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The Segmentation Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has proven to be a powerful foundation model for promptable visual object segmentation in both images and videos, capable of storing object-aware memories and transferring them temporally through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Syed Hesham Syed Ariff , Yun Liu , Guolei Sun , Jing Yang , Henghui Ding , Xue Geng , Xudong Jiang

The tracking-by-detection paradigm today has become the dominant method for multi-object tracking and works by detecting objects in each frame and then performing data association across frames. However, its sequential frame-wise matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Sanghyun Woo , Kwanyong Park , Seoung Wug Oh , In So Kweon , Joon-Young Lee

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

Learning object segmentation in image and video datasets without human supervision is a challenging problem. Humans easily identify moving salient objects in videos using the gestalt principle of common fate, which suggests that what moves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Silky Singh , Shripad Deshmukh , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Segment anything model (SAM) has demonstrated excellent generalizability in common vision scenarios, yet falling short of the ability to understand specialized data. Recently, several methods have combined parameter-efficient techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yiran Song , Qianyu Zhou , Xuequan Lu , Zhiwen Shao , Lizhuang Ma

A major challenge for video semantic segmentation is the lack of labeled data. In most benchmark datasets, only one frame of a video clip is annotated, which makes most supervised methods fail to utilize information from the rest of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Mingyu Ding , Zhe Wang , Bolei Zhou , Jianping Shi , Zhiwu Lu , Ping Luo

Temporal modeling of objects is a key challenge in multiple object tracking (MOT). Existing methods track by associating detections through motion-based and appearance-based similarity heuristics. The post-processing nature of association…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Fangao Zeng , Bin Dong , Yuang Zhang , Tiancai Wang , Xiangyu Zhang , Yichen Wei

Video object segmentation (VOS) aims at pixel-level object tracking given only the annotations in the first frame. Due to the large visual variations of objects in video and the lack of training samples, it remains a difficult task despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Qiang Zhou , Zilong Huang , Lichao Huang , Yongchao Gong , Han Shen , Chang Huang , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Dense point tracking is a challenging task requiring the continuous tracking of every point in the initial frame throughout a substantial portion of a video, even in the presence of occlusions. Traditional methods use optical flow models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Qiaole Dong , Yanwei Fu

Tracking and segmenting multiple similar objects with distinct or complex parts in long-term videos is particularly challenging due to the ambiguity in identifying target components and the confusion caused by occlusion, background clutter,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xin Li , Deshui Miao , Zhenyu He , Yaowei Wang , Huchuan Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Robust multi-object tracking (MOT) is a prerequisite fora safe deployment of self-driving cars. Tracking objects, however, remains a highly challenging problem, especially in cluttered autonomous driving scenes in which objects tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Wei-Chih Hung , Henrik Kretzschmar , Tsung-Yi Lin , Yuning Chai , Ruichi Yu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Dragomir Anguelov

The recent trend in multiple object tracking (MOT) is heading towards leveraging deep learning to boost the tracking performance. In this paper, we propose a novel solution named TransSTAM, which leverages Transformer to effectively model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Peng Dai , Yiqiang Feng , Renliang Weng , Changshui Zhang

In this paper we introduce SiamMask, a framework to perform both visual object tracking and video object segmentation, in real-time, with the same simple method. We improve the offline training procedure of popular fully-convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Weiming Hu , Qiang Wang , Li Zhang , Luca Bertinetto , Philip H. S. Torr

Online Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) from videos is a challenging computer vision task which has been extensively studied for decades. Most of the existing MOT algorithms are based on the Tracking-by-Detection (TBD) paradigm combined with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Zhen He , Jian Li , Daxue Liu , Hangen He , David Barber

Video object segmentation (VOS) is a critical task in the development of video perception and understanding. The Segment-Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), released by Meta AI, is the current state-of-the-art architecture for end-to-end VOS. SAM 2…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Clayton Bromley , Alexander Moore , Amar Saini , Doug Poland , Carmen Carrano

We propose an end-to-end Multitask Learning Transformer framework, named MulT, to simultaneously learn multiple high-level vision tasks, including depth estimation, semantic segmentation, reshading, surface normal estimation, 2D keypoint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Deblina Bhattacharjee , Tong Zhang , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

The development of smart cities has led to the generation of massive amounts of multi-modal data in the context of a range of tasks that enable a comprehensive monitoring of the smart city infrastructure and services. This paper surveys one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Xuefeng Zhu , Hui Li , Shaochuan Zhao , Tao Zhou , Chunyang Cheng , Xiaojun Wu , Josef Kittler

Multi-class multi-instance segmentation is the task of identifying masks for multiple object classes and multiple instances of the same class within an image. The foundational Segment Anything Model (SAM) is designed for promptable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Mariia Khan , Yue Qiu , Yuren Cong , Jumana Abu-Khalaf , David Suter , Bodo Rosenhahn

Most existing multimodal trackers adopt uniform fusion strategies, overlooking the inherent differences between modalities. Moreover, they propagate temporal information through mixed tokens, leading to entangled and less discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Shilei Wang , Pujian Lai , Dong Gao , Jifeng Ning , Gong Cheng

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) has witnessed remarkable advances in recent years. However, existing studies dominantly request prior knowledge of the tracking target, and hence may not generalize well to unseen categories. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Hexin Bai , Wensheng Cheng , Peng Chu , Juehuan Liu , Kai Zhang , Haibin Ling