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How can we tell whether a video has been sped up or slowed down? How can we generate videos at different speeds? Although videos have been central to modern computer vision research, little attention has been paid to perceiving and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yen-Siang Wu , Rundong Luo , Jingsen Zhu , Tao Tu , Ali Farhadi , Matthew Wallingford , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Steve Marschner , Wei-Chiu Ma

Video large language models (Video-LLMs) can temporally ground language queries and retrieve video moments. Yet, such temporal comprehension capabilities are neither well-studied nor understood. So we conduct a study on prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Minjoon Jung , Junbin Xiao , Byoung-Tak Zhang , Angela Yao

The task of temporally grounding language queries in videos is to temporally localize the best matched video segment corresponding to a given language (sentence). It requires certain models to simultaneously perform visual and linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Jingwen Wang , Lin Ma , Wenhao Jiang

Dense video captioning aims to interpret and describe all temporally localized events throughout an input video. Recent state-of-the-art methods leverage large language models (LLMs) to provide detailed moment descriptions for video data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Wei-Yuan Cheng , Kai-Po Chang , Chi-Pin Huang , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Temporal grounding aims to locate a target video moment that semantically corresponds to the given sentence query in an untrimmed video. However, recent works find that existing methods suffer a severe temporal bias problem. These methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Jiachang Hao , Haifeng Sun , Pengfei Ren , Jingyu Wang , Qi Qi , Jianxin Liao

Video activity localisation has recently attained increasing attention due to its practical values in automatically localising the most salient visual segments corresponding to their language descriptions (sentences) from untrimmed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Jiabo Huang , Yang Liu , Shaogang Gong , Hailin Jin

Temporal information conveyed by language describes how the world around us changes through time. Events, durations and times are all temporal elements that can be viewed as intervals. These intervals are sometimes temporally related in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-03-23 Leon Derczynski , Robert Gaizauskas

The unprecedented surge in video data production in recent years necessitates efficient tools to extract meaningful frames from videos for downstream tasks. Long-term temporal reasoning is a key desideratum for frame retrieval systems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Minkyu Choi , Harsh Goel , Mohammad Omama , Yunhao Yang , Sahil Shah , Sandeep Chinchali

Generating video descriptions automatically is a challenging task that involves a complex interplay between spatio-temporal visual features and language models. Given that videos consist of spatial (frame-level) features and their temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Anoop Cherian , Jue Wang , Chiori Hori , Tim K. Marks

Many video analysis tasks require temporal localization thus detection of content changes. However, most existing models developed for these tasks are pre-trained on general video action classification tasks. This is because large scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Mengmeng Xu , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua , Victor Escorcia , Brais Martinez , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang , Bernard Ghanem , Tao Xiang

Temporal language grounding in videos aims to localize the temporal span relevant to the given query sentence. Previous methods treat it either as a boundary regression task or a span extraction task. This paper will formulate temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Jialin Gao , Xin Sun , Mengmeng Xu , Xi Zhou , Bernard Ghanem

We introduce TemporalVLM, a video large language model (video LLM) for temporal reasoning and fine-grained understanding in long videos. Our approach includes a visual encoder for mapping a long-term video into features which are time-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Fawad Javed Fateh , Umer Ahmed , Hamza Khan , M. Zeeshan Zia , Quoc-Huy Tran

Dense video captioning is an extremely challenging task since accurate and coherent description of events in a video requires holistic understanding of video contents as well as contextual reasoning of individual events. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Jonghwan Mun , Linjie Yang , Zhou Ren , Ning Xu , Bohyung Han

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RefVOS) seeks to segment target objects in videos guided by natural language descriptions, demanding both temporal reasoning and fine-grained visual comprehension. Existing sampling strategies for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ming Dai , Sen Yang , Boqiang Duan , Wankou Yang , Jingdong Wang

Video Moment Retrieval (VMR) aims to localize a specific temporal segment within an untrimmed long video given a natural language query. Existing methods often suffer from inadequate training annotations, i.e., the sentence typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Weitong Cai , Jiabo Huang , Shaogang Gong , Hailin Jin , Yang Liu

Semantic scene segmentation has primarily been addressed by forming representations of single images both with supervised and unsupervised methods. The problem of semantic segmentation in dynamic scenes has begun to recently receive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Li Ding , Jack Terwilliger , Rini Sherony , Bryan Reimer , Lex Fridman

Recent advances in computing, communication, and data storage have led to an increasing number of large digital libraries publicly available on the Internet. Main problem of content-based video retrieval is inferring semantics from raw…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-04-18 Hadi Restgou Haghi , Mohammadreza Kangavari , Behrang QasemiZadeh

In this paper, we address the unexplored question of temporal sentence localization in human motions (TSLM), aiming to locate a target moment from a 3D human motion that semantically corresponds to a text query. Considering that 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Sheng Yan , Mengyuan Liu , Yong Wang , Yang Liu , Chen Chen , Hong Liu

In this paper, we study the problem of weakly-supervised temporal grounding of sentence in video. Specifically, given an untrimmed video and a query sentence, our goal is to localize a temporal segment in the video that semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Zhenfang Chen , Lin Ma , Wenhan Luo , Peng Tang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Understanding fine-grained temporal dynamics is crucial for multimodal video comprehension and generation. Due to the lack of fine-grained temporal annotations, existing video benchmarks mostly resemble static image benchmarks and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Mu Cai , Reuben Tan , Jianrui Zhang , Bocheng Zou , Kai Zhang , Feng Yao , Fangrui Zhu , Jing Gu , Yiwu Zhong , Yuzhang Shang , Yao Dou , Jaden Park , Jianfeng Gao , Yong Jae Lee , Jianwei Yang