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Long-form video understanding requires designing approaches that are able to temporally localize activities or language. End-to-end training for such tasks is limited by the compute device memory constraints and lack of temporal annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Mengmeng Xu , Erhan Gundogdu , Maksim Lapin , Bernard Ghanem , Michael Donoser , Loris Bazzani

Temporal localization in untrimmed videos, which aims to identify specific timestamps, is crucial for video understanding but remains challenging. This task encompasses several subtasks, including temporal action localization, temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chen-Lin Zhang , Lin Sui , Shuming Liu , Fangzhou Mu , Zhangcheng Wang , Bernard Ghanem

Video action localization aims to find the timings of specific actions from a long video. Although existing learning-based approaches have been successful, they require annotating videos, which comes with a considerable labor cost. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Naoki Wake , Atsushi Kanehira , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Jun Takamatsu , Katsushi Ikeuchi

Large language models (LLMs) excel at retrieving information from lengthy text, but their vision-language counterparts (VLMs) face difficulties with hour-long videos, especially for temporal grounding. Specifically, these VLMs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Tanveer Hannan , Md Mohaiminul Islam , Jindong Gu , Thomas Seidl , Gedas Bertasius

The widespread integration of cameras in hand-held and head-worn devices as well as the ability to share content online enables a large and diverse visual capture of the world that millions of users build up collectively every day. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Sreyasi Nag Chowdhury , Mateusz Malinowski , Andreas Bulling , Mario Fritz

Temporal sentence grounding involves the retrieval of a video moment with a natural language query. Many existing works directly incorporate the given video and temporally localized query for temporal grounding, overlooking the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Cai Chen , Runzhong Zhang , Jianjun Gao , Kejun Wu , Kim-Hui Yap , Yi Wang

The task of language-guided video temporal grounding is to localize the particular video clip corresponding to a query sentence in an untrimmed video. Though progress has been made continuously in this field, some issues still need to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Binjie Zhang , Yu Li , Chun Yuan , Dejing Xu , Pin Jiang , Ying Shan

Human processes video reasoning in a sequential spatio-temporal reasoning logic, we first identify the relevant frames ("when") and then analyse the spatial relationships ("where") between key objects, and finally leverage these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Zixu Cheng , Jian Hu , Ziquan Liu , Chenyang Si , Wei Li , Shaogang Gong

This paper addresses the challenging task of weakly-supervised video temporal grounding. Existing approaches are generally based on the moment proposal selection framework that utilizes contrastive learning and reconstruction paradigm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xiang Fang , Zeyu Xiong , Wanlong Fang , Xiaoye Qu , Chen Chen , Jianfeng Dong , Keke Tang , Pan Zhou , Yu Cheng , Daizong Liu

This paper presents VideoLoom, a unified Video Large Language Model (Video LLM) for joint spatial-temporal understanding. To facilitate the development of fine-grained spatial and temporal localization capabilities, we curate LoomData-8.7k,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiapeng Shi , Junke Wang , Zuyao You , Bo He , Zuxuan Wu

Moments capture a huge part of our lives. Accurate recognition of these moments is challenging due to the diverse and complex interpretation of the moments. Action recognition refers to the act of classifying the desired action/activity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Ankit Shah , Harini Kesavamoorthy , Poorva Rane , Pramati Kalwad , Alexander Hauptmann , Florian Metze

Temporal relational reasoning, the ability to link meaningful transformations of objects or entities over time, is a fundamental property of intelligent species. In this paper, we introduce an effective and interpretable network module, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Bolei Zhou , Alex Andonian , Aude Oliva , Antonio Torralba

The meaning of a word is closely linked to sociocultural factors that can change over time and location, resulting in corresponding meaning changes. Taking a global view of words and their meanings in a widely used language, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Hongyu Gong , Suma Bhat , Pramod Viswanath

We investigate the problem of object referring (OR) i.e. to localize a target object in a visual scene coming with a language description. Humans perceive the world more as continued video snippets than as static images, and describe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Current methods for Video Moment Retrieval (VMR) struggle to align complex situations involving specific environmental details, character descriptions, and action narratives. To tackle this issue, we propose a Large Language Model-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Weijia Liu , Bo Miao , Jiuxin Cao , Xuelin Zhu , Bo Liu , Mehwish Nasim , Ajmal Mian

We present the Moments in Time Dataset, a large-scale human-annotated collection of one million short videos corresponding to dynamic events unfolding within three seconds. Modeling the spatial-audio-temporal dynamics even for actions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Mathew Monfort , Alex Andonian , Bolei Zhou , Kandan Ramakrishnan , Sarah Adel Bargal , Tom Yan , Lisa Brown , Quanfu Fan , Dan Gutfruend , Carl Vondrick , Aude Oliva

We propose Video Localized Narratives, a new form of multimodal video annotations connecting vision and language. In the original Localized Narratives, annotators speak and move their mouse simultaneously on an image, thus grounding each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Paul Voigtlaender , Soravit Changpinyo , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Radu Soricut , Vittorio Ferrari

Temporal sentence grounding in videos(TSGV), which aims to localize one target segment from an untrimmed video with respect to a given sentence query, has drawn increasing attentions in the research community over the past few years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Xiaohan Lan , Yitian Yuan , Xin Wang , Zhi Wang , Wenwu Zhu

Video moment retrieval aims to search the moment most relevant to a given language query. However, most existing methods in this community often require temporal boundary annotations which are expensive and time-consuming to label. Hence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Ding Li , Rui Wu , Yongqiang Tang , Zhizhong Zhang , Wensheng Zhang

Research into Video Large Language Models (LLMs) has progressed rapidly, with numerous models and benchmarks emerging in just a few years. Typically, these models are initialized with a pretrained text-only LLM and finetuned on both image-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 George Lydakis , Alexander Hermans , Ali Athar , Daan de Geus , Bastian Leibe