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This paper presents a new task, the grounding of spatio-temporal identifying descriptions in videos. Previous work suggests potential bias in existing datasets and emphasizes the need for a new data creation schema to better model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Peratham Wiriyathammabhum , Abhinav Shrivastava , Vlad I. Morariu , Larry S. Davis

Temporal Sentence Grounding (TSG), which aims to localize moments from videos based on the given natural language queries, has attracted widespread attention. Existing works are mainly designed for short videos, failing to handle TSG in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Houlun Chen , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Zihan Song , Jia Jia , Wenwu Zhu

Understanding real-world videos with complex semantics and long temporal dependencies remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Recent progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has demonstrated strong capabilities in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hongyu Li , Songhao Han , Yue Liao , Junfeng Luo , Jialin Gao , Shuicheng Yan , Si Liu

We address the problem of text-guided video temporal grounding, which aims to identify the time interval of a certain event based on a natural language description. Different from most existing methods that only consider RGB images as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Yi-Wen Chen , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Video grounding aims to localize the temporal segment corresponding to a sentence query from an untrimmed video. Almost all existing video grounding methods fall into two frameworks: 1) Top-down model: It predefines a set of segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Meng Cao , Long Chen , Mike Zheng Shou , Can Zhang , Yuexian Zou

Recent text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models have made remarkable progress in generating high-quality videos. However, they often struggle to align with complex text prompts, particularly when multiple objects, attributes, or spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Daeun Lee , Jaehong Yoon , Jaemin Cho , Mohit Bansal

While Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across general video understanding benchmarks-particularly in video captioning and descriptive tasks-they consistently underperform on tasks that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sameep Vani , Shreyas Jena , Maitreya Patel , Chitta Baral , Somak Aditya , Yezhou Yang

Video temporal grounding (VTG) is a critical task in video understanding and a key capability for extending video large language models (Vid-LLMs) to broader applications. However, existing Vid-LLMs rely on uniform frame sampling to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Rong Fan , Kaiyan Xiao , Minghao Zhu , Liuyi Wang , Kai Dai , Zhao Yang

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

Temporal grounding aims to predict a time interval of a video clip corresponding to a natural language query input. In this work, we present EVOQUER, a temporal grounding framework incorporating an existing text-to-video grounding model and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yanjun Gao , Lulu Liu , Jason Wang , Xin Chen , Huayan Wang , Rui Zhang

Many methods have been developed to help people find the video contents they want efficiently. However, there are still some unsolved problems in this area. For example, given a query video and a reference video, how to accurately localize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Yang Feng , Lin Ma , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang , Jiebo Luo

The task of temporally grounding language queries in videos is to temporally localize the best matched video segment corresponding to a given language (sentence). It requires certain models to simultaneously perform visual and linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Jingwen Wang , Lin Ma , Wenhao Jiang

Long-range temporal alignment is critical yet challenging for video restoration tasks. Recently, some works attempt to divide the long-range alignment into several sub-alignments and handle them progressively. Although this operation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Kun Zhou , Wenbo Li , Liying Lu , Xiaoguang Han , Jiangbo Lu

We consider two less-emphasized temporal properties of video: 1. Temporal cues are fine-grained; 2. Temporal modeling needs reasoning. To tackle both problems at once, we exploit approximated bilinear modules (ABMs) for temporal modeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Xinqi Zhu , Chang Xu , Langwen Hui , Cewu Lu , Dacheng Tao

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) aims to localize video segments corresponding to a given textual query, which often describes human actions. However, we observe that current methods, usually optimizing for high temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zhaoyu Chen , Hongnan Lin , Yongwei Nie , Fei Ma , Xuemiao Xu , Fei Yu , Chengjiang Long

We propose to improve the time-sensitive video understanding (TSV) capability of video large language models (Video-LLMs) with grounded objects (GO). We hypothesize that TSV tasks can benefit from GO within frames, which is supported by our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Tz-Ying Wu , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Subarna Tripathi

Video action recognition has made significant strides, but challenges remain in effectively using both spatial and temporal information. While existing methods often focus on either spatial features (e.g., object appearance) or temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Huilin Chen , Lei Wang , Yifan Chen , Tom Gedeon , Piotr Koniusz

This paper explores the task of Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) where, given an untrimmed video and a natural language sentence query, the goal is to recognize and determine temporal boundaries of action instances in the video described by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Erica K. Shimomoto , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Hiroya Takamura , Ichiro Kobayashi , Hideki Nakayama , Yusuke Miyao

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

Video prediction is commonly referred to as forecasting future frames of a video sequence provided several past frames thereof. It remains a challenging domain as visual scenes evolve according to complex underlying dynamics, such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Hafez Farazi , Jan Nogga , Sven Behnke