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Current top-leading solutions for video object segmentation (VOS) typically follow a matching-based regime: for each query frame, the segmentation mask is inferred according to its correspondence to previously processed and the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Yurong Zhang , Liulei Li , Wenguan Wang , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

We consider the task of semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). Our approach mitigates shortcomings in previous VOS work by addressing detail preservation and temporal consistency using visual warping. In contrast to prior work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Julia Gong , F. Christopher Holsinger , Serena Yeung

Reasoning over dynamic visual content remains a central challenge for multimodal large language models. Recent thinking models generate explicit reasoning traces for interpretability; however, their reasoning often appears convincing while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Muhammad Maaz , Hanoona Rasheed , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan

Despite impressive high-level video comprehension, multimodal language models struggle with spatial reasoning across time and space. While current spatial training approaches rely on real-world video data, obtaining diverse footage with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ellis Brown , Arijit Ray , Ranjay Krishna , Ross Girshick , Rob Fergus , Saining Xie

Robot-assisted surgery has made significant progress, with instrument segmentation being a critical factor in surgical intervention quality. It serves as the building block to facilitate surgical robot navigation and surgical education for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Hongqiu Wang , Lei Zhu , Guang Yang , Yike Guo , Shichen Zhang , Bo Xu , Yueming Jin

Open-vocabulary segmentation (OVS) extends the zero-shot recognition capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs) to pixel-level prediction, enabling segmentation of arbitrary categories specified by text prompts. Despite recent progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Tilemachos Aravanis , Vladan Stojnić , Bill Psomas , Nikos Komodakis , Giorgos Tolias

Continual video instance segmentation demands both the plasticity to absorb new object categories and the stability to retain previously learned ones, all while preserving temporal consistency across frames. In this work, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Baichen Liu , Qi Lyu , Xudong Wang , Jiahua Dong , Lianqing Liu , Zhi Han

This paper aims to address universal segmentation for image and video perception with the strong reasoning ability empowered by Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs). Despite significant progress in current unified segmentation methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Cong Wei , Yujie Zhong , Haoxian Tan , Yong Liu , Zheng Zhao , Jie Hu , Yujiu Yang

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are becoming increasingly integral to multimedia understanding; however, they often struggle with domain-specific video classification tasks, particularly in cases with limited data. This stems from a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Meilong Xu , Di Fu , Jiaxing Zhang , Gong Yu , Jiayu Zheng , Xiaoling Hu , Dongdi Zhao , Feiyang Li , Chao Chen , Yong Cao

Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) aims to achieve pixel-level localization of sound sources in videos, while Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation (AVSS), as an extension of AVS, further pursues semantic understanding of audio-visual scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Juncheng Ma , Peiwen Sun , Yaoting Wang , Di Hu

Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS) assigns pixel-level labels from an open set of text-defined categories, demanding reliable generalization to unseen classes at inference. Although modern vision-language models (VLMs) support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Saikat Dutta , Biplab Banerjee , Hamid Rezatofighi

Video editing models have advanced significantly, but evaluating their performance remains challenging. Traditional metrics, such as CLIP text and image scores, often fall short: text scores are limited by inadequate training data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Varun Biyyala , Bharat Chanderprakash Kathuria , Jialu Li , Youshan Zhang

Reasoning segmentation enables open-set object segmentation via implicit text queries, therefore serving as a foundation for embodied agents that should operate autonomously in real-world environments. However, existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yiqing Shen , Mathias Unberath

Temporal Action Segmentation (TAS) requires dividing videos into action segments, yet the vast space of activities and alternative breakdowns makes collecting comprehensive datasets infeasible. Existing methods remain limited to closed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Asim Unmesh , Kaki Ramesh , Mayank Patel , Rahul Jain , Karthik Ramani

Existing visual perception systems focus on region-level segmentation in single-turn dialogues, relying on complex and explicit query instructions. Such systems cannot reason at the pixel level and comprehend dynamic user intent that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Dexian Cai , Xiaocui Yang , Yongkang Liu , Daling Wang , Shi Feng , Yifei Zhang , Soujanya Poria

Semi-supervised video object segmentation (Semi-VOS), which requires only annotating the first frame of a video to segment future frames, has received increased attention recently. Among existing pipelines, the memory-matching-based one is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Weihao Lin , Tao Chen , Chong Yu

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

Learning descriptive spatio-temporal object models from data is paramount for the task of semi-supervised video object segmentation. Most existing approaches mainly rely on models that estimate the segmentation mask based on a reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Sergi Caelles , Albert Pumarola , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Alberto Sanfeliu , Luc Van Gool

Despite exciting recent results showing vision-language systems' capacity to reason about images using natural language, their capacity for video reasoning remains under-explored. We motivate framing video reasoning as the sequential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Vaishnavi Himakunthala , Andy Ouyang , Daniel Rose , Ryan He , Alex Mei , Yujie Lu , Chinmay Sonar , Michael Saxon , William Yang Wang

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