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Video grounding aims to localize the corresponding video moment in an untrimmed video given a language query. Existing methods often address this task in an indirect way, by casting it as a proposal-and-match or fusion-and-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Fengyuan Shi , Weilin Huang , Limin Wang

Several unsupervised and self-supervised approaches have been developed in recent years to learn visual features from large-scale unlabeled datasets. Their main drawback however is that these methods are hardly able to recognize visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Alessandra Alfani , Federico Becattini , Lorenzo Seidenari , Alberto Del Bimbo

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

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

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to extract relevant video segments based on a given natural language query. Recently, zero-shot VTG methods have gained attention by leveraging pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) to localize target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jin-Seop Lee , SungJoon Lee , Jaehan Ahn , YunSeok Choi , Jee-Hyong Lee

Temporal grounding is the task of locating a specific segment from an untrimmed video according to a query sentence. This task has achieved significant momentum in the computer vision community as it enables activity grounding beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Linchao Zhu , Wenqiao Zhang , Yi Yang , Tat-Seng Chua , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) aims to localize the temporal boundary of a specific segment in an untrimmed video based on a given language query. Since datasets in this domain are often gathered from limited video scenes, models tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Haifeng Huang , Yang Zhao , Zehan Wang , Yan Xia , Zhou Zhao

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to categorize each pixel in an image into a corresponding class without the use of annotated data. It is a widely researched area as obtaining labeled datasets is expensive. While previous works in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yau Shing Jonathan Cheung , Xi Chen , Lihe Yang , Hengshuang Zhao

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

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

When automatically generating a sentence description for an image or video, it often remains unclear how well the generated caption is grounded, that is whether the model uses the correct image regions to output particular words, or if the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Chih-Yao Ma , Yannis Kalantidis , Ghassan AlRegib , Peter Vajda , Marcus Rohrbach , Zsolt Kira

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG), the task of localizing video segments from text queries, struggles in open-world settings due to limited dataset scale and semantic diversity, causing performance gaps between common and rare concepts. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Minghang Zheng , Zihao Yin , Yi Yang , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

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

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

Understanding the structure of complex activities in untrimmed videos is a challenging task in the area of action recognition. One problem here is that this task usually requires a large amount of hand-annotated minute- or even hour-long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Rosaura G. VidalMata , Walter J. Scheirer , Anna Kukleva , David Cox , Hilde Kuehne

Grounding language queries in videos aims at identifying the time interval (or moment) semantically relevant to a language query. The solution to this challenging task demands understanding videos' and queries' semantic content and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Mattia Soldan , Mengmeng Xu , Sisi Qu , Jesper Tegner , Bernard Ghanem

Temporal sentence grounding in videos aims to detect and localize one target video segment, which semantically corresponds to a given sentence. Existing methods mainly tackle this task via matching and aligning semantics between a sentence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yitian Yuan , Lin Ma , Jingwen Wang , Wei Liu , Wenwu Zhu

This paper addresses the problem of temporal sentence grounding (TSG), which aims to identify the temporal boundary of a specific segment from an untrimmed video by a sentence query. Previous works either compare pre-defined candidate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Daizong Liu , Xiaoye Qu , Jianfeng Dong , Pan Zhou , Yu Cheng , Wei Wei , Zichuan Xu , Yulai Xie

Temporal language grounding (TLG) is a fundamental and challenging problem for vision and language understanding. Existing methods mainly focus on fully supervised setting with temporal boundary labels for training, which, however, suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Yuechen Wang , Jiajun Deng , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

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