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We present a lightweight and efficient semi-supervised video object segmentation network based on the space-time memory framework. To some extent, our method solves the two difficulties encountered in traditional video object segmentation: one is that the single frame calculation time is too long, and the other is that the current frame’s segmentation should use more information from past frames. The algorithm uses a global context (GC) module to achieve high-performance, real-time segmentation. The GC module can effectively integrate multi-frame image information without increased memory and can process each frame in real time. Moreover, the prediction mask of the previous frame is helpful for the segmentation of the current frame, so we input it into a spatial constraint module (SCM), which constrains the areas of segments in the current frame. The SCM effectively alleviates mismatching of similar targets yet consumes few additional resources. We added a refinement module to the decoder to improve boundary segmentation. Our model achieves state-of-the-art results on various datasets, scoring 80.1% on YouTube-VOS 2018 and a 𝒥& score of 78.0% on DAVIS 2017, while taking 0.05 s per frame on the DAVIS 2016 validation dataset.


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Global video object segmentation with spatial constraint module

Show Author's information Yadang Chen1Duolin Wang1( )Zhiguo Chen1Zhi-Xin Yang2Enhua Wu3,4
Engineering Research Center of Digital Forensics, Ministry of Education, School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, Department of Electromechanical Engineering, University of Macau, Macau 999078, China
State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau 999078, China

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We present a lightweight and efficient semi-supervised video object segmentation network based on the space-time memory framework. To some extent, our method solves the two difficulties encountered in traditional video object segmentation: one is that the single frame calculation time is too long, and the other is that the current frame’s segmentation should use more information from past frames. The algorithm uses a global context (GC) module to achieve high-performance, real-time segmentation. The GC module can effectively integrate multi-frame image information without increased memory and can process each frame in real time. Moreover, the prediction mask of the previous frame is helpful for the segmentation of the current frame, so we input it into a spatial constraint module (SCM), which constrains the areas of segments in the current frame. The SCM effectively alleviates mismatching of similar targets yet consumes few additional resources. We added a refinement module to the decoder to improve boundary segmentation. Our model achieves state-of-the-art results on various datasets, scoring 80.1% on YouTube-VOS 2018 and a 𝒥& score of 78.0% on DAVIS 2017, while taking 0.05 s per frame on the DAVIS 2016 validation dataset.

Keywords: video object segmentation, semantic segmen-tation, global context (GC) module, spatial constraint

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Received: 31 December 2021
Accepted: 05 March 2022
Published: 03 January 2023
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This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61802197, 62072449, and 61632003), the Science and Technology Development Fund, Macau SAR (Grant Nos. 0018/2019/AKP and SKL-IOTSC(UM)-2021-2023), the Guangdong Science and Technology Department (Grant No. 2020B1515130001), and University of Macau (Grant Nos. MYRG2020-00253-FST and MYRG2022-00059-FST).

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