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Video temporal grounding (VTG) is typically tackled with dataset-specific models that transfer poorly across domains and query styles. Recent efforts to overcome this limitation have adapted large multimodal language models (MLLMs) to VTG,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Joungbin An , Agrim Jain , Kristen Grauman

In this paper, we tackle the task of online video temporal grounding (OnVTG), which requires the model to locate events related to a given text query within a video stream. Unlike regular video temporal grounding, OnVTG requires the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Minghang Zheng , Yuxin Peng , Benyuan Sun , Yi Yang , Yang Liu

Video temporal grounding (VTG) aims to localize the start and end timestamps of the event described by a given query within an untrimmed video. Despite the strong open-world video understanding and recognition ability of video language…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pengcheng Fang , Yuxia Chen , Xiaohao Cai

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG), which requires pinpointing relevant temporal segments from video based on language query, has always been a highly challenging task in the field of video understanding. Videos often have a larger volume of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Feng Yue , Zhaoxing Zhang , Junming Jiao , Zhengyu Liang , Shiwen Cao , Feifei Zhang , Rong Shen

Current Video-LLM approaches for Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) typically rely on direct timestamp generation from an unstructured visual-token stream, often leading to brittle numerics and inconsistent boundaries. To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zelin Zheng , Xinyan Liu , Ruixin Li , Antoni B. Chan , Guorong Li , Qingming Huang , Laiyun Qing

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG), the task of locating specific video segments based on language queries, is a core challenge in long-form video understanding. While recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown early promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ye Wang , Ziheng Wang , Boshen Xu , Yang Du , Kejun Lin , Zihan Xiao , Zihao Yue , Jianzhong Ju , Liang Zhang , Dingyi Yang , Xiangnan Fang , Zewen He , Zhenbo Luo , Wenxuan Wang , Junqi Lin , Jian Luan , Qin Jin

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable text understanding capabilities, which have been extended as Video LLMs to handle video data for comprehending visual details. However, existing Video LLMs can only provide a coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Bin Huang , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Zihan Song , Wenwu Zhu

The temporal answering grounding in the video (TAGV) is a new task naturally derived from temporal sentence grounding in the video (TSGV). Given an untrimmed video and a text question, this task aims at locating the matching span from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Bin Li , Yixuan Weng , Bin Sun , Shutao Li

Temporally localizing user-queried events through natural language is a crucial capability for video models. Recent methods predominantly adapt video LLMs to generate event boundary timestamps for temporal localization tasks, which struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zongshang Pang , Mayu Otani , Yuta Nakashima

The core challenge in video understanding lies in perceiving dynamic content changes over time. However, multimodal large language models struggle with temporal-sensitive video tasks, which requires generating timestamps to mark the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Henghao Zhao , Ge-Peng Ji , Rui Yan , Huan Xiong , Zechao Li

Temporal sentence grounding in videos (TSGV), \aka natural language video localization (NLVL) or video moment retrieval (VMR), aims to retrieve a temporal moment that semantically corresponds to a language query from an untrimmed video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Hao Zhang , Aixin Sun , Wei Jing , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Video language models (VideoLMs) have made significant progress in multimodal understanding. However, temporal understanding, which involves identifying event order, duration, and relationships across time, still remains a core challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yumeng Shi , Quanyu Long , Yin Wu , Wenya Wang

Temporal grounding, which localizes video moments related to a natural language query, is a core problem of vision-language learning and video understanding. To encode video moments of varying lengths, recent methods employ a multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Thong Thanh Nguyen , Yi Bin , Xiaobao Wu , Zhiyuan Hu , Cong-Duy T Nguyen , See-Kiong Ng , Anh Tuan Luu

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

Joint video-language learning has received increasing attention in recent years. However, existing works mainly focus on single or multiple trimmed video clips (events), which makes human-annotated event boundaries necessary during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Teng Wang , Jinrui Zhang , Feng Zheng , Wenhao Jiang , Ran Cheng , Ping Luo

Video large language models (Video-LLMs) can temporally ground language queries and retrieve video moments. Yet, such temporal comprehension capabilities are neither well-studied nor understood. So we conduct a study on prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Minjoon Jung , Junbin Xiao , Byoung-Tak Zhang , Angela Yao

Temporal Sentence Grounding (TSG) aims to identify relevant moments in an untrimmed video that semantically correspond to a given textual query. Despite existing studies having made substantial progress, they often overlook the issue of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kefan Tang , Lihuo He , Jisheng Dang , Xinbo Gao

This work investigates a fundamental question: Do Video-Language Models (VidLMs) robustly account for video content, temporal sequence, and motion? Our investigation shows that, surprisingly, they often do not. We introduce REVEAL{}, a…

Despite recent advances in Video Large Language Models (Vid-LLMs), Temporal Video Grounding (TVG), which aims to precisely localize time segments corresponding to query events, remains a significant challenge. Existing methods often match…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jiahao Nie , Wenbin An , Gongjie Zhang , Yicheng Xu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot , Shijian Lu

This paper deals with a challenging task of video scene graph generation (VidSGG), which could serve as a structured video representation for high-level understanding tasks. We present a new {\em detect-to-track} paradigm for this task by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Yao Teng , Limin Wang , Zhifeng Li , Gangshan Wu