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Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment objects in videos based on textual queries. Current methods mainly rely on large-scale supervised fine-tuning (SFT) of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Haichao Jiang , Tianming Liang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

In this paper we introduce a Transformer-based approach to video object segmentation (VOS). To address compounding error and scalability issues of prior work, we propose a scalable, end-to-end method for VOS called Sparse Spatiotemporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Brendan Duke , Abdalla Ahmed , Christian Wolf , Parham Aarabi , Graham W. Taylor

Existing Video Object Segmentation (VOS) relies on explicit user instructions, such as categories, masks, or short phrases, restricting their ability to perform complex video segmentation requiring reasoning with world knowledge. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Cilin Yan , Haochen Wang , Shilin Yan , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Guoliang Kang , Weidi Xie , Efstratios Gavves

Reasoning video object segmentation predicts pixel-level masks in videos from natural-language queries that may involve implicit and temporally grounded references. However, existing methods are developed and evaluated in an offline regime,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jinyuan Liu , Yang Wang , Zeyu Zhao , Weixin Li , Song Wang , Ruize Han

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment objects in videos guided by natural language descriptions. We propose FS-RVOS, a Transformer-based model with two key components: a cross-modal affinity module and an instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Heng Liu , Guanghui Li , Mingqi Gao , Xiantong Zhen , Feng Zheng , Yang Wang

Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) aims to simultaneously classify, segment, and track multiple object instances in videos. Recent clip-level VIS takes a short video clip as input each time showing stronger performance than frame-level VIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Jialian Wu , Sudhir Yarram , Hui Liang , Tian Lan , Junsong Yuan , Jayan Eledath , Gerard Medioni

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

The crux of Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) lies in modeling dense text-video relations to associate abstract linguistic concepts with dynamic visual contents at pixel-level. Current RVOS methods typically use vision and language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zikun Zhou , Wentao Xiong , Li Zhou , Xin Li , Zhenyu He , Yaowei Wang

The referring video object segmentation task (RVOS) involves segmentation of a text-referred object instance in the frames of a given video. Due to the complex nature of this multimodal task, which combines text reasoning, video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Adam Botach , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Chaim Baskin

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment objects in a video described by a natural language expression. However, most existing approaches focus on segmenting only the referred object (typically the actor), even when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Woojeong Jin , Seongchan Kim , Jaeho Lee , Seungryong Kim

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment a target object throughout a video given a natural language query. Training-free methods for this task follow a common pipeline: a MLLM selects keyframes, grounds the referred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Woojeong Jin , Jaeho Lee , Heeseong Shin , Seungho Jang , Junhwan Heo , Seungryong Kim

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the target instance referred by a given text expression in a video clip. The text expression normally contains sophisticated description of the instance's appearance, action, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Linfeng Yuan , Miaojing Shi , Zijie Yue , Qijun Chen

Scaling multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to long videos is constrained by limited context windows. While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a promising remedy by organizing query-relevant visual evidence into a compact context,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Honghao Fu , Miao Xu , Yiwei Wang , Dailing Zhang , Jun Liu , Yujun Cai

Human processes video reasoning in a sequential spatio-temporal reasoning logic, we first identify the relevant frames ("when") and then analyse the spatial relationships ("where") between key objects, and finally leverage these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Zixu Cheng , Jian Hu , Ziquan Liu , Chenyang Si , Wei Li , Shaogang Gong

Referring Video Object Segmentation (R-VOS) is a challenging task that aims to segment an object in a video based on a linguistic expression. Most existing R-VOS methods have a critical assumption: the object referred to must appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiang Li , Jinglu Wang , Xiaohao Xu , Xiao Li , Bhiksha Raj , Yan Lu

Reasoning Video Object Segmentation is a challenging task, aiming at generating a mask sequence from an input video given a complex and implicit text query. While existing works finetune Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) for the task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shiu-hong Kao , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects throughout a video based on a text description. This task has attracted increasing attention in the field of computer vision due to its promising applications in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Tianming Liang , Haichao Jiang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

Traditional video reasoning segmentation methods rely on supervised fine-tuning, which limits generalization to out-of-distribution scenarios and lacks explicit reasoning. To address this, we propose \textbf{VideoSeg-R1}, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zishan Xu , Yifu Guo , Yuquan Lu , Fengyu Yang , Junxin Li

Generating video descriptions automatically is a challenging task that involves a complex interplay between spatio-temporal visual features and language models. Given that videos consist of spatial (frame-level) features and their temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Anoop Cherian , Jue Wang , Chiori Hori , Tim K. Marks

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) is a task that aims to segment the target object in all video frames based on a sentence describing the object. Although existing RVOS methods have achieved significant performance, they depend on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Wangbo Zhao , Kepan Nan , Songyang Zhang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Yang You