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Video temporal grounding (VTG) is a fine-grained video understanding problem that aims to ground relevant clips in untrimmed videos given natural language queries. Most existing VTG models are built upon frame-wise final-layer CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Ye Liu , Jixuan He , Wanhua Li , Junsik Kim , Donglai Wei , Hanspeter Pfister , Chang Wen Chen

The task of language-guided video temporal grounding is to localize the particular video clip corresponding to a query sentence in an untrimmed video. Though progress has been made continuously in this field, some issues still need to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Binjie Zhang , Yu Li , Chun Yuan , Dejing Xu , Pin Jiang , Ying Shan

Video temporal grounding (VTG), which localizes the start and end times of a queried event in an untrimmed video, is a key test of whether multimodal large language models (MLLMs) understand not only what happens but also when it happens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Dazhao Du , Liao Duan , Jian Liu , Tao Han , Yujia Zhang , Eric Liu , Xi Chen , Song Guo

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

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

The task of temporal grounding aims to locate video moment in an untrimmed video, with a given sentence query. This paper for the first time investigates some superficial biases that are specific to the temporal grounding task, and proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Peijun Bao , Yadong Mu

Video temporal grounding (VTG) aims to locate precise segments in videos based on language queries, which is a fundamental challenge in video understanding. While recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Lu Dong , Haiyu Zhang , Han Lin , Ziang Yan , Xiangyu Zeng , Hongjie Zhang , Yifei Huang , Yi Wang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Limin Wang , Yali Wang

While Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown significant potential in multimodal understanding and reasoning tasks, how to efficiently select the most informative frames from videos remains a critical challenge. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Shihao Wang , Guo Chen , De-an Huang , Zhiqi Li , Minghan Li , Guilin Liu , Jose M. Alvarez , Lei Zhang , Zhiding Yu

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

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

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to precisely identify video event segments in response to textual queries. The outputs of VTG tasks manifest as sequences of events, each defined by precise timestamps, saliency scores, and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zuhao Yang , Yingchen Yu , Yunqing Zhao , Shijian Lu , Song Bai

This paper presents a computational model for universal video temporal grounding, which accurately localizes temporal moments in videos based on natural language queries (e.g., questions or descriptions). Unlike existing methods that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Zeqian Li , Shangzhe Di , Zhonghua Zhai , Weilin Huang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Temporal localization in untrimmed videos, which aims to identify specific timestamps, is crucial for video understanding but remains challenging. This task encompasses several subtasks, including temporal action localization, temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chen-Lin Zhang , Lin Sui , Shuming Liu , Fangzhou Mu , Zhangcheng Wang , Bernard Ghanem

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

Temporal awareness is essential for video large language models (LLMs) to understand and reason about events within long videos, enabling applications like dense video captioning and temporal video grounding in a unified system. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Andong Deng , Zhongpai Gao , Anwesa Choudhuri , Benjamin Planche , Meng Zheng , Bin Wang , Terrence Chen , Chen Chen , Ziyan Wu

There has been tremendous progress in multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs). Recent works have extended these models to video input with promising instruction following capabilities. However, an important missing piece is temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 De-An Huang , Shijia Liao , Subhashree Radhakrishnan , Hongxu Yin , Pavlo Molchanov , Zhiding Yu , Jan Kautz

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

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

Video large language models have achieved remarkable performance in tasks such as video question answering, however, their temporal understanding remains suboptimal. To address this limitation, we curate a dedicated instruction fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Yunxiao Wang , Meng Liu , Wenqi Liu , Xuemeng Song , Bin Wen , Fan Yang , Tingting Gao , Di Zhang , Guorui Zhou , Liqiang Nie

We present a self-supervised approach for learning video representations using temporal video alignment as a pretext task, while exploiting both frame-level and video-level information. We leverage a novel combination of temporal alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sanjay Haresh , Sateesh Kumar , Huseyin Coskun , Shahram Najam Syed , Andrey Konin , Muhammad Zeeshan Zia , Quoc-Huy Tran