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We address the problem of text-guided video temporal grounding, which aims to identify the time interval of a certain event based on a natural language description. Different from most existing methods that only consider RGB images as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Yi-Wen Chen , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

There have been a few recent methods proposed in text to video moment retrieval using natural language queries, but requiring full supervision during training. However, acquiring a large number of training videos with temporal boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun , Sujoy Paul , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Temporal grounding of text descriptions in videos is a central problem in vision-language learning and video understanding. Existing methods often prioritize accuracy over scalability -- they have been optimized for grounding only a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Fangzhou Mu , Sicheng Mo , Yin Li

Video temporal grounding aims to localize relevant temporal boundaries in a video given a textual prompt. Recent work has focused on enabling Video LLMs to perform video temporal grounding via next-token prediction of temporal timestamps.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Xizi Wang , Feng Cheng , Ziyang Wang , Huiyu Wang , Md Mohaiminul Islam , Lorenzo Torresani , Mohit Bansal , Gedas Bertasius , David Crandall

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Haicheng Wang , Chen Ju , Weixiong Lin , Chaofan Ma , Shuai Xiao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Automatically generating sentences to describe events and temporally localizing sentences in a video are two important tasks that bridge language and videos. Recent techniques leverage the multimodal nature of videos by using off-the-shelf…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Shaoxiang Chen , Wenhao Jiang , Wei Liu , Yu-Gang Jiang

As a natural extension of the image synthesis task, video synthesis has attracted a lot of interest recently. Many image synthesis works utilize class labels or text as guidance. However, neither labels nor text can provide explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Yuren Cong , Jinhui Yi , Bodo Rosenhahn , Michael Ying Yang

Automatically describing videos with natural language is a fundamental challenge for computer vision and natural language processing. Recently, progress in this problem has been achieved through two steps: 1) employing 2-D and/or 3-D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Yuyu Guo , Jingqiu Zhang , Lianli Gao

We study the challenging problem of simultaneously localizing a sequence of queries in the form of instructional diagrams in a video. This requires understanding not only the individual queries but also their interrelationships. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jiahao Zhang , Frederic Z. Zhang , Cristian Rodriguez , Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Anoop Cherian , Stephen Gould

Deep convolutional networks have achieved great success for visual recognition in still images. However, for action recognition in videos, the advantage over traditional methods is not so evident. This paper aims to discover the principles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Limin Wang , Yuanjun Xiong , Zhe Wang , Yu Qiao , Dahua Lin , Xiaoou Tang , Luc Van Gool

Visual grounding (VG) aims to establish fine-grained alignment between vision and language. Ideally, it can be a testbed for vision-and-language models to evaluate their understanding of the images and texts and their reasoning abilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zhihong Chen , Ruifei Zhang , Yibing Song , Xiang Wan , Guanbin Li

Temporal action localization in videos presents significant challenges in the field of computer vision. While the boundary-sensitive method has been widely adopted, its limitations include incomplete use of intermediate and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Qing Song , Yang Zhou , Mengjie Hu , Chun Liu

Understanding video content is pivotal for advancing real-world applications like activity recognition, autonomous systems, and human-computer interaction. While scene graphs are adept at capturing spatial relationships between objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Raphael Ruschel , Md Awsafur Rahman , Hardik Prajapati , Suya You , B. S. Manjuanth

Video temporal grounding (VTG) aims to locate precise segments in videos based on language queries, which is a fundamental challenge in video understanding. While recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Lu Dong , Haiyu Zhang , Han Lin , Ziang Yan , Xiangyu Zeng , Hongjie Zhang , Yifei Huang , Yi Wang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Limin Wang , Yali Wang

Given an untrimmed video and a sentence description, temporal sentence localization aims to automatically determine the start and end points of the described sentence within the video. The problem is challenging as it needs the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Yitian Yuan , Tao Mei , Wenwu Zhu

2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) has recently become a promising paradigm for high-quality video representation. However, existing methods employ content-agnostic or spatio-temporal feature overlapping embeddings to predict canonical Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jierun Lin , Jiacong Chen , Qingyu Mao , Shuai Liu , Xiandong Meng , Fanyang Meng , Yongsheng Liang

Temporal human action detection aims to identify and localize action segments within untrimmed videos, serving as a pivotal task in video understanding. Despite the progress achieved by prior architectures like CNN and Transformer models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yicheng Qiu , Keiji Yanai

Visual grounding refers to the ability of a model to identify a region within some visual input that matches a textual description. Consequently, a model equipped with visual grounding capabilities can target a wide range of applications in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Georgios Pantazopoulos , Eda B. Özyiğit

Temporal grounding aims to predict a time interval of a video clip corresponding to a natural language query input. In this work, we present EVOQUER, a temporal grounding framework incorporating an existing text-to-video grounding model and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yanjun Gao , Lulu Liu , Jason Wang , Xin Chen , Huayan Wang , Rui Zhang

Automatic video captioning is challenging due to the complex interactions in dynamic real scenes. A comprehensive system would ultimately localize and track the objects, actions and interactions present in a video and generate a description…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Mihai Zanfir , Elisabeta Marinoiu , Cristian Sminchisescu