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Video captioning is a challenging task since it requires generating sentences describing various diverse and complex videos. Existing video captioning models lack adequate visual representation due to the neglect of the existence of gaps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Mingkang Tang , Zhanyu Wang , Zhenhua Liu , Fengyun Rao , Dian Li , Xiu Li

Narrative videos, such as movies, pose significant challenges in video understanding due to their rich contexts (characters, dialogues, storylines) and diverse demands (identify who, relationship, and reason). In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Kevin Qinghong Lin , Pengchuan Zhang , Difei Gao , Xide Xia , Joya Chen , Ziteng Gao , Jinheng Xie , Xuhong Xiao , Mike Zheng Shou

In this paper, we explore the visual representations produced from a pre-trained text-to-video (T2V) diffusion model for video understanding tasks. We hypothesize that the latent representation learned from a pretrained generative T2V model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zixin Zhu , Xuelu Feng , Dongdong Chen , Junsong Yuan , Chunming Qiao , Gang Hua

This paper describes a method based on a sequence-to-sequence learning (Seq2Seq) with attention and context preservation mechanism for voice conversion (VC) tasks. Seq2Seq has been outstanding at numerous tasks involving sequence modeling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-13 Kou Tanaka , Hirokazu Kameoka , Takuhiro Kaneko , Nobukatsu Hojo

This paper focuses on a novel and challenging vision task, dense video captioning, which aims to automatically describe a video clip with multiple informative and diverse caption sentences. The proposed method is trained without explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Zhiqiang Shen , Jianguo Li , Zhou Su , Minjun Li , Yurong Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiangyang Xue

Long-term video understanding requires interpreting complex temporal events and reasoning over procedural activities. While instructional video corpora, like HowTo100M, offer rich resources for model training, they present significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Mingji Ge , Qirui Chen , Zeqian Li , Weidi Xie

In this work, we propose a division-and-summarization (DaS) framework for dense video captioning. After partitioning each untrimmed long video as multiple event proposals, where each event proposal consists of a set of short video segments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhiwang Zhang , Dong Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Chuanqi Tan

Existing dense or paragraph video captioning approaches rely on holistic representations of videos, possibly coupled with learned object/action representations, to condition hierarchical language decoders. However, they fundamentally lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Shih-Han Chou , James J. Little , Leonid Sigal

Most natural videos contain numerous events. For example, in a video of a "man playing a piano", the video might also contain "another man dancing" or "a crowd clapping". We introduce the task of dense-captioning events, which involves both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Ranjay Krishna , Kenji Hata , Frederic Ren , Li Fei-Fei , Juan Carlos Niebles

This paper proposes Omni Dense Captioning, a novel task designed to generate continuous, fine-grained, and structured audio-visual narratives with explicit timestamps. To ensure dense semantic coverage, we introduce a six-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Linli Yao , Yuancheng Wei , Yaojie Zhang , Lei Li , Xinlong Chen , Feifan Song , Ziyue Wang , Kun Ouyang , Yuanxin Liu , Lingpeng Kong , Qi Liu , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai , Yuanxing Zhang , Xu Sun

Dense video captioning is a newly emerging task that aims at both localizing and describing all events in a video. We identify and tackle two challenges on this task, namely, (1) how to utilize both past and future contexts for accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Jingwen Wang , Wenhao Jiang , Lin Ma , Wei Liu , Yong Xu

Contextual reasoning is essential to understand events in long untrimmed videos. In this work, we systematically explore different captioning models with various contexts for the dense-captioning events in video task, which aims to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Shizhe Chen , Yuqing Song , Yida Zhao , Qin Jin , Zhaoyang Zeng , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Alexander Hauptmann

Dense video captioning aims to interpret and describe all temporally localized events throughout an input video. Recent state-of-the-art methods leverage large language models (LLMs) to provide detailed moment descriptions for video data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Wei-Yuan Cheng , Kai-Po Chang , Chi-Pin Huang , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

We introduce Wav2Seq, the first self-supervised approach to pre-train both parts of encoder-decoder models for speech data. We induce a pseudo language as a compact discrete representation, and formulate a self-supervised pseudo speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Felix Wu , Kwangyoun Kim , Shinji Watanabe , Kyu Han , Ryan McDonald , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Yoav Artzi

In this paper, we propose methods to build a powerful and efficient Image-to-Speech captioning (Im2Sp) model. To this end, we start with importing the rich knowledge related to image comprehension and language modeling from a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Minsu Kim , Jeongsoo Choi , Soumi Maiti , Jeong Hun Yeo , Shinji Watanabe , Yong Man Ro

Untrimmed videos have interrelated events, dependencies, context, overlapping events, object-object interactions, domain specificity, and other semantics that are worth highlighting while describing a video in natural language. Owing to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Iqra Qasim , Alexander Horsch , Dilip K. Prasad

Dense video captioning aims to generate text descriptions for all events in an untrimmed video. This involves both detecting and describing events. Therefore, all previous methods on dense video captioning tackle this problem by building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Luowei Zhou , Yingbo Zhou , Jason J. Corso , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

The recent advance in vision-language models is largely attributed to the abundance of image-text data. We aim to replicate this success for video-language models, but there simply is not enough human-curated video-text data available. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Yue Zhao , Long Zhao , Xingyi Zhou , Jialin Wu , Chun-Te Chu , Hui Miao , Florian Schroff , Hartwig Adam , Ting Liu , Boqing Gong , Philipp Krähenbühl , Liangzhe Yuan

We propose a novel approach for captioning and object grounding in video, where the objects in the caption are grounded in the video via temporally dense bounding boxes. We introduce the following contributions. First, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Evangelos Kazakos , Cordelia Schmid , Josef Sivic

Joint video-language learning has received increasing attention in recent years. However, existing works mainly focus on single or multiple trimmed video clips (events), which makes human-annotated event boundaries necessary during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Teng Wang , Jinrui Zhang , Feng Zheng , Wenhao Jiang , Ran Cheng , Ping Luo