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The task of referring video object segmentation aims to segment the object in the frames of a given video to which the referring expressions refer. Previous methods adopt multi-stage approach and design complex pipelines to obtain promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhiwei Hu , Bo Chen , Yuan Gao , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai

Conventional approaches to video segmentation are confined to predefined object categories and cannot identify out-of-vocabulary objects, let alone objects that are not identified explicitly but only referred to implicitly in complex text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yiqing Shen , Chenjia Li , Chenxiao Fan , Mathias Unberath

This report presents our winning solution to the 5th PVUW MeViS-Text Challenge. The track studies referring video object segmentation under motion-centric language expressions, where the model must jointly understand appearance, temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xusheng He , Canyang Wu , Jinrong Zhang , Weili Guan , Jianlong Wu , Liqiang Nie

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

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

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects throughout a video based on a text description. This is challenging as it involves deep vision-language understanding, pixel-level dense prediction and spatiotemporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Tianming Liang , Kun-Yu Lin , Chaolei Tan , Jianguo Zhang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

Audio-based Referring Video Object Segmentation (ARVOS) requires grounding audio queries into pixel-level object masks over time, posing challenges in bridging acoustic signals with spatio-temporal visual representations. In this report, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jihwan Hong , Jaeyoung Do

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the object referred to by the query sentence throughout the entire video. Most existing methods require end-to-end training with dense mask annotations, which could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ci-Siang Lin , I-Jieh Liu , Min-Hung Chen , Chien-Yi Wang , Sifei Liu , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

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

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant attention for its impressive performance in image segmentation. However, it lacks proficiency in referring video object segmentation (RVOS) due to the need for precise user-interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yonglin Li , Jing Zhang , Xiao Teng , Long Lan , Xinwang Liu

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

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

The task of video object segmentation with referring expressions (language-guided VOS) is to, given a linguistic phrase and a video, generate binary masks for the object to which the phrase refers. Our work argues that existing benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Miriam Bellver , Carles Ventura , Carina Silberer , Ioannis Kazakos , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Video Object Segmentation, and video processing in general, has been historically dominated by methods that rely on the temporal consistency and redundancy in consecutive video frames. When the temporal smoothness is suddenly broken, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Sergi Caelles , Yuhua Chen , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Laura Leal-Taixé , Daniel Cremers , Luc Van Gool

The objective of Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is to localise the sounding objects within visual scenes by accurately predicting pixel-wise segmentation masks. To tackle the task, it involves a comprehensive consideration of both the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jinxiang Liu , Yu Wang , Chen Ju , Chaofan Ma , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie

Video understanding requires not only visual recognition but also complex reasoning. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities, they typically process videos largely in a single-pass manner with limited support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hong Gao , Yiming Bao , Xuezhen Tu , Yutong Xu , Yue Jin , Yiyang Mu , Bin Zhong , Linan Yue , Min-Ling Zhang

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

Motion expression video segmentation is designed to segment objects in accordance with the input motion expressions. In contrast to the conventional Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS), it places emphasis on motion as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Hao Fang , Runmin Cong , Xiankai Lu , Zhiyang Chen , Wei Zhang

Text-guided object segmentation requires both cross-modal reasoning and pixel grounding abilities. Most recent methods treat text-guided segmentation as one-shot grounding, where the model predicts pixel prompts in a single forward pass to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xingqi He , Yujie Zhang , Shuyong Gao , Wenjie Li , Lingyi Hong , Mingxi Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Jiyuan Fu , Wenqiang Zhang

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