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Temporal language grounding in videos aims to localize the temporal span relevant to the given query sentence. Previous methods treat it either as a boundary regression task or a span extraction task. This paper will formulate temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Jialin Gao , Xin Sun , Mengmeng Xu , Xi Zhou , Bernard Ghanem

Sign spotting, the task of identifying and localizing individual signs within continuous sign language video, plays a pivotal role in scaling dataset annotations and addressing the severe data scarcity issue in sign language translation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 JianHe Low , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

The next Point of Interest (POI) recommendation task is to predict users' immediate next POI visit given their historical data. Location-Based Social Network (LBSN) data, which is often used for the next POI recommendation task, comes with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Peibo Li , Maarten de Rijke , Hao Xue , Shuang Ao , Yang Song , Flora D. Salim

Effective recommender systems demand dynamic user understanding, especially in complex, evolving environments. Traditional user profiling often fails to capture the nuanced, temporal contextual factors of user preferences, such as transient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Milad Sabouri , Masoud Mansoury , Kun Lin , Bamshad Mobasher

We address the problem of language-based temporal localization in untrimmed videos. Compared to temporal localization with fixed categories, this problem is more challenging as the language-based queries not only have no pre-defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Runzhou Ge , Jiyang Gao , Kan Chen , Ram Nevatia

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

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to localize and recognize actions in untrimmed videos with only video-level category labels during training. Without instance-level annotations, most existing methods follow the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Huan Ren , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Yongdong Zhang

This paper addresses the challenging task of weakly-supervised video temporal grounding. Existing approaches are generally based on the moment proposal selection framework that utilizes contrastive learning and reconstruction paradigm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xiang Fang , Zeyu Xiong , Wanlong Fang , Xiaoye Qu , Chen Chen , Jianfeng Dong , Keke Tang , Pan Zhou , Yu Cheng , Daizong Liu

Effectively tackling the problem of temporal action localization (TAL) necessitates a visual representation that jointly pursues two confounding goals, i.e., fine-grained discrimination for temporal localization and sufficient visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Zixin Zhu , Wei Tang , Le Wang , Nanning Zheng , Gang Hua

Point-supervised Temporal Action Localization (PTAL) adopts a lightly frame-annotated paradigm (\textit{i.e.}, labeling only a single frame per action instance) to train a model to effectively locate action instances within untrimmed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yunchuan Ma , Laiyun Qing , Guorong Li , Yuqing Liu , Yuankai Qi , Qingming Huang

In the scenario of one/multi-shot learning, conventional end-to-end learning strategies without sufficient supervision are usually not powerful enough to learn correct patterns from noisy signals. Thus, given a CNN pre-trained for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Quanshi Zhang , Ruiming Cao , Shengming Zhang , Mark Redmonds , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu

Pre-trained language models (PrLM) have to carefully manage input units when training on a very large text with a vocabulary consisting of millions of words. Previous works have shown that incorporating span-level information over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Rongzhou Bao , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Natural Language Video Localization (NLVL) aims to locate a target moment from an untrimmed video that semantically corresponds to a text query. Existing approaches mainly solve the NLVL problem from the perspective of computer vision by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Hao Zhang , Aixin Sun , Wei Jing , Liangli Zhen , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Rick Siow Mong Goh

Audio-visual event localization aims to localize an event that is both audible and visible in the wild, which is a widespread audio-visual scene analysis task for unconstrained videos. To address this task, we propose a Multimodal Parallel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jiashuo Yu , Ying Cheng , Rui Feng

We address temporal action localization in untrimmed long videos. This is important because videos in real applications are usually unconstrained and contain multiple action instances plus video content of background scenes or other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Zheng Shou , Dongang Wang , Shih-Fu Chang

Grounding language queries in videos aims at identifying the time interval (or moment) semantically relevant to a language query. The solution to this challenging task demands understanding videos' and queries' semantic content and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Mattia Soldan , Mengmeng Xu , Sisi Qu , Jesper Tegner , Bernard Ghanem

Given an untrimmed video and natural language query, video sentence grounding aims to localize the target temporal moment in the video. Existing methods mainly tackle this task by matching and aligning semantics of the descriptive sentence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Wei Ji , Long Chen , Yinwei Wei , Yiming Wu , Tat-Seng Chua

Temporal Moment Localization (TML) in untrimmed videos is a challenging task in the field of multimedia, which aims at localizing the start and end points of the activity in the video, described by a sentence query. Existing methods mainly…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Ziyang Ma , Xianjing Han , Xuemeng Song , Yiran Cui , Liqiang Nie

This paper addresses the problem of natural language video localization (NLVL). Almost all existing works follow the "only look once" framework that exploits a single model to directly capture the complex cross- and self-modal relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Daizong Liu , Wei Hu

The task of temporally grounding language queries in videos is to temporally localize the best matched video segment corresponding to a given language (sentence). It requires certain models to simultaneously perform visual and linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Jingwen Wang , Lin Ma , Wenhao Jiang