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This paper proposes an approach to Dense Video Captioning (DVC) without pairwise event-sentence annotation. First, we adopt the knowledge distilled from relevant and well solved tasks to generate high-quality event proposals. Then we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Bofeng Wu , Guocheng Niu , Jun Yu , Xinyan Xiao , Jian Zhang , Hua Wu

Large-scale pre-trained multi-modal models (e.g., CLIP) demonstrate strong zero-shot transfer capability in many discriminative tasks. Their adaptation to zero-shot image-conditioned text generation tasks has drawn increasing interest.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Wei Li , Linchao Zhu , Longyin Wen , Yi Yang

We introduce a method to learn unsupervised semantic visual information based on the premise that complex events can be decomposed into simpler events and that these simple events are shared across several complex events. We first employ a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Valter Estevam , Rayson Laroca , Helio Pedrini , David Menotti

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

There has been significant attention to the research on dense video captioning, which aims to automatically localize and caption all events within untrimmed video. Several studies introduce methods by designing dense video captioning as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Minkuk Kim , Hyeon Bae Kim , Jinyoung Moon , Jinwoo Choi , Seong Tae Kim

An ideal model for dense video captioning -- predicting captions localized temporally in a video -- should be able to handle long input videos, predict rich, detailed textual descriptions, and be able to produce outputs before processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xingyi Zhou , Anurag Arnab , Shyamal Buch , Shen Yan , Austin Myers , Xuehan Xiong , Arsha Nagrani , Cordelia Schmid

Recently, dense video captioning has made attractive progress in detecting and captioning all events in a long untrimmed video. Despite promising results were achieved, most existing methods do not sufficiently explore the scene evolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhiwang Zhang , Dong Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Luping Zhou

Recent text-to-image matching models apply contrastive learning to large corpora of uncurated pairs of images and sentences. While such models can provide a powerful score for matching and subsequent zero-shot tasks, they are not capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yoad Tewel , Yoav Shalev , Idan Schwartz , Lior Wolf

Video captioning is an essential technology to understand scenes and describe events in natural language. To apply it to real-time monitoring, a system needs not only to describe events accurately but also to produce the captions as soon as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Chiori Hori , Takaaki Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

Dense video captioning aims to interpret and describe all temporally localized events throughout an input video. Recent state-of-the-art methods leverage large language models (LLMs) to provide detailed moment descriptions for video data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Wei-Yuan Cheng , Kai-Po Chang , Chi-Pin Huang , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Dense captioning is a newly emerging computer vision topic for understanding images with dense language descriptions. The goal is to densely detect visual concepts (e.g., objects, object parts, and interactions between them) from images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Linjie Yang , Kevin Tang , Jianchao Yang , Li-Jia Li

This paper focuses on a novel and challenging vision task, dense video captioning, which aims to automatically describe a video clip with multiple informative and diverse caption sentences. The proposed method is trained without explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Zhiqiang Shen , Jianguo Li , Zhou Su , Minjun Li , Yurong Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Xiangyang Xue

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have opened new avenues for video understanding. However, achieving high fidelity in zero-shot video tasks remains challenging. Traditional video processing methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yiming Zhang , Zhuokai Zhao , Zhaorun Chen , Zenghui Ding , Xianjun Yang , Yining Sun

Image caption generation is a long standing and challenging problem at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing. A number of recently proposed approaches utilize a fully supervised object recognition model within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Berkan Demirel , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

We present a novel human annotated dataset for evaluating the ability for visual-language models to generate both short and long descriptions for real-world video clips, termed DeVAn (Dense Video Annotation). The dataset contains 8.5K…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Tingkai Liu , Yunzhe Tao , Haogeng Liu , Qihang Fan , Ding Zhou , Huaibo Huang , Ran He , Hongxia Yang

Dense video captioning jointly localizes and captions salient events in untrimmed videos. Recent methods primarily focus on leveraging additional prior knowledge and advanced multi-task architectures to achieve competitive performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Mingda Jia , Weiliang Meng , Zenghuang Fu , Yiheng Li , Qi Zeng , Yifan Zhang , Ju Xin , Rongtao Xu , Jiguang Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang

We explore an efficient approach to establish a foundational video-text model. We present VideoCoCa that maximally reuses a pretrained image-text contrastive captioner (CoCa) model and adapt it to video-text tasks with minimal extra…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Shen Yan , Tao Zhu , Zirui Wang , Yuan Cao , Mi Zhang , Soham Ghosh , Yonghui Wu , Jiahui Yu

With the rapid adoption of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) across diverse applications, there is a pressing need for task-centered, high-quality training data. A key limitation of current training datasets is their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xiaoyu Lin , Aniket Ghorpade , Hansheng Zhu , Justin Qiu , Dea Rrozhani , Monica Lama , Mick Yang , Zixuan Bian , Ruohan Ren , Alan B. Hong , Jiatao Gu , Chris Callison-Burch

In this work, we propose a division-and-summarization (DaS) framework for dense video captioning. After partitioning each untrimmed long video as multiple event proposals, where each event proposal consists of a set of short video segments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhiwang Zhang , Dong Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Chuanqi Tan

Existing video captioning approaches typically require to first sample video frames from a decoded video and then conduct a subsequent process (e.g., feature extraction and/or captioning model learning). In this pipeline, manual frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yaojie Shen , Xin Gu , Kai Xu , Heng Fan , Longyin Wen , Libo Zhang