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Video-grounded Dialogue (VGD) aims to decode an answer sentence to a question regarding a given video and dialogue context. Despite the recent success of multi-modal reasoning to generate answer sentences, existing dialogue systems still…

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Text-conditioned diffusion models have emerged as a promising tool for neural video generation. However, current models still struggle with intricate spatiotemporal prompts and often generate restricted or incorrect motion. To address these…

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We present GR3D, a spatial vision language model equipped with three complementary grounding capabilities--explicit 2D grounding, implicit 2D grounding, and monocular 3D grounding--within a single framework. GR3D introduces an implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 An-Chieh Cheng , Yang Fu , Yatai Ji , Ligeng Zhu , Guanqi Zhan , Zhuoyang Zhang , Zhaojing Yang , Song Han , Yao Lu , Pavlo Molchanov , Vidya Nariyambut Murali , Jan Kautz , Xiaolong Wang , Hongxu Yin , Sifei Liu

We address the problem of video captioning by grounding language generation on object interactions in the video. Existing work mostly focuses on overall scene understanding with often limited or no emphasis on object interactions to address…

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We propose associating language utterances to 3D visual abstractions of the scene they describe. The 3D visual abstractions are encoded as 3-dimensional visual feature maps. We infer these 3D visual scene feature maps from RGB images of the…

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Video description is one of the most challenging problems in vision and language understanding due to the large variability both on the video and language side. Models, hence, typically shortcut the difficulty in recognition and generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Luowei Zhou , Yannis Kalantidis , Xinlei Chen , Jason J. Corso , Marcus Rohrbach

With the rapid growth of video content on social media, video summarization has become a crucial task in multimedia processing. However, existing methods face challenges in capturing global dependencies in video content and accommodating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Wenrui Li , Wei Han , Hengyu Man , Wangmeng Zuo , Xiaopeng Fan , Yonghong Tian

We investigate the incorporation of visual relationships into the task of supervised image caption generation by proposing a model that leverages detected objects and auto-generated visual relationships to describe images in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Maximilian Mozes , Martin Schmitt , Vladimir Golkov , Hinrich Schütze , Daniel Cremers

We addressed the challenging task of video question answering, which requires machines to answer questions about videos in a natural language form. Previous state-of-the-art methods attempt to apply spatio-temporal attention mechanism on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Deng Huang , Peihao Chen , Runhao Zeng , Qing Du , Mingkui Tan , Chuang Gan

Grounding language in vision is an active field of research seeking to construct cognitively plausible word and sentence representations by incorporating perceptual knowledge from vision into text-based representations. Despite many…

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Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) has traditionally been framed as binary classification or outlier detection, providing neither interpretable reasoning nor precise spatial localization of anomalous events. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

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We explore a new task for audio-visual-language modeling called fine-grained audible video description (FAVD). It aims to provide detailed textual descriptions for the given audible videos, including the appearance and spatial locations of…

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Accurate video understanding involves reasoning about the relationships between actors, objects and their environment, often over long temporal intervals. In this paper, we propose a message passing graph neural network that explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Anurag Arnab , Chen Sun , Cordelia Schmid

Grounding language to visual relations is critical to various language-and-vision applications. In this work, we tackle two fundamental language-and-vision tasks: image-text matching and image captioning, and demonstrate that neural scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Kuang-Huei Lee , Hamid Palangi , Xi Chen , Houdong Hu , Jianfeng Gao

We propose a learning system in which language is grounded in visual percepts without specific pre-defined categories of terms. We present a unified generative method to acquire a shared semantic/visual embedding that enables the learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Nisha Pillai , Cynthia Matuszek , Francis Ferraro

Grounded Situation Recognition (GSR) is the task that not only classifies a salient action (verb), but also predicts entities (nouns) associated with semantic roles and their locations in the given image. Inspired by the remarkable success…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Junhyeong Cho , Youngseok Yoon , Hyeonjun Lee , Suha Kwak

Video reasoning requires a fine-grained understanding of the temporal dependencies and event-level relations between objects and events in videos. Current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are prone to severe temporal hallucinations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zixu Cheng , Da Li , Jian Hu , Yuhang Zang , Ziquan Liu , Shaogang Gong , Wei Li

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

Graphical User Interface (GUI) grounding is commonly framed as a coordinate prediction task -- given a natural language instruction, generate on-screen coordinates for actions such as clicks and keystrokes. However, recent Vision Language…

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