Spectrum-guided Multi-granularity Referring Video Object Segmentation

TL;DR

This paper introduces a spectrum-guided multi-granularity approach for referring video object segmentation that addresses feature drift issues, enabling more accurate and faster multi-object segmentation in videos.

Contribution

It proposes a novel spectrum-guided method for direct segmentation on encoded features and extends to multi-object R-VOS, improving speed and practicality.

Findings

Achieves state-of-the-art results on four benchmarks.

Outperforms competitors by 2.8% on Ref-YouTube-VOS.

Runs about 3 times faster in multi-object R-VOS mode.

Abstract

Current referring video object segmentation (R-VOS) techniques extract conditional kernels from encoded (low-resolution) vision-language features to segment the decoded high-resolution features. We discovered that this causes significant feature drift, which the segmentation kernels struggle to perceive during the forward computation. This negatively affects the ability of segmentation kernels. To address the drift problem, we propose a Spectrum-guided Multi-granularity (SgMg) approach, which performs direct segmentation on the encoded features and employs visual details to further optimize the masks. In addition, we propose Spectrum-guided Cross-modal Fusion (SCF) to perform intra-frame global interactions in the spectral domain for effective multimodal representation. Finally, we extend SgMg to perform multi-object R-VOS, a new paradigm that enables simultaneous segmentation of multiple referred objects in a video. This not only makes R-VOS faster, but also more practical. Extensive experiments show that SgMg achieves state-of-the-art performance on four video benchmark datasets, outperforming the nearest competitor by 2.8% points on Ref-YouTube-VOS. Our extended SgMg enables multi-object R-VOS, runs about 3 times faster while maintaining satisfactory performance. Code is available at https://github.com/bo-miao/SgMg.