Long-RVOS: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Long-term Referring Video Object Segmentation

摘要

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to identify, track and segment the objects in a video based on language descriptions, which has received great attention in recent years. However, existing datasets remain focus on short video clips within several seconds, with salient objects visible in most frames. To advance the task towards more practical scenarios, we introduce Long-RVOS, a large-scale benchmark for long-term referring video object segmentation. Long-RVOS contains 2,000+ videos of an average duration exceeding 60 seconds, covering a variety of objects that undergo occlusion, disappearance-reappearance and shot changing. The objects are manually annotated with three different types of descriptions to individually evaluate the understanding of static attributes, motion patterns and spatiotemporal relationships. Moreover, we introduce two new metrics to assess the temporal and spatiotemporal consistency. We benchmark 7 state-of-the-art methods on Long-RVOS to show that current approaches struggle severely with the long-video challenges. We further propose ReferMo, a promising baseline method that integrates motion information to expand the temporal receptive field, and employs a local-to-global architecture to capture both short-term dynamics and long-term dependencies. We hope that Long-RVOS and our baseline can drive future RVOS research towards more realistic and long-form videos. Our dataset and code is available at https://isee-laboratory.github.io/Long-RVOS.