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Research into Video Large Language Models (LLMs) has progressed rapidly, with numerous models and benchmarks emerging in just a few years. Typically, these models are initialized with a pretrained text-only LLM and finetuned on both image-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 George Lydakis , Alexander Hermans , Ali Athar , Daan de Geus , Bastian Leibe

Large video-language models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable performance across various video-language tasks. However, they encounter significant challenges when processing long videos because of the large number of video frames involved.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Junwen Pan , Rui Zhang , Xin Wan , Yuan Zhang , Ming Lu , Qi She

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) aims to precisely localize video segments corresponding to natural language queries, which is a critical capability for long-form video understanding. Although existing reinforcement learning approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chaohong Guo , Xun Mo , Yongwei Nie , Xuemiao Xu , Chao Xu , Fei Yu , Chengjiang Long

The goal of the Step Grounding task is to locate temporal boundaries of activities based on natural language descriptions. This technical report introduces a Bayesian-VSLNet to address the challenge of identifying such temporal segments in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Carlos Plou , Lorenzo Mur-Labadia , Ruben Martinez-Cantin , Ana C. Murillo

Rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced multimodal large language models (LMMs), particularly in vision-language tasks. However, existing video-language models often overlook precise temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shimin Chen , Xiaohan Lan , Yitian Yuan , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma

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

We introduce TemporalVLM, a video large language model (video LLM) for temporal reasoning and fine-grained understanding in long videos. Our approach includes a visual encoder for mapping a long-term video into features which are time-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Fawad Javed Fateh , Umer Ahmed , Hamza Khan , M. Zeeshan Zia , Quoc-Huy Tran

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) is a crucial capability for video understanding models and plays a vital role in downstream tasks such as video browsing and editing. To effectively handle various tasks simultaneously and enable zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yongxin Guo , Jingyu Liu , Mingda Li , Qingbin Liu , Xi Chen , Xiaoying Tang

Recently, researchers have attempted to investigate the capability of LLMs in handling videos and proposed several video LLM models. However, the ability of LLMs to handle video grounding (VG), which is an important time-related video task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Wei Feng , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Zeyang Zhang , Houlun Chen , Zihan Song , Yuwei Zhou , Yuekui Yang , Haiyang Wu , Wenwu Zhu

We propose LocFormer, a Transformer-based model for video grounding which operates at a constant memory footprint regardless of the video length, i.e. number of frames. LocFormer is designed for tasks where it is necessary to process the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Basura Fernando , Hiroya Takamura , Qi Wu

Reinforcement Learning (RL) benefits Large Language Models (LLMs) for complex reasoning. Inspired by this, we explore integrating spatio-temporal specific rewards into Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to address the unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Xinhao Li , Ziang Yan , Desen Meng , Lu Dong , Xiangyu Zeng , Yinan He , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Yi Wang , Limin Wang

We introduce ED-VTG, a method for fine-grained video temporal grounding utilizing multi-modal large language models. Our approach harnesses the capabilities of multimodal LLMs to jointly process text and video, in order to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shraman Pramanick , Effrosyni Mavroudi , Yale Song , Rama Chellappa , Lorenzo Torresani , Triantafyllos Afouras

This paper addresses the challenging task of weakly-supervised video temporal grounding. Existing approaches are generally based on the moment proposal selection framework that utilizes contrastive learning and reconstruction paradigm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xiang Fang , Zeyu Xiong , Wanlong Fang , Xiaoye Qu , Chen Chen , Jianfeng Dong , Keke Tang , Pan Zhou , Yu Cheng , Daizong Liu

Recent large language models (LLM) are leveraging human feedback to improve their generation quality. However, human feedback is costly to obtain, especially during inference. In this work, we propose LLMRefine, an inference time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Wenda Xu , Daniel Deutsch , Mara Finkelstein , Juraj Juraska , Biao Zhang , Zhongtao Liu , William Yang Wang , Lei Li , Markus Freitag

Spatio-temporal grounding describes the task of localizing events in space and time, e.g., in video data, based on verbal descriptions only. Models for this task are usually trained with human-annotated sentences and bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Brian Chen , Nina Shvetsova , Andrew Rouditchenko , Daniel Kondermann , Samuel Thomas , Shih-Fu Chang , Rogerio Feris , James Glass , Hilde Kuehne

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

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

This paper addresses the problem of temporal sentence grounding (TSG), which aims to identify the temporal boundary of a specific segment from an untrimmed video by a sentence query. Previous works either compare pre-defined candidate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Daizong Liu , Xiaoye Qu , Jianfeng Dong , Pan Zhou , Yu Cheng , Wei Wei , Zichuan Xu , Yulai Xie

Locating actions in long untrimmed videos has been a challenging problem in video content analysis. The performances of existing action localization approaches remain unsatisfactory in precisely determining the beginning and the end of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Haonan Qiu , Yingbin Zheng , Hao Ye , Yao Lu , Feng Wang , Liang He

Understanding videos requires more than answering open ended questions, it demands the ability to pinpoint when events occur and how entities interact across time. While recent Video LLMs have achieved remarkable progress in holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Pengcheng Fang , Yuxia Chen , Rui Guo