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Video temporal grounding (VTG) is typically tackled with dataset-specific models that transfer poorly across domains and query styles. Recent efforts to overcome this limitation have adapted large multimodal language models (MLLMs) to VTG,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Joungbin An , Agrim Jain , Kristen Grauman

We introduce Spatial-Temporal Memory Networks for video object detection. At its core, a novel Spatial-Temporal Memory module (STMM) serves as the recurrent computation unit to model long-term temporal appearance and motion dynamics. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Fanyi Xiao , Yong Jae Lee

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize relevant temporal segments in videos given natural language queries. Despite recent progress with large vision-language models (LVLMs) and instruction-tuning, existing approaches often suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ruizhe Chen , Zhiting Fan , Tianze Luo , Heqing Zou , Zhaopeng Feng , Guiyang Xie , Hansheng Zhang , Zhuochen Wang , Zuozhu Liu , Huaijian Zhang

In this paper, we address a novel task, namely weakly-supervised spatio-temporally grounding natural sentence in video. Specifically, given a natural sentence and a video, we localize a spatio-temporal tube in the video that semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Zhenfang Chen , Lin Ma , Wenhan Luo , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Video temporal grounding (VTG) takes an untrimmed video and a natural-language query as input and localizes the temporal moment that best matches the query. Existing methods rely on large, task-specific datasets requiring costly manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Minjoon Jung , Byoung-Tak Zhang , Lorenzo Torresani

Text-goal instance navigation (TGIN) asks an agent to resolve a single, free-form description into actions that reach the correct object instance among same-category distractors. We present \textit{Context-Nav}, which elevates long,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Won Shik Jang , Ue-Hwan Kim

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are rapidly expanding from general video understanding to finer-grained understanding such as spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG) and reasoning. In these tasks, an MLLM must localize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shida Gao , Feng Xue , Xiangfeng Wang , Anlong Ming , Zhaowen Lin , Haiyang Zhang , Teng Long , Nicu Sebe , Yihua Shao , Haozhe Wang , Wei Wang

Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos (TSGV), which aims to ground a natural language sentence in an untrimmed video, has drawn widespread attention over the past few years. However, recent studies have found that current benchmark datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Xiaohan Lan , Yitian Yuan , Xin Wang , Long Chen , Zhi Wang , Lin Ma , Wenwu Zhu

This paper presents a method for detecting salient objects in videos where temporal information in addition to spatial information is fully taken into account. Following recent reports on the advantage of deep features over conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Trung-Nghia Le , Akihiro Sugimoto

This paper addresses the problem of text-to-video temporal grounding, which aims to identify the time interval in a video semantically relevant to a text query. We tackle this problem using a novel regression-based model that learns to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Jonghwan Mun , Minsu Cho , Bohyung Han

We target at the task of weakly-supervised video object grounding (WSVOG), where only video-sentence annotations are available during model learning. It aims to localize objects described in the sentence to visual regions in the video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Wei Wang , Junyu Gao , Changsheng Xu

Enabling robots to grasp objects specified through natural language is essential for effective human-robot interaction, yet it remains a significant challenge. Existing approaches often struggle with open-form language expressions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Houjian Yu , Zheming Zhou , Min Sun , Omid Ghasemalizadeh , Yuyin Sun , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Arnie Sen , Changhyun Choi

Existing video-language pre-training methods primarily focus on instance-level alignment between video clips and captions via global contrastive learning but neglect rich fine-grained local information in both videos and text, which is of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yuanhao Xiong , Long Zhao , Boqing Gong , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Florian Schroff , Ting Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Liangzhe Yuan

Most visual grounding solutions primarily focus on realistic images. However, applications involving synthetic images, such as Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), remain limited. This restricts the development of autonomous computer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-21 El Hassane Ettifouri , Jessica López Espejel , Laura Minkova , Tassnim Dardouri , Walid Dahhane

Deep learning models have been widely used for anomaly detection in surveillance videos. Typical models are equipped with the capability to reconstruct normal videos and evaluate the reconstruction errors on anomalous videos to indicate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xianlin Zeng , Yalong Jiang , Wenrui Ding , Hongguang Li , Yafeng Hao , Zifeng Qiu

Recent trends in Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) have seen a growing reliance on online methods to model complex and lengthy video sequences. However, the degradation of representation and noise accumulation of the online methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Tanveer Hannan , Rajat Koner , Maximilian Bernhard , Suprosanna Shit , Bjoern Menze , Volker Tresp , Matthias Schubert , Thomas Seidl

Visual grounding is a common vision task that involves grounding descriptive sentences to the corresponding regions of an image. Most existing methods use independent image-text encoding and apply complex hand-crafted modules or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Ming Dai , Lingfeng Yang , Yihao Xu , Zhenhua Feng , Wankou Yang

This paper tackles the problem of semi-supervised video object segmentation, that is, segmenting an object in a sequence given its mask in the first frame. One of the main challenges in this scenario is the change of appearance of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Sergi Caelles , Yuhua Chen , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Luc Van Gool

Visual grounding (VG) aims at locating the foreground entities that match the given natural language expressions. Previous datasets and methods for classic VG task mainly rely on the prior assumption that the given expression must literally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Wenxuan Wang , Yisi Zhang , Xingjian He , Yichen Yan , Zijia Zhao , Xinlong Wang , Jing Liu

Audio-visual question answering (AVQA) is a challenging task that requires multistep spatio-temporal reasoning over multimodal contexts. Recent works rely on elaborate target-agnostic parsing of audio-visual scenes for spatial grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Yuanyuan Jiang , Jianqin Yin