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In real scenarios, videos can span several minutes or even hours. However, existing research on spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG), given a textual query, mainly focuses on localizing targets in short videos of tens of seconds,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Xin Gu , Bing Fan , Jiali Yao , Zhipeng Zhang , Yan Huang , Cheng Han , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang

The task of video grounding, which temporally localizes a natural language description in a video, plays an important role in understanding videos. Existing studies have adopted strategies of sliding window over the entire video or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Dongliang He , Xiang Zhao , Jizhou Huang , Fu Li , Xiao Liu , Shilei Wen

Visual grounding is a task to locate the target indicated by a natural language expression. Existing methods extend the generic object detection framework to this problem. They base the visual grounding on the features from pre-generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Li Yang , Yan Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Wei Liu , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) aims to precisely localize video segments corresponding to natural language queries, which is a critical capability for long-form video understanding. Although existing reinforcement learning approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chaohong Guo , Xun Mo , Yongwei Nie , Xuemiao Xu , Chao Xu , Fei Yu , Chengjiang Long

Video recognition in an open and dynamic world is quite challenging, as we need to handle different settings such as close-set, long-tail, few-shot and open-set. By leveraging semantic knowledge from noisy text descriptions crawled from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Jintao Lin , Zhaoyang Liu , Wenhai Wang , Wayne Wu , Limin Wang

Video temporal grounding (VTG) is a fine-grained video understanding problem that aims to ground relevant clips in untrimmed videos given natural language queries. Most existing VTG models are built upon frame-wise final-layer CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Ye Liu , Jixuan He , Wanhua Li , Junsik Kim , Donglai Wei , Hanspeter Pfister , Chang Wen Chen

Long Video Temporal Grounding (LVTG) aims at identifying specific moments within lengthy videos based on user-provided text queries for effective content retrieval. The approach taken by existing methods of dividing video into clips and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Zijia Lu , A S M Iftekhar , Gaurav Mittal , Tianjian Meng , Xiawei Wang , Cheng Zhao , Rohith Kukkala , Ehsan Elhamifar , Mei Chen

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) aims to localize the temporal boundary of a specific segment in an untrimmed video based on a given language query. Since datasets in this domain are often gathered from limited video scenes, models tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Haifeng Huang , Yang Zhao , Zehan Wang , Yan Xia , Zhou Zhao

This paper aims to tackle a novel task - Temporal Sentence Grounding in Streaming Videos (TSGSV). The goal of TSGSV is to evaluate the relevance between a video stream and a given sentence query. Unlike regular videos, streaming videos are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Tian Gan , Xiao Wang , Yan Sun , Jianlong Wu , Qingpei Guo , Liqiang Nie

Video Paragraph Grounding (VPG) is an emerging task in video-language understanding, which aims at localizing multiple sentences with semantic relations and temporal order from an untrimmed video. However, existing VPG approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Chaolei Tan , Jianhuang Lai , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

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

The temporal answering grounding in the video (TAGV) is a new task naturally derived from temporal sentence grounding in the video (TSGV). Given an untrimmed video and a text question, this task aims at locating the matching span from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Bin Li , Yixuan Weng , Bin Sun , Shutao Li

Despite recent advances in Video Large Language Models (Vid-LLMs), Temporal Video Grounding (TVG), which aims to precisely localize time segments corresponding to query events, remains a significant challenge. Existing methods often match…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jiahao Nie , Wenbin An , Gongjie Zhang , Yicheng Xu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot , Shijian Lu

The temporal sentence grounding in video (TSGV) task is to locate a temporal moment from an untrimmed video, to match a language query, i.e., a sentence. Without considering bias in moment annotations (e.g., start and end positions in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Hao Zhang , Aixin Sun , Wei Jing , Joey Tianyi Zhou

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

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

Temporal grounding aims to locate a target video moment that semantically corresponds to the given sentence query in an untrimmed video. However, recent works find that existing methods suffer a severe temporal bias problem. These methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Jiachang Hao , Haifeng Sun , Pengfei Ren , Jingyu Wang , Qi Qi , Jianxin Liao

The video grounding (VG) task aims to locate the queried action or event in an untrimmed video based on rich linguistic descriptions. Existing proposal-free methods are trapped in complex interaction between video and query, overemphasizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Kun Li , Dan Guo , Meng Wang

A core capability towards general embodied intelligence lies in localizing task-relevant objects from an egocentric perspective, formulated as Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG). Despite recent progress, existing STVG studies remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Qi'ao Xu , Tianwen Qian , Yuqian Fu , Kailing Li , Yang Jiao , Jiacheng Zhang , Xiaoling Wang , Liang He

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have advanced Video Temporal Grounding (VTG), existing methods often couple output paradigms with different backbones, datasets, and training protocols. This makes it challenging to isolate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Shengji Jin , Yuanhao Zou , Victor Zhu , Zhengping Ji , Chen Chen