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Temporal grounding in videos aims to localize one target video segment that semantically corresponds to a given query sentence. Thanks to the semantic diversity of natural language descriptions, temporal grounding allows activity grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Juncheng Li , Junlin Xie , Long Qian , Linchao Zhu , Siliang Tang , Fei Wu , Yi Yang , Yueting Zhuang , Xin Eric Wang

A truly capable AI system must do more than detect objects or recognize activities in isolation. It must form unified, grounded representations of who is acting, what they are doing, and when and where these actions unfold. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Tanveer Hannan , Shuaicong Wu , Mark Weber , Suprosanna Shit , Jindong Gu , Rajat Koner , Aljoša Ošep , Laura Leal-Taixé , Thomas Seidl

Grounding textual phrases in visual content is a meaningful yet challenging problem with various potential applications such as image-text inference or text-driven multimedia interaction. Most of the current existing methods adopt the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Zhiyuan Fang , Shu Kong , Tianshu Yu , Yezhou Yang

Weakly supervised temporal action localization (WSTAL) aims to localize actions in untrimmed videos using video-level labels. Despite recent advances, existing approaches mainly follow a localization-by-classification pipeline, generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Songchun Zhang , Chunhui Zhao

In this work we study Weakly Supervised Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (WSTVG), a challenging task of localizing subjects spatio-temporally in videos using only textual queries and no bounding box supervision. Inspired by recent advances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Aaryan Garg , Akash Kumar , Yogesh S Rawat

This paper studies the multimedia problem of temporal sentence grounding (TSG), which aims to accurately determine the specific video segment in an untrimmed video according to a given sentence query. Traditional TSG methods mainly follow…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Zichuan Xu , Ruixuan Li

Weakly-supervised grounded image captioning (WSGIC) aims to generate the caption and ground (localize) predicted object words in the input image without using bounding box supervision. Recent two-stage solutions mostly apply a bottom-up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Chen Cai , Suchen Wang , Kim-hui Yap , Yi Wang

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

Recently, increasing efforts have been focused on Weakly Supervised Scene Graph Generation (WSSGG). The mainstream solution for WSSGG typically follows the same pipeline: they first align text entities in the weak image-level supervisions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Xingchen Li , Long Chen , Wenbo Ma , Yi Yang , Jun Xiao

This paper addresses the problem of text-to-video temporal grounding, which aims to identify the time interval in a video semantically relevant to a text query. We tackle this problem using a novel regression-based model that learns to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Jonghwan Mun , Minsu Cho , Bohyung Han

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

In this paper, we address a novel task, namely weakly-supervised spatio-temporally grounding natural sentence in video. Specifically, given a natural sentence and a video, we localize a spatio-temporal tube in the video that semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Zhenfang Chen , Lin Ma , Wenhan Luo , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization (WS-TAL) task aims to recognize and localize temporal starts and ends of action instances in an untrimmed video with only video-level label supervision. Due to lack of negative samples of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Xiang Wang , Zhiwu Qing , Ziyuan Huang , Yutong Feng , Shiwei Zhang , Jianwen Jiang , Mingqian Tang , Yuanjie Shao , Nong Sang

Given an untrimmed video, temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to locate a target moment semantically according to a sentence query. Although previous respectable works have made decent success, they only focus on high-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Guoshun Nan

The object of Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WS-TAL) is to localize all action instances in an untrimmed video with only video-level supervision. Due to the lack of frame-level annotations during training, current WS-TAL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ziyi Liu , Le Wang , Qilin Zhang , Wei Tang , Junsong Yuan , Nanning Zheng , Gang Hua

Weakly-supervised video scene graph generation (WS-VSGG) aims to parse video content into structured relational triplets without bounding box annotations and with only sparse temporal labeling, significantly reducing annotation costs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Minseok Kang , Minhyeok Lee , Minjung Kim , Jungho Lee , Donghyeong Kim , Sungmin Woo , Inseok Jeon , Sangyoun Lee

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

Suppose that we are given a set of videos, along with natural language descriptions in the form of multiple sentences (e.g., manual annotations, movie scripts, sport summaries etc.), and that these sentences appear in the same temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Piotr Bojanowski , Rémi Lajugie , Edouard Grave , Francis Bach , Ivan Laptev , Jean Ponce , Cordelia Schmid

Video temporal grounding aims to pinpoint a video segment that matches the query description. Despite the recent advance in short-form videos (\textit{e.g.}, in minutes), temporal grounding in long videos (\textit{e.g.}, in hours) is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yulin Pan , Xiangteng He , Biao Gong , Yiliang Lv , Yujun Shen , Yuxin Peng , Deli Zhao

While Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown significant potential in multimodal understanding and reasoning tasks, how to efficiently select the most informative frames from videos remains a critical challenge. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Shihao Wang , Guo Chen , De-an Huang , Zhiqi Li , Minghan Li , Guilin Liu , Jose M. Alvarez , Lei Zhang , Zhiding Yu