Referring Video Object Segmentation via Language-aligned Track Selection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01136v2
• Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:59:35 GMT
• Title: Referring Video Object Segmentation via Language-aligned Track Selection
• Authors: Seongchan Kim, Woojeong Jin, Sangbeom Lim, Heeji Yoon, Hyunwook Choi, Seungryong Kim,
• Abstract summary: Video object segmentation (RVOS) requires tracking and segmenting an object throughout a video according to a given natural language expression.<n>We introduce SOLA, a novel framework that leverages SAM2 object tokens as compact video-level object representations.<n>Experiments show that SOLA achieves state-of-the-art performance on the MeViS dataset.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) requires tracking and segmenting an object throughout a video according to a given natural language expression, demanding both complex motion understanding and the alignment of visual representations with language descriptions. Given these challenges, the recently proposed Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) emerges as a potential candidate due to its ability to generate coherent segmentation mask tracks across video frames, and provide an inherent spatio-temporal objectness in its object token representations. In this paper, we introduce SOLA (Selection by Object Language Alignment), a novel framework that leverages SAM2 object tokens as compact video-level object representations, which are aligned with language features through a lightweight track selection module. To effectively facilitate this alignment, we propose an IoU-based pseudo-labeling strategy, which bridges the modality gap between SAM2 representations with language features. Extensive experiments show that SOLA achieves state-of-the-art performance on the MeViS dataset and demonstrate that SOLA offers an effective solution for RVOS. Our project page is available at: https://cvlab-kaist.github.io/SOLA.

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