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Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation (Ref-AVS) seeks to localize and segment target objects in video frames based on visual, auditory, and textual referring cues. The task is challenging because the relevance of different modalities varies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuchen He , Jing Zhang

Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to segment objects in an image conditioning on free-from text descriptions. Despite the overwhelming progress, it still remains challenging for current approaches to perform well on cases with various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yajie Liu , Pu Ge , Haoxiang Ma , Shichao Fan , Qingjie Liu , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

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

Understanding objects in videos in terms of fine-grained localization masks and detailed semantic properties is a fundamental task in video understanding. In this paper, we propose VoCap, a flexible video model that consumes a video and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jasper Uijlings , Xingyi Zhou , Xiuye Gu , Arsha Nagrani , Anurag Arnab , Alireza Fathi , David Ross , Cordelia Schmid

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) - the problem of identifying objects in images through natural language sentences - is a challenging task currently mostly solved through supervised learning. However, while collecting referred annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Francisco Eiras , Kemal Oksuz , Adel Bibi , Philip H. S. Torr , Puneet K. Dokania

Segmenting objects in videos is a fundamental computer vision task. The current deep learning based paradigm offers a powerful, but data-hungry solution. However, current datasets are limited by the cost and human effort of annotating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Bin Zhao , Goutam Bhat , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Referring image segmentation segments an image from a language expression. With the aim of producing high-quality masks, existing methods often adopt iterative learning approaches that rely on RNNs or stacked attention layers to refine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) task aims to segment objects in videos. However, previous settings either require time-consuming manual masks of target objects at the first frame during inference or lack the flexibility to specify arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Pinxue Guo , Lingyi Hong , Xinyu Zhou , Shuyong Gao , Wanyun Li , Jinglun Li , Zhaoyu Chen , Xiaoqiang Li , Wei Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang

Learning a discriminative model that distinguishes the specified target from surrounding distractors across frames is essential for generic object tracking (GOT). Dynamic adaptation of target representation against distractors remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Shih-Fang Chen , Jun-Cheng Chen , I-Hong Jhuo , Yen-Yu Lin

Referring Image Segmentation (RIS) is a fundamental vision-language task that outputs object masks based on text descriptions. Many works have achieved considerable progress for RIS, including different fusion method designs. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jianzong Wu , Xiangtai Li , Xia Li , Henghui Ding , Yunhai Tong , Dacheng Tao

Learning long-term spatial-temporal features are critical for many video analysis tasks. However, existing video segmentation methods predominantly rely on static image segmentation techniques, and methods capturing temporal dependency for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Ning Xu , Linjie Yang , Yuchen Fan , Jianchao Yang , Dingcheng Yue , Yuchen Liang , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Thomas Huang

This paper addresses the task of unsupervised video multi-object segmentation. Current approaches follow a two-stage paradigm: 1) detect object proposals using pre-trained Mask R-CNN, and 2) conduct generic feature matching for temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Tianfei Zhou , Jianwu Li , Xueyi Li , Ling Shao

This paper presents the novel idea of generating object proposals by leveraging temporal information for video object detection. The feature aggregation in modern region-based video object detectors heavily relies on learned proposals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Didier Stricker , Muhammamd Zeshan Afzal

Video object segmentation can be understood as a sequence-to-sequence task that can benefit from the curriculum learning strategies for better and faster training of deep neural networks. This work explores different schedule sampling and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Maria Gonzalez-i-Calabuig , Carles Ventura , Xavier Giró-i-Nieto

The current popular methods for video object segmentation (VOS) implement feature matching through several hand-crafted modules that separately perform feature extraction and matching. However, the above hand-crafted designs empirically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Qiangqiang Wu , Tianyu Yang , Wei WU , Antoni Chan

This paper aims to solve the video object segmentation (VOS) task in a scribble-supervised manner, in which VOS models are not only trained by the sparse scribble annotations but also initialized with the sparse target scribbles for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zikun Zhou , Kaige Mao , Wenjie Pei , Hongpeng Wang , Yaowei Wang , Zhenyu He

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

This paper proposes a novel framework utilizing multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) for referring video object segmentation (RefVOS). Previous MLLM-based methods commonly struggle with the dilemma between "Ref" and "VOS": they either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Lang Lin , Xueyang Yu , Ziqi Pang , Yu-Xiong Wang

Web platforms, mobile applications, and connected sensing systems generate multivariate time series with states at multiple levels of granularity, from coarse regimes to fine-grained events. Effective segmentation in these settings requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ching Chang , Ming-Chih Lo , Chiao-Tung Chan , Wen-Chih Peng , Tien-Fu Chen

This report presents an Audio-aware Referring Video Object Segmentation (Ref-VOS) pipeline tailored to the MEVIS\_Audio setting, where the referring expression is provided in spoken form rather than as clean text. Compared with a standard…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Deshui Miao , Yameng Gu , Chao Yang , Xin Li , Haijun Zhang , Ming-Hsuan Yang