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Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize relevant temporal segments in videos given natural language queries. Despite recent progress with large vision-language models (LVLMs) and instruction-tuning, existing approaches often suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ruizhe Chen , Zhiting Fan , Tianze Luo , Heqing Zou , Zhaopeng Feng , Guiyang Xie , Hansheng Zhang , Zhuochen Wang , Zuozhu Liu , Huaijian Zhang

Video temporal grounding aims to identify video segments within untrimmed videos that are most relevant to a given natural language query. Existing video temporal localization models rely on specific datasets for training and have high data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Minghang Zheng , Xinhao Cai , Qingchao Chen , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

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

A key solution to temporal sentence grounding (TSG) exists in how to learn effective alignment between vision and language features extracted from an untrimmed video and a sentence description. Existing methods mainly leverage vanilla soft…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Daizong Liu , Xiaoye Qu , Pan Zhou

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

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment and track objects in videos based on natural language expressions, requiring precise alignment between visual content and textual queries. However, existing methods often suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Seunghun Lee , Jiwan Seo , Jeonghoon Kim , Sungho Moon , Siwon Kim , Haeun Yun , Hyogyeong Jeon , Wonhyeok Choi , Jaehoon Jeong , Zane Durante , Sang Hyun Park , Sunghoon Im

Given a long untrimmed video and natural language queries, video grounding (VG) aims to temporally localize the semantically-aligned video segments. Almost all existing VG work holds two simple but unrealistic assumptions: 1) All query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Long Chen , Yulei Niu , Brian Chen , Xudong Lin , Guangxing Han , Christopher Thomas , Hammad Ayyubi , Heng Ji , Shih-Fu Chang

Visual grounding is a long-lasting problem in vision-language understanding due to its diversity and complexity. Current practices concentrate mostly on performing visual grounding in still images or well-trimmed video clips. This work, on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Qianyu Feng , Yunchao Wei , Mingming Cheng , Yi Yang

Video grounding aims to localize a spatio-temporal section in a video corresponding to an input text query. This paper addresses a critical limitation in current video grounding methodologies by introducing an Open-Vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Syed Talal Wasim , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Text-guided 3D visual grounding (T-3DVG), which aims to locate a specific object that semantically corresponds to a language query from a complicated 3D scene, has drawn increasing attention in the 3D research community over the past few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Daizong Liu , Yang Liu , Wencan Huang , Wei Hu

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize the video segment that corresponds to a natural language query, which requires a comprehensive understanding of complex temporal dynamics. Existing Vision-LMMs typically perceive temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chaohong Guo , Yihan He , Yongwei Nie , Fei Ma , Xuemiao Xu , Chengjiang Long

We address the problem of temporal sentence localization in videos (TSLV). Traditional methods follow a top-down framework which localizes the target segment with pre-defined segment proposals. Although they have achieved decent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Daizong Liu , Xiaoye Qu , Jianfeng Dong , Pan Zhou

Video Paragraph Grounding (VPG) is an emerging task in video-language understanding, which aims at localizing multiple sentences with semantic relations and temporal order from an untrimmed video. However, existing VPG approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Chaolei Tan , Jianhuang Lai , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

Video temporal grounding (VTG) is typically tackled with dataset-specific models that transfer poorly across domains and query styles. Recent efforts to overcome this limitation have adapted large multimodal language models (MLLMs) to VTG,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Joungbin An , Agrim Jain , Kristen Grauman

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

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 Video Grounding (TVG), the task of locating specific video segments based on language queries, is a core challenge in long-form video understanding. While recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown early promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ye Wang , Ziheng Wang , Boshen Xu , Yang Du , Kejun Lin , Zihan Xiao , Zihao Yue , Jianzhong Ju , Liang Zhang , Dingyi Yang , Xiangnan Fang , Zewen He , Zhenbo Luo , Wenxuan Wang , Junqi Lin , Jian Luan , Qin Jin

A core capability towards general embodied intelligence lies in localizing task-relevant objects from an egocentric perspective, formulated as Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG). Despite recent progress, existing STVG studies remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Qi'ao Xu , Tianwen Qian , Yuqian Fu , Kailing Li , Yang Jiao , Jiacheng Zhang , Xiaoling Wang , Liang He

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to precisely identify video event segments in response to textual queries. The outputs of VTG tasks manifest as sequences of events, each defined by precise timestamps, saliency scores, and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zuhao Yang , Yingchen Yu , Yunqing Zhao , Shijian Lu , Song Bai

In the realm of video dialog response generation, the understanding of video content and the temporal nuances of conversation history are paramount. While a segment of current research leans heavily on large-scale pretrained visual-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 You Qin , Wei Ji , Xinze Lan , Hao Fei , Xun Yang , Dan Guo , Roger Zimmermann , Lizi Liao