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Multimodal learning has become a pivotal approach in developing robust learning models with applications spanning multimedia, robotics, large language models, and healthcare. The efficiency of multimodal systems is a critical concern, given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhe Gao , Jian Huang , Ting Li , Xueqin Wang

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is foundational to numerous computer vision applications, including surveillance, autonomous driving, robotics and generative video editing. However, existing VOS models often struggle with precise mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Elham Soltani Kazemi , Imad Eddine Toubal , Gani Rahmon , Jaired Collins , K. Palaniappan

Long-form video question answering requires reasoning over extended temporal contexts, making frame selection critical for large vision-language models (LVLMs) bound by finite context windows. Existing methods face a sharp trade-off:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Dan Ben-Ami , Gabriele Serussi , Kobi Cohen , Chaim Baskin

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) aims to predict sentiment from language, acoustic, and visual data in videos. However, imbalanced unimodal performance often leads to suboptimal fused representations. Existing approaches typically adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Dingkang Yang , Mingcheng Li , Xuecheng Wu , Zhaoyu Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Keliang Liu , Peng Zhai , Lihua Zhang

Human Motion Segmentation (HMS), which aims to partition a video into non-overlapping segments corresponding to different human motions, has recently attracted increasing research attention. Existing HMS approaches are predominantly based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xianghan Meng , Zhiyuan Huang , Zhengyu Tong , Chun-Guang Li

We present Hierarchical Memory Matching Network (HMMN) for semi-supervised video object segmentation. Based on a recent memory-based method [33], we propose two advanced memory read modules that enable us to perform memory reading in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Hongje Seong , Seoung Wug Oh , Joon-Young Lee , Seongwon Lee , Suhyeon Lee , Euntai Kim

Partially relevant video retrieval aims to retrieve untrimmed videos using text queries that describe only partial content. However, the inherent asymmetry between brief queries and rich video content inevitably introduces uncertainty into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jun Li , Peifeng Lai , Xuhang Lou , Jinpeng Wang , Yuting Wang , Ke Chen , Yaowei Wang , Shu-Tao Xia

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 integration of information across multiple modalities and across time is a promising way to enhance the emotion recognition performance of affective systems. Much previous work has focused on instantaneous emotion recognition. The 2018…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-07 Didan Deng , Yuqian Zhou , Jimin Pi , Bertram E. Shi

Human-Centric Video Generation (HCVG) methods seek to synthesize human videos from multimodal inputs, including text, image, and audio. Existing methods struggle to effectively coordinate these heterogeneous modalities due to two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Liyang Chen , Tianxiang Ma , Jiawei Liu , Bingchuan Li , Zhuowei Chen , Lijie Liu , Xu He , Gen Li , Qian He , Zhiyong Wu

This paper presents a novel feature selection method based on the conditional mutual information (CMI). The proposed High Order Conditional Mutual Information Maximization (HOCMIM) incorporates high order dependencies into the feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Francisco Souza , Cristiano Premebida , Rui Araújo

Search advertising is essential for merchants to reach the target users on short video platforms. Short video ads aligned with user search intents are displayed through relevance matching and bid ranking mechanisms. This paper focuses on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Guobing Gan , Kaiming Gao , Li Wang , Shen Jiang , Peng Jiang

This paper presents LiteEval, a simple yet effective coarse-to-fine framework for resource efficient video recognition, suitable for both online and offline scenarios. Exploiting decent yet computationally efficient features derived at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Zuxuan Wu , Caiming Xiong , Yu-Gang Jiang , Larry S. Davis

Scene understanding is one of the core tasks in computer vision, aiming to extract semantic information from images to identify objects, scene categories, and their interrelationships. Although advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jingyao Wang , Yiming Chen , Lingyu Si , Changwen Zheng

Video recognition remains an open challenge, requiring the identification of diverse content categories within videos. Mainstream approaches often perform flat classification, overlooking the intrinsic hierarchical structure relating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Rui Zhang , Shuailong Li , Junxiao Xue , Feng Lin , Qing Zhang , Xiao Ma , Xiaoran Yan

Despite the success of deep learning in video understanding tasks, processing every frame in a video is computationally expensive and often unnecessary in real-time applications. Frame selection aims to extract the most informative and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Mingjun Zhao , Yakun Yu , Xiaoli Wang , Lei Yang , Di Niu

Recently, the soft attention mechanism, which was originally proposed in language processing, has been applied in computer vision tasks like image captioning. This paper presents improvements to the soft attention model by combining a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Shiyang Yan , Jeremy S. Smith , Wenjin Lu , Bailing Zhang

With the exponential increase in video content, the need for accurate deception detection in human-centric video analysis has become paramount. This research focuses on the extraction and combination of various features to enhance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Mohamed Bahaa , Mena Hany , Ehab E. Zakaria

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in video question answering (VideoQA), yet reasoning over video remains challenging due to high inference cost and diluted information. Keyframe selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Minchan Kwon , Hyounguk Shon , Junmo Kim

Video highlight detection is a crucial yet challenging problem that aims to identify the interesting moments in untrimmed videos. The key to this task lies in effective video representations that jointly pursue two goals, \textit{i.e.},…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Shuaicheng Li , Feng Zhang , Kunlin Yang , Lingbo Liu , Shinan Liu , Jun Hou , Shuai Yi