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Recently, dense video captioning has made attractive progress in detecting and captioning all events in a long untrimmed video. Despite promising results were achieved, most existing methods do not sufficiently explore the scene evolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhiwang Zhang , Dong Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Luping Zhou

Generating automatic dense captions for videos that accurately describe their contents remains a challenging area of research. Most current models require processing the entire video at once. Instead, we propose an efficient, online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 AJ Piergiovanni , Dahun Kim , Michael S. Ryoo , Isaac Noble , Anelia Angelova

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

In this work, we propose a division-and-summarization (DaS) framework for dense video captioning. After partitioning each untrimmed long video as multiple event proposals, where each event proposal consists of a set of short video segments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhiwang Zhang , Dong Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Chuanqi Tan

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

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

This notebook paper presents our system in the ActivityNet Dense Captioning in Video task (task 3). Temporal proposal generation and caption generation are both important to the dense captioning task. Therefore, we propose a proposal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Shizhe Chen , Yuqing Song , Yida Zhao , Jiarong Qiu , Qin Jin , Alexander Hauptmann

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

Existing dense or paragraph video captioning approaches rely on holistic representations of videos, possibly coupled with learned object/action representations, to condition hierarchical language decoders. However, they fundamentally lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Shih-Han Chou , James J. Little , Leonid Sigal

Dense video captioning aims to detect and describe all events in untrimmed videos. This paper presents a dense video captioning network called Multi-Concept Cyclic Learning (MCCL), which aims to: (1) detect multiple concepts at the frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhuyang Xie , Yan Yang , Yankai Yu , Jie Wang , Yongquan Jiang , Xiao Wu

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

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

Understanding video content and generating caption with context is an important and challenging task. Unlike prior methods that typically attempt to generate generic video captions without context, our architecture contextualizes captioning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Philipp Rimle , Pelin Dogan , Markus Gross

Given the features of a video, recurrent neural networks can be used to automatically generate a caption for the video. Existing methods for video captioning have at least three limitations. First, semantic information has been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Haoran Chen , Ke Lin , Alexander Maye , Jianming Li , Xiaolin Hu

Multi-modal learning, particularly among imaging and linguistic modalities, has made amazing strides in many high-level fundamental visual understanding problems, ranging from language grounding to dense event captioning. However, much of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Tanzila Rahman , Bicheng Xu , Leonid Sigal

Video captioning aims to automatically generate natural language sentences that can describe the visual contents of a given video. Existing generative models like encoder-decoder frameworks cannot explicitly explore the object-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Yang Bai , Junyan Wang , Yang Long , Bingzhang Hu , Yang Song , Maurice Pagnucco , Yu Guan

Videos convey rich information. Dynamic spatio-temporal relationships between people/objects, and diverse multimodal events are present in a video clip. Hence, it is important to develop automated models that can accurately extract such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Hyounghun Kim , Zineng Tang , Mohit Bansal

We present an efficient framework that can generate a coherent paragraph to describe a given video. Previous works on video captioning usually focus on video clips. They typically treat an entire video as a whole and generate the caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Yilei Xiong , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

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 report describes the details of our approach for the event dense-captioning task in ActivityNet Challenge 2021. We present a semantic-aware pretraining method for dense video captioning, which empowers the learned features to recognize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Teng Wang , Zhu Liu , Feng Zheng , Zhichao Lu , Ran Cheng , Ping Luo