi , Tomo Miyazaki , Zhijie Wang , Shinichiro Omachi

The Audio-Visual Video Parsing task aims to identify and temporally localize the events that occur in either or both the audio and visual streams of audible videos. It often performs in a weakly-supervised manner, where only video event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jinxing Zhou , Dan Guo , Yiran Zhong , Meng Wang

Image segmentation methods are usually trained with pixel-level annotations, which require significant human effort to collect. The most common solution to address this constraint is to implement weakly-supervised pipelines trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Miriam Bellver , Amaia Salvador , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto