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Ref-YouTube-VOS

CodaLab submission: leonnnop 60.7% tops its leaderboard
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Models segment and track the object that a sentence describes in YouTube-VOS videos. Scored by J&F on a server-graded validation split.

ECCV 2020 paper (URVOS). Microsoft's Mage-VL card reports it as Ref-YT-VOS.

Released
August 2020
Kind
Video understanding
Level
Everyday
Scored
Checked automatically
Answers
Short answer
Tasks
Public, plus a private test set
3
Entries on its own leaderboard, 0 models we track

CodaLab submission: leonnnop tops the leaderboard with 60.7%

Best score per entry from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on November 12th, 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best. Names in gray aren't in our model list: fine-tunes, agent systems, products and older models. They don't count toward leaders.

  1. 1 CodaLab submission: leonnnop Testing 60.7%
  2. 2 CodaLab submission: nowherespyfly Testing 49.4%
  3. 3 CodaLab submission: Merci1 Testing 41.2%

Source: Official Ref-YouTube-VOS leaderboard

#EntryScoreSettingDateSource
1 CodaLab submission: leonnnop 60.7% Testing May 2021 Official leaderboard
2 CodaLab submission: nowherespyfly 49.4% Testing May 2021 Official leaderboard
3 CodaLab submission: Merci1 41.2% Testing May 2021 Official leaderboard

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