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Advancing Complex Video Object Segmentation via Tracking-Enhanced Prompt: The 1st Winner for 5th PVUW MOSE Challenge

arXiv 2604.00395 ↗First posted 1 Apr 2026cs.CVcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

In the Complex Video Object Segmentation task, researchers are required to track and segment specific targets within cluttered environments, which rigorously tests a method's capability for target comprehension and environmental adaptability. Although SAM3, the current state-of-the-art solution, exhibits unparalleled segmentation performance and robustness on conventional targets, it underperforms on tiny and semantic-dominated objects. The root cause of this limitation lies in SAM3's insufficient comprehension of these specific target types. To address this issue, we propose TEP: Advancing Complex Video Object Segmentation via Tracking-Enhanced Prompts. As a training-free approach, TEP leverages external tracking models and Multimodal Large Language Models to introduce tracking-enhanced prompts, thereby alleviating the difficulty SAM3 faces in understanding these challenging targets. Our method achieved first place (56.91%) on the test set of the PVUW Challenge 2026: Complex Video Object Segmentation Track.

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  1. 2023DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervisioncited by 7,974
  2. 2025SAM 3: Segment Anything with Conceptscited by 906
  3. 2022XMem: Long-Term Video Object Segmentation with an Atkinson-Shiffrin Memory Modelcited by 439
  4. 2023MOSE: A New Dataset for Video Object Segmentation in Complex Scenescited by 234
  5. 2023Putting the Object Back into Video Object Segmentationcited by 188
  6. 2024T-Rex2: Towards Generic Object Detection via Text-Visual Prompt Synergycited by 94
  7. 2024A Distractor-Aware Memory for Visual Object Tracking with SAM2cited by 66
  8. 2025MOSEv2: A More Challenging Dataset for Video Object Segmentation in Complex Scenescited by 62
  9. 2025Advancing Complex Video Object Segmentation via Progressive Concept Constructioncited by 26
  10. 2025A Survey on Video Temporal Grounding with Multimodal Large Language Modelcited by 20
  11. 2024Just a Few Glances: Open-Set Visual Perception with Image Prompt Paradigmcited by 4
  12. 2023End-to-End Streaming Video Temporal Action Segmentation with Reinforce Learningcited by 1

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  3. 2024X-Prompt: Multi-modal Visual Prompt for Video Object Segmentation
  4. 2026Report of the 8th LSVOS Challenge: Complex and Multimodal Video Object Segmentation
  5. 2025Show or Tell? Effectively prompting Vision-Language Models for semantic segmentation
  6. 2025MovSAM: A Single-image Moving Object Segmentation Framework Based on Deep Thinking
  7. 2026Prompting Diffusion Models for Zero-Shot Instance Segmentation
  8. 2026SAM3RL: Memory Control via Reinforcement Learning for Visual Object Tracking