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This paper does not introduce a novel method but instead establishes a straightforward, incremental, yet essential baseline for video temporal grounding (VTG), a core capability in video understanding. While multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jun Zhang , Teng Wang , Yuying Ge , Yixiao Ge , Xinhao Li , Ying Shan , Limin Wang

Video Temporal Grounding (TG) aims to temporally locate video segments matching a natural language description (a query) in a long video. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are effective at holistic semantic matching, they often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Jian Hu , Zixu Cheng , Shaogang Gong , Isabel Guan , Jianye Hao , Jun Wang , Kun Shao

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) aims to localize temporal moments in an untrimmed video that semantically correspond to given natural language queries. Recently, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) have been widely adopted in TVG to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zhanjie Hu , Bolin Zhang , Jianhua Wang , Jianbo Zheng , Chenchen Yan , Takahiro Komamizu , Ichiro Ide , Jiangbo Qian

Text-guided Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize relevant segments in untrimmed videos based on textual descriptions, encompassing two subtasks: Moment Retrieval (MR) and Highlight Detection (HD). Although previous typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Zhuo Cao , Bingqing Zhang , Heming Du , Xin Yu , Xue Li , Sen Wang

Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG) aims to retrieve the spatio-temporal tube of a target object or person in a video given a text query. Most existing approaches perform frame-wise spatial localization within a predicted temporal span,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Heng Zhao , Yew-Soon Ong , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to identify visual frames in a video clip that match text queries. Recent studies in VTG employ cross-attention to correlate visual frames and text queries as individual token sequences. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Jongbhin Woo , Hyeonggon Ryu , Youngjoon Jang , Jae Won Cho , Joon Son Chung

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 the corresponding video moment in an untrimmed video given a language query. Existing methods often address this task in an indirect way, by casting it as a proposal-and-match or fusion-and-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Fengyuan Shi , Weilin Huang , Limin Wang

This paper addresses the challenging task of weakly-supervised video temporal grounding. Existing approaches are generally based on the moment proposal selection framework that utilizes contrastive learning and reconstruction paradigm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xiang Fang , Zeyu Xiong , Wanlong Fang , Xiaoye Qu , Chen Chen , Jianfeng Dong , Keke Tang , Pan Zhou , Yu Cheng , Daizong Liu

This paper explores the task of Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) where, given an untrimmed video and a natural language sentence query, the goal is to recognize and determine temporal boundaries of action instances in the video described by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Erica K. Shimomoto , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Hiroya Takamura , Ichiro Kobayashi , Hideki Nakayama , Yusuke Miyao

Point-Level temporal action localization (PTAL) aims to localize actions in untrimmed videos with only one timestamp annotation for each action instance. Existing methods adopt the frame-level prediction paradigm to learn from the sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Chen Ju , Peisen Zhao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

The emergence of generative models enables the creation of texts and images tailored to users' preferences. Existing personalized generative models have two critical limitations: lacking a dedicated paradigm for accurate preference…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yuting Zhang , Ying Sun , Dazhong Shen , Ziwei Xie , Feng Liu , Changwang Zhang , Xiang Liu , Jun Wang , Hui Xiong

Temporal grounding, which localizes video moments related to a natural language query, is a core problem of vision-language learning and video understanding. To encode video moments of varying lengths, recent methods employ a multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Thong Thanh Nguyen , Yi Bin , Xiaobao Wu , Zhiyuan Hu , Cong-Duy T Nguyen , See-Kiong Ng , Anh Tuan Luu

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

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

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

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

In recent years, the explosion of web videos makes text-video retrieval increasingly essential and popular for video filtering, recommendation, and search. Text-video retrieval aims to rank relevant text/video higher than irrelevant ones.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Chen Jiang , Hong Liu , Xuzheng Yu , Qing Wang , Yuan Cheng , Jia Xu , Zhongyi Liu , Qingpei Guo , Wei Chu , Ming Yang , Yuan Qi

Temporal grounding entails establishing a correspondence between natural language event descriptions and their visual depictions. Compositional modeling becomes central: we first ground atomic descriptions "girl eating an apple," "batter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Jonathan C. Stroud , Ryan McCaffrey , Rada Mihalcea , Jia Deng , Olga Russakovsky

Temporal sentence grounding aims to identify exact moments in a video that correspond to a given textual query, typically addressed with detection transformer (DETR) solutions. However, we find that typical strategies designed to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiajin Tang , Zhengxuan Wei , Yuchen Zhu , Cheng Shi , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin , Sibei Yang