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We introduce the task of retrieving relevant video moments from a large corpus of untrimmed, unsegmented videos given a natural language query. Our task poses unique challenges as a system must efficiently identify both the relevant videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Victor Escorcia , Mattia Soldan , Josef Sivic , Bernard Ghanem , Bryan Russell

In this paper, we propose the task of \textit{Ranked Video Moment Retrieval} (RVMR) to locate a ranked list of matching moments from a collection of videos, through queries in natural language. Although a few related tasks have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Renjie Liang , Li Li , Chongzhi Zhang , Jing Wang , Xizhou Zhu , Aixin Sun

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made remarkable progress in either temporal or spatial localization. However, they struggle to perform spatio-temporal video grounding. This limitation stems from two major challenges. Firstly,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jiankang Wang , Zhihan Zhang , Zhihang Liu , Yang Li , Jiannan Ge , Hongtao Xie , Yongdong Zhang

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

In this paper, we propose a method that extends the query-based object detection model, DETR, to spatio-temporal action detection, which requires maintaining temporal consistency in videos. Our proposed method applies DETR to each frame and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Shimon Hori , Kazuki Omi , Toru Tamaki

Video Moment Retrieval (VMR) is a task to localize the temporal moment in untrimmed video specified by natural language query. For VMR, several methods that require full supervision for training have been proposed. Unfortunately, acquiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Minuk Ma , Sunjae Yoon , Junyeong Kim , Youngjoon Lee , Sunghun Kang , Chang D. Yoo

Temporal sentence grounding (TSG) is a highly challenging task aiming to localize the temporal segment within an untrimmed video corresponding to a given natural language description. Benefiting from the design of learnable queries, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yifan Wang , Ziyi Liu , Xiaolong Sun , Jiawei Wang , Hongmin Liu

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) faces a cross-modal semantic gap that often leads to background features being incorrectly aligned with the query, while directly matching the query to moments results in insufficient discriminability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ran Ran , Jiwei Wei , Shuchang Zhou , Yitong Qin , Shiyuan He , Zeyu Ma , Yuyang Zhou , Yang Yang

This paper addresses the problem of natural language video localization (NLVL). Almost all existing works follow the "only look once" framework that exploits a single model to directly capture the complex cross- and self-modal relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Daizong Liu , Wei Hu

The recently developed DEtection TRansformer (DETR) establishes a new object detection paradigm by eliminating a series of hand-crafted components. However, DETR suffers from extremely slow convergence, which increases the training cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Gongjie Zhang , Zhipeng Luo , Yingchen Yu , Kaiwen Cui , Shijian Lu

While in-context Learning (ICL) has proven to be an effective technique to improve the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in a variety of complex tasks, notably in translating natural language questions into Structured Query…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yuxi Feng , Raymond Li , Zhenan Fan , Giuseppe Carenini , Mohammadreza Pourreza , Weiwei Zhang , Yong Zhang

Learning to localize temporal boundaries of procedure steps in instructional videos is challenging due to the limited availability of annotated large-scale training videos. Recent works focus on learning the cross-modal alignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yuxiao Chen , Kai Li , Wentao Bao , Deep Patel , Yu Kong , Martin Renqiang Min , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Video temporal grounding aims to identify video segments within untrimmed videos that are most relevant to a given natural language query. Existing video temporal localization models rely on specific datasets for training and have high data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Minghang Zheng , Xinhao Cai , Qingchao Chen , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

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

Multispectral pedestrian detection is an important task for many around-the-clock applications, since the visible and thermal modalities can provide complementary information especially under low light conditions. Due to the presence of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Yinghui Xing , Shuo Yang , Song Wang , Shizhou Zhang , Guoqiang Liang , Xiuwei Zhang , Yanning Zhang

Video Moment Retrieval is a common task to evaluate the performance of visual-language models - it involves localising start and end times of moments in videos from query sentences. The current task formulation assumes that the queried…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Kevin Flanagan , Dima Damen , Michael Wray

Video moment retrieval targets at retrieving a moment in a video for a given language query. The challenges of this task include 1) the requirement of localizing the relevant moment in an untrimmed video, and 2) bridging the semantic gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Haoyu Tang , Jihua Zhu , Meng Liu , Zan Gao , Zhiyong Cheng

We present a new model DrNET that learns disentangled image representations from video. Our approach leverages the temporal coherence of video and a novel adversarial loss to learn a representation that factorizes each frame into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Remi Denton , Vighnesh Birodkar

Transformer has been widely used for self-supervised pre-training in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and achieved great success. However, it has not been fully explored in visual self-supervised learning. Meanwhile, previous methods only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhaowen Li , Zhiyang Chen , Fan Yang , Wei Li , Yousong Zhu , Chaoyang Zhao , Rui Deng , Liwei Wu , Rui Zhao , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

This paper presents Universal Vision-Language Dense Retrieval (UniVL-DR), which builds a unified model for multi-modal retrieval. UniVL-DR encodes queries and multi-modality resources in an embedding space for searching candidates from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Zhenghao Liu , Chenyan Xiong , Yuanhuiyi Lv , Zhiyuan Liu , Ge Yu