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In recent years, pre-trained multimodal large models have attracted widespread attention due to their outstanding performance in various multimodal applications. Nonetheless, the extensive computational resources and vast datasets required…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zhengyang Liang , Meiyu Liang , Wei Huang , Yawen Li , Zhe Xue

Numerous video frame sampling methodologies detailed in the literature present a significant challenge in determining the optimal video frame method for Video RAG pattern without a comparative side-by-side analysis. In this work, we…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Mahesh Kandhare , Thibault Gisselbrecht

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) is a widely used paradigm for accelerating inference in few-step video diffusion models. However, DMD-style video distillation faces two coupled challenges: the fake score must track a continuously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhuguanyu Wu , Ruihao Gong , Yang Yong , Yushi Huang , Xiangyu Fan , Lei Yang , Dahua Lin , Xianglong Liu

Given an untrimmed video and a sentence query, video moment retrieval using language (VMR) aims to locate a target query-relevant moment. Since the untrimmed video is overlong, almost all existing VMR methods first sparsely down-sample each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiang Fang , Daizong Liu , Wanlong Fang , Pan Zhou , Zichuan Xu , Wenzheng Xu , Junyang Chen , Renfu Li

We revisit previous contrastive learning frameworks to investigate the effect of introducing an adaptive margin into the contrastive loss function for time series representation learning. Specifically, we explore whether an adaptive margin…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Abdul-Kazeem Shamba , Kerstin Bach , Gavin Taylor

Instance-level contrastive learning techniques, which rely on data augmentation and a contrastive loss function, have found great success in the domain of visual representation learning. They are not suitable for exploiting the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Martine Toering , Ioannis Gatopoulos , Maarten Stol , Vincent Tao Hu

We present a simple yet effective end-to-end Video-language Pre-training (VidLP) framework, Masked Contrastive Video-language Pretraining (MAC), for video-text retrieval tasks. Our MAC aims to reduce video representation's spatial and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Fangxun Shu , Biaolong Chen , Yue Liao , Shuwen Xiao , Wenyu Sun , Xiaobo Li , Yousong Zhu , Jinqiao Wang , Si Liu

Recent progress in text-video retrieval has been largely driven by contrastive learning. However, existing methods often overlook the effect of the modality gap, which causes anchor representations to undergo in-place optimization (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jian Xiao , Zijie Song , Jialong Hu , Hao Cheng , Jia Li , Zhenzhen Hu , Richang Hong

We present a self-supervised learning approach to learn audio-visual representations from video and audio. Our method uses contrastive learning for cross-modal discrimination of video from audio and vice-versa. We show that optimizing for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Pedro Morgado , Nuno Vasconcelos , Ishan Misra

The increasing amount of online videos brings several opportunities for training self-supervised neural networks. The creation of large scale datasets of videos such as the YouTube-8M allows us to deal with this large amount of data in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Didac Surís , Amanda Duarte , Amaia Salvador , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giró-i-Nieto

Background music (BGM) can enhance the video's emotion. However, selecting an appropriate BGM often requires domain knowledge. This has led to the development of video-music retrieval techniques. Most existing approaches utilize pretrained…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Tianjun Mao , Shansong Liu , Yunxuan Zhang , Dian Li , Ying Shan

With the advancement of drone technology, the volume of video data increases rapidly, creating an urgent need for efficient semantic retrieval. We are the first to systematically propose and study the drone video-text retrieval (DVTR) task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jinghao Huang , Yaxiong Chen , Ganchao Liu

Video-text retrieval, the task of retrieving videos based on a textual query or vice versa, is of paramount importance for video understanding and multimodal information retrieval. Recent methods in this area rely primarily on visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Boseung Jeong , Jicheol Park , Sungyeon Kim , Suha Kwak

In text-video retrieval, the objective is to learn a cross-modal similarity function between a text and a video that ranks relevant text-video pairs higher than irrelevant pairs. However, videos inherently express a much wider gamut of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Satya Krishna Gorti , Noel Vouitsis , Junwei Ma , Keyvan Golestan , Maksims Volkovs , Animesh Garg , Guangwei Yu

Video transition effects are widely used in video editing to connect shots for creating cohesive and visually appealing videos. However, it is challenging for non-professionals to choose best transitions due to the lack of cinematographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Yaojie Shen , Libo Zhang , Kai Xu , Xiaojie Jin

As important data carriers, the drastically increasing number of multimedia videos often brings many duplicate and near-duplicate videos in the top results of search. Near-duplicate video retrieval (NDVR) can cluster and filter out the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Hao Cheng , Ping Wang , Chun Qi

Contrastive learning has been successfully used for retrieval of semantically aligned sentences, but it often requires large batch sizes or careful engineering to work well. In this paper, we instead propose a generative model for learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 John Wieting , Jonathan H. Clark , William W. Cohen , Graham Neubig , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Our objective is video retrieval based on natural language queries. In addition, we consider the analogous problem of retrieving sentences or generating descriptions given an input video. Recent work has addressed the problem by embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Mayu Otani , Yuta Nakashima , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkilä , Naokazu Yokoya

State-of-the-art video-text retrieval (VTR) methods typically involve fully fine-tuning a pre-trained model (e.g. CLIP) on specific datasets. However, this can result in significant storage costs in practical applications as a separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Xiaojie Jin , Bowen Zhang , Weibo Gong , Kai Xu , XueQing Deng , Peng Wang , Zhao Zhang , Xiaohui Shen , Jiashi Feng

Recent hybrid video generation models combine autoregressive temporal dynamics with diffusion-based spatial denoising, but their sequential, iterative nature leads to error accumulation and long inference times. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yongqi Yang , Huayang Huang , Xu Peng , Xiaobin Hu , Donghao Luo , Jiangning Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Yu Wu