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In online social networks people often express attitudes towards others, which forms massive sentiment links among users. Predicting the sign of sentiment links is a fundamental task in many areas such as personal advertising and public…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-05 Hongwei Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Min Hou , Xing Xie , Minyi Guo , Qi Liu

Temporal language localization in videos aims to ground one video segment in an untrimmed video based on a given sentence query. To tackle this task, designing an effective model to extract ground-ing information from both visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Xiaoye Qu , Pengwei Tang , Zhikang Zhou , Yu Cheng , Jianfeng Dong , Pan Zhou

This paper studies the multimedia problem of temporal sentence grounding (TSG), which aims to accurately determine the specific video segment in an untrimmed video according to a given sentence query. Traditional TSG methods mainly follow…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Zichuan Xu , Ruixuan Li

The task of video grounding, which temporally localizes a natural language description in a video, plays an important role in understanding videos. Existing studies have adopted strategies of sliding window over the entire video or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Dongliang He , Xiang Zhao , Jizhou Huang , Fu Li , Xiao Liu , Shilei Wen

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

Dense retrieval compresses texts into single embeddings ranked by cosine similarity. While efficient for recall, this interface is brittle for identity-level matching: minimal compositional edits (negation, role swaps) flip meaning yet…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Radoslav Ralev , Aditeya Baral , Iliya Zhechev , Jen Agarwal , Srijith Rajamohan

Deep generative models have demonstrated the ability to create realistic audiovisual content, sometimes driven by domains of different nature. However, smooth temporal dynamics in video generation is a challenging problem. This work focuses…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Rafael Redondo

Vision-language models like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot capabilities in classification and retrieval. However, these models often struggle with compositional reasoning - the ability to understand the relationships between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Amit Peleg , Naman Deep Singh , Matthias Hein

Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos (TSGV) aims to detect the event timestamps described by the natural language query from untrimmed videos. This paper discusses the challenge of achieving efficient computation in TSGV models while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Renjie Liang , Yiming Yang , Hui Lu , Li Li

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

The goal of this work is to localize sound sources in visual scenes with a self-supervised approach. Contrastive learning in the context of sound source localization leverages the natural correspondence between audio and visual signals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Sooyoung Park , Arda Senocak , Joon Son Chung

Temporal grounding of text descriptions in videos is a central problem in vision-language learning and video understanding. Existing methods often prioritize accuracy over scalability -- they have been optimized for grounding only a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Fangzhou Mu , Sicheng Mo , Yin Li

Due to the amount of videos and related captions uploaded every hour, deep learning-based solutions for cross-modal video retrieval are attracting more and more attention. A typical approach consists in learning a joint text-video embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Alex Falcon , Giuseppe Serra , Oswald Lanz

Video grounding aims to localize a moment from an untrimmed video for a given textual query. Existing approaches focus more on the alignment of visual and language stimuli with various likelihood-based matching or regression strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Guoshun Nan , Rui Qiao , Yao Xiao , Jun Liu , Sicong Leng , Hao Zhang , Wei Lu

Time series forecasting is traditionally dominated by sequence-based architectures such as recurrent neural networks and attention mechanisms, which process all time steps uniformly and often incur substantial computational cost. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 K. A. Shahriar

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

The task of temporally grounding language queries in videos is to temporally localize the best matched video segment corresponding to a given language (sentence). It requires certain models to simultaneously perform visual and linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Jingwen Wang , Lin Ma , Wenhao Jiang

A phrase grounding system localizes a particular object in an image referred to by a natural language query. In previous work, the phrases were restricted to have nouns that were encountered in training, we extend the task to Zero-Shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Arka Sadhu , Kan Chen , Ram Nevatia

Compositional generalization is a basic mechanism in human language learning, but current neural networks lack such ability. In this paper, we conduct fundamental research for encoding compositionality in neural networks. Conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yuanpeng Li , Liang Zhao , Jianyu Wang , Joel Hestness

The current research focus on Content-Based Video Retrieval requires higher-level video representation describing the long-range semantic dependencies of relevant incidents, events, etc. However, existing methods commonly process the frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Jie Shao , Xin Wen , Bingchen Zhao , Xiangyang Xue