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In this paper we introduce a new dataset for 360-degree video summarization: the transformation of 360-degree video content to concise 2D-video summaries that can be consumed via traditional devices, such as TV sets and smartphones. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Ioannis Kontostathis , Evlampios Apostolidis , Vasileios Mezaris

Existing video multi-modal sentiment analysis mainly focuses on the sentiment expression of people within the video, yet often neglects the induced sentiment of viewers while watching the videos. Induced sentiment of viewers is essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Qi Jia , Baoyu Fan , Cong Xu , Lu Liu , Liang Jin , Guoguang Du , Zhenhua Guo , Yaqian Zhao , Xuanjing Huang , Rengang Li

Humans are remarkably efficient at forming spatial understanding from just a few visual observations. When browsing real estate or navigating unfamiliar spaces, they intuitively select a small set of views that summarize the spatial layout.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chao Chen , Mingzhi Zhu , Ankush Pratap Singh , Yu Yan , Felix Juefei-Xu , Chen Feng

Causality is crucial to understanding the mechanisms behind complex systems and making decisions that lead to intended outcomes. Event sequence data is widely collected from many real-world processes, such as electronic health records, web…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Zhuochen Jin , Shunan Guo , Nan Chen , Daniel Weiskopf , David Gotz , Nan Cao

Existing Causal-Why Video Question Answering (VideoQA) models often struggle with higher-order reasoning, relying on opaque, monolithic pipelines that entangle video understanding, causal inference, and answer generation. These black-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Paritosh Parmar , Eric Peh , Basura Fernando

The huge amount of video data produced daily by camera-based systems, such as surveilance, medical and telecommunication systems, emerges the need for effective video summarization (VS) methods. These methods should be capable of creating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 George Pantazis , George Dimas , Dimitris K. Iakovidis

Making a summary is a common learning strategy in lecture learning. It is an effective way for learners to engage in both traditional and video lectures. Video summarization is an effective technology applied to enhance learners'…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Lili Yan , Kai Li

To automatically produce a brief yet expressive summary of a long video, an automatic algorithm should start by resembling the human process of summary generation. Prior work proposed supervised and unsupervised algorithms to train models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Mohamed Elfeki , Ali Borji

With the rapid growth of video data on the internet, video summarization is becoming a very important AI technology. However, due to the high labelling cost of video summarization, existing studies have to be conducted on small-scale…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Cairong Zhao , Chutian Wang , Zifan Song , Guosheng Hu , Haonan Chen , Xiaofan Zhai

Many visual surveillance tasks, e.g.video summarisation, is conventionally accomplished through analysing imagerybased features. Relying solely on visual cues for public surveillance video understanding is unreliable, since visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Xiatian Zhu , Chen Change Loy , Shaogang Gong

We present a method for creating video summaries in real-time on commodity hardware. Real-time here refers to the fact that the time required for video summarization is less than the duration of the input video. First, low-level features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Wesley Taylor , Faisal Z. Qureshi

Previous approaches for video summarization mainly concentrate on finding the most diverse and representative visual contents as video summary without considering the user's preference. This paper addresses the task of query-focused video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Shuwen Xiao , Zhou Zhao , Zijian Zhang , Xiaohui Yan , Min Yang

Automatically generating a summary of sports video poses the challenge of detecting interesting moments, or highlights, of a game. Traditional sports video summarization methods leverage editing conventions of broadcast sports video that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos , Yuta Nakashima , Tomokazu Sato , Naokazu Yokoya , Marko Linna , Esa Rahtu

Properly evaluating the ability of Video-Language Models (VLMs) to understand long videos remains a challenge. We propose a long-context video understanding benchmark, Causal2Needles, that assesses two crucial abilities insufficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Miaoyu Li , Qin Chao , Boyang Li

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in building video summarization tools, where the goal is to automatically create a short summary of an input video that properly represents the original content. We consider shot-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yair Shemer , Daniel Rotman , Nahum Shimkin

Although video summarization has achieved tremendous success benefiting from Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), RNN-based methods neglect the global dependencies and multi-hop relationships among video frames, which limits the performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Bin Zhao , Maoguo Gong , Xuelong Li

Multimodal ML models can process data in multiple modalities (e.g., video, images, audio, text) and are useful for video content analysis in a variety of problems (e.g., object detection, scene understanding). In this paper, we focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Palash Goyal , Saurabh Sahu , Shalini Ghosh , Chul Lee

The task of retrieving video content relevant to natural language queries plays a critical role in effectively handling internet-scale datasets. Most of the existing methods for this caption-to-video retrieval problem do not fully exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Valentin Gabeur , Chen Sun , Karteek Alahari , Cordelia Schmid

This paper tackles a recently proposed Video Corpus Moment Retrieval task. This task is essential because advanced video retrieval applications should enable users to retrieve a precise moment from a large video corpus. We propose a novel…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Zhijian Hou , Chong-Wah Ngo , Wing Kwong Chan

Video summarization aims to automatically generate a summary (storyboard or video skim) of a video, which can facilitate large-scale video retrieval and browsing. Most of the existing methods perform video summarization on individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Li Haopeng , Ke Qiuhong , Gong Mingming , Zhang Rui