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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

Referring video object segmentation aims to segment the object referred by a given language expression. Existing works typically require compressed video bitstream to be decoded to RGB frames before being segmented, which increases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Weidong Chen , Dexiang Hong , Yuankai Qi , Zhenjun Han , Shuhui Wang , Laiyun Qing , Qingming Huang , Guorong Li

Referring-based Video Object Segmentation is a multimodal problem that requires producing fine-grained segmentation results guided by external cues. Traditional approaches to this task typically involve training specialized models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Tuyen Tran , Thao Minh Le , Truyen Tran

Motion Expression guided Video Segmentation is a challenging task that aims at segmenting objects in the video based on natural language expressions with motion descriptions. Unlike the previous referring video object segmentation (RVOS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Bin Cao , Yisi Zhang , Xuanxu Lin , Xingjian He , Bo Zhao , Jing Liu

Video object segmentation (VOS) describes the task of segmenting a set of objects in each frame of a video. In the semi-supervised setting, the first mask of each object is provided at test time. Following the one-shot principle,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Tim Meinhardt , Laura Leal-Taixe

Video object segmentation (VOS) is a highly challenging problem since the initial mask, defining the target object, is only given at test-time. The main difficulty is to effectively handle appearance changes and similar background objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Andreas Robinson , Felix Järemo Lawin , Martin Danelljan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Michael Felsberg

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) relies on natural language expressions to segment target objects in video, emphasizing modeling dense text-video relations. The current RVOS methods typically use independently pre-trained vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Feiyu Pan , Hao Fang , Xiankai Lu

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

We present an approach to semi-supervised video object segmentation, in the context of the DAVIS 2017 challenge. Our approach combines category-based object detection, category-independent object appearance segmentation and temporal object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Gilad Sharir , Eddie Smolyansky , Itamar Friedman

Referring image segmentation is a challenging task that involves generating pixel-wise segmentation masks based on natural language descriptions. The complexity of this task increases with the intricacy of the sentences provided. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hai Nguyen-Truong , E-Ro Nguyen , Tuan-Anh Vu , Minh-Triet Tran , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

Traditional reference segmentation tasks have predominantly focused on silent visual scenes, neglecting the integral role of multimodal perception and interaction in human experiences. In this work, we introduce a novel task called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yaoting Wang , Peiwen Sun , Dongzhan Zhou , Guangyao Li , Honggang Zhang , Di Hu

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) relies on natural language expressions to segment target objects in video. In this year, LSVOS Challenge RVOS Track replaced the origin YouTube-RVOS benchmark with MeViS. MeViS focuses on referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Hao Fang , Feiyu Pan , Xiankai Lu , Wei Zhang , Runmin Cong

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

Referring multi-object tracking (RMOT) is an emerging cross-modal task that aims to locate an arbitrary number of target objects and maintain their identities referred by a language expression in a video. This intricate task involves the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Changcheng Xiao , Qiong Cao , Yujie Zhong , Xiang Zhang , Tao Wang , Canqun Yang , Long Lan

Unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) is a per-pixel binary labeling problem which aims at separating the foreground object from the background in the video without using the ground truth (GT) mask of the foreground object. Most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Youngjo Lee , Hongje Seong , Euntai Kim

Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) aims to segment target objects in audible videos based on given reference expressions. Prior works typically rely on learning latent embeddings via multimodal fusion to prompt a tunable SAM/SAM2…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jinxing Zhou , Yanghao Zhou , Mingfei Han , Tong Wang , Xiaojun Chang , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer

In recent years, the task of segmenting foreground objects from background in a video, i.e. video object segmentation (VOS), has received considerable attention. In this paper, we propose a single end-to-end trainable deep neural network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Ye Lyu , George Vosselman , Gui-Song Xia , Michael Ying Yang

We introduce a new task, Referring and Reasoning for Selective Masks (R2SM), which extends text-guided segmentation by incorporating mask-type selection driven by user intent. This task challenges vision-language models to determine whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yu-Lin Shih , Wei-En Tai , Cheng Sun , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Hwann-Tzong Chen

Traditional video reasoning segmentation methods rely on supervised fine-tuning, which limits generalization to out-of-distribution scenarios and lacks explicit reasoning. To address this, we propose \textbf{VideoSeg-R1}, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zishan Xu , Yifu Guo , Yuquan Lu , Fengyu Yang , Junxin Li

Referring remote sensing image segmentation is crucial for achieving fine-grained visual understanding through free-format textual input, enabling enhanced scene and object extraction in remote sensing applications. Current research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Keyan Chen , Jiafan Zhang , Chenyang Liu , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi