Organizations: Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Anhui University of Science and Technology · National University of Singapore · China Agricultural University
Speech-guided referring video object segmentation aims to recover the mask tracks of objects specified by a spoken motion description. Here, speech carries a linguistic instruction rather than acoustic evidence from a sounding object, so a solution must connect speech recognition, motion-centric temporal grounding, mask tracking, and explicit no-target handling. We introduce Speech2MaskTrack, our approach for the MeViS-Audio track of the 8th LSVOS Challenge. Speech2MaskTrack transcribes the spoken query and compiles it into structured constraints over category, count, direction, interaction role, and temporal phase. SAM3.1 enumerates multiple instance tracks, which TRACE ranks using complete-trajectory motion and relation evidence. A frozen lexical presence gate may suppress the ranked SAM3.1 base prediction. When the gate predicts that a target is present, an available full-expression-conditioned SaSaSa2VA track replaces the SAM3.1 mask. Only outputs that remain empty enter GPT-assisted recovery, which invokes SaSaSa2VA again under query- and mask-level verification. Speech2MaskTrack achieved second place in the official challenge ranking.
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Figure 1: The three tracks of the 8th LSVOS Challenge. Each track combines a video with a different target specification and produces temporally consistent mask tracks. MOSEv2 initializes targets with first-frame masks, whereas MeViSv2-Text and MeViSv2-Audio identify targets from textual and spoken motion expressions, respectively. Our work focuses on MeViSv2-Audio; its audio is a spoken query rather than sound emitted by the target.
Figure 2: Overview of Speech2MaskTrack . A spoken motion query is transcribed and compiled into a structured motion program. SAM3.1 produces multi-instance tracks, which TRACE ranks using complete-trajectory evidence before a frozen lexical presence gate. For a control-positive result, an available full-expression-conditioned SaSaSa2VA track replaces the SAM3.1 mask; if that track is unavailable, the ranked SAM3.1 prediction is retained. Control-absent outputs bypass replacement. Any output that remains empty then enters GPT-assisted query adjudication, SaSaSa2VA regeneration, and mask arbitration. Recovery never overwrites a nonempty prediction.
Rank
Team
J&F
J
F
N\mbox−acc. / T\mbox−acc.
Final
1
zzjrr
0.5952
0.5698
0.6205
0.7931 / 0.9205
0.7696
2
StopTheRoll
0.5374
0.5123
0.5626
0.7241 / 0.8554
0.7057
3
rrrrty
0.4587
0.4271
0.4903
0.6552 / 0.9518
0.6886
Table 1: Official final ranking on the MeViS-Audio test set, as confirmed by the challenge organizers. Higher is better for all metrics.
Figure 3: Qualitative results on the MeViS-Audio validation set. Teal fills and dark-teal contours denote our predictions, while yellow contours denote validation ground truth. The cases cover (a) a temporally sparse action relation, (b) passive-role disambiguation between same-category instances, (c) temporal-order grounding under partial occlusion, and (d) relative-attribute tracking through close interaction. The normalized timestamp t locates each frame in the complete video.
The MeViS-Audio track asks a system to segment the objects described by a spoken motion expression throughout a video and to return empty masks when the described target is absent. We present a simple staged solution. Qwen3-ASR first converts speech into text. Several video mask tracks are then produced with complementary grounding and segmentation models. Instead of trusting a single prediction, we select the track that has the highest average mask agreement with the other candidates. A small set of explicit direction, count, and plural rules corrects queries that require more than ordinary single-object tracking. Finally, a video-level classifier combines visual, audio-visual, and within-video query scores to decide whether any target is present. The submitted system obtains 0.5952 J &F, 0.7931 no-target accuracy, 0.9205 target accuracy, and a final score of 0.769589. The challenge organizers notified our team that this result ranked first in the track.
Yiwen Ren, Jianing Liu, Yingxin Wang +4
National 111 Project Base of Intelligent Information Processing
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
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