Competitive Memory Readout for Robust Video Object Segmentation: 2nd Place Technical Report for the MOSEv2 Track of the 8th LSVOS Challenge

We present our solution for the MOSEv2 track of the 8th Large-scale Video Object Segmentation (LSVOS) Challenge at ECCV 2026. The challenge evaluates robust video object segmentation under complex temporal dynamics, including long-term occlusion, disappearance and reappearance, large appearance changes, and strong interference from visually similar objects. Our method builds on SAM3 and focuses on its memory readout. Standard target-only memory retrieval can confuse the annotated target with same-class non-target objects because such distractors are represented only implicitly as background. Our method introduces Competitive Memory Readout, which explicitly incorporates same-class competitor evidence when retrieving target information from memory. To prevent excessive suppression of weak or reappearing targets, we further apply a lightweight adaptive restoration rule after competition. The resulting system retains the original SAM3 tracking pipeline while improving target identity preservation in challenging videos. Our submission achieves 66.20 on the primary challenge score and ranks 2nd in the MOSEv2 track.