Xiaomi SVOR Wins CVPR 2026 Challenge, Open-Sources Video Object Removal Framework

Xiaomi open-sourced SVOR, a video object removal framework that won the CVPR 2026 Physical Perception Video Instance Removal Challenge.

SVOR outperformed 17 teams and addresses common editing failures such as shadow residue, frame-to-frame jitter, and imperfect user masks.

The system combines modules like MUSE and DA-Seg with a two-stage training strategy to improve removal quality.

Its Apache 2.0 release could make real-world video object removal more practical for consumer editing tools.