Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) commonly grounds targets in videos based on static textual cues. MeViS benchmark extends this by incorporating motion-centric expressions (referring & reasoning motion expressions) and introducing no-target queries. Extending SaSaSa2VA, where increased input frames and [SEG] tokens already strengthen the Sa2VA backbone, we adopt a simple yet effective target existence-aware verification mechanism, leading to Still Awesome SaSaSa2VA (SaSaSaSa2VA). Despite its simplicity, the method achieves a final score of 89.19 in the 5th PVUW Challenge (MeViS-Text Track), securing 2nd place. Both quantitative results and ablations suggest that this existence-aware verification strategy is sufficient to unlock strong performance on motion-centric referring tasks.
Figures & tables
Rank
Team
J&F
N-acc .
T-acc.
Final
# 1
HITsz_Dragon
78.97
96.15
97.59
90.91
# 2
SaSaSaSa2VA
71.06
100.00
96.52
89.19
# 3
tobedone
71.30
96.15
98.93
88.79
# 4
yahooo
70.38
96.15
98.40
88.31
# 5
junjie_zheng
68.37
88.46
96.79
84.54
Table 1: Leaderboard of the 5th PVUW Challenge MeViS-Text Track at CVPR 2026. Our SaSaSaSa2VA team achieves a final score of 89.19 and wins 2nd place.
Figure 1: The architecture of SaSaSa2VA [ 25 ] . Given a video of T frames, the sequence is first split into N temporally ordered clips, each consisting of c=g2+1 frames. To improve efficiency while preserving temporal context, frames within each clip are compacted via the Key Frame Compression (KFC) strategy before being fed into the MLLM. Based on the compressed visual inputs, the MLLM generates a set of N [SEG] tokens, where each token encodes segmentation cues for a specific temporal segment. For each clip, SAM2 takes the corresponding [SEG] token as a prompt, together with the original (uncompressed) frames, to decode object masks at the frame level. In this illustration, we set c=5 , corresponding to g=2 .
Figure 2: The Existence-aware verification illustration of our method. Given a video-expression pair (V,T) , Gemini 3-Flash-Preview and GPT-5.4 function as a dual-consensus jury, and an expression is categorized as ’null-target’ only under a unanimous consensus, where both models independently confirm the object’s absence. Only valid video-text pairs proceed to the SaSaSa2VA base model for inference.
Method
J&F
N-acc
T-acc
SaSaSa2VA [ 25 ]
68.04
5.26
99.77
Ours
ft.
68.55
5.26
99.77
EA
72.43
97.37
100.00
ft. + EA
72.84
97.37
100.00
Table 2: Ablation on Existence-aware Augmentation (EA). We report the J&F and N-acc scores of the 26B model on the MeViS V2 [ 12 ] valid_u split. “ft.” denotes further fine-tuning on the MeViS V2 training split.
This report describes a Ref-VOS pipeline centered on Sa2VA and organized with explicit agent roles. The key idea is that Sa2VA should provide the first dense semantic hypothesis, while an agent loop decides whether that hypothesis should be accepted, revised, or refined. The pipeline starts with a target-presence judgment stage. If the referred object does not exist in the video, the system directly outputs zero masks. Otherwise, Sa2VA receives the video and referring prompt and produces a coarse mask trajectory over the full video. This trajectory is treated as a semantic prior rather than a final answer. A planner agent decomposes the query, temporal partition agents identify informative blocks, scout agents search for anchor frames, and refinement agents convert reliable Sa2VA masks into boxes and points for SAM3 propagation. A critic scores candidate trajectories, a reflection controller repairs weak hypotheses, and a collaboration controller reconciles multiple agent branches. The result is a Ref-VOS system in which Sa2VA is responsible for dense grounded understanding, while the agent layer handles presence verification, temporal search, confidence-aware revision, and final mask refinement.
This report presents our winning solution to the 5th PVUW MeViS-Text Challenge. The track studies referring video object segmentation under motion-centric language expressions, where the model must jointly understand appearance, temporal behavior, and object interactions. To address this problem, we build a fully training-free pipeline that combines strong multimodal large language models with SAM3. Our method contains three stages. First, Gemini-3.1 Pro decomposes each target event into instance-level grounding targets, selects the frame where the target is most clearly visible, and generates a discriminative description. Second, SAM3-agent produces a precise seed mask on the selected frame, and the official SAM3 tracker propagates the mask through the whole video. Third, a refinement stage uses Qwen3.5-Plus and behavior-level verification to correct ambiguous or semantically inconsistent predictions. Without task-specific fine-tuning, our method ranks first on the PVUW 2026 MeViS-Text test set, achieving a Final score of 0.909064 and a J&F score of 0.7897. The code is available at https://github.com/Moujuruo/MeViSv2_Track_Solution_2026.
Xusheng He, Canyang Wu, Jinrong Zhang +3
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, China
This report presents an Audio-aware Referring Video Object Segmentation (Ref-VOS) pipeline tailored to the MEVIS_Audio setting, where the referring expression is provided in spoken form rather than as clean text. Compared with a standard Sa2VA-based Ref-VOS pipeline, the proposed system introduces two additional front-end stages: speech transcription and visual existence verification. Specifically, we first employ VibeVoice-ASR to convert long-form spoken input into a structured textual transcript. Since audio-derived queries are inherently noisy and may describe entities that are not visually present in the video, we then introduce an Omni-based judgment module to determine whether the transcribed target can be grounded in the visual content. If the target is judged to be absent, the pipeline terminates early and outputs all-zero masks. Otherwise, the transcript is transformed into a segmentation-oriented prompt and fed into Sa2VA to obtain a coarse mask trajectory over the full video. Importantly, this trajectory is treated as an initial semantic hypothesis rather than a final prediction. On top of it, an agentic refinement layer evaluates query reliability, temporal relevance, anchor quality, and potential error sources, and may invoke SAM3 to improve spatial boundary precision and temporal consistency. The resulting framework explicitly decomposes the MEVIS_Audio task into audio-to-text conversion, visual existence verification, coarse video segmentation, and agent-guided refinement. Such a staged design is substantially more appropriate for audio-conditioned Ref-VOS than directly sending noisy ASR outputs into a segmentation model.
Deshui Miao, Yameng Gu, Chao Yang +3
Pengcheng Laboratory · Harbin Institute of Technology · University of California at Merced