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Video Moment Retrieval (VMR) aims to retrieve temporal segments in untrimmed videos corresponding to a given language query by constructing cross-modal alignment strategies. However, these existing strategies are often sub-optimal since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Zhihang Liu , Jun Li , Hongtao Xie , Pandeng Li , Jiannan Ge , Sun-Ao Liu , Guoqing Jin

Long video understanding is inherently challenging for vision-language models (VLMs) because of the extensive number of frames. With each video frame typically expanding into tens or hundreds of tokens, the limited context length of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zheyu Zhang , Ziqi Pang , Shixing Chen , Xiang Hao , Vimal Bhat , Yu-Xiong Wang

In this paper, we propose VidLA, an approach for video-language alignment at scale. There are two major limitations of previous video-language alignment approaches. First, they do not capture both short-range and long-range temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Fan Fei , Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan , Son Tran , Benjamin Z. Yao , Belinda Zeng , Mubarak Shah , Trishul Chilimbi

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have showcased a remarkable ability to extract transferable features for downstream tasks. Nonetheless, the training process of these models is usually based on a coarse-grained contrastive loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Ali Abdollah , Amirmohammad Izadi , Armin Saghafian , Reza Vahidimajd , Mohammad Mozafari , Amirreza Mirzaei , Mohammadmahdi Samiei , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demand substantial computational resources during inference, largely due to the extensive visual input tokens for representing visual information. Previous studies have noted that visual tokens tend to receive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Cheng Yang , Yang Sui , Jinqi Xiao , Lingyi Huang , Yu Gong , Chendi Li , Jinghua Yan , Yu Bai , Ponnuswamy Sadayappan , Xia Hu , Bo Yuan

As Text-to-Video (T2V) generation models continue to evolve, the complexity of video evaluation necessitates a fine-grained assessment across various axes. To address this, recent works have focused on developing Multidimensional Video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Muyao Wang , Zeke Xie , Hideki Nakayama

Recently, the applications of person re-identification in visual surveillance and human-computer interaction are sharply increasing, which signifies the critical role of such a problem. In this paper, we propose a two-stream convolutional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Peixian Chen , Pingyang Dai , Qiong Wu , Yuyu Huang

Vision-language models, such as CLIP, have achieved significant success in aligning visual and textual representations, becoming essential components of many multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) like LLaVA and OpenFlamingo. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Shizhan Gong , Yankai Jiang , Qi Dou , Farzan Farnia

Motion retrieval is crucial for motion acquisition, offering superior precision, realism, controllability, and editability compared to motion generation. Existing approaches leverage contrastive learning to construct a unified embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Shiyao Yu , Zi-An Wang , Kangning Yin , Zheng Tian , Mingyuan Zhang , Weixin Si , Shihao Zou

Video-language models (VLMs) face rapid inference costs as visual token counts scale with video length. For example, 32 frames at $448{\times}448$ resolution already yield >8,000 visual tokens in Qwen3-VL, making LLM prefill the dominant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Simin Huo , Ning LI

Composed video retrieval is a challenging task that strives to retrieve a target video based on a query video and a textual description detailing specific modifications. Standard retrieval frameworks typically struggle to handle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Omkar Thawakar , Dmitry Demidov , Ritesh Thawkar , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Mubarak Shah , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan

Video large language models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in video understanding tasks. However, the redundancy of video tokens introduces significant computational overhead during inference, limiting their practical deployment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yinchao Ma , Qiang Zhou , Zhibin Wang , Xianing Chen , Hanqing Yang , Jun Song , Bo Zheng

Video recommendation has become an essential way of helping people explore the massive videos and discover the ones that may be of interest to them. In the existing video recommender systems, the models make the recommendations based on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Xingzhong Du , Hongzhi Yin , Ling Chen , Yang Wang , Yi Yang , Xiaofang Zhou

In this paper we revisit feature fusion, an old-fashioned topic, in the new context of text-to-video retrieval. Different from previous research that considers feature fusion only at one end, let it be video or text, we aim for feature…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Fan Hu , Aozhu Chen , Ziyue Wang , Fangming Zhou , Jianfeng Dong , Xirong Li

Visual token pruning aims to compress and prune redundant visual tokens which play a critical role in efficient inference with large vision-language models (LVLMs). However, most existing work estimates visual redundancy using a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Duo Li , Zuhao Yang , Xiaoqin Zhang , Ling Shao , Shijian Lu

Generative recommender systems have recently attracted attention by formulating next-item prediction as an autoregressive sequence generation task. However, most existing methods optimize standard next-token likelihood and implicitly treat…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei-Ning Chiu , Chuan-Ju Wang , Pu-Jen Cheng

A major challenge in matching images and text is that they have intrinsically different data distributions and feature representations. Most existing approaches are based either on embedding or classification, the first one mapping image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Tan Wang , Xing Xu , Yang Yang , Alan Hanjalic , Heng Tao Shen , Jingkuan Song

Precisely evaluating semantic alignment between text prompts and generated videos remains a challenge in Text-to-Video (T2V) Generation. Existing text-to-video alignment metrics like CLIPScore only generate coarse-grained scores without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Kaisi Guan , Zhengfeng Lai , Yuchong Sun , Peng Zhang , Wei Liu , Kieran Liu , Meng Cao , Ruihua Song

As the scale of data and models for video understanding rapidly expand, handling long-form video input in transformer-based models presents a practical challenge. Rather than resorting to input sampling or token dropping, which may result…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Seon-Ho Lee , Jue Wang , Zhikang Zhang , David Fan , Xinyu Li

We propose VideoPerceiver, a novel video multimodal large language model (VMLLM) that enhances fine-grained perception in video understanding, addressing VMLLMs' limited ability to reason about brief actions in short clips or rare transient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Fufangchen Zhao , Liao Zhang , Daiqi Shi , Yuanjun Gao , Chen Ye , Yang Cai , Jian Gao , Danfeng Yan