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Recent advances in multimodal large language models(MLLMs) have led to remarkable progress in visual grounding, enabling fine-grained cross-modal alignment between textual queries and image regions. However, transferring such capabilities…

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The objective of this paper is self-supervised representation learning, with the goal of solving semi-supervised video object segmentation (a.k.a. dense tracking). We make the following contributions: (i) we propose to improve the existing…

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Remote sensing visual grounding (RSVG) aims to localize objects in remote sensing imagery according to natural language expressions. Previous methods typically rely on sentence-level vision-language alignment, which struggles to exploit…

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Existing semi-supervised video object segmentation methods either focus on temporal feature matching or spatial-temporal feature modeling. However, they do not address the issues of sufficient target interaction and efficient parallel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Deshui Miao , Xin Li , Zhenyu He , Huchuan Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Despite progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), the challenge of interpreting long-form videos in response to linguistic queries persists, largely due to the inefficiency in temporal grounding and limited pre-trained context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yuxuan Wang , Yueqian Wang , Pengfei Wu , Jianxin Liang , Dongyan Zhao , Yang Liu , Zilong Zheng

Given some video-query pairs with untrimmed videos and sentence queries, temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to locate query-relevant segments in these videos. Although previous respectable TSG methods have achieved remarkable success,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Wanlong Fang , Changshuo Wang , Daizong Liu , Keke Tang , Jianfeng Dong , Pan Zhou , Beibei Li

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment out the object in a video referred by an expression. Current RVOS methods view referring expressions as unstructured sequences, neglecting their crucial semantic structure essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Huihui Xu , Jiashi Lin , Haoyu Chen , Junjun He , Lei Zhu

Reasoning Video Object Segmentation is a challenging task, aiming at generating a mask sequence from an input video given a complex and implicit text query. While existing works finetune Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) for the task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shiu-hong Kao , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Temporal grounding, which localizes video moments related to a natural language query, is a core problem of vision-language learning and video understanding. To encode video moments of varying lengths, recent methods employ a multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Thong Thanh Nguyen , Yi Bin , Xiaobao Wu , Zhiyuan Hu , Cong-Duy T Nguyen , See-Kiong Ng , Anh Tuan Luu

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) requires segmenting and tracking objects in videos conditioned on natural-language expressions, demanding fine-grained understanding of both appearance and motion. Building on Sa2VA, which couples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Quanzhu Niu , Dengxian Gong , Shihao Chen , Tao Zhang , Yikang Zhou , Haobo Yuan , Lu Qi , Xiangtai Li , Shunping Ji

Contemporary Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) methods typically adhere to a pre-train then fine-tune regime, where a segmentation model trained on images is fine-tuned on videos. However, the lack of temporal knowledge in the pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Qing Zhong , Peng-Tao Jiang , Wen Wang , Guodong Ding , Lin Wu , Kaiqi Huang

Robots interacting with humans through natural language can unlock numerous applications such as Referring Grasp Synthesis (RGS). Given a text query, RGS determines a stable grasp pose to manipulate the referred object in the robot's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Vineet Bhat , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Ramesh Karri , Farshad Khorrami

Seeking high-quality representations with latent variable models (LVMs) to reveal the intrinsic correlation between neural activity and behavior or sensory stimuli has attracted much interest. In the study of the biological visual system,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Liwei Huang , ZhengYu Ma , Liutao Yu , Huihui Zhou , Yonghong Tian

Amodal perception requires inferring the full shape of an object that is partially occluded. This task is particularly challenging on two levels: (1) it requires more information than what is contained in the instant retina or imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Jian Yao , Yuxin Hong , Chiyu Wang , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Francesco Locatello , David Wipf , Yanwei Fu , Zheng Zhang

We study the problem of segmenting moving objects in unconstrained videos. Given a video, the task is to segment all the objects that exhibit independent motion in at least one frame. We formulate this as a learning problem and design our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Pavel Tokmakov , Cordelia Schmid , Karteek Alahari

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

Video temporal grounding (VTG) is a fine-grained video understanding problem that aims to ground relevant clips in untrimmed videos given natural language queries. Most existing VTG models are built upon frame-wise final-layer CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Ye Liu , Jixuan He , Wanhua Li , Junsik Kim , Donglai Wei , Hanspeter Pfister , Chang Wen Chen

Referring Video Object Segmentation (R-VOS) is a challenging task that aims to segment an object in a video based on a linguistic expression. Most existing R-VOS methods have a critical assumption: the object referred to must appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiang Li , Jinglu Wang , Xiaohao Xu , Xiao Li , Bhiksha Raj , Yan Lu

Temporal sentence localization in videos (TSLV) aims to retrieve the most interested segment in an untrimmed video according to a given sentence query. However, almost of existing TSLV approaches suffer from the same limitations: (1) They…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou

Reasoning video object segmentation predicts pixel-level masks in videos from natural-language queries that may involve implicit and temporally grounded references. However, existing methods are developed and evaluated in an offline regime,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jinyuan Liu , Yang Wang , Zeyu Zhao , Weixin Li , Song Wang , Ruize Han