We present SAM3Dual, our third-place solution to the MOSEv2 track of the 8th Large-scale Video Object Segmentation (LSVOS) Challenge at ECCV 2026. SAM3Dual is a training-free inference extension of pretrained SAM 3 that explicitly separates temporal memory into a short-term branch for recent observations and a long-term branch for interval-sampled historical representations. The two memory responses are combined using a deterministic sequence-relative fusion schedule and conservatively modulated by the previous-frame object confidence. All pretrained SAM 3 parameters remain frozen, requiring no task-specific training, fine-tuning, test-time training, or online parameter optimization. The complete system achieved an official J&F score of 64.37 and ranked third in the MOSEv2 track. This result highlights the potential of reorganizing temporal memory entirely at inference time to obtain competitive long-term VOS performance while preserving the pretrained model.
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Figure 1: Overview of SAM3Dual. Current-frame features independently attend to short-term memory containing recent observations and long-term memory containing interval-sampled historical observations. Their responses are confidence-modulated and combined using a sequence-relative temporal fusion schedule before being passed to the frozen SAM 3 prediction pathway.
Setting
Value
Base model
facebook/sam3
Hardware
1 × NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Precision
BF16 mixed precision
Training / adaptation
None
Short-term memory
1+6 entries
Long-term memory
1+6 entries
Table 1: Inference configuration of the official SAM3Dual submission.
Rank
Team / Account
J&F↑
1
HITsz-Dragon
69.82
2
mmm
66.20
3
AISTAT ( kjeong )
64.37
Table 2: Top-three entries on the official MOSEv2 leaderboard of the 8th LSVOS Challenge at ECCV 2026.
Figure 2: Representative successful cases of SAM3Dual on the MOSEv2 training set. Green, red, and blue indicate true positives, false positives, and false negatives, respectively.
Figure 3: Representative failure cases on the MOSEv2 training set, primarily involving visually similar distractors, large target displacement, and reappearance. Colors follow Fig. 2 .
Long-term video object segmentation (VOS) remains challenging due to error accumulation under extended occlusions, re-appearance, and scene changes. Although SAM2 provides strong zero-shot performance, its streaming memory can amplify drift over long horizons when recent, unreliable predictions dominate the memory state. We propose SAM2Dual, a training-free, plug-and-play inference-time enhancement that improves long-video robustness without updating model weights. SAM2Dual introduces a Dual Memory design that explicitly separates (i) short-term memory for rapid local adaptation and (ii) long-term memory built via interval-based sampling to preserve global identity cues, combined through a gated fusion strategy. In addition, we present Text-Aware Memory (TAM), which extracts a compact word-level cue from early frames and uses text embeddings to reweight memory contributions based on semantic compatibility, supporting identity preservation when visual evidence becomes weak or ambiguous. Across long-term benchmarks, SAM2Dual consistently improves stability on long videos, raising J&F from 49.33 to 50.65 on MOSEv2 and achieving consistent gains on LVOSv2.
JeongRae Kim, Changwon Lim
Department of Applied Statistics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea
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.
Mingqi Gao, Sijie Li, Jungong Han
School of Computer Science, University of Sheffield · Department of Automation, Tsinghua University
Complex video object segmentation requires robust target propagation under severe occlusion, disappearance and reappearance. Although SAM3 provides strong promptable mask propagation, a uniform inference path remains unreliable for tiny targets with insufficient visual evidence and semantic-dominated targets whose identities depend on explicit attributes. To this end, we present VOS-Agent, a collaborative framework that retains SAM3 as the shared dense segmentation module and conditionally activates specialized agents according to target characteristics. A Target Perception and Routing Agent assigns each sequence to a regular, tiny, or semantic-dominated route. Tiny targets are supported by a Visual Tracking Agent through confidence-aware box prompts, while semantic-dominated targets are handled by an MLLM-based Semantic Agent through description-guided localization and candidate verification. On the MOSEv2 test set, VOS-Agent achieves 69.82% on the official J&F˙ metric and ranks first in the MOSEv2 Track of the 8th LSVOS Challenge at ECCV 2026.
Canyang Wu, Jinrong Zhang, Xusheng He +3
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · Nanyang Technological University · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute