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Given an untrimmed video and a sentence description, temporal sentence localization aims to automatically determine the start and end points of the described sentence within the video. The problem is challenging as it needs the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Yitian Yuan , Tao Mei , Wenwu Zhu

We address the problem of retrieving a specific moment from an untrimmed video by natural language. It is a challenging problem because a target moment may take place in the context of other temporal moments in the untrimmed video. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Songyang Zhang , Houwen Peng , Jianlong Fu , Yijuan Lu , Jiebo Luo

In video analysis, understanding the temporal context is crucial for recognizing object interactions, event patterns, and contextual changes over time. The proposed model leverages adjacency and semantic similarities between objects from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ahnaf Farhan , M. Shahriar Hossain

This paper focuses on tackling the problem of temporal language localization in videos, which aims to identify the start and end points of a moment described by a natural language sentence in an untrimmed video. However, it is non-trivial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zongmeng Zhang , Xianjing Han , Xuemeng Song , Yan Yan , Liqiang Nie

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

This thesis explores the central question of how to leverage temporal relations among video elements to advance video understanding. Addressing the limitations of existing methods, the work presents a five-fold contribution: (1) an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Thong Thanh Nguyen

Video language models (VideoLMs) have made significant progress in multimodal understanding. However, temporal understanding, which involves identifying event order, duration, and relationships across time, still remains a core challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yumeng Shi , Quanyu Long , Yin Wu , Wenya Wang

Understanding fine-grained temporal dynamics is crucial in egocentric videos, where continuous streams capture frequent, close-up interactions with objects. In this work, we bring to light that current egocentric video question-answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Chiara Plizzari , Alessio Tonioni , Yongqin Xian , Achin Kulshrestha , Federico Tombari

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

Rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced multimodal large language models (LMMs), particularly in vision-language tasks. However, existing video-language models often overlook precise temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shimin Chen , Xiaohan Lan , Yitian Yuan , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma

Human perception of events is intrinsically tied to distinguishing between completed (perfect and telic) and ongoing (durative) actions, a process mediated by both linguistic structure and visual cues. In this work, we introduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Olga Loginova , Sofía Ortega Loguinova

Temporal action localization is an important and challenging task that aims to locate temporal regions in real-world untrimmed videos where actions occur and recognize their classes. It is widely acknowledged that video context is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Xin Qin , Hanbin Zhao , Guangchen Lin , Hao Zeng , Songcen Xu , Xi Li

Referring video object segmentation aims to segment a referent throughout a video sequence according to a natural language expression. It requires aligning the natural language expression with the objects' motions and their dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jiajin Tang , Ge Zheng , Sibei Yang

Temporal validity is an important property of text that is useful for many downstream applications, such as recommender systems, conversational AI, or story understanding. Existing benchmarking tasks often require models to identify the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Georg Wenzel , Adam Jatowt

We consider the task of temporal human action localization in lifestyle vlogs. We introduce a novel dataset consisting of manual annotations of temporal localization for 13,000 narrated actions in 1,200 video clips. We present an extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Oana Ignat , Santiago Castro , Yuhang Zhou , Jiajun Bao , Dandan Shan , Rada Mihalcea

Temporally localizing user-queried events through natural language is a crucial capability for video models. Recent methods predominantly adapt video LLMs to generate event boundary timestamps for temporal localization tasks, which struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zongshang Pang , Mayu Otani , Yuta Nakashima

Automatic video captioning is challenging due to the complex interactions in dynamic real scenes. A comprehensive system would ultimately localize and track the objects, actions and interactions present in a video and generate a description…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Mihai Zanfir , Elisabeta Marinoiu , Cristian Sminchisescu

Automatically describing videos with natural language is a fundamental challenge for computer vision and natural language processing. Recently, progress in this problem has been achieved through two steps: 1) employing 2-D and/or 3-D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Yuyu Guo , Jingqiu Zhang , Lianli Gao

While existing video benchmarks largely consider specialized downstream tasks like retrieval or question-answering (QA), contemporary multimodal AI systems must be capable of well-rounded common-sense reasoning akin to human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Kate Sanders , Benjamin Van Durme

Modelling and understanding time remains a challenge in contemporary video understanding models. With language emerging as a key driver towards powerful generalization, it is imperative for foundational video-language models to have a sense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Piyush Bagad , Makarand Tapaswi , Cees G. M. Snoek