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Existing efforts in text-based video question answering (TextVideoQA) are criticized for their opaque decisionmaking and heavy reliance on scene-text recognition. In this paper, we propose to study Grounded TextVideoQA by forcing models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sheng Zhou , Junbin Xiao , Xun Yang , Peipei Song , Dan Guo , Angela Yao , Meng Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Temporal sentence grounding aims to detect the event timestamps described by the natural language query from given untrimmed videos. The existing fully-supervised setting achieves great performance but requires expensive annotation costs;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Chen Ju , Haicheng Wang , Jinxiang Liu , Chaofan Ma , Ya Zhang , Peisen Zhao , Jianlong Chang , Qi Tian

We propose a new task and model for dense video object captioning -- detecting, tracking and captioning trajectories of objects in a video. This task unifies spatial and temporal localization in video, whilst also requiring fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Xingyi Zhou , Anurag Arnab , Chen Sun , Cordelia Schmid

Video activity localisation has recently attained increasing attention due to its practical values in automatically localising the most salient visual segments corresponding to their language descriptions (sentences) from untrimmed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Jiabo Huang , Yang Liu , Shaogang Gong , Hailin Jin

Conventional approaches to video segmentation are confined to predefined object categories and cannot identify out-of-vocabulary objects, let alone objects that are not identified explicitly but only referred to implicitly in complex text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yiqing Shen , Chenjia Li , Chenxiao Fan , Mathias Unberath

The task of language-guided video temporal grounding is to localize the particular video clip corresponding to a query sentence in an untrimmed video. Though progress has been made continuously in this field, some issues still need to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Binjie Zhang , Yu Li , Chun Yuan , Dejing Xu , Pin Jiang , Ying Shan

Text-to-video generation has advanced rapidly in visual fidelity, whereas standard methods still have limited ability to control the subject composition of generated scenes. Prior work shows that adding localized text control signals, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Guofeng Zhang , Angtian Wang , Jacob Zhiyuan Fang , Liming Jiang , Haotian Yang , Bo Liu , Yiding Yang , Guang Chen , Longyin Wen , Alan Yuille , Chongyang Ma

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

Video-language alignment is a crucial multi-modal task that benefits various downstream applications, e.g., video-text retrieval and video question answering. Existing methods either utilize multi-modal information in video-text pairs or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Shi-Xue Zhang , Hongfa Wang , Xiaobin Zhu , Weibo Gu , Tianjin Zhang , Chun Yang , Wei Liu , Xu-Cheng Yin

Keyword localisation is the task of finding where in a speech utterance a given query keyword occurs. We investigate to what extent keyword localisation is possible using a visually grounded speech (VGS) model. VGS models are trained on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Kayode Olaleye , Dan Oneata , Herman Kamper

Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG) aims to localize target objects in videos based on natural language descriptions. Despite recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models, a significant gap remains between current models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Hong Gao , Jingyu Wu , Xiangkai Xu , Kangni Xie , Yunchen Zhang , Bin Zhong , Xurui Gao , Min-Ling Zhang

Despite recent advances in Video Large Language Models (Vid-LLMs), Temporal Video Grounding (TVG), which aims to precisely localize time segments corresponding to query events, remains a significant challenge. Existing methods often match…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jiahao Nie , Wenbin An , Gongjie Zhang , Yicheng Xu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot , Shijian Lu

A robot's ability to understand or ground natural language instructions is fundamentally tied to its knowledge about the surrounding world. We present an approach to grounding natural language utterances in the context of factual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Rohan Paul , Andrei Barbu , Sue Felshin , Boris Katz , Nicholas Roy

Localizing moments in a longer video via natural language queries is a new, challenging task at the intersection of language and video understanding. Though moment localization with natural language is similar to other language and vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Lisa Anne Hendricks , Oliver Wang , Eli Shechtman , Josef Sivic , Trevor Darrell , Bryan Russell

Video grounding aims to localize a moment from an untrimmed video for a given textual query. Existing approaches focus more on the alignment of visual and language stimuli with various likelihood-based matching or regression strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Guoshun Nan , Rui Qiao , Yao Xiao , Jun Liu , Sicong Leng , Hao Zhang , Wei Lu

Existing Video Scene Graph Generation (VidSGG) studies are trained in a fully supervised manner, which requires all frames in a video to be annotated, thereby incurring high annotation cost compared to Image Scene Graph Generation (ImgSGG).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Kibum Kim , Kanghoon Yoon , Yeonjun In , Jaehyeong Jeon , Jinyoung Moon , Donghyun Kim , Chanyoung Park

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) localizes the temporal boundaries of a query-relevant moment in long, untrimmed videos, making video-language-model (VLM) pipelines prohibitively expensive. While recent training-free visual token pruning has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jiaqi Li , Shuntian Zheng , Yixian Shen , Jia-Hong Huang , Xiaoman Lu , Minzhe Ni , Yu Guan

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 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

In this paper, we introduce a new task, spoken video grounding (SVG), which aims to localize the desired video fragments from spoken language descriptions. Compared with using text, employing audio requires the model to directly exploit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Yan Xia , Zhou Zhao , Shangwei Ye , Yang Zhao , Haoyuan Li , Yi Ren