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Large language models (LLMs) excel at retrieving information from lengthy text, but their vision-language counterparts (VLMs) face difficulties with hour-long videos, especially for temporal grounding. Specifically, these VLMs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Tanveer Hannan , Md Mohaiminul Islam , Jindong Gu , Thomas Seidl , Gedas Bertasius

The rapid growth of video content demands efficient and precise retrieval systems. While vision-language models (VLMs) excel in representation learning, they often struggle with adaptive, time-sensitive video retrieval. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yicheng Duan , Xi Huang , Duo Chen

Research in the Vision and Language area encompasses challenging topics that seek to connect visual and textual information. When the visual information is related to videos, this takes us into Video-Text Research, which includes several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Jesus Perez-Martin , Benjamin Bustos , Silvio Jamil F. Guimarães , Ivan Sipiran , Jorge Pérez , Grethel Coello Said

In recent years, deep-learning-based visual object trackers have been studied thoroughly, but handling occlusions and/or rapid motion of the target remains challenging. In this work, we argue that conditioning on the natural language (NL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Qi Feng , Vitaly Ablavsky , Qinxun Bai , Guorong Li , Stan Sclaroff

Large Language Models (LLMs) have allowed recent LLM-based approaches to achieve excellent performance on long-video understanding benchmarks. We investigate how extensive world knowledge and strong reasoning skills of underlying LLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Kanchana Ranasinghe , Xiang Li , Kumara Kahatapitiya , Michael S. Ryoo

We propose weakly supervised language localization networks (WSLLN) to detect events in long, untrimmed videos given language queries. To learn the correspondence between visual segments and texts, most previous methods require temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Mingfei Gao , Larry S. Davis , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

The query-based moment retrieval is a problem of localising a specific clip from an untrimmed video according a query sentence. This is a challenging task that requires interpretation of both the natural language query and the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Mayu Otani , Yuta Nakashima , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkilä

The task of retrieving clips within videos based on a given natural language query requires cross-modal reasoning over multiple frames. Prior approaches such as sliding window classifiers are inefficient, while text-clip similarity driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Soham Ghosh , Anuva Agarwal , Zarana Parekh , Alexander Hauptmann

The task of moment localization is to localize a temporal moment in an untrimmed video for a given natural language query. Since untrimmed video contains highly redundant contents, the quality of the query is crucial for accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Wenfeng Yan , Shaoxiang Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG), which aims to ground target clips from videos (such as consecutive intervals or disjoint shots) according to custom language queries (e.g., sentences or words), is key for video browsing on social media. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Kevin Qinghong Lin , Pengchuan Zhang , Joya Chen , Shraman Pramanick , Difei Gao , Alex Jinpeng Wang , Rui Yan , Mike Zheng Shou

We address the problem of jointly learning vision and language to understand the object in a fine-grained manner. The key idea of our approach is the use of object descriptions to provide the detailed understanding of an object. Based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Anh Nguyen , Thanh-Toan Do , Ian Reid , Darwin G. Caldwell , Nikos G. Tsagarakis

The task of video grounding, which temporally localizes a natural language description in a video, plays an important role in understanding videos. Existing studies have adopted strategies of sliding window over the entire video or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Dongliang He , Xiang Zhao , Jizhou Huang , Fu Li , Xiao Liu , Shilei Wen

In this work, we tackle the problem of long-form video-language grounding (VLG). Given a long-form video and a natural language query, a model should temporally localize the precise moment that answers the query. Humans can easily solve VLG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Hyogun Lee , Soyeon Hong , Mujeen Sung , Jinwoo Choi

Visual language tracking (VLT) has emerged as a cutting-edge research area, harnessing linguistic data to enhance algorithms with multi-modal inputs and broadening the scope of traditional single object tracking (SOT) to encompass video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xuchen Li , Shiyu Hu , Xiaokun Feng , Dailing Zhang , Meiqi Wu , Jing Zhang , Kaiqi Huang

The recent success of the CLIP model has shown its potential to be applied to a wide range of vision and language tasks. However this only establishes embedding space relationship of language to images, not to the video domain. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Phani Krishna Uppala , Abhishek Bamotra , Shriti Priya , Vaidehi Joshi

We propose a novel task, hallucination localization in video captioning, which aims to identify hallucinations in video captions at the span level (i.e. individual words or phrases). This allows for a more detailed analysis of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Shota Nakada , Kazuhiro Saito , Yuchi Ishikawa , Hokuto Munakata , Tatsuya Komatsu , Masayoshi Kondo

Despite the rapid development of video Large Language Models (LLMs), a comprehensive evaluation is still absent. In this paper, we introduce a unified evaluation that encompasses multiple video tasks, including captioning, question and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Shuailin Li , Yuang Zhang , Yucheng Zhao , Qiuyue Wang , Fan Jia , Yingfei Liu , Tiancai Wang

Given an untrimmed video and a sentence description, temporal sentence localization aims to automatically determine the start and end points of the described sentence within the video. The problem is challenging as it needs the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Yitian Yuan , Tao Mei , Wenwu Zhu

Video captioning (VC) is a fast-moving, cross-disciplinary area of research that bridges work in the fields of computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), linguistics, and human-computer interaction. In essence, VC involves…

Video text spotting is still an important research topic due to its various real-applications. Previous approaches usually fall into the four-staged pipeline: text detection in individual images, framewisely recognizing localized text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhanzhan Cheng , Jing Lu , Yi Niu , Shiliang Pu , Fei Wu , Shuigeng Zhou