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Semi-Supervised Video Paragraph Grounding (SSVPG) aims to localize multiple sentences in a paragraph from an untrimmed video with limited temporal annotations. Existing methods focus on teacher-student consistency learning and video-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yaokun Zhong , Siyu Jiang , Jian Zhu , Jian-Fang Hu

Weakly supervised video grounding aims to localize temporal boundaries relevant to a given query without explicit ground-truth temporal boundaries. While existing methods primarily use Gaussian-based proposals, they overlook the importance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Sunoh Kim , Daeho Um

Temporal video grounding is a fundamental task in computer vision, aiming to localize a natural language query in a long, untrimmed video. It has a key role in the scientific community, in part due to the large amount of video generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ignacio M. De la Jara , Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Felipe Bravo-Marquez

Video Paragraph Grounding (VPG) aims to precisely locate the most appropriate moments within a video that are relevant to a given textual paragraph query. However, existing methods typically rely on large-scale annotated temporal labels and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Mengzhao Wang , Huafeng Li , Yafei Zhang , Jinxing Li , Minghong Xie , Dapeng Tao

Visual grounding is a task to locate the target indicated by a natural language expression. Existing methods extend the generic object detection framework to this problem. They base the visual grounding on the features from pre-generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Li Yang , Yan Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Wei Liu , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Large vision-and-language models (VLMs) trained to match images with text on large-scale datasets of image-text pairs have shown impressive generalization ability on several vision and language tasks. Several recent works, however, showed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Navid Rajabi , Jana Kosecka

Video-Text Pre-training (VTP) aims to learn transferable representations for various downstream tasks from large-scale web videos. To date, almost all existing VTP methods are limited to retrieval-based downstream tasks, e.g., video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Meng Cao , Tianyu Yang , Junwu Weng , Can Zhang , Jue Wang , Yuexian Zou

Instance segmentation in videos, which aims to segment and track multiple objects in video frames, has garnered a flurry of research attention in recent years. In this paper, we present a novel weakly supervised framework with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Liqi Yan , Qifan Wang , Siqi Ma , Jingang Wang , Changbin Yu

The proliferation of online short video platforms has driven a surge in user demand for short video editing. However, manually selecting, cropping, and assembling raw footage into a coherent, high-quality video remains laborious and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zhihui Yin , Ye Ma , Xipeng Cao , Bo Wang , Quan Chen , Peng Jiang

Given an untrimmed video and natural language query, video sentence grounding aims to localize the target temporal moment in the video. Existing methods mainly tackle this task by matching and aligning semantics of the descriptive sentence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Wei Ji , Long Chen , Yinwei Wei , Yiming Wu , Tat-Seng Chua

The video grounding (VG) task aims to locate the queried action or event in an untrimmed video based on rich linguistic descriptions. Existing proposal-free methods are trapped in complex interaction between video and query, overemphasizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Kun Li , Dan Guo , Meng Wang

Visual grounding aims to predict the locations of target objects specified by textual descriptions. For this task with linguistic and visual modalities, there is a latest research line that focuses on only selecting the linguistic-relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jingchao Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Dingjiang Huang , Hong Wang , Yefeng Zheng

Consider the scenario where a human cleans a table and a robot observing the scene is instructed with the task "Remove the cloth using which I wiped the table". Instruction following with temporal reasoning requires the robot to identify…

Video temporal understanding is crucial for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to reason over events in videos. Despite recent advances in general video understanding, current MLLMs still struggle with fine-grained temporal reasoning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Fuwen Luo , Shengfeng Lou , Chi Chen , Ziyue Wang , Chenliang Li , Weizhou Shen , Jiyue Guo , Peng Li , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Yang Liu

With only bounding-box annotations in the spatial domain, existing video scene text detection (VSTD) benchmarks lack temporal relation of text instances among video frames, which hinders the development of video text-related applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yuanqiang Cai , Chang Liu , Weiqiang Wang , Qixiang Ye

Visual grounding is a ubiquitous building block in many vision-language tasks and yet remains challenging due to large variations in visual and linguistic features of grounding entities, strong context effect and the resulting semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yongfei Liu , Bo Wan , Xiaodan Zhu , Xuming He

Efficient video-language modeling should consider the computational cost because of a large, sometimes intractable, number of video frames. Parametric approaches such as the attention mechanism may not be ideal since its computational cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Sungdong Kim , Jin-Hwa Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Minjoon Seo

Spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG) requires localizing a target object in untrimmed videos both temporally and spatially from natural language descriptions. Despite their strong language understanding, multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xin Gu , Haoji Zhang , Qihang Fan , Jingxuan Niu , Zhipeng Zhang , Libo Zhang , Guang Chen , Fan Chen , Longyin Wen , Sijie Zhu

Temporally language grounding in untrimmed videos is a newly-raised task in video understanding. Most of the existing methods suffer from inferior efficiency, lacking interpretability, and deviating from the human perception mechanism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jie Wu , Guanbin Li , Si Liu , Liang Lin

In this paper, we propose spatio-temporal omni-object video grounding, dubbed OmniSTVG, a new STVG task that aims at localizing spatially and temporally all targets mentioned in the textual query from videos. Compared to classic STVG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jiali Yao , Xinran Deng , Xin Gu , Mengrui Dai , Bing Fan , Zhipeng Zhang , Yan Huang , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang