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Temporal language grounding in videos aims to localize the temporal span relevant to the given query sentence. Previous methods treat it either as a boundary regression task or a span extraction task. This paper will formulate temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Jialin Gao , Xin Sun , Mengmeng Xu , Xi Zhou , Bernard Ghanem

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

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize relevant temporal segments in videos given natural language queries. Despite recent progress with large vision-language models (LVLMs) and instruction-tuning, existing approaches often suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ruizhe Chen , Zhiting Fan , Tianze Luo , Heqing Zou , Zhaopeng Feng , Guiyang Xie , Hansheng Zhang , Zhuochen Wang , Zuozhu Liu , Huaijian Zhang

Video temporal understanding is crucial for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to reason over events in videos. Despite recent advances in general video understanding, current MLLMs still struggle with fine-grained temporal reasoning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Fuwen Luo , Shengfeng Lou , Chi Chen , Ziyue Wang , Chenliang Li , Weizhou Shen , Jiyue Guo , Peng Li , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Yang Liu

In this paper, we present a neat yet effective transformer-based framework for visual grounding, namely TransVG, to address the task of grounding a language query to the corresponding region onto an image. The state-of-the-art methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Jiajun Deng , Zhengyuan Yang , Tianlang Chen , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding requires jointly localizing target objects across both temporal and spatial dimensions based on natural language queries, posing fundamental challenges for existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xuezhen Tu , Jingyu Wu , Fangyu Kang , Qingpeng Nong , Kaijin Zhang , Chaoyue Niu , Fan Wu

Temporal language grounding (TLG) aims to localize a video segment in an untrimmed video based on a natural language description. To alleviate the expensive cost of manual annotations for temporal boundary labels, we are dedicated to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yuechen Wang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

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

Given a long untrimmed video and natural language queries, video grounding (VG) aims to temporally localize the semantically-aligned video segments. Almost all existing VG work holds two simple but unrealistic assumptions: 1) All query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Long Chen , Yulei Niu , Brian Chen , Xudong Lin , Guangxing Han , Christopher Thomas , Hammad Ayyubi , Heng Ji , Shih-Fu Chang

Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG) aims to retrieve the spatio-temporal tube of a target object or person in a video given a text query. Most existing approaches perform frame-wise spatial localization within a predicted temporal span,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Heng Zhao , Yew-Soon Ong , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Video-text retrieval is a class of cross-modal representation learning problems, where the goal is to select the video which corresponds to the text query between a given text query and a pool of candidate videos. The contrastive paradigm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Jinbin Bai , Chunhui Liu , Feiyue Ni , Haofan Wang , Mengying Hu , Xiaofeng Guo , Lele Cheng

We introduce a self-supervised representation learning method based on the task of temporal alignment between videos. The method trains a network using temporal cycle consistency (TCC), a differentiable cycle-consistency loss that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Debidatta Dwibedi , Yusuf Aytar , Jonathan Tompson , Pierre Sermanet , Andrew Zisserman

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

Multi-modal language model has made advanced progress in vision and audio, but still faces significant challenges in dealing with complex reasoning tasks in the time series domain. The reasons are twofold. First, labels for multi-modal time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Haochuan Zhang , Chunhua Yang , Jie Han , Liyang Qin , Xiaoli Wang

Temporal sentence grounding in videos (TSGV) faces challenges due to public TSGV datasets containing significant temporal biases, which are attributed to the uneven temporal distributions of target moments. Existing methods generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Junlong Ren , Gangjian Zhang , Haifeng Sun , Hao Wang

Query-based moment localization is a new task that localizes the best matched segment in an untrimmed video according to a given sentence query. In this localization task, one should pay more attention to thoroughly mine visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Daizong Liu , Xiaoye Qu , Xiao-Yang Liu , Jianfeng Dong , Pan Zhou , Zichuan Xu

Temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to locate a specific moment from an untrimmed video with a given natural language query. Recently, weakly supervised methods still have a large performance gap compared to fully supervised ones, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Hanjun Li , Xiujun Shu , Sunan He , Ruizhi Qiao , Wei Wen , Taian Guo , Bei Gan , Xing Sun

Visual grounding is a ubiquitous building block in many vision-language tasks and yet remains challenging due to large variations in visual and linguistic features of grounding entities, strong context effect and the resulting semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yongfei Liu , Bo Wan , Xiaodan Zhu , Xuming He

In this paper, we study the problem of temporal video grounding (TVG), which aims to predict the starting/ending time points of moments described by a text sentence within a long untrimmed video. Benefiting from fine-grained 3D visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Yimeng Zhang , Xin Chen , Jinghan Jia , Sijia Liu , Ke Ding

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