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Remote sensing visual grounding (RSVG) aims to localize objects in remote sensing imagery according to natural language expressions. Previous methods typically rely on sentence-level vision-language alignment, which struggles to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ke Li , Ting Wang , Di Wang , Yongshan Zhu , Yiming Zhang , Tao Lei , Quan Wang

Existing self-supervised learning (SSL) methods primarily learn object-invariant representations but often neglect the spatial structure and relationships among object parts. To address this limitation, we introduce Spatial Prediction (SP),…

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Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WS-TAL) methods learn to localize temporal starts and ends of action instances in a video under only video-level supervision. Existing WS-TAL methods rely on deep features learned for action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Ziyi Liu , Le Wang , Wei Tang , Junsong Yuan , Nanning Zheng , Gang Hua

Video-language alignment is a crucial multi-modal task that benefits various downstream applications, e.g., video-text retrieval and video question answering. Existing methods either utilize multi-modal information in video-text pairs or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Shi-Xue Zhang , Hongfa Wang , Xiaobin Zhu , Weibo Gu , Tianjin Zhang , Chun Yang , Wei Liu , Xu-Cheng Yin

Spatio-Temporal video grounding (STVG) focuses on retrieving the spatio-temporal tube of a specific object depicted by a free-form textual expression. Existing approaches mainly treat this complicated task as a parallel frame-grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Yang Jin , Yongzhi Li , Zehuan Yuan , Yadong Mu

Visual grounding aims to localize the object referred to in an image based on a natural language query. Although progress has been made recently, accurately localizing target objects within multiple-instance distractions (multiple objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Minghang Zheng , Jiahua Zhang , Qingchao Chen , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

Natural language video localization (NLVL) is a crucial task in video understanding that aims to localize the target moment in videos specified by a given language description. Recently, a point-supervised paradigm has been presented to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhuo Tao , Liang Li , Qi Chen , Yunbin Tu , Zheng-Jun Zha , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Yuankai Qi , Qingming Huang

Video grounding aims to localize a spatio-temporal section in a video corresponding to an input text query. This paper addresses a critical limitation in current video grounding methodologies by introducing an Open-Vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Syed Talal Wasim , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG) aims to localize a spatio-temporal tube that corresponds to a given language query in an untrimmed video. This is a challenging task since it involves complex vision-language understanding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Jinxuan Li , Yi Zhang , Jian-Fang Hu , Chaolei Tan , Tianming Liang , Beihao Xia

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

We explore the power of spatial context as a self-supervisory signal for learning visual representations. In particular, we propose spatial context networks that learn to predict a representation of one image patch from another image patch,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Zuxuan Wu , Larry S. Davis , Leonid Sigal

The 3D weakly-supervised visual grounding task aims to localize oriented 3D boxes in point clouds based on natural language descriptions without requiring annotations to guide model learning. This setting presents two primary challenges:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiaoqi Li , Jiaming Liu , Nuowei Han , Liang Heng , Yandong Guo , Hao Dong , Yang Liu

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) is a challenging problem that aims to learn VAD models only with video-level annotations. In this work, we propose a Long-Short Temporal Co-teaching (LSTC) method to address the WS-VAD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Shengyang Sun , Xiaojin Gong

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG), the task of localizing video segments from text queries, struggles in open-world settings due to limited dataset scale and semantic diversity, causing performance gaps between common and rare concepts. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Minghang Zheng , Zihao Yin , Yi Yang , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

Temporal language grounding (TLG) is a fundamental and challenging problem for vision and language understanding. Existing methods mainly focus on fully supervised setting with temporal boundary labels for training, which, however, suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Yuechen Wang , Jiajun Deng , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Instance segmentation in videos, which aims to segment and track multiple objects in video frames, has garnered a flurry of research attention in recent years. In this paper, we present a novel weakly supervised framework with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Liqi Yan , Qifan Wang , Siqi Ma , Jingang Wang , Changbin Yu

Given a text description, Temporal Language Grounding (TLG) aims to localize temporal boundaries of the segments that contain the specified semantics in an untrimmed video. TLG is inherently a challenging task, as it requires comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Fan Luo , Shaoxiang Chen , Jingjing Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Weakly supervised temporal action localization (WTAL) aims to detect action instances in untrimmed videos using only video-level annotations. Since many existing works optimize WTAL models based on action classification labels, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Geuntaek Lim , Hyunwoo Kim , Joonsoo Kim , Yukyung Choi

Detecting visual content on language expression has become an emerging topic in the community. However, in the video domain, the existing setting, i.e., spatial-temporal video grounding (STVG), is formulated to only detect one pre-existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Wei Ji , Xiangyan Liu , Yingfei Sun , Jiajun Deng , You Qin , Ammar Nuwanna , Mengyao Qiu , Lina Wei , Roger Zimmermann

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize temporal segments in long, untrimmed videos that align with a given natural language query. This task typically comprises two subtasks: Moment Retrieval (MR) and Highlight Detection (HD).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Minseok Kang , Minhyeok Lee , Minjung Kim , Donghyeong Kim , Sangyoun Lee