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Temporal Sentence Grounding (TSG), which aims to localize moments from videos based on the given natural language queries, has attracted widespread attention. Existing works are mainly designed for short videos, failing to handle TSG in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Houlun Chen , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Zihan Song , Jia Jia , Wenwu Zhu

With the release of large-scale motion datasets with textual annotations, the task of establishing a robust latent space for language and 3D human motion has recently witnessed a surge of interest. Methods have been proposed to convert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Kent Fujiwara , Mikihiro Tanaka , Qing Yu

While conventional methods for sequential learning focus on interaction between consecutive inputs, we suggest a new method which captures composite semantic flows with variable-length dependencies. In addition, the semantic structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Kyoung-Woon On , Eun-Sol Kim , Yu-Jung Heo , Byoung-Tak Zhang

This paper does not introduce a novel method but instead establishes a straightforward, incremental, yet essential baseline for video temporal grounding (VTG), a core capability in video understanding. While multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jun Zhang , Teng Wang , Yuying Ge , Yixiao Ge , Xinhao Li , Ying Shan , Limin Wang

Self-attention learns pairwise interactions to model long-range dependencies, yielding great improvements for video action recognition. In this paper, we seek a deeper understanding of self-attention for temporal modeling in videos. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Bo He , Xitong Yang , Zuxuan Wu , Hao Chen , Ser-Nam Lim , Abhinav Shrivastava

This paper studies the task of temporal moment localization in a long untrimmed video using natural language query. Given a query sentence, the goal is to determine the start and end of the relevant segment within the video. Our key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Basura Fernando , Hongdong Li , Stephen Gould

Understanding causal event relationships and achieving fine-grained temporal grounding in videos remain challenging for vision-language models. Existing methods either compress video tokens to reduce temporal resolution, or treat videos as…

In this paper we present an approach for localizing steps of procedural activities in narrated how-to videos. To deal with the scarcity of labeled data at scale, we source the step descriptions from a language knowledge base (wikiHow)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Effrosyni Mavroudi , Triantafyllos Afouras , Lorenzo Torresani

Various stuff and things in visual data possess specific traits, which can be learned by deep neural networks and are implicitly represented as the visual prior, e.g., object location and shape, in the model. Such prior potentially impacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Jinheng Xie , Kai Ye , Yudong Li , Yuexiang Li , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Yefeng Zheng , Linlin Shen , Mike Zheng Shou

Recent DETR-based video grounding models have made the model directly predict moment timestamps without any hand-crafted components, such as a pre-defined proposal or non-maximum suppression, by learning moment queries. However, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Jinhyun Jang , Jungin Park , Jin Kim , Hyeongjun Kwon , Kwanghoon Sohn

We propose a framework for parsing video and text jointly for understanding events and answering user queries. Our framework produces a parse graph that represents the compositional structures of spatial information (objects and scenes),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-24 Kewei Tu , Meng Meng , Mun Wai Lee , Tae Eun Choe , Song-Chun Zhu

Automated Audio Captioning is a cross-modal task, generating natural language descriptions to summarize the audio clips' sound events. However, grounding the actual sound events in the given audio based on its corresponding caption has not…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Xuenan Xu , Heinrich Dinkel , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Comprehending the information environment (IE) during crisis events is challenging due to the rapid change and abstract nature of the domain. Many approaches focus on snapshots via classification methods or network approaches to describe…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-19 David Farr , Stephen Prochaska , Jack Moody , Lynnette Hui Xian Ng , Iain Cruickshank , Kate Starbird , Jevin West

Grounding natural language in images, such as localizing "the black dog on the left of the tree", is one of the core problems in artificial intelligence, as it needs to comprehend the fine-grained and compositional language space. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Richang Hong , Daqing Liu , Xiaoyu Mo , Xiangnan He , Hanwang Zhang

In this work, we focus on the problem of grounding language by training an agent to follow a set of natural language instructions and navigate to a target object in an environment. The agent receives visual information through raw pixels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Akilesh B , Abhishek Sinha , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Multi-modal large language models have demonstrated impressive performance across various tasks in different modalities. However, existing multi-modal models primarily emphasize capturing global information within each modality while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Zhaowei Li , Qi Xu , Dong Zhang , Hang Song , Yiqing Cai , Qi Qi , Ran Zhou , Junting Pan , Zefeng Li , Van Tu Vu , Zhida Huang , Tao Wang

Objects, in the real world, rarely occur in isolation and exhibit typical arrangements governed by their independent utility, and their expected interaction with humans and other objects in the context. For example, a chair is expected near…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Sharat Agarwal

The recent advancement in video temporal grounding (VTG) has significantly enhanced fine-grained video understanding, primarily driven by multimodal large language models (MLLMs). With superior multimodal comprehension and reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Jianlong Wu , Wei Liu , Ye Liu , Meng Liu , Liqiang Nie , Zhouchen Lin , Chang Wen Chen

Given a text description, Temporal Language Grounding (TLG) aims to localize temporal boundaries of the segments that contain the specified semantics in an untrimmed video. TLG is inherently a challenging task, as it requires comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Fan Luo , Shaoxiang Chen , Jingjing Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Grounding events in videos serves as a fundamental capability in video analysis. While Vision Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly employed for this task, existing approaches predominantly train models to associate events with timestamps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Fangxu Yu , Ziyao Lu , Liqiang Niu , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou