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We present our solution to the BinEgo-360 Challenge at ICCV 2025, which focuses on temporal action localization (TAL) in multi-perspective and multi-modal video settings. The challenge provides a dataset containing panoramic, third-person,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Anh-Kiet Duong , Petra Gomez-Krämer

In this paper, we explore a novel task named visual Relation Grounding in Videos (vRGV). The task aims at spatio-temporally localizing the given relations in the form of subject-predicate-object in the videos, so as to provide supportive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Junbin Xiao , Xindi Shang , Xun Yang , Sheng Tang , Tat-Seng Chua

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made significant strides in static image understanding but continue to face critical hurdles in spatiotemporal reasoning. A major bottleneck is "multi-image reasoning hallucination", where a massive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiaoda Yang , Shuai Yang , Can Wang , Jingyang Xue , Menglan Tang , Checheng Yu , Xunzhe Zhou , Sashuai Zhou , Tao Jin , Lixin Yang , Xiangyu Yue , Zhou Zhao

Spatio-temporal action detection (STAD) aims to classify the actions present in a video and localize them in space and time. It has become a particularly active area of research in computer vision because of its explosively emerging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Peng Wang , Fanwei Zeng , Yuntao Qian

A truly capable AI system must do more than detect objects or recognize activities in isolation. It must form unified, grounded representations of who is acting, what they are doing, and when and where these actions unfold. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Tanveer Hannan , Shuaicong Wu , Mark Weber , Suprosanna Shit , Jindong Gu , Rajat Koner , Aljoša Ošep , Laura Leal-Taixé , Thomas Seidl

Temporal awareness is essential for video large language models (LLMs) to understand and reason about events within long videos, enabling applications like dense video captioning and temporal video grounding in a unified system. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Andong Deng , Zhongpai Gao , Anwesa Choudhuri , Benjamin Planche , Meng Zheng , Bin Wang , Terrence Chen , Chen Chen , Ziyan Wu

Intelligent assistance involves not only understanding but also action. Existing ego-centric video datasets contain rich annotations of the videos, but not of actions that an intelligent assistant could perform in the moment. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Steven Abreu , Tiffany D. Do , Karan Ahuja , Eric J. Gonzalez , Lee Payne , Daniel McDuff , Mar Gonzalez-Franco

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) strives to accurately pinpoint event timestamps in a specific video using linguistic queries, significantly impacting downstream tasks like video browsing and editing. Unlike traditional task-specific models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yongxin Guo , Jingyu Liu , Mingda Li , Dingxin Cheng , Xiaoying Tang , Dianbo Sui , Qingbin Liu , Xi Chen , Kevin Zhao

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ali Cheraghian , Hamidreza Dastmalchi , Abdelwahed Khamis , Morteza Saberi , Aijun An , Lars Petersson

Understanding dynamic 4D scenes from an egocentric perspective-modeling changes in 3D spatial structure over time-is crucial for human-machine interaction, autonomous navigation, and embodied intelligence. While existing egocentric datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Junsheng Huang , Shengyu Hao , Bocheng Hu , Hongwei Wang , Gaoang Wang

Fine-grained understanding of human actions is essential for safe and intuitive human--robot interaction. We study the challenge of recognizing nearly symmetric actions, such as picking up vs. placing down a tool or opening vs. closing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Thinesh Thiyakesan Ponbagavathi , Alina Roitberg

Video temporal grounding (VTG), which localizes the start and end times of a queried event in an untrimmed video, is a key test of whether multimodal large language models (MLLMs) understand not only what happens but also when it happens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Dazhao Du , Liao Duan , Jian Liu , Tao Han , Yujia Zhang , Eric Liu , Xi Chen , Song Guo

Egocentric video action recognition under domain shifts remains challenging due to large intra-class spatio-temporal variability, long-tailed feature distributions, and strong correlations between actions and environments. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zahra Vaseqi , James Clark

In this paper we present an approach for localizing steps of procedural activities in narrated how-to videos. To deal with the scarcity of labeled data at scale, we source the step descriptions from a language knowledge base (wikiHow)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Effrosyni Mavroudi , Triantafyllos Afouras , Lorenzo Torresani

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

Automatic video captioning is challenging due to the complex interactions in dynamic real scenes. A comprehensive system would ultimately localize and track the objects, actions and interactions present in a video and generate a description…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Mihai Zanfir , Elisabeta Marinoiu , Cristian Sminchisescu

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

Egocentric videos capture scenes from a wearer's viewpoint, resulting in dynamic backgrounds, frequent motion, and occlusions, posing challenges to accurate keystep recognition. We propose a flexible graph-learning framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Julia Lee Romero , Kyle Min , Subarna Tripathi , Morteza Karimzadeh

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable video reasoning capabilities across diverse tasks. However, their ability to understand human intent at a fine-grained level in egocentric videos remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ye Pan , Chi Kit Wong , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Hanqian Li , Jiahao Huo , Jiacheng Chen , Lutao Jiang , Xu Zheng , Xuming Hu

In this report, we introduce our adaptation of image-text models for long-term action anticipation. Our Video + CLIP framework makes use of a large-scale pre-trained paired image-text model: CLIP and a video encoder Slowfast network. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Srijan Das , Michael S. Ryoo