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Action recognition and localization in complex, untrimmed videos remain a formidable challenge in computer vision, largely due to the limitations of existing methods in capturing fine-grained actions, long-term temporal dependencies, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Liyang Peng , Sihan Zhu , Yunjie Guo

Natural Language Video Localization (NLVL) aims to locate a target moment from an untrimmed video that semantically corresponds to a text query. Existing approaches mainly solve the NLVL problem from the perspective of computer vision by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Hao Zhang , Aixin Sun , Wei Jing , Liangli Zhen , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Rick Siow Mong Goh

We address the problem of text-guided video temporal grounding, which aims to identify the time interval of a certain event based on a natural language description. Different from most existing methods that only consider RGB images as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Yi-Wen Chen , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Video captioning is a critical task in the field of multimodal machine learning, aiming to generate descriptive and coherent textual narratives for video content. While large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown significant progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ji-jun Park , Soo-joon Choi

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize the video segment that corresponds to a natural language query, which requires a comprehensive understanding of complex temporal dynamics. Existing Vision-LMMs typically perceive temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chaohong Guo , Yihan He , Yongwei Nie , Fei Ma , Xuemiao Xu , Chengjiang Long

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment and track objects in videos based on natural language expressions, requiring precise alignment between visual content and textual queries. However, existing methods often suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Seunghun Lee , Jiwan Seo , Jeonghoon Kim , Sungho Moon , Siwon Kim , Haeun Yun , Hyogyeong Jeon , Wonhyeok Choi , Jaehoon Jeong , Zane Durante , Sang Hyun Park , Sunghoon Im

Existing zero-shot temporal action detection (ZSTAD) methods predominantly use fully supervised or unsupervised strategies to recognize unseen activities. However, these training-based methods are prone to domain shifts and require high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chaolei Han , Hongsong Wang , Jidong Kuang , Lei Zhang , Jie Gui

Temporal grounding in videos aims to localize one target video segment that semantically corresponds to a given query sentence. Thanks to the semantic diversity of natural language descriptions, temporal grounding allows activity grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Juncheng Li , Junlin Xie , Long Qian , Linchao Zhu , Siliang Tang , Fei Wu , Yi Yang , Yueting Zhuang , Xin Eric Wang

We present a simplified, task-agnostic multi-modal pre-training approach that can accept either video or text input, or both for a variety of end tasks. Existing pre-training are task-specific by adopting either a single cross-modal encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Hu Xu , Gargi Ghosh , Po-Yao Huang , Prahal Arora , Masoumeh Aminzadeh , Christoph Feichtenhofer , Florian Metze , Luke Zettlemoyer

Temporal video grounding (TVG) aims to retrieve the time interval of a language query from an untrimmed video. A significant challenge in TVG is the low "Semantic Noise Ratio (SNR)", which results in worse performance with lower SNR. Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Qi Zhang , Sipeng Zheng , Qin Jin

Zero-shot temporal action localization (ZS-TAL) consists of classifying and localizing actions in untrimmed videos, where action classes are unseen at training time. Existing work uses Vision and Language Models (VLMs), taking advantage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Benedetta Liberatori , Alessandro Conti , Lorenzo Vaquero , Paolo Rota , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

Despite recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), long-video understanding remains a challenging problem. Although state-of-the-art long-context VLMs can process around 1000 input frames, they still struggle to effectively leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Anurag Arnab , Ahmet Iscen , Mathilde Caron , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid

Event cameras offer unique advantages for vision tasks in challenging environments, yet processing asynchronous event streams remains an open challenge. While existing methods rely on specialized architectures or resource-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ruihao Xia , Junhong Cai , Luziwei Leng , Liuyi Wang , Chengju Liu , Ran Cheng , Yang Tang , Pan Zhou

Existing Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) methods typically rely on task-specific training, leading to strong domain dependency and high training costs. Moreover, most existing methods output only scalar anomaly scores, providing limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Hyeongmuk Lim , Youngbum Hur

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xin Gu , Haoji Zhang , Qihang Fan , Jingxuan Niu , Zhipeng Zhang , Libo Zhang , Guang Chen , Fan Chen , Longyin Wen , Sijie Zhu

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) excel at understanding videos in-context, provided they have full access to the video when answering queries. However, these models face challenges in streaming scenarios where hour-long videos must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Vaggelis Dorovatas , Soroush Seifi , Gunshi Gupta , Rahaf Aljundi

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

We propose to improve the time-sensitive video understanding (TSV) capability of video large language models (Video-LLMs) with grounded objects (GO). We hypothesize that TSV tasks can benefit from GO within frames, which is supported by our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Tz-Ying Wu , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Subarna Tripathi

Identifying key temporal intervals within long videos, known as temporal grounding (TG), is important to video understanding and reasoning tasks. In this paper, we introduce a new form of the temporal grounding problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiangrui Liu , Minghao Qin , Yan Shu , Zhengyang Liang , Yang Tian , Chen Jason Zhang , Bo Zhao , Zheng Liu

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) aims to localize the temporal boundary of a specific segment in an untrimmed video based on a given language query. Since datasets in this domain are often gathered from limited video scenes, models tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Haifeng Huang , Yang Zhao , Zehan Wang , Yan Xia , Zhou Zhao