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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

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) has recently generated great popularity in computer vision due to its widespread applications. Existing RVOS setting contains elaborately trimmed videos, with text-referred objects always appearing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mingqi Gao , Jinyu Yang , Jingnan Luo , Xiantong Zhen , Jungong Han , Giovanni Montana , Feng Zheng

Tracking and segmenting multiple objects in complex scenes has always been a challenge in the field of video object segmentation, especially in scenarios where objects are occluded and split into parts. In such cases, the definition of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Deshui Miao , Xin Li , Zhenyu He , Yaowei Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

This paper strives for motion expressions guided video segmentation, which focuses on segmenting objects in video content based on a sentence describing the motion of the objects. Existing referring video object datasets typically focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Xudong Jiang , Chen Change Loy

Video object segmentation (VOS) is a challenging task with wide applications such as video editing and autonomous driving. While Cutie provides strong query-based segmentation and SAM2 offers enriched representations via a pretrained ViT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Chang Soo Lim , Joonyoung Moon , Donghyeon Cho

Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to segment arbitrary target objects in video when the ground truth segmentation mask of the initial frame is provided. Due to this limitation of using prior knowledge about the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Suhwan Cho , Heansung Lee , Sungmin Woo , Sungjun Jang , Sangyoun Lee

Video object segmentation (VOS) has made significant progress with the rise of deep learning. However, there still exist some thorny problems, for example, similar objects are easily confused and tiny objects are difficult to be found. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Wangwang Yang , Jinming Su , Yiting Duan , Tingyi Guo , Junfeng Luo

Current semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) methods usually leverage the entire features of one frame to predict object masks and update memory. This introduces significant redundant computations. To reduce redundancy, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Bo Miao , Mohammed Bennamoun , Yongsheng Gao , Ajmal Mian

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

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is foundational to numerous computer vision applications, including surveillance, autonomous driving, robotics and generative video editing. However, existing VOS models often struggle with precise mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Elham Soltani Kazemi , Imad Eddine Toubal , Gani Rahmon , Jaired Collins , K. Palaniappan

Visual object tracking and segmentation in omnidirectional videos are challenging due to the wide field-of-view and large spherical distortion brought by 360{\deg} images. To alleviate these problems, we introduce a novel representation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yinzhe Xu , Huajian Huang , Yingshu Chen , Sai-Kit Yeung

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

Motion Expression guided Video Segmentation (MeViS), as an emerging task, poses many new challenges to the field of referring video object segmentation (RVOS). In this technical report, we investigated and validated the effectiveness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Mingqi Gao , Jingnan Luo , Jinyu Yang , Jungong Han , Feng Zheng

Although deep learning methods have achieved advanced video object recognition performance in recent years, perceiving heavily occluded objects in a video is still a very challenging task. To promote the development of occlusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jiyang Qi , Yan Gao , Yao Hu , Xinggang Wang , Xiaoyu Liu , Xiang Bai , Serge Belongie , Alan Yuille , Philip H. S. Torr , Song Bai

Referring Video Object Segmentation is an emerging multi-modal task that aims to segment objects in the video given a natural language expression. In this work, we build two instance-centric models and fuse predicted results from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Bin Cao , Yisi Zhang , Hanyi Wang , Xingjian He , Jing Liu

In the booming video era, video segmentation attracts increasing research attention in the multimedia community. Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims at segmenting objects in all target frames of a video, given annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xiaohao Xu , Jinglu Wang , Xiang Ming , Yan Lu

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) is an emerging cross-modality task that aims to generate pixel-level maps of the target objects referred by given textual expressions. The main concept involves learning an accurate alignment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Baoli Sun , Xinzhu Ma , Ning Wang , Zhihui Wang , Zhiyong Wang

Recent state-of-the-art semi-supervised Video Object Segmentation (VOS) methods have shown significant improvements in target object segmentation accuracy when information from preceding frames is used in segmenting the current frame. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Amir Nazemi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Zahra Gharaee , Paul Fieguth

Storing intermediate frame segmentations as memory for long-range context modeling, spatial-temporal memory-based methods have recently showcased impressive results in semi-supervised video object segmentation (SVOS). However, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Hantao Zhou , Runze Hu , Xiu Li

Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) is a multi-task problem performing detection, segmentation, and tracking simultaneously. Extended from image set applications, video data additionally induces the temporal information, which, if handled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Thuy C. Nguyen , Tuan N. Tang , Nam LH. Phan , Chuong H. Nguyen , Masayuki Yamazaki , Masao Yamanaka