This report summarizes the 8th Large-scale Video Object Segmentation (LSVOS) Challenge, held in conjunction with ECCV 2026. The challenge evaluates video segmentation in three complementary settings: complex semi-supervised video object segmentation on MOSEv2, text-guided referring video object segmentation on MeViSv2-Text, and audio-guided referring video object segmentation on MeViSv2-Audio. We describe the tasks and evaluation protocols and review the methods of the top three teams in each track. Across the nine leading solutions, foundation segmentation models are combined with target-aware memory, multimodal reasoning, explicit target-existence verification, agentic interaction, and corrective tracking. These systems illustrate a broader transition from single-model mask propagation toward modular pipelines that reason about object identity, query validity, and temporal reliability.
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Team
J&F˙
J
F˙
HITsz-Dragon
69.82
68.21
71.43
mmm
66.20
64.79
67.60
AISTAT
64.37
63.16
65.59
FudanSeg ∗
64.71
63.51
65.92
Baseline (SAM 3)
62.72
61.62
63.82
Table 1: MOSEv2 final test-set results (%). Bold indicates the best ranked score; FudanSeg is an organizer entry and does not participate in the ranking.
Team
J&F
N\mbox−acc.
T\mbox−acc.
Final
SSUPER
79.22
94.44
98.77
90.81
CUA Generalists
74.96
88.89
96.32
86.72
HITsz-Dragon
76.10
83.33
97.55
85.66
Baseline
41.26
100.00
65.69
68.98
Table 2: MeViSv2 final test-set leaderboard results (%). Bold indicates the best score in each track.
Figure 1: Method overviews of the first- and second-place MOSEv2 teams.
Figure 2: Representative pipelines from the MeViSv2-Text track.
Figure 3: Method overviews of the first- and second-place MeViSv2-Audio teams.
In this technical report, we present a training-free framework for audio-guided video object segmentation, which integrates Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) with SAM-based segmentation models. We decompose the task into several stages and identify suitable foundation models for each stage. Without introducing additional model training or task-specific fine-tuning, our approach leverages the strong multimodal reasoning capabilities of MLLMs to model text-visual correspondence and employs SAM-based models for accurate object mask generation. The proposed framework demonstrates the effectiveness of leveraging foundation models for audio-guided video segmentation and achieves competitive performance in the MeViS-Audio Track of the 8th LSVOS Challenge.
Liangtao Shi, Jinxia Xie, Xiantao Hu +1
Hefei University of Technology · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Hunan Police College
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
We present the first-place solution to the MeViS-Text track of the 8th Large-scale Video Object Segmentation (LSVOS) Challenge 2026: referring video object segmentation guided by written motion expressions, including deceptive no-target expressions that match no object in the video and must yield empty masks in every frame. Our pipeline, SSUPER, resolves each expression into a visual concept, generates full-video candidate masklets with SAM~3.1, and selects target IDs. At every reasoning stage, three heterogeneous multimodal large language models independently execute the same stage-specific prompt before a single synthesis pass commits one schema-validated verdict. Although this system rejects every no-target expression in validation, the leaderboard reveals that a substantial share of test no-target cases still slips through. The reason is that hard negatives name a plausible object and fail only under the complete temporal predicate, so when selection and existence are decided together, a category-plausible masklet anchors the verdict. Hence, we decouple existence verification into an independent multi-agent audit of the full predicate (category, count, action, trajectory, event order, and semantic role) that distinguishes absence from temporary invisibility, discounts apparent motion caused by camera movement, and requires contradicting evidence rather than mere uncertainty for a no-target verdict. Without any new segmentation call, this audit recovers most of the residual no-target errors. A training-data-only StyleRefiner then aligns mask geometry with the annotation style of MeViSv2 while preserving every presence decision by construction, showing that once the semantics are fixed, part of the remaining error is stylistic rather than semantic. The complete system reaches a Final score of 0.9081339614 on the official challenge leaderboard.
Jungyoon Lee, Gyuil Lim, Doeon Kim +1
Department of AI Convergence Security, Soongsil University, Republic of Korea · Department of AI Convergence, Soongsil University, Republic of Korea · Department of Intelligent Semiconductors, Soongsil University, Republic of Korea