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We study weakly-supervised video object grounding: given a video segment and a corresponding descriptive sentence, the goal is to localize objects that are mentioned from the sentence in the video. During training, no object bounding boxes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Luowei Zhou , Nathan Louis , Jason J. Corso

The recent introduction of the large-scale, long-form MAD and Ego4D datasets has enabled researchers to investigate the performance of current state-of-the-art methods for video grounding in the long-form setup, with interesting findings:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wayner Barrios , Mattia Soldan , Alberto Mario Ceballos-Arroyo , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Bernard Ghanem

Video question grounding (VideoQG) requires models to answer the questions and simultaneously infer the relevant video segments to support the answers. However, existing VideoQG methods usually suffer from spurious cross-modal correlations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Weixing Chen , Yang Liu , Binglin Chen , Jiandong Su , Yongsen Zheng , Liang Lin

While Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown significant potential in multimodal understanding and reasoning tasks, how to efficiently select the most informative frames from videos remains a critical challenge. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Shihao Wang , Guo Chen , De-an Huang , Zhiqi Li , Minghan Li , Guilin Liu , Jose M. Alvarez , Lei Zhang , Zhiding Yu

Visual Grounding (VG) aims to locate the most relevant region in an image, based on a flexible natural language query but not a pre-defined label, thus it can be a more useful technique than object detection in practice. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Chaorui Deng , Qi Wu , Guanghui Xu , Zhuliang Yu , Yanwu Xu , Kui Jia , Mingkui Tan

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

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) aims to localize the temporal boundary of a specific segment in an untrimmed video based on a given language query. Since datasets in this domain are often gathered from limited video scenes, models tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Haifeng Huang , Yang Zhao , Zehan Wang , Yan Xia , Zhou Zhao

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit strong performance in instruction following and open-ended vision-language reasoning, yet they frequently generate fluent outputs that are weakly grounded in visual evidence. Prior works have shown that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yashwant Pravinrao Bangde , Debaditya Roy

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) aims to answer natural language questions based on the information observed in videos. Despite the recent success of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) in image-language understanding and reasoning, they deal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Haibo Wang , Chenghang Lai , Yixuan Sun , Weifeng Ge

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) frequently misread values, hallucinate details, and confuse overlapping elements in charts. Current approaches rely solely on pixel interpretation, creating a Pixel-Only Bottleneck: agents treat interactive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yiyang Lu , Woong Shin , Ahmad Maroof Karimi , Feiyi Wang , Jie Ren , Evgenia Smirni

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, exhibit strong image-text comprehension abilities, facilitating advances in several downstream tasks such as zero-shot image classification, image-text retrieval, and text-to-image generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Le Zhang , Rabiul Awal , Aishwarya Agrawal

Spatio-temporal video grounding (or STVG) task aims at locating a spatio-temporal tube for a specific instance given a text query. Despite advancements, current methods easily suffer the distractors or heavy object appearance variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Xin Gu , Heng Fan , Yan Huang , Tiejian Luo , Libo Zhang

Long video understanding is challenging due to rich and complicated multimodal clues in long temporal range.Current methods adopt reasoning to improve the model's ability to analyze complex video clues in long videos via text-form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Houlun Chen , Xin Wang , Guangyao Li , Yuwei Zhou , Yihan Chen , Jia Jia , Wenwu Zhu

Video grounding aims to localize the temporal segment corresponding to a sentence query from an untrimmed video. Almost all existing video grounding methods fall into two frameworks: 1) Top-down model: It predefines a set of segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Meng Cao , Long Chen , Mike Zheng Shou , Can Zhang , Yuexian Zou

We propose Context-aware Video-text Alignment (CVA), a novel framework to address a significant challenge in video temporal grounding: achieving temporally sensitive video-text alignment that remains robust to irrelevant background context.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Sungho Moon , Seunghun Lee , Jiwan Seo , Sunghoon Im

Temporal grounding in videos aims to localize one target video segment that semantically corresponds to a given query sentence. Thanks to the semantic diversity of natural language descriptions, temporal grounding allows activity grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Juncheng Li , Junlin Xie , Long Qian , Linchao Zhu , Siliang Tang , Fei Wu , Yi Yang , Yueting Zhuang , Xin Eric Wang

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

We propose a novel approach for captioning and object grounding in video, where the objects in the caption are grounded in the video via temporally dense bounding boxes. We introduce the following contributions. First, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Evangelos Kazakos , Cordelia Schmid , Josef Sivic

Visual dialog is challenging since it needs to answer a series of coherent questions based on understanding the visual environment. How to ground related visual objects is one of the key problems. Previous studies utilize the question and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Feilong Chen , Xiuyi Chen , Can Xu , Daxin Jiang

Many studies focus on improving pretraining or developing new backbones in text-video retrieval. However, existing methods may suffer from the learning and inference bias issue, as recent research suggests in other text-video-related tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Burak Satar , Hongyuan Zhu , Hanwang Zhang , Joo Hwee Lim