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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

Temporal relational reasoning, the ability to link meaningful transformations of objects or entities over time, is a fundamental property of intelligent species. In this paper, we introduce an effective and interpretable network module, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Bolei Zhou , Alex Andonian , Aude Oliva , Antonio Torralba

Transformer-based models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various computer vision tasks, including image and video analysis. However, Transformer's complex architecture and black-box nature pose challenges for explainability, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Zerui Wang , Yan Liu

In this paper, we consider a novel task, Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding for Multi-Form Sentences (STVG). Given an untrimmed video and a declarative/interrogative sentence depicting an object, STVG aims to localize the spatio-temporal tube…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Zhu Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Yang Zhao , Qi Wang , Huasheng Liu , Lianli Gao

Understanding actions and gestures in video streams requires temporal reasoning of the spatial content from different time instants, i.e., spatiotemporal (ST) modeling. In this survey paper, we have made a comparative analysis of different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Okan Köpüklü , Fabian Herzog , Gerhard Rigoll

Humans can observe a single, imperfect demonstration and immediately generalize to very different problem settings. Robots, in contrast, often require hundreds of examples and still struggle to generalize beyond the training conditions. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Ben Zandonati , Tomás Lozano-Pérez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Spatio-temporal representation learning is critical for video self-supervised representation. Recent approaches mainly use contrastive learning and pretext tasks. However, these approaches learn representation by discriminating sampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Yujia Zhang , Lai-Man Po , Xuyuan Xu , Mengyang Liu , Yexin Wang , Weifeng Ou , Yuzhi Zhao , Wing-Yin Yu

Generating step-by-step "chain-of-thought" rationales improves language model performance on complex reasoning tasks like mathematics or commonsense question-answering. However, inducing language model rationale generation currently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Eric Zelikman , Yuhuai Wu , Jesse Mu , Noah D. Goodman

Even in the era of rapid advances in large models, video understanding remains a highly challenging task. Compared to texts or images, videos commonly contain more information with redundancy, requiring large models to properly allocate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Shiwen Cao , Zhaoxing Zhang , Junming Jiao , Juyi Qiao , Guowen Song , Rong Shen , Xiangbing Meng

Applying Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to video understanding presents significant challenges due to the need to model temporal relations across frames. Existing approaches adopt either implicit temporal modeling, relying solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Yun Li , Zhe Liu , Yajing Kong , Guangrui Li , Jiyuan Zhang , Chao Bian , Feng Liu , Lina Yao , Zhenbang Sun

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks, yet they lag significantly behind humans in spatial reasoning. We investigate this gap through Transformation-Driven Visual Reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zongzhao Li , Zongyang Ma , Mingze Li , Songyou Li , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Ziqi Zhang , Deli Zhao , Wenbing Huang

Next-generation AI companions must go beyond general video understanding to resolve spatial and temporal references in dynamic, real-world environments. Existing Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs), while capable of coarse-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Honglu Zhou , Xiangyu Peng , Shrikant Kendre , Michael S. Ryoo , Silvio Savarese , Caiming Xiong , Juan Carlos Niebles

Text-driven video editing enables users to modify video content only using text queries. While existing methods can modify video content if explicit descriptions of editing targets with precise spatial locations and temporal boundaries are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yiqing Shen , Chenjia Li , Mathias Unberath

Video understanding tasks take many forms, from action detection to visual query localization and spatio-temporal grounding of sentences. These tasks differ in the type of inputs (only video, or video-query pair where query is an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Raghav Goyal , Effrosyni Mavroudi , Xitong Yang , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Leonid Sigal , Matt Feiszli , Lorenzo Torresani , Du Tran

We introduce ReXTime, a benchmark designed to rigorously test AI models' ability to perform temporal reasoning within video events. Specifically, ReXTime focuses on reasoning across time, i.e. human-like understanding when the question and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Jr-Jen Chen , Yu-Chien Liao , Hsi-Che Lin , Yu-Chu Yu , Yen-Chun Chen , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) bypasses complex reward engineering by learning rewards directly from human preferences, enabling better alignment with human intentions. However, its effectiveness in multi-stage tasks, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yao Luan , Ni Mu , Yiqin Yang , Bo Xu , Qing-Shan Jia

Existing methods for instance segmentation in videos typically involve multi-stage pipelines that follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm and model a video clip as a sequence of images. Multiple networks are used to detect objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Ali Athar , Sabarinath Mahadevan , Aljoša Ošep , Laura Leal-Taixé , Bastian Leibe

Video Models have achieved remarkable success in high-fidelity video generation with coherent motion dynamics. Analogous to the development from text generation to text-based reasoning in language modeling, the development of video models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Cheng Yang , Haiyuan Wan , Yiran Peng , Xin Cheng , Zhaoyang Yu , Jiayi Zhang , Junchi Yu , Xinlei Yu , Xiawu Zheng , Dongzhan Zhou , Chenglin Wu

Video understanding requires not only recognizing visual content but also performing temporally grounded, multi-step reasoning over long and noisy observations. We propose Process-of-Thought (PoT) Reasoning for Videos, a framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jusheng Zhang , Kaitong Cai , Jian Wang , Yongsen Zheng , Kwok-Yan Lam , Keze Wang

We introduce the task of retrieving relevant video moments from a large corpus of untrimmed, unsegmented videos given a natural language query. Our task poses unique challenges as a system must efficiently identify both the relevant videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Victor Escorcia , Mattia Soldan , Josef Sivic , Bernard Ghanem , Bryan Russell