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1st Place Solution for YouTubeVOS Challenge 2021:Video Instance Segmentation

12 Jun 2021arXiv:2106.06649archive 2025-07-28

Thuy C. Nguyen, Tuan N. Tang, Nam LH. Phan, Chuong H. Nguyen, Masayuki Yamazaki, Masao Yamanaka

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 appropriately, is very useful to identify and predict object motions. In this work, we design a unified model to mutually learn these tasks. Specifically, we propose two modules, named Temporally Correlated Instance Segmentation (TCIS) and Bidirectional Tracking (BiTrack), to take the benefit of the temporal correlation between the object's instance masks across adjacent frames. On the other hand, video data is often redundant due to the frame's overlap. Our analysis shows that this problem is particularly severe for the YoutubeVOS-VIS2021 data. Therefore, we propose a Multi-Source Data (MSD) training mechanism to compensate for the data deficiency. By combining these techniques with a bag of tricks, the network performance is significantly boosted compared to the baseline, and outperforms other methods by a considerable margin on the YoutubeVOS-VIS 2019 and 2021 datasets.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Video Instance Segmentation YouTube-VIS validation TCIS (Swin-S) AP50 76.6 #12 of 44 Archive leaderboard report
Video Instance Segmentation YouTube-VIS validation TCIS (Swin-S) AP75 65.6 #12 of 44 Archive leaderboard report
Video Instance Segmentation YouTube-VIS validation TCIS (Swin-S) AR1 47 #12 of 44 Archive leaderboard report
Video Instance Segmentation YouTube-VIS validation TCIS (Swin-S) AR10 57.9 #12 of 44 Archive leaderboard report
Video Instance Segmentation YouTube-VIS validation TCIS (Swin-S) mask AP 54.3 #12 of 44 Archive leaderboard report

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