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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

Speech-to-text alignment is a critical component of neural textto-speech (TTS) models. Autoregressive TTS models typically use an attention mechanism to learn these alignments on-line. However, these alignments tend to be brittle and often…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Rohan Badlani , Adrian Łancucki , Kevin J. Shih , Rafael Valle , Wei Ping , Bryan Catanzaro

Temporal language grounding (TLG) is a fundamental and challenging problem for vision and language understanding. Existing methods mainly focus on fully supervised setting with temporal boundary labels for training, which, however, suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Yuechen Wang , Jiajun Deng , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

The temporal sentence grounding in video (TSGV) task is to locate a temporal moment from an untrimmed video, to match a language query, i.e., a sentence. Without considering bias in moment annotations (e.g., start and end positions in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Hao Zhang , Aixin Sun , Wei Jing , Joey Tianyi Zhou

This paper addresses the problem of temporal sentence grounding (TSG), which aims to identify the temporal boundary of a specific segment from an untrimmed video by a sentence query. Previous works either compare pre-defined candidate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Daizong Liu , Xiaoye Qu , Jianfeng Dong , Pan Zhou , Yu Cheng , Wei Wei , Zichuan Xu , Yulai Xie

Sentence semantic matching requires an agent to determine the semantic relation between two sentences, where much recent progress has been made by the advancement of representation learning techniques and inspiration of human behaviors.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Kun Zhang , Guangyi Lv , Meng Wang , Enhong Chen

Audio-visual question answering (AVQA) is a challenging task that requires multistep spatio-temporal reasoning over multimodal contexts. Recent works rely on elaborate target-agnostic parsing of audio-visual scenes for spatial grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Yuanyuan Jiang , Jianqin Yin

Temporal sentence grounding involves the retrieval of a video moment with a natural language query. Many existing works directly incorporate the given video and temporally localized query for temporal grounding, overlooking the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Cai Chen , Runzhong Zhang , Jianjun Gao , Kejun Wu , Kim-Hui Yap , Yi Wang

In this paper, we study the problem of weakly-supervised temporal grounding of sentence in video. Specifically, given an untrimmed video and a query sentence, our goal is to localize a temporal segment in the video that semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Zhenfang Chen , Lin Ma , Wenhan Luo , Peng Tang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Textual-visual matching aims at measuring similarities between sentence descriptions and images. Most existing methods tackle this problem without effectively utilizing identity-level annotations. In this paper, we propose an identity-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Shuang Li , Tong Xiao , Hongsheng Li , Wei Yang , Xiaogang Wang

The onset of long-form egocentric datasets such as Ego4D and EPIC-Kitchens presents a new challenge for the task of Temporal Sentence Grounding (TSG). Compared to traditional benchmarks on which this task is evaluated, these datasets offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Kevin Flanagan , Dima Damen , Michael Wray

Temporal sentence grounding aims to localize a target segment in an untrimmed video semantically according to a given sentence query. Most previous works focus on learning frame-level features of each whole frame in the entire video, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Daizong Liu , Xiang Fang , Wei Hu , Pan Zhou

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) aims to localize temporal moments in an untrimmed video that semantically correspond to given natural language queries. Recently, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) have been widely adopted in TVG to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zhanjie Hu , Bolin Zhang , Jianhua Wang , Jianbo Zheng , Chenchen Yan , Takahiro Komamizu , Ichiro Ide , Jiangbo Qian

Text-to-image (T2I) models have achieved remarkable progress, yet they continue to struggle with complex prompts that require simultaneously handling multiple objects, relations, and attributes. Existing inference-time strategies, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Shantanu Jaiswal , Mihir Prabhudesai , Nikash Bhardwaj , Zheyang Qin , Amir Zadeh , Chuan Li , Katerina Fragkiadaki , Deepak Pathak

Joint video-language learning has received increasing attention in recent years. However, existing works mainly focus on single or multiple trimmed video clips (events), which makes human-annotated event boundaries necessary during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Teng Wang , Jinrui Zhang , Feng Zheng , Wenhao Jiang , Ran Cheng , Ping Luo

Systems that can find correspondences between multiple modalities, such as between speech and images, have great potential to solve different recognition and data analysis tasks in an unsupervised manner. This work studies multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Khazar Khorrami , Okko Räsänen

Temporal sentence grounding in videos (TSGV) aims to localize a temporal segment that semantically corresponds to a sentence query from an untrimmed video. Most current methods adopt pre-trained query-agnostic visual encoders for offline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Allen He , Qi Liu , Kun Liu , Xinchen Liu , Wu Liu

Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos (TSGV), which aims to ground a natural language sentence in an untrimmed video, has drawn widespread attention over the past few years. However, recent studies have found that current benchmark datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Xiaohan Lan , Yitian Yuan , Xin Wang , Long Chen , Zhi Wang , Lin Ma , Wenwu Zhu

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) aims to localize video segments corresponding to a given textual query, which often describes human actions. However, we observe that current methods, usually optimizing for high temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zhaoyu Chen , Hongnan Lin , Yongwei Nie , Fei Ma , Xuemiao Xu , Fei Yu , Chengjiang Long

Image-text matching plays a central role in bridging the semantic gap between vision and language. The key point to achieve precise visual-semantic alignment lies in capturing the fine-grained cross-modal correspondence between image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Zhong Ji , Kexin Chen , Haoran Wang