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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

Dense Video Object Captioning (DVOC) is the task of jointly detecting, tracking, and captioning object trajectories in a video, requiring the ability to understand spatio-temporal details and describe them in natural language. Due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Gabriel Fiastre , Antoine Yang , Cordelia Schmid

We present Dive Into the BoundarieS (DIBS), a novel pretraining framework for dense video captioning (DVC), that elaborates on improving the quality of the generated event captions and their associated pseudo event boundaries from unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Hao Wu , Huabin Liu , Yu Qiao , Xiao Sun

This paper proposes an approach to Dense Video Captioning (DVC) without pairwise event-sentence annotation. First, we adopt the knowledge distilled from relevant and well solved tasks to generate high-quality event proposals. Then we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Bofeng Wu , Guocheng Niu , Jun Yu , Xinyan Xiao , Jian Zhang , Hua Wu

This work addresses challenges in developing conversational assistants that support rich multimodal video interactions to accomplish real-world tasks interactively. We introduce the task of automatically linking instructional videos to task…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Sophie Fischer , Carlos Gemmell , Iain Mackie , Jeffrey Dalton

Pre-training on large scale unlabelled datasets has shown impressive performance improvements in the fields of computer vision and natural language processing. Given the advent of large-scale instructional video datasets, a common strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Valentin Gabeur , Arsha Nagrani , Chen Sun , Karteek Alahari , Cordelia Schmid

Recent advancements in multimodal models highlight the value of rewritten captions for improving performance, yet key challenges remain. For example, while synthetic captions often provide superior quality and image-text alignment, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Zhengfeng Lai , Vasileios Saveris , Chen Chen , Hong-You Chen , Haotian Zhang , Bowen Zhang , Juan Lao Tebar , Wenze Hu , Zhe Gan , Peter Grasch , Meng Cao , Yinfei Yang

Dense video captioning aims to interpret and describe all temporally localized events throughout an input video. Recent state-of-the-art methods leverage large language models (LLMs) to provide detailed moment descriptions for video data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Wei-Yuan Cheng , Kai-Po Chang , Chi-Pin Huang , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Automatically describing video content with natural language has been attracting much attention in CV and NLP communities. Most existing methods predict one word at a time, and by feeding the last generated word back as input at the next…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Huanhou Xiao , Jinglun Shi

In this paper, we address a fundamental gap between pre-training and fine-tuning of deep neural networks: while pre-training has shifted from unimodal to multimodal learning with enhanced visual understanding, fine-tuning predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shohei Enomoto , Shin'ya Yamaguchi

We introduce a method to learn unsupervised semantic visual information based on the premise that complex events can be decomposed into simpler events and that these simple events are shared across several complex events. We first employ a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Valter Estevam , Rayson Laroca , Helio Pedrini , David Menotti

Dense video captioning, a task of localizing meaningful moments and generating relevant captions for videos, often requires a large, expensive corpus of annotated video segments paired with text. In an effort to minimize the annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yongrae Jo , Seongyun Lee , Aiden SJ Lee , Hyunji Lee , Hanseok Oh , Minjoon Seo

In this paper, we aim to establish an automatic, scalable pipeline for denoising the large-scale instructional dataset and construct a high-quality video-text dataset with multiple descriptive steps supervision, named HowToStep. We make the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zeqian Li , Qirui Chen , Tengda Han , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Videos capture events that typically contain multiple sequential, and simultaneous, actions even in the span of only a few seconds. However, most large-scale datasets built to train models for action recognition in video only provide a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Mathew Monfort , Bowen Pan , Kandan Ramakrishnan , Alex Andonian , Barry A McNamara , Alex Lascelles , Quanfu Fan , Dan Gutfreund , Rogerio Feris , Aude Oliva

The potential for agents, whether embodied or software, to learn by observing other agents performing procedures involving objects and actions is rich. Current research on automatic procedure learning heavily relies on action labels or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Luowei Zhou , Chenliang Xu , Jason J. Corso

We propose L2T, an advancement of visual instruction tuning (VIT). While VIT equips Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) with promising multimodal capabilities, the current design choices for VIT often result in overfitting and shortcut learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zhihan Zhou , Feng Hong , Jiaan Luo , Jiangchao Yao , Dongsheng Li , Bo Han , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Video captioning is the task of automatically generating a textual description of the actions in a video. Although previous work (e.g. sequence-to-sequence model) has shown promising results in abstracting a coarse description of a short…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Xin Wang , Wenhu Chen , Jiawei Wu , Yuan-Fang Wang , William Yang Wang

The remarkable success of deep learning in various domains relies on the availability of large-scale annotated datasets. However, obtaining annotations is expensive and requires great effort, which is especially challenging for videos.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Madeline C. Schiappa , Yogesh S. Rawat , Mubarak Shah

Video captioning aims to describe video contents using natural language format that involves understanding and interpreting scenes, actions and events that occurs simultaneously on the view. Current approaches have mainly concentrated on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Antoine Hanna-Asaad , Decky Aspandi , Titus Zaharia

Thanks to the emerging of foundation models, the large language and vision models are integrated to acquire the multimodal ability of visual captioning, question answering, etc. Although existing multimodal models present impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Bo Zhao , Boya Wu , Muyang He , Tiejun Huang