Learned attention adaptation improves language-guided video object segmentation

ATLAS converts a frozen vision-language model’s spatial and temporal attention patterns into localization maps that guide SAM2.

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Hamidreza Dastmalchi · Ali Cheraghian · Aijun An · Abdelwahed Khamis · Lars Petersson

York University · Macquarie University · CSIRO Data61

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Dastmalchi and colleagues introduce ATLAS, a supervised adapter for segmenting video objects described by natural-language expressions.

The authors sampled representative keyframes from each video and extracted two forms of attention from a frozen large vision-language model.

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