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It is critical for vision-language models (VLMs) to comprehensively understand visual, temporal, and textual cues. However, despite rapid progress in multimodal modeling, video understanding performance still lags behind text-based…

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Various stuff and things in visual data possess specific traits, which can be learned by deep neural networks and are implicitly represented as the visual prior, e.g., object location and shape, in the model. Such prior potentially impacts…

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We introduce VideoComp, a benchmark and learning framework for advancing video-text compositionality understanding, aimed at improving vision-language models (VLMs) in fine-grained temporal alignment. Unlike existing benchmarks focused on…

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Video reasoning segmentation requires localizing objects across video frames from natural language expressions, often involving spatial reasoning and implicit references. Recent approaches leverage frozen large vision-language models…

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Spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG) requires localizing a target object in untrimmed videos both temporally and spatially from natural language descriptions. Despite their strong language understanding, multimodal large language models…

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Video-and-language pre-training has shown promising improvements on various downstream tasks. Most previous methods capture cross-modal interactions with a transformer-based multimodal encoder, not fully addressing the misalignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Dongxu Li , Junnan Li , Hongdong Li , Juan Carlos Niebles , Steven C. H. Hoi

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

Temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to locate a specific moment from an untrimmed video with a given natural language query. Recently, weakly supervised methods still have a large performance gap compared to fully supervised ones, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Hanjun Li , Xiujun Shu , Sunan He , Ruizhi Qiao , Wei Wen , Taian Guo , Bei Gan , Xing Sun

Despite progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), the challenge of interpreting long-form videos in response to linguistic queries persists, largely due to the inefficiency in temporal grounding and limited pre-trained context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yuxuan Wang , Yueqian Wang , Pengfei Wu , Jianxin Liang , Dongyan Zhao , Yang Liu , Zilong Zheng

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

The task of language-guided video temporal grounding is to localize the particular video clip corresponding to a query sentence in an untrimmed video. Though progress has been made continuously in this field, some issues still need to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Binjie Zhang , Yu Li , Chun Yuan , Dejing Xu , Pin Jiang , Ying Shan

Spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG) aims at localizing the spatio-temporal tube of a video, as specified by the input text query. In this paper, we utilize multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to explore a zero-shot solution in STVG.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zaiquan Yang , Yuhao Liu , Gerhard Hancke , Rynson W. H. Lau

Video temporal grounding aims to localize relevant temporal boundaries in a video given a textual prompt. Recent work has focused on enabling Video LLMs to perform video temporal grounding via next-token prediction of temporal timestamps.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Xizi Wang , Feng Cheng , Ziyang Wang , Huiyu Wang , Md Mohaiminul Islam , Lorenzo Torresani , Mohit Bansal , Gedas Bertasius , David Crandall

Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) generation highlight the critical role of high-quality video-text pairs in training models capable of producing coherent and instruction-aligned videos. However, strategies for optimizing video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yang Du , Zhuoran Lin , Kaiqiang Song , Biao Wang , Zhicheng Zheng , Tiezheng Ge , Bo Zheng , Qin Jin

We address the problem of video question answering (video QA) with temporal grounding in a weakly supervised setup, without any temporal annotations. Given a video and a question, we generate an open-ended answer grounded with the start and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ayush Gupta , Anirban Roy , Rama Chellappa , Nathaniel D. Bastian , Alvaro Velasquez , Susmit Jha

Grounding language queries in videos aims at identifying the time interval (or moment) semantically relevant to a language query. The solution to this challenging task demands understanding videos' and queries' semantic content and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Mattia Soldan , Mengmeng Xu , Sisi Qu , Jesper Tegner , Bernard Ghanem

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in coarse-grained video understanding, however, they struggle with fine-grained temporal grounding. In this paper, we introduce Grounded-VideoLLM, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Haibo Wang , Zhiyang Xu , Yu Cheng , Shizhe Diao , Yufan Zhou , Yixin Cao , Qifan Wang , Weifeng Ge , Lifu Huang

Manual annotation of high-quality visual question answering with grounding (VQA-G) datasets, which pair visual questions with evidential grounding, is crucial for advancing vision-language models (VLMs), but remains unscalable. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Rongsheng Hu , Runwei Guan , Yicheng Di , Jiayu Bao , Yuan Liu

We propose a new task, dataset and model for grounded video caption generation. This task unifies captioning and object grounding in video, where the objects in the caption are grounded in the video via temporally consistent bounding boxes.…

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