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Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) strives to accurately pinpoint event timestamps in a specific video using linguistic queries, significantly impacting downstream tasks like video browsing and editing. Unlike traditional task-specific models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yongxin Guo , Jingyu Liu , Mingda Li , Dingxin Cheng , Xiaoying Tang , Dianbo Sui , Qingbin Liu , Xi Chen , Kevin Zhao

The video grounding (VG) task aims to locate the queried action or event in an untrimmed video based on rich linguistic descriptions. Existing proposal-free methods are trapped in complex interaction between video and query, overemphasizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Kun Li , Dan Guo , Meng Wang

The main challenge in video question answering (VideoQA) is to capture and understand the complex spatial and temporal relations between objects based on given questions. Existing graph-based methods for VideoQA usually ignore keywords in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Yi Cheng , Hehe Fan , Dongyun Lin , Ying Sun , Mohan Kankanhalli , Joo-Hwee Lim

Human activity recognition is typically addressed by detecting key concepts like global and local motion, features related to object classes present in the scene, as well as features related to the global context. The next open challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Fabien Baradel , Natalia Neverova , Christian Wolf , Julien Mille , Greg Mori

In this work we study Weakly Supervised Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (WSTVG), a challenging task of localizing subjects spatio-temporally in videos using only textual queries and no bounding box supervision. Inspired by recent advances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Aaryan Garg , Akash Kumar , Yogesh S Rawat

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) is a crucial capability for video understanding models and plays a vital role in downstream tasks such as video browsing and editing. To effectively handle various tasks simultaneously and enable zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yongxin Guo , Jingyu Liu , Mingda Li , Qingbin Liu , Xi Chen , Xiaoying Tang

Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable progress in general video understanding. However, existing models primarily focus on high-level comprehension and are limited to text-only responses, restricting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Haochen Wang , Qirui Chen , Cilin Yan , Jiayin Cai , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Weidi Xie , Stratis Gavves

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

In real scenarios, videos can span several minutes or even hours. However, existing research on spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG), given a textual query, mainly focuses on localizing targets in short videos of tens of seconds,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Xin Gu , Bing Fan , Jiali Yao , Zhipeng Zhang , Yan Huang , Cheng Han , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang

Visual grounding (VG) aims to locate a specific target in an image based on a given language query. The discriminative information from context is important for distinguishing the target from other objects, particularly for the targets that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Wei Tang , Liang Li , Xuejing Liu , Lu Jin , Jinhui Tang , Zechao Li

Visual dialogue is a challenging task since it needs to answer a series of coherent questions on the basis of understanding the visual environment. Previous studies focus on the implicit exploration of multimodal co-reference by implicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Feilong Chen , Fandong Meng , Xiuyi Chen , Peng Li , Jie Zhou

Existing efforts in text-based video question answering (TextVideoQA) are criticized for their opaque decisionmaking and heavy reliance on scene-text recognition. In this paper, we propose to study Grounded TextVideoQA by forcing models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sheng Zhou , Junbin Xiao , Xun Yang , Peipei Song , Dan Guo , Angela Yao , Meng Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Physical video understanding requires more than naming an event correctly. A model can answer a question about pouring, sliding, or collision from textual regularities while still failing to localize the event in time or space. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Alibay Osmanli , Zixu Cheng , Shaogang Gong

In this paper, we propose spatio-temporal omni-object video grounding, dubbed OmniSTVG, a new STVG task that aims at localizing spatially and temporally all targets mentioned in the textual query from videos. Compared to classic STVG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jiali Yao , Xinran Deng , Xin Gu , Mengrui Dai , Bing Fan , Zhipeng Zhang , Yan Huang , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang

Remote sensing visual grounding (RSVG) aims to localize objects in remote sensing imagery according to natural language expressions. Previous methods typically rely on sentence-level vision-language alignment, which struggles to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ke Li , Ting Wang , Di Wang , Yongshan Zhu , Yiming Zhang , Tao Lei , Quan Wang

Temporal grounding, which localizes video moments related to a natural language query, is a core problem of vision-language learning and video understanding. To encode video moments of varying lengths, recent methods employ a multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Thong Thanh Nguyen , Yi Bin , Xiaobao Wu , Zhiyuan Hu , Cong-Duy T Nguyen , See-Kiong Ng , Anh Tuan Luu

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize the video segment that corresponds to a natural language query, which requires a comprehensive understanding of complex temporal dynamics. Existing Vision-LMMs typically perceive temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chaohong Guo , Yihan He , Yongwei Nie , Fei Ma , Xuemiao Xu , Chengjiang Long

Video question answering (Video QA) presents a powerful testbed for human-like intelligent behaviors. The task demands new capabilities to integrate video processing, language understanding, binding abstract linguistic concepts to concrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Long Hoang Dang , Thao Minh Le , Vuong Le , Truyen Tran

A core capability towards general embodied intelligence lies in localizing task-relevant objects from an egocentric perspective, formulated as Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG). Despite recent progress, existing STVG studies remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Qi'ao Xu , Tianwen Qian , Yuqian Fu , Kailing Li , Yang Jiao , Jiacheng Zhang , Xiaoling Wang , Liang He

3D visual grounding aims to identify and localize objects in a 3D space based on textual descriptions. However, existing methods struggle with disentangling targets from anchors in complex multi-anchor queries and resolving inconsistencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ronggang Huang , Haoxin Yang , Yan Cai , Xuemiao Xu , Huaidong Zhang , Shengfeng He