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Make One-Shot Video Object Segmentation Efficient Again

3 Dec 2020NeurIPS 2020 12arXiv:2012.01866archive 2025-07-28

Tim Meinhardt, Laura Leal-Taixe

Video object segmentation (VOS) describes the task of segmenting a set of objects in each frame of a video. In the semi-supervised setting, the first mask of each object is provided at test time. Following the one-shot principle, fine-tuning VOS methods train a segmentation model separately on each given object mask. However, recently the VOS community has deemed such a test time optimization and its impact on the test runtime as unfeasible. To mitigate the inefficiencies of previous fine-tuning approaches, we present efficient One-Shot Video Object Segmentation (e-OSVOS). In contrast to most VOS approaches, e-OSVOS decouples the object detection task and predicts only local segmentation masks by applying a modified version of Mask R-CNN. The one-shot test runtime and performance are optimized without a laborious and handcrafted hyperparameter search. To this end, we meta learn the model initialization and learning rates for the test time optimization. To achieve optimal learning behavior, we predict individual learning rates at a neuron level. Furthermore, we apply an online adaptation to address the common performance degradation throughout a sequence by continuously fine-tuning the model on previous mask predictions supported by a frame-to-frame bounding box propagation. e-OSVOS provides state-of-the-art results on DAVIS 2016, DAVIS 2017, and YouTube-VOS for one-shot fine-tuning methods while reducing the test runtime substantially. Code is available at https://github.com/dvl-tum/e-osvos.

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ObjectObject DetectionOne-shot visual object segmentationSegmentationSemantic SegmentationSemi-Supervised Video Object SegmentationVideo Object SegmentationVideo Semantic Segmentationobject-detection

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2016 e-OSVOS F-measure (Mean) 87.0 #44 of 78 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2016 e-OSVOS J&F 86.8 #44 of 78 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2016 e-OSVOS Jaccard (Decay) 4.5 #44 of 78 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2016 e-OSVOS Jaccard (Mean) 86.6 #44 of 78 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2017 (test-dev) e-OSVOS F-measure (Mean) 68.6 #45 of 59 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2017 (test-dev) e-OSVOS J&F 64.8 #45 of 59 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2017 (test-dev) e-OSVOS Jaccard (Decay) 22.1 #45 of 59 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2017 (test-dev) e-OSVOS Jaccard (Mean) 60.9 #45 of 59 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2017 (val) e-OSVOS F-measure (Mean) 80.0 #52 of 81 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2017 (val) e-OSVOS J&F 77.2 #52 of 81 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2017 (val) e-OSVOS Jaccard (Decay) 13.0 #52 of 81 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation DAVIS 2017 (val) e-OSVOS Jaccard (Mean) 74.4 #52 of 81 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation YouTube-VOS 2018 e-OSVOS F-Measure (Seen) 66.0 #43 of 53 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation YouTube-VOS 2018 e-OSVOS F-Measure (Unseen) 73.8 #43 of 53 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation YouTube-VOS 2018 e-OSVOS Jaccard (Seen) 71.7 #43 of 53 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation YouTube-VOS 2018 e-OSVOS Jaccard (Unseen) 74.3 #43 of 53 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation YouTube-VOS 2018 e-OSVOS Overall 71.4 #43 of 53 Archive leaderboard report

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ConvolutionMask R-CNNRPNRoIAlignSoftmaxVOS

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