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Zero-shot video moment retrieval (ZVMR) is the task of localizing a temporal moment within an untrimmed video using a natural language query without relying on task-specific training data. The primary challenge in this setting lies in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Mingyu Jeon , Sunjae Yoon , Jonghee Kim , Junyeoung Kim

Visual Grounding, also known as Referring Expression Comprehension and Phrase Grounding, aims to ground the specific region(s) within the image(s) based on the given expression text. This task simulates the common referential relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Linhui Xiao , Xiaoshan Yang , Xiangyuan Lan , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Weakly-supervised action localization requires training a model to localize the action segments in the video given only video level action label. It can be solved under the Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) framework, where a bag (video)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Zhekun Luo , Devin Guillory , Baifeng Shi , Wei Ke , Fang Wan , Trevor Darrell , Huijuan Xu

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) strives to accurately pinpoint event timestamps in a specific video using linguistic queries, significantly impacting downstream tasks like video browsing and editing. Unlike traditional task-specific models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yongxin Guo , Jingyu Liu , Mingda Li , Dingxin Cheng , Xiaoying Tang , Dianbo Sui , Qingbin Liu , Xi Chen , Kevin Zhao

Despite the availability of a huge amount of video data accompanied by descriptive texts, it is not always easy to exploit the information contained in natural language in order to automatically recognize video concepts. Towards this goal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Giorgos Bouritsas , Petros Koutras , Athanasia Zlatintsi , Petros Maragos

We address the problem of grounding free-form textual phrases by using weak supervision from image-caption pairs. We propose a novel end-to-end model that uses caption-to-image retrieval as a `downstream' task to guide the process of phrase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Samyak Datta , Karan Sikka , Anirban Roy , Karuna Ahuja , Devi Parikh , Ajay Divakaran

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) systems generate continuous recordings spanning months, yet automated bioacoustic analysis of whale calls requires two separate annotation efforts: binary presence labels for classification and precise…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ragib Amin Nihal , Benjamin Yen , Runwu Shi , Takeshi Ashizawa , Kazuhiro Nakadai

The objective of this paper is a temporal alignment network that ingests long term video sequences, and associated text sentences, in order to: (1) determine if a sentence is alignable with the video; and (2) if it is alignable, then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Tengda Han , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Temporal grounding aims to localize a video moment which is semantically aligned with a given natural language query. Existing methods typically apply a detection or regression pipeline on the fused representation with the research focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Zhenzhi Wang , Limin Wang , Tao Wu , Tianhao Li , Gangshan Wu

Given a text description, Temporal Language Grounding (TLG) aims to localize temporal boundaries of the segments that contain the specified semantics in an untrimmed video. TLG is inherently a challenging task, as it requires comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Fan Luo , Shaoxiang Chen , Jingjing Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Recently, researchers have attempted to investigate the capability of LLMs in handling videos and proposed several video LLM models. However, the ability of LLMs to handle video grounding (VG), which is an important time-related video task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Wei Feng , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Zeyang Zhang , Houlun Chen , Zihan Song , Yuwei Zhou , Yuekui Yang , Haiyang Wu , Wenwu Zhu

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to locate action regions and identify action categories in untrimmed videos simultaneously by taking only video-level labels as the supervision. Pseudo label generation is a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Wulian Yun , Mengshi Qi , Chuanming Wang , Huadong Ma

While slide-based videos augmented with visual effects are widely utilized in education and research presentations, the video editing process -- particularly applying visual effects to ground spoken content to slide objects -- remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Rena Suzuki , Masato Kikuchi , Tadachika Ozono

Video moment retrieval is to search the moment that is most relevant to the given natural language query. Existing methods are mostly trained in a fully-supervised setting, which requires the full annotations of temporal boundary for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Zhijie Lin , Zhou Zhao , Zhu Zhang , Qi Wang , Huasheng Liu

Temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to localize the temporal segment which is semantically aligned with a natural language query in an untrimmed video.Most existing methods extract frame-grained features or object-grained features by 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Zeyu Xiong , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Jiahao Zhu

Detecting actions in videos have been widely applied in on-device applications. Practical on-device videos are always untrimmed with both action and background. It is desirable for a model to both recognize the class of action and localize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Yue Tang , Yawen Wu , Peipei Zhou , Jingtong Hu

In recent years, we witness the explosion of false and unconfirmed information (i.e., rumors) that went viral on social media and shocked the public. Rumors can trigger versatile, mostly controversial stance expressions among social media…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Ruichao Yang , Wei Gao , Jing Ma , Hongzhan Lin , Zhiwei Yang

We propose a weakly-supervised approach that takes image-sentence pairs as input and learns to visually ground (i.e., localize) arbitrary linguistic phrases, in the form of spatial attention masks. Specifically, the model is trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Fanyi Xiao , Leonid Sigal , Yong Jae Lee

In this paper, we explore a weakly supervised method for anomaly detection. Since annotating videos is time-consuming, we only look at weak video-level labels during training. This means that given a video, we know that it is either normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Urvi Gianchandani , Praveen Tirupattur , Mubarak Shah

Temporal sentence localization in videos (TSLV) aims to retrieve the most interested segment in an untrimmed video according to a given sentence query. However, almost of existing TSLV approaches suffer from the same limitations: (1) They…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou