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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 Image Segmentation (RIS) aims at segmenting the target object from an image referred by one given natural language expression. The diverse and flexible expressions as well as complex visual contents in the images raise the RIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yang Jiao , Zequn Jie , Weixin Luo , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiaolin Wei , Lin Ma

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

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to achieve pixel-level localization of sound sources in videos, while Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation (AVSS), as an extension of AVS, further pursues semantic understanding of audio-visual scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Juncheng Ma , Peiwen Sun , Yaoting Wang , Di Hu

Audio visual segmentation (AVS) aims to segment the sounding objects for each frame of a given video. To distinguish the sounding objects from silent ones, both audio-visual semantic correspondence and temporal interaction are required. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Shaofei Huang , Han Li , Yuqing Wang , Hongji Zhu , Jiao Dai , Jizhong Han , Wenge Rong , Si Liu

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

Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) has drawn increasing attention for its capacity to generalize segmentation beyond predefined categories. However, existing methods typically predict segmentation masks with simple forward inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zongyan Han , Jiale Cao , Shuo Chen , Tong Wang , Jorma Laaksonen , Rao Muhammad Anwer

Reasoning-centric video object segmentation is an inherently complex task: the query often refers to dynamics, causality, and temporal interactions, rather than static appearances. Yet existing solutions generally collapse these factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yifan Li , Yingda Yin , Lingting Zhu , Weikai Chen , Shengju Qian , Xin Wang , Yanwei Fu

Remote sensing imagery has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its instrumental role in global environmental monitoring, land usage monitoring, and more. As image databases grow each year, performing automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jielu Zhang , Zhongliang Zhou , Gengchen Mai , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Sheng Li , Lan Mu

Audio-visual semantic segmentation (AVSS) aims to segment and classify sounding objects in videos with acoustic cues. However, most approaches operate on the close-set assumption and only identify pre-defined categories from training data,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Ruohao Guo , Liao Qu , Dantong Niu , Yanyu Qi , Wenzhen Yue , Ji Shi , Bowei Xing , Xianghua Ying

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

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) excels at general image segmentation but has limited ability to understand natural language, which restricts its direct application in Referring Expression Segmentation (RES). Toward this end, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Wei Tang , Xuejing Liu , Yanpeng Sun , Zechao Li

Recent advances in pixel-level tasks (e.g. segmentation) illustrate the benefit of of long-range interactions between aggregated region-based representations that can enhance local features. However, such aggregated representations, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain , Leonid Sigal , James J. Little

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, aimed at partitioning an image into semantically meaningful regions. Referring image segmentation extends this task by using natural language expressions to localize specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alaa Dalaq , Muzammil Behzad

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the target instance in a video, referred by a text expression. Conventional approaches are mostly supervised learning, requiring expensive pixel-level mask annotations. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Miaojing Shi , Jun Huang , Zijie Yue , Hanli Wang

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the target object referred by a natural language expression. However, previous methods rely on the strong assumption that one sentence must describe one target in the image, which is often not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yutao Hu , Qixiong Wang , Wenqi Shao , Enze Xie , Zhenguo Li , Jungong Han , Ping Luo

Most state-of-the-art semi-supervised video object segmentation methods rely on a pixel-accurate mask of a target object provided for the first frame of a video. However, obtaining a detailed segmentation mask is expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Anna Khoreva , Anna Rohrbach , Bernt Schiele

Audio-visual segmentation is a challenging task that aims to predict pixel-level masks for sound sources in a video. Previous work applied a comprehensive manually designed architecture with countless pixel-wise accurate masks as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Shentong Mo , Bhiksha Raj

Different from Object Detection, Visual Grounding deals with detecting a bounding box for each text-image pair. This one box for each text-image data provides sparse supervision signals. Although previous works achieve impressive results,…

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