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Video large language models (Video-LLMs) can temporally ground language queries and retrieve video moments. Yet, such temporal comprehension capabilities are neither well-studied nor understood. So we conduct a study on prediction…

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Action recognition and localization in complex, untrimmed videos remain a formidable challenge in computer vision, largely due to the limitations of existing methods in capturing fine-grained actions, long-term temporal dependencies, and…

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Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) localizes the temporal boundaries of a query-relevant moment in long, untrimmed videos, making video-language-model (VLM) pipelines prohibitively expensive. While recent training-free visual token pruning has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jiaqi Li , Shuntian Zheng , Yixian Shen , Jia-Hong Huang , Xiaoman Lu , Minzhe Ni , Yu Guan

Video large language models have achieved remarkable performance in tasks such as video question answering, however, their temporal understanding remains suboptimal. To address this limitation, we curate a dedicated instruction fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Yunxiao Wang , Meng Liu , Wenqi Liu , Xuemeng Song , Bin Wen , Fan Yang , Tingting Gao , Di Zhang , Guorui Zhou , Liqiang Nie

Language-driven action localization in videos requires not only semantic alignment between language query and video segment, but also prediction of action boundaries. However, the language query primarily describes the main content of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zirui Shang , Xinxiao Wu , Shuo Yang

Given some video-query pairs with untrimmed videos and sentence queries, temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to locate query-relevant segments in these videos. Although previous respectable TSG methods have achieved remarkable success,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Wanlong Fang , Changshuo Wang , Daizong Liu , Keke Tang , Jianfeng Dong , Pan Zhou , Beibei Li

Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding requires jointly localizing target objects across both temporal and spatial dimensions based on natural language queries, posing fundamental challenges for existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xuezhen Tu , Jingyu Wu , Fangyu Kang , Qingpeng Nong , Kaijin Zhang , Chaoyue Niu , Fan Wu

Despite significant advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), understanding complex temporal dynamics in videos remains a major challenge. Our experiments show that current Video Large Language Model (Video-LLM) architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Ali Rasekh , Erfan Bagheri Soula , Omid Daliran , Simon Gottschalk , Mohsen Fayyaz

The recent introduction of the large-scale, long-form MAD and Ego4D datasets has enabled researchers to investigate the performance of current state-of-the-art methods for video grounding in the long-form setup, with interesting findings:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wayner Barrios , Mattia Soldan , Alberto Mario Ceballos-Arroyo , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Bernard Ghanem

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) is a challenging problem that aims to learn VAD models only with video-level annotations. In this work, we propose a Long-Short Temporal Co-teaching (LSTC) method to address the WS-VAD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Shengyang Sun , Xiaojin Gong

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for video anomaly detection (VAD) due to their strong visual reasoning ability and natural language-based explainability. In this paper, we aim to address a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Mitchell Piehl , Muchao Ye

Weakly supervised multimodal video anomaly detection has gained significant attention, yet the potential of the text modality remains under-explored. Text provides explicit semantic information that can enhance anomaly characterization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Shengyang Sun , Jiashen Hua , Junyi Feng , Xiaojin Gong

Sequential video understanding, as an emerging video understanding task, has driven lots of researchers' attention because of its goal-oriented nature. This paper studies weakly supervised sequential video understanding where the accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Sixun Dong , Huazhang Hu , Dongze Lian , Weixin Luo , Yicheng Qian , Shenghua Gao

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on video-and-language tasks, such as video question answering. However, most existing Video LLMs neglect temporal information in video data, leading to struggles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zi-Yuan Hu , Yiwu Zhong , Shijia Huang , Michael R. Lyu , Liwei Wang

Grounding temporal video segments described in natural language queries effectively and efficiently is a crucial capability needed in vision-and-language fields. In this paper, we deal with the fast video temporal grounding (FVTG) task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Ziyue Wu , Junyu Gao , Shucheng Huang , Changsheng Xu

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently expanded from static image understanding to video reasoning, but their scalability is fundamentally limited by the quadratic cost of processing dense frame sequences. Long videos often exceed the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Natan Bagrov , Eugene Khvedchenia , Borys Tymchenko , Shay Aharon , Lior Kadoch , Tomer Keren , Ofri Masad , Yonatan Geifman , Ran Zilberstein , Tuomas Rintamaki , Matthieu Le , Andrew Tao

Text-driven video moment retrieval (VMR) remains challenging due to limited capture of hidden temporal dynamics in untrimmed videos, leading to imprecise grounding in long sequences. Traditional methods rely on natural language queries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yunzhuo Sun , Xinyue Liu , Yanyang Li , Nanding Wu , Yifang Xu , Linlin Zong , Xianchao Zhang , Wenxin Liang

Temporal sentence grounding in videos (TSGV) faces challenges due to public TSGV datasets containing significant temporal biases, which are attributed to the uneven temporal distributions of target moments. Existing methods generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Junlong Ren , Gangjian Zhang , Haifeng Sun , Hao Wang

Recent Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in video reasoning through reinforcement learning (RL). However, existing RL pipelines rely heavily on human-annotated tasks and solutions, making them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Shiqi Huang , Ziyue Wang , Zhongrong Zuo , Han Qiu , Qi She , Bihan Wen

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