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Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on video-and-language tasks, such as video question answering. However, most existing Video LLMs neglect temporal information in video data, leading to struggles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zi-Yuan Hu , Yiwu Zhong , Shijia Huang , Michael R. Lyu , Liwei Wang

The video grounding (VG) task aims to locate the queried action or event in an untrimmed video based on rich linguistic descriptions. Existing proposal-free methods are trapped in complex interaction between video and query, overemphasizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Kun Li , Dan Guo , Meng Wang

Temporal relational modeling in video is essential for human action understanding, such as action recognition and action segmentation. Although Graph Convolution Networks (GCNs) have shown promising advantages in relation reasoning on many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Dong Wang , Di Hu , Xingjian Li , Dejing Dou

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to identify anomalous events in videos and accurately determine their time intervals. Current VAD methods mainly fall into two categories: traditional DNN-based approaches that focus on temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Shibo Gao , Peipei Yang , Yangyang Liu , Yi Chen , Han Zhu , Xuyao Zhang , Linlin Huang

Grounding temporal video segments described in natural language queries effectively and efficiently is a crucial capability needed in vision-and-language fields. In this paper, we deal with the fast video temporal grounding (FVTG) task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Ziyue Wu , Junyu Gao , Shucheng Huang , Changsheng Xu

Next-token prediction serves as the foundational learning task enabling reasoning in LLMs. But what should the learning task be when aiming to equip MLLMs with temporal reasoning capabilities over video inputs? Existing tasks such as video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Haonan Wang , Hongfu Liu , Xiangyan Liu , Chao Du , Kenji Kawaguchi , Ye Wang , Tianyu Pang

Temporal causal representation learning methods assume that causal mechanisms switch instantaneously between discrete domains, yet real-world systems often exhibit continuous mechanism transitions. For example, a vehicle's dynamics evolve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shicheng Fan , Kun Zhang , Lu Cheng

Given an untrimmed video, temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to locate a target moment semantically according to a sentence query. Although previous respectable works have made decent success, they only focus on high-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Guoshun Nan

In this work, we tackle the problem of long-form video-language grounding (VLG). Given a long-form video and a natural language query, a model should temporally localize the precise moment that answers the query. Humans can easily solve VLG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Hyogun Lee , Soyeon Hong , Mujeen Sung , Jinwoo Choi

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel in many areas, they struggle with complex spatial reasoning, which requires problem decomposition and strategic tool use. Fine-tuning smaller, more deployable models offers an efficient path to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Gio Huh , Dhruv Sheth , Rayhan Zirvi , Frank Xiao

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

Temporal sentence grounding (TSG) is a highly challenging task aiming to localize the temporal segment within an untrimmed video corresponding to a given natural language description. Benefiting from the design of learnable queries, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yifan Wang , Ziyi Liu , Xiaolong Sun , Jiawei Wang , Hongmin Liu

Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in image understanding and natural language generation. However, current approaches focus predominantly on global image understanding, struggling to simulate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Fan Yang , Shurong Zheng , Hongyin Zhao , Yufei Zhan , Xin Li , Yousong Zhu , Chaoyang Zhao Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Reasoning Video Object Segmentation is a challenging task, aiming at generating a mask sequence from an input video given a complex and implicit text query. While existing works finetune Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) for the task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shiu-hong Kao , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) aims to localize temporal moments in an untrimmed video that semantically correspond to given natural language queries. Recently, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) have been widely adopted in TVG to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zhanjie Hu , Bolin Zhang , Jianhua Wang , Jianbo Zheng , Chenchen Yan , Takahiro Komamizu , Ichiro Ide , Jiangbo Qian

Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased impressive capabilities in text comprehension and generation, prompting research efforts towards video LLMs to facilitate human-AI interaction at the video level. However, how to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ruyang Liu , Chen Li , Haoran Tang , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Ge Li

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have achieved significant success by adopting the paradigm of large-scale pre-training followed by supervised fine-tuning (SFT). However, existing approaches struggle with temporal reasoning due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shicheng Li , Lei Li , Kun Ouyang , Shuhuai Ren , Yuanxin Liu , Yuanxing Zhang , Fuzheng Zhang , Lingpeng Kong , Qi Liu , Xu Sun

Temporal Grounding is to identify specific moments or highlights from a video corresponding to textual descriptions. Typical approaches in temporal grounding treat all video clips equally during the encoding process regardless of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 WonJun Moon , Sangeek Hyun , SuBeen Lee , Jae-Pil Heo

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG), which aims to localize video clips corresponding to natural language queries, is a fundamental yet challenging task in video understanding. Existing Transformer-based methods often suffer from redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Zhiyi Zhu , Xiaoyu Wu , Zihao Liu , Linlin Yang

While sequential reasoning enhances the capability of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to execute complex multimodal tasks, their reliability in grounding these reasoning chains within actual visual evidence remains insufficiently explored. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Rory Driscoll , Alexandros Christoforos , Chadbourne Davis