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Given an untrimmed video and natural language query, video sentence grounding aims to localize the target temporal moment in the video. Existing methods mainly tackle this task by matching and aligning semantics of the descriptive sentence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Wei Ji , Long Chen , Yinwei Wei , Yiming Wu , Tat-Seng Chua

In this work, we focus on the problem of grounding language by training an agent to follow a set of natural language instructions and navigate to a target object in an environment. The agent receives visual information through raw pixels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Akilesh B , Abhishek Sinha , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

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

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to extract relevant video segments based on a given natural language query. Recently, zero-shot VTG methods have gained attention by leveraging pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) to localize target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jin-Seop Lee , SungJoon Lee , Jaehan Ahn , YunSeok Choi , Jee-Hyong Lee

Autoregressive video synthesis offers a promising pathway for infinite-horizon generation but is fundamentally hindered by three intertwined challenges: semantic forgetting from context limitations, visual drift due to positional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jintao Chen , Chengyu Bai , Junjun Hu , Xinda Xue , Mu Xu

Language-driven action localization in videos is a challenging task that involves not only visual-linguistic matching but also action boundary prediction. Recent progress has been achieved through aligning language query to video segments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Shuo Yang , Xinxiao Wu

The core of video understanding tasks, such as recognition, captioning, and tracking, is to automatically detect objects or actions in a video and analyze their temporal evolution. Despite sharing a common goal, different tasks often rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Junke Wang , Dongdong Chen , Chong Luo , Bo He , Lu Yuan , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Video Moment Retrieval (MR) and Highlight Detection (HD) aim to pinpoint specific moments and assess clip-wise relevance based on the text query. While DETR-based joint frameworks have made significant strides, there remains untapped…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Hongxu Ma , Guanshuo Wang , Fufu Yu , Qiong Jia , Shouhong Ding

We propose a new task, dataset and model for grounded video caption generation. This task unifies captioning and object grounding in video, where the objects in the caption are grounded in the video via temporally consistent bounding boxes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Evangelos Kazakos , Cordelia Schmid , Josef Sivic

Video temporal grounding (VTG) is typically tackled with dataset-specific models that transfer poorly across domains and query styles. Recent efforts to overcome this limitation have adapted large multimodal language models (MLLMs) to VTG,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Joungbin An , Agrim Jain , Kristen Grauman

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

Video moment retrieval is a challenging task requiring fine-grained interactions between video and text modalities. Recent work in image-text pretraining has demonstrated that most existing pretrained models suffer from information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Love Panta , Prashant Shrestha , Brabeem Sapkota , Amrita Bhattarai , Suresh Manandhar , Anand Kumar Sah

The query-based moment retrieval is a problem of localising a specific clip from an untrimmed video according a query sentence. This is a challenging task that requires interpretation of both the natural language query and the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Mayu Otani , Yuta Nakashima , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkilä

Grounding language in the physical world requires AI systems to interpret references that emerge dynamically during conversation. While current vision-language models (VLMs) excel at static image tasks, they struggle to resolve ambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Anna Deichler , Jim O'Regan , Fethiye Irmak Dogan , Lubos Marcinek , Anna Klezovich , Iolanda Leite , Jonas Beskow

Temporal grounding is the task of locating a specific segment from an untrimmed video according to a query sentence. This task has achieved significant momentum in the computer vision community as it enables activity grounding beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Linchao Zhu , Wenqiao Zhang , Yi Yang , Tat-Seng Chua , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang

Prior works on text-based video moment localization focus on temporally grounding the textual query in an untrimmed video. These works assume that the relevant video is already known and attempt to localize the moment on that relevant video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Sudipta Paul , Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

The connection between our 3D surroundings and the descriptive language that characterizes them would be well-suited for localizing and generating human motion in context but for one problem. The complexity introduced by multiple modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zoltán Á. Milacski , Koichiro Niinuma , Ryosuke Kawamura , Fernando de la Torre , László A. Jeni

We tackle the task of video moment retrieval (VMR), which aims to localize a specific moment in a video according to a textual query. Existing methods primarily model the matching relationship between query and moment by complex cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Xun Yang , Fuli Feng , Wei Ji , Meng Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

The recent advancement in video temporal grounding (VTG) has significantly enhanced fine-grained video understanding, primarily driven by multimodal large language models (MLLMs). With superior multimodal comprehension and reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Jianlong Wu , Wei Liu , Ye Liu , Meng Liu , Liqiang Nie , Zhouchen Lin , Chang Wen Chen

Vision Language Models (VLMs) perform well on standard video tasks but struggle with physics-related reasoning involving motion dynamics and spatial interactions. We present a novel approach to address this gap by translating physical-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiyang Wu , Zongxia Li , Jihui Jin , Guangyao Shi , Gouthaman KV , Vishnu Raj , Nilotpal Sinha , Jingxi Chen , Fan Du , Dinesh Manocha