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Recent advances in 3D human motion and language integration have primarily focused on text-to-motion generation, leaving the task of motion understanding relatively unexplored. We introduce Dense Motion Captioning, a novel task that aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shiyao Xu , Benedetta Liberatori , Gül Varol , Paolo Rota

Automatically generating sentences to describe events and temporally localizing sentences in a video are two important tasks that bridge language and videos. Recent techniques leverage the multimodal nature of videos by using off-the-shelf…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Shaoxiang Chen , Wenhao Jiang , Wei Liu , Yu-Gang Jiang

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

In this work, we introduce Vid2Seq, a multi-modal single-stage dense event captioning model pretrained on narrated videos which are readily-available at scale. The Vid2Seq architecture augments a language model with special time tokens,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Antoine Yang , Arsha Nagrani , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Antoine Miech , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Ivan Laptev , Josef Sivic , Cordelia Schmid

Dense Video Object Captioning (DVOC) is the task of jointly detecting, tracking, and captioning object trajectories in a video, requiring the ability to understand spatio-temporal details and describe them in natural language. Due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Gabriel Fiastre , Antoine Yang , Cordelia Schmid

Three-Dimensional (3D) dense captioning is an emerging vision-language bridging task that aims to generate multiple detailed and accurate descriptions for 3D scenes. It presents significant potential and challenges due to its closer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Ting Yu , Xiaojun Lin , Shuhui Wang , Weiguo Sheng , Qingming Huang , Jun Yu

Video captioning is a challenging task since it requires generating sentences describing various diverse and complex videos. Existing video captioning models lack adequate visual representation due to the neglect of the existence of gaps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Mingkang Tang , Zhanyu Wang , Zhenhua Liu , Fengyun Rao , Dian Li , Xiu Li

The task of video grounding, which temporally localizes a natural language description in a video, plays an important role in understanding videos. Existing studies have adopted strategies of sliding window over the entire video or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Dongliang He , Xiang Zhao , Jizhou Huang , Fu Li , Xiao Liu , Shilei Wen

We introduce the dense captioning task, which requires a computer vision system to both localize and describe salient regions in images in natural language. The dense captioning task generalizes object detection when the descriptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Justin Johnson , Andrej Karpathy , Li Fei-Fei

Localizing moments in a longer video via natural language queries is a new, challenging task at the intersection of language and video understanding. Though moment localization with natural language is similar to other language and vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Lisa Anne Hendricks , Oliver Wang , Eli Shechtman , Josef Sivic , Trevor Darrell , Bryan Russell

Dense Video Captioning (DVC) is a challenging multimodal task that involves temporally localizing multiple events within a video and describing them with natural language. While query-based frameworks enable the simultaneous, end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Seung Hyup Baek , Jimin Lee , Hyeongkeun Lee , Jae Won Cho

Automatically describing video content with text description is challenging but important task, which has been attracting a lot of attention in computer vision community. Previous works mainly strive for the accuracy of the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Huanhou Xiao , Jinglun Shi

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

The topic diversity of open-domain videos leads to various vocabularies and linguistic expressions in describing video contents, and therefore, makes the video captioning task even more challenging. In this paper, we propose an unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Shizhe Chen , Jia Chen , Qin Jin , Alexander Hauptmann

Video Captioning is considered to be one of the most challenging problems in the field of computer vision. Video Captioning involves the combination of different deep learning models to perform object detection, action detection, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Soheyla Amirian , Abolfazl Farahani , Hamid R. Arabnia , Khaled Rasheed , Thiab R. Taha

This paper proposes an approach to Dense Video Captioning (DVC) without pairwise event-sentence annotation. First, we adopt the knowledge distilled from relevant and well solved tasks to generate high-quality event proposals. Then we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Bofeng Wu , Guocheng Niu , Jun Yu , Xinyan Xiao , Jian Zhang , Hua Wu

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

This paper proposes Omni Dense Captioning, a novel task designed to generate continuous, fine-grained, and structured audio-visual narratives with explicit timestamps. To ensure dense semantic coverage, we introduce a six-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Linli Yao , Yuancheng Wei , Yaojie Zhang , Lei Li , Xinlong Chen , Feifan Song , Ziyue Wang , Kun Ouyang , Yuanxin Liu , Lingpeng Kong , Qi Liu , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai , Yuanxing Zhang , Xu Sun

3D dense captioning requires a model to translate its understanding of an input 3D scene into several captions associated with different object regions. Existing methods adopt a sophisticated "detect-then-describe" pipeline, which builds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Sijin Chen , Hongyuan Zhu , Mingsheng Li , Xin Chen , Peng Guo , Yinjie Lei , Gang Yu , Taihao Li , Tao Chen

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