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Video Question Answering (VideoQA) requires identifying sparse critical moments in long videos and reasoning about their causal relationships to answer semantically complex questions. While recent advances in multimodal learning have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xinxin Dong , Baoyun Peng , Haokai Ma , Yufei Wang , Zixuan Dong , Fei Hu , Xiaodong Wang

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment and track objects in videos based on natural language expressions, requiring precise alignment between visual content and textual queries. However, existing methods often suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Seunghun Lee , Jiwan Seo , Jeonghoon Kim , Sungho Moon , Siwon Kim , Haeun Yun , Hyogyeong Jeon , Wonhyeok Choi , Jaehoon Jeong , Zane Durante , Sang Hyun Park , Sunghoon Im

Answering questions about complex situations in videos requires not only capturing the presence of actors, objects, and their relations but also the evolution of these relationships over time. A situation hyper-graph is a representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Aisha Urooj Khan , Hilde Kuehne , Bo Wu , Kim Chheu , Walid Bousselham , Chuang Gan , Niels Lobo , Mubarak Shah

Video temporal grounding (VTG) aims to localize the start and end timestamps of the event described by a given query within an untrimmed video. Despite the strong open-world video understanding and recognition ability of video language…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pengcheng Fang , Yuxia Chen , Xiaohao Cai

Video recognition in an open and dynamic world is quite challenging, as we need to handle different settings such as close-set, long-tail, few-shot and open-set. By leveraging semantic knowledge from noisy text descriptions crawled from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Jintao Lin , Zhaoyang Liu , Wenhai Wang , Wayne Wu , Limin Wang

Real-world robots localize objects from natural-language instructions while scenes around them keep changing. Yet most of the existing 3D visual grounding (3DVG) method still assumes a reconstructed and up-to-date point cloud, an assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Miao Hu , Zhiwei Huang , Tai Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Dahua Lin , Nanning Zheng , Runsen Xu

Graphical User Interface (GUI) grounding is commonly framed as a coordinate prediction task -- given a natural language instruction, generate on-screen coordinates for actions such as clicks and keystrokes. However, recent Vision Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yu Zhao , Wei-Ning Chen , Huseyin Atahan Inan , Samuel Kessler , Lu Wang , Lukas Wutschitz , Fangkai Yang , Chaoyun Zhang , Pasquale Minervini , Saravan Rajmohan , Robert Sim

Despite recent advances in Video Large Language Models (Vid-LLMs), Temporal Video Grounding (TVG), which aims to precisely localize time segments corresponding to query events, remains a significant challenge. Existing methods often match…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jiahao Nie , Wenbin An , Gongjie Zhang , Yicheng Xu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot , Shijian Lu

Language grounding is an active field aiming at enriching textual representations with visual information. Generally, textual and visual elements are embedded in the same representation space, which implicitly assumes a one-to-one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Patrick Bordes , Eloi Zablocki , Laure Soulier , Benjamin Piwowarski , Patrick Gallinari

Text-based video segmentation is a challenging task that segments out the natural language referred objects in videos. It essentially requires semantic comprehension and fine-grained video understanding. Existing methods introduce language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Chen Liang , Yu Wu , Yawei Luo , Yi Yang

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to localize objects in 3D scenes using natural language descriptions. Although supervised methods achieve higher accuracy in constrained settings, zero-shot 3DVG holds greater promise for real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jiawen Lin , Shiran Bian , Yihang Zhu , Wenbin Tan , Yachao Zhang , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu

Service robots should be able to interact naturally with non-expert human users, not only to help them in various tasks but also to receive guidance in order to resolve ambiguities that might be present in the instruction. We consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei

This paper studies the multimedia problem of temporal sentence grounding (TSG), which aims to accurately determine the specific video segment in an untrimmed video according to a given sentence query. Traditional TSG methods mainly follow…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Zichuan Xu , Ruixuan Li

The 3D visual grounding task aims to ground a natural language description to the targeted object in a 3D scene, which is usually represented in 3D point clouds. Previous works studied visual grounding under specific views. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Shijia Huang , Yilun Chen , Jiaya Jia , Liwei Wang

Video-Question-Answering (VideoQA) comprises the capturing of complex visual relation changes over time, remaining a challenge even for advanced Video Language Models (VLM), i.a., because of the need to represent the visual content to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Sofian Chaybouti , Walid Bousselham , Moritz Wolter , Hilde Kuehne

We introduce ED-VTG, a method for fine-grained video temporal grounding utilizing multi-modal large language models. Our approach harnesses the capabilities of multimodal LLMs to jointly process text and video, in order to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shraman Pramanick , Effrosyni Mavroudi , Yale Song , Rama Chellappa , Lorenzo Torresani , Triantafyllos Afouras

This paper shows that text-only Language Models (LM) can learn to ground spatial relations like "left of" or "below" if they are provided with explicit location information of objects and they are properly trained to leverage those…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Gorka Azkune , Ander Salaberria , Eneko Agirre

Given a long untrimmed video and natural language queries, video grounding (VG) aims to temporally localize the semantically-aligned video segments. Almost all existing VG work holds two simple but unrealistic assumptions: 1) All query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Long Chen , Yulei Niu , Brian Chen , Xudong Lin , Guangxing Han , Christopher Thomas , Hammad Ayyubi , Heng Ji , Shih-Fu Chang

Recently, 3D vision-and-language tasks have attracted increasing research interest. Compared to other vision-and-language tasks, the 3D visual question answering (VQA) task is less exploited and is more susceptible to language priors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Lichen Zhao , Daigang Cai , Jing Zhang , Lu Sheng , Dong Xu , Rui Zheng , Yinjie Zhao , Lipeng Wang , Xibo Fan

The problem of grounding VQA tasks has seen an increased attention in the research community recently, with most attempts usually focusing on solving this task by using pretrained object detectors. However, pre-trained object detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Aisha Urooj Khan , Hilde Kuehne , Kevin Duarte , Chuang Gan , Niels Lobo , Mubarak Shah