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In this work, we address the challenging task of referring segmentation. The query expression in referring segmentation typically indicates the target object by describing its relationship with others. Therefore, to find the target one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Suchen Wang , Xudong Jiang

Recent advances in Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated their remarkable success as general-purpose multi-modal assistants, with particular focuses on holistic image- and video-language understanding. Conversely, less attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ye Liu , Zongyang Ma , Junfu Pu , Zhongang Qi , Yang Wu , Ying Shan , Chang Wen Chen

In this paper, we introduce VCSL (Video Copy Segment Localization), a new comprehensive segment-level annotated video copy dataset. Compared with existing copy detection datasets restricted by either video-level annotation or small-scale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Sifeng He , Xudong Yang , Chen Jiang , Gang Liang , Wei Zhang , Tan Pan , Qing Wang , Furong Xu , Chunguang Li , Jingxiong Liu , Hui Xu , Kaiming Huang , Yuan Cheng , Feng Qian , Xiaobo Zhang , Lei Yang

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is an active research area of the visual domain. One of its fundamental sub-tasks is semi-supervised / one-shot learning: given only the segmentation mask for the first frame, the task is to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Fatemeh Azimi , Benjamin Bischke , Sebastian Palacio , Federico Raue , Joern Hees , Andreas Dengel

Our objective in this work is fine-grained classification of actions in untrimmed videos, where the actions may be temporally extended or may span only a few frames of the video. We cast this into a query-response mechanism, where each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Chuhan Zhang , Ankush Gupta , Andrew Zisserman

The recent progress in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has broadened the scope of multimodal applications. However, evaluations often remain limited to functional tasks, neglecting abstract dimensions such as personality traits and human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jingxuan Li , Yuning Yang , Shengqi Yang , Linfan Zhang , Ying Nian Wu

Accurate and efficient Video Quality Assessment (VQA) has long been a key research challenge. Current mainstream VQA methods typically improve performance by pretraining on large-scale classification datasets (e.g., ImageNet, Kinetics-400),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yachun Mi , Yu Li , Yanting Li , Chen Hui , Tong Zhang , Zhixuan Li , Chenyue Song , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Shaohui Liu

Natural Language Video Localization (NLVL) aims to locate a target moment from an untrimmed video that semantically corresponds to a text query. Existing approaches mainly solve the NLVL problem from the perspective of computer vision by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Hao Zhang , Aixin Sun , Wei Jing , Liangli Zhen , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Rick Siow Mong Goh

The current state-of-the-art methods for unsupervised video object segmentation (UVOS) require extensive training on video datasets with mask annotations, limiting their effectiveness in handling challenging scenarios. However, the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Zhenghao Zhang , Shengfan Zhang , Zhichao Wei , Zuozhuo Dai , Siyu Zhu

Unsupervised pixel-level video understanding remains challenging in real-world scenarios, where motion blur, occlusion, and fast object dynamics often cause temporal drift and flickering pseudo-labels.We propose VVitCutLER, an unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhijing Lu , Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Efficient video recognition is a hot-spot research topic with the explosive growth of multimedia data on the Internet and mobile devices. Most existing methods select the salient frames without awareness of the class-specific saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Boyang Xia , Zhihao Wang , Wenhao Wu , Haoran Wang , Jungong Han

Visual Question Answering for Remote Sensing (RSVQA) is a task that aims at answering natural language questions about the content of a remote sensing image. The visual features extraction is therefore an essential step in a VQA pipeline.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Lucrezia Tosato , Hichem Boussaid , Flora Weissgerber , Camille Kurtz , Laurent Wendling , Sylvain Lobry

Retrieving the most similar vector embeddings to a given query among a massive collection of vectors has long been a key component of countless real-world applications. The recently introduced Retrieval-Augmented Generation is one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Cecilia Aguerrebere , Mark Hildebrand , Ishwar Singh Bhati , Theodore Willke , Mariano Tepper

In Visual Document Understanding (VDU) tasks, fine-tuning a pre-trained Vision-Language Model (VLM) with new datasets often falls short in optimizing the vision encoder to identify query-specific regions in text-rich document images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Binh M. Le , Shaoyuan Xu , Jinmiao Fu , Zhishen Huang , Moyan Li , Yanhui Guo , Hongdong Li , Sameera Ramasinghe , Bryan Wang

We introduce a novel sequential modeling approach which enables learning a Large Vision Model (LVM) without making use of any linguistic data. To do this, we define a common format, "visual sentences", in which we can represent raw images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yutong Bai , Xinyang Geng , Karttikeya Mangalam , Amir Bar , Alan Yuille , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Alexei A Efros

Egocentric visual query localization (EgoVQL) focuses on localizing the target of interest in space and time from first-person videos, given a visual query. Despite recent progressive, existing methods often struggle to handle severe object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Bing Fan , Yunhe Feng , Yapeng Tian , James Chenhao Liang , Yuewei Lin , Yan Huang , Heng Fan

Detecting what has changed in an environment is essential for long-term autonomy, yet most change detection settings assume fixed viewpoints, mild misalignment, or only a few changed objects. We introduce Video-based Scene Change Detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jiae Yoon , Ue-Hwan Kim

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to produce pixel-level masks of sound producing objects in videos, by jointly learning from audio and visual signals. However, real-world environments are inherently dynamic, causing audio and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Siddeshwar Raghavan , Gautham Vinod , Bruce Coburn , Fengqing Zhu

Instance segmentation in videos, which aims to segment and track multiple objects in video frames, has garnered a flurry of research attention in recent years. In this paper, we present a novel weakly supervised framework with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Liqi Yan , Qifan Wang , Siqi Ma , Jingang Wang , Changbin Yu

Nowadays, data is represented by vectors. Retrieving those vectors, among millions and billions, that are similar to a given query is a ubiquitous problem, known as similarity search, of relevance for a wide range of applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Cecilia Aguerrebere , Ishwar Bhati , Mark Hildebrand , Mariano Tepper , Ted Willke