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In the domain of video surveillance, describing the behavior of each individual within the video is becoming increasingly essential, especially in complex scenarios with multiple individuals present. This is because describing each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Lingru Zhou , Yiqi Gao , Manqing Zhang , Peng Wu , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

We propose a new task and model for dense video object captioning -- detecting, tracking and captioning trajectories of objects in a video. This task unifies spatial and temporal localization in video, whilst also requiring fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Xingyi Zhou , Anurag Arnab , Chen Sun , Cordelia Schmid

Dense video captioning (DVC) aims to generate multi-sentence descriptions to elucidate the multiple events in the video, which is challenging and demands visual consistency, discoursal coherence, and linguistic diversity. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Xu Yan , Zhengcong Fei , Shuhui Wang , Qingming Huang , Qi Tian

How are we able to learn about complex current events just from short snippets of video? While natural language enables straightforward ways to represent under-specified, partially observable events, visual data does not facilitate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Kate Sanders , Reno Kriz , David Etter , Hannah Recknor , Alexander Martin , Cameron Carpenter , Jingyang Lin , Benjamin Van Durme

This note describes the details of our solution to the dense-captioning events in videos task of ActivityNet Challenge 2018. Specifically, we solve this problem with a two-stage way, i.e., first temporal event proposal and then sentence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Yuan Liu , Moyini Yao

We propose a new framework for understanding and representing related salient events in a video using visual semantic role labeling. We represent videos as a set of related events, wherein each event consists of a verb and multiple entities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Arka Sadhu , Tanmay Gupta , Mark Yatskar , Ram Nevatia , Aniruddha Kembhavi

Dense video captioning jointly localizes and captions salient events in untrimmed videos. Recent methods primarily focus on leveraging additional prior knowledge and advanced multi-task architectures to achieve competitive performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Mingda Jia , Weiliang Meng , Zenghuang Fu , Yiheng Li , Qi Zeng , Yifan Zhang , Ju Xin , Rongtao Xu , Jiguang Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang

Video paragraph captioning aims to describe multiple events in untrimmed videos with descriptive paragraphs. Existing approaches mainly solve the problem in two steps: event detection and then event captioning. Such two-step manner makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yuqing Song , Shizhe Chen , Qin Jin

With the rapid growth of video data on the internet, video summarization is becoming a very important AI technology. However, due to the high labelling cost of video summarization, existing studies have to be conducted on small-scale…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Cairong Zhao , Chutian Wang , Zifan Song , Guosheng Hu , Haonan Chen , Xiaofan Zhai

Dense captioning is a newly emerging computer vision topic for understanding images with dense language descriptions. The goal is to densely detect visual concepts (e.g., objects, object parts, and interactions between them) from images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Linjie Yang , Kevin Tang , Jianchao Yang , Li-Jia Li

Despite the significant impact of visual events on human cognition, understanding events in videos remains a challenging task for AI due to their complex structures, semantic hierarchies, and dynamic evolution. To address this, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Baoyu Liang , Qile Su , Shoutai Zhu , Yuchen Liang , Chao Tong

Annotation of multimedia data by humans is time-consuming and costly, while reliable automatic generation of semantic metadata is a major challenge. We propose a framework to extract semantic metadata from automatically generated video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Johannes Scherer , Ansgar Scherp , Deepayan Bhowmik

Detecting suspicious activities in surveillance videos is a longstanding problem in real-time surveillance that leads to difficulties in detecting crimes. Hence, we propose a novel approach for detecting and summarizing suspicious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ansh Mittal , Shuvam Ghosal , Rishibha Bansal

Video paragraph captioning is the task of automatically generating a coherent paragraph description of the actions in a video. Previous linguistic studies have demonstrated that coherence of a natural language text is reflected by its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Arjun R Akula , Song-Chun Zhu

This paper focuses on a novel and challenging vision task, dense video captioning, which aims to automatically describe a video clip with multiple informative and diverse caption sentences. The proposed method is trained without explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Zhiqiang Shen , Jianguo Li , Zhou Su , Minjun Li , Yurong Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiangyang Xue

Video captioning is the process of describing the content of a sequence of images capturing its semantic relationships and meanings. Dealing with this task with a single image is arduous, not to mention how difficult it is for a video (or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Daniela Moctezuma , Tania Ramírez-delReal , Guillermo Ruiz , Othón González-Chávez

Video captioning is an essential technology to understand scenes and describe events in natural language. To apply it to real-time monitoring, a system needs not only to describe events accurately but also to produce the captions as soon as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Chiori Hori , Takaaki Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

Most of the existing works on human activity analysis focus on recognition or early recognition of the activity labels from complete or partial observations. Similarly, almost all of the existing video captioning approaches focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Tahmida Mahmud , Mohammad Billah , Mahmudul Hasan , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Recent progress in using recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for image description has motivated the exploration of their application for video description. However, while images are static, working with videos requires modeling their dynamic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-02 Li Yao , Atousa Torabi , Kyunghyun Cho , Nicolas Ballas , Christopher Pal , Hugo Larochelle , Aaron Courville

Event-specific concepts are the semantic concepts designed for the events of interest, which can be used as a mid-level representation of complex events in videos. Existing methods only focus on defining event-specific concepts for a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Guangnan Ye , Yitong Li , Hongliang Xu , Dong Liu , Shih-Fu Chang