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We propose a learning system in which language is grounded in visual percepts without specific pre-defined categories of terms. We present a unified generative method to acquire a shared semantic/visual embedding that enables the learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Nisha Pillai , Cynthia Matuszek , Francis Ferraro

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) localizes the temporal boundaries of a query-relevant moment in long, untrimmed videos, making video-language-model (VLM) pipelines prohibitively expensive. While recent training-free visual token pruning has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jiaqi Li , Shuntian Zheng , Yixian Shen , Jia-Hong Huang , Xiaoman Lu , Minzhe Ni , Yu Guan

Language models have been supervised with both language-only objective and visual grounding in existing studies of visual-grounded language learning. However, due to differences in the distribution and scale of visual-grounded datasets and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Cong-Duy Nguyen , The-Anh Vu-Le , Thong Nguyen , Tho Quan , Luu Anh Tuan

Event cameras offer microsecond-level latency and robustness to motion blur, making them ideal for understanding dynamic environments. Yet, connecting these asynchronous streams to human language remains an open challenge. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Lingdong Kong , Dongyue Lu , Ao Liang , Rong Li , Yuhao Dong , Tianshuai Hu , Lai Xing Ng , Wei Tsang Ooi , Benoit R. Cottereau

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to precisely identify video event segments in response to textual queries. The outputs of VTG tasks manifest as sequences of events, each defined by precise timestamps, saliency scores, and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zuhao Yang , Yingchen Yu , Yunqing Zhao , Shijian Lu , Song Bai

Video temporal grounding (VTG) aims to localize the start and end timestamps of the event described by a given query within an untrimmed video. Despite the strong open-world video understanding and recognition ability of video language…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pengcheng Fang , Yuxia Chen , Xiaohao Cai

Natural Language Video Grounding (NLVG) aims to localize time segments in an untrimmed video according to sentence queries. In this work, we present a new paradigm named Explore-And-Match for NLVG that seamlessly unifies the strengths of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Sangmin Woo , Jinyoung Park , Inyong Koo , Sumin Lee , Minki Jeong , Changick Kim

State-of-the-art text-to-video models often look realistic frame-by-frame yet fail on simple interactions: motion starts before contact, actions are not realized, objects drift after placement, and support relations break. We argue this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chika Maduabuchi

Event cameras provide robust visual signals under fast motion and challenging illumination conditions thanks to their microsecond latency and high dynamic range. However, their unique sensing characteristics and limited labeled data make it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jianwen Cao , Jiaxu Xing , Nico Messikommer , Davide Scaramuzza

We propose a new task, dataset and model for grounded video caption generation. This task unifies captioning and object grounding in video, where the objects in the caption are grounded in the video via temporally consistent bounding boxes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Evangelos Kazakos , Cordelia Schmid , Josef Sivic

Temporal language grounding (TLG) aims to localize a video segment in an untrimmed video based on a natural language description. To alleviate the expensive cost of manual annotations for temporal boundary labels, we are dedicated to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yuechen Wang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

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

While existing video benchmarks largely consider specialized downstream tasks like retrieval or question-answering (QA), contemporary multimodal AI systems must be capable of well-rounded common-sense reasoning akin to human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Kate Sanders , Benjamin Van Durme

Understanding videos is an important research topic for multimodal learning. Leveraging large-scale datasets of web-crawled video-text pairs as weak supervision has become a pre-training paradigm for learning joint representations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Gengyuan Zhang , Jinhe Bi , Jindong Gu , Yanyu Chen , Volker Tresp

Temporal video grounding (TVG) aims to localize a target segment in a video according to a given sentence query. Though respectable works have made decent achievements in this task, they severely rely on abundant video-query paired data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Daizong Liu , Xiaoye Qu , Yinzhen Wang , Xing Di , Kai Zou , Yu Cheng , Zichuan Xu , Pan Zhou

Video temporal grounding (VTG) aims to locate precise segments in videos based on language queries, which is a fundamental challenge in video understanding. While recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Lu Dong , Haiyu Zhang , Han Lin , Ziang Yan , Xiangyu Zeng , Hongjie Zhang , Yifei Huang , Yi Wang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Limin Wang , Yali Wang

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) 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

Recent large vision-language models have achieved strong performance on short- and medium-length video understanding, yet they remain inadequate for ultra-long or even infinite video reasoning, where models must preserve coherent memory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Peizheng Yan , Yu Zhao , Liang Xie , Juntong Qi , Mingming Wang , Erwei Yin

Temporal Sentence Grounding (TSG), which aims to localize moments from videos based on the given natural language queries, has attracted widespread attention. Existing works are mainly designed for short videos, failing to handle TSG in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Houlun Chen , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Zihan Song , Jia Jia , Wenwu Zhu