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Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to identify, at the pixel level, the object in a visual scene that produces a given sound. Current AVS methods rely on costly fine-grained annotations of mask-audio pairs, making them impractical for…

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Open-vocabulary image semantic segmentation (OVS) seeks to segment images into semantic regions across an open set of categories. Existing OVS methods commonly depend on foundational vision-language models and utilize similarity computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Qinglong Cao , Yuntian Chen , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment video objects with the guidance of natural language reference. Previous methods typically tackle RVOS through directly grounding linguistic reference over the image lattice. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Chen Liang , Yu Wu , Tianfei Zhou , Wenguan Wang , Zongxin Yang , Yunchao Wei , Yi Yang

Large vision models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibit significant limitations when applied to downstream tasks in the wild. Consequently, reference segmentation, which leverages reference images and their corresponding masks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Haoran Wang , Zekun Li , Jian Zhang , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS), as a supervised learning task, relies on sufficient annotated data for a given scene. However, in more realistic scenarios, only minimal annotations are available for a new scene, which poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Guanghui Li , Mingqi Gao , Heng Liu , Xiantong Zhen , Feng Zheng

Referring Video Object Segmentation (R-VOS) methods face challenges in maintaining consistent object segmentation due to temporal context variability and the presence of other visually similar objects. We propose an end-to-end R-VOS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Bo Miao , Mohammed Bennamoun , Yongsheng Gao , Mubarak Shah , Ajmal Mian

Recent image segmentation models have advanced to segment images into high-quality masks for visual entities, and yet they cannot provide comprehensive semantic understanding for complex queries based on both language and vision. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shengcao Cao , Zijun Wei , Jason Kuen , Kangning Liu , Lingzhi Zhang , Jiuxiang Gu , HyunJoon Jung , Liang-Yan Gui , Yu-Xiong Wang

Audio-Visual Large Language Models (AV-LLMs) face prohibitive computational overhead from massive audio and video tokens. Token reduction, while extensively explored for video-only LLMs, is insufficient for the audio-visual domain, as these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Chao Gong , Depeng Wang , Zhipeng Wei , Ya Guo , Huijia Zhu , Jingjing Chen

Given a reference object of an unknown type in an image, human observers can effortlessly find the objects of the same category in another image and precisely tell their visual boundaries. Such visual cognition capability of humans seems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Lechao Cheng , Zunlei Feng , Xinchao Wang , Ya Jie Liu , Jie Lei , Mingli Song

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have recently exhibited remarkable capabilities in general video understanding. However, they mainly focus on holistic comprehension and struggle with capturing fine-grained spatial and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yuqian Yuan , Hang Zhang , Wentong Li , Zesen Cheng , Boqiang Zhang , Long Li , Xin Li , Deli Zhao , Wenqiao Zhang , Yueting Zhuang , Jianke Zhu , Lidong Bing

Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) links language to region level visual perception. Standard benchmarks (RefCOCO, RefCOCO+, RefCOCOg) have progressed rapidly with multimodal LLMs but remain weak tests of visual reasoning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Qihua Dong , Kuo Yang , Lin Ju , Handong Zhao , Yitian Zhang , Yizhou Wang , Huimin Zeng , Jianglin Lu , Yun Fu

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

The primary challenge in video super-resolution (VSR) is to handle large motions in the input frames, which makes it difficult to accurately aggregate information from multiple frames. Existing works either adopt deformable convolutions or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Zhihe Lu , Zeyu Xiao , Jiawang Bai , Zhiwei Xiong , Xinchao Wang

Temporal Action Segmentation (TAS) requires dividing videos into action segments, yet the vast space of activities and alternative breakdowns makes collecting comprehensive datasets infeasible. Existing methods remain limited to closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Asim Unmesh , Kaki Ramesh , Mayank Patel , Rahul Jain , Karthik Ramani

Recently, an audio-visual segmentation (AVS) task has been introduced, aiming to group pixels with sounding objects within a given video. This task necessitates a first-ever audio-driven pixel-level understanding of the scene, posing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Qi Yang , Xing Nie , Tong Li , Pengfei Gao , Ying Guo , Cheng Zhen , Pengfei Yan , Shiming Xiang

Large multimodal models (LMMs) exhibit strong task generalization capabilities, offering new opportunities for zero-shot visual anomaly segmentation (ZSAS). However, existing LMM-based segmentation approaches still face fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhen Qu , Xian Tao , Xiaoyi Bao , Dingrong Wang , ShiChen Qu , Zhengtao Zhang , Xingang Wang

This work focuses on multi-shot semi-supervised video object segmentation (MVOS), which aims at segmenting the target object indicated by an initial mask throughout a video with multiple shots. The existing VOS methods mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hengrui Hu , Kaining Ying , Henghui Ding

Audiovisual segmentation (AVS) is a challenging task that aims to segment visual objects in videos according to their associated acoustic cues. With multiple sound sources and background disturbances involved, establishing robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Xiang Li , Jinglu Wang , Xiaohao Xu , Xiulian Peng , Rita Singh , Yan Lu , Bhiksha Raj

Multimodal referring segmentation aims to segment target objects in visual scenes, such as images, videos, and 3D scenes, based on referring expressions in text or audio format. This task plays a crucial role in practical applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Henghui Ding , Song Tang , Shuting He , Chang Liu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

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