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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

To overcome the data sparsity issue in short text topic modeling, existing methods commonly rely on data augmentation or the data characteristic of short texts to introduce more word co-occurrence information. However, most of them do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Xiaobao Wu , Anh Tuan Luu , Xinshuai Dong

Given some video-query pairs with untrimmed videos and sentence queries, temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to locate query-relevant segments in these videos. Although previous respectable TSG methods have achieved remarkable success,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Wanlong Fang , Changshuo Wang , Daizong Liu , Keke Tang , Jianfeng Dong , Pan Zhou , Beibei Li

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) aims to answer natural language questions based on the information observed in videos. Despite the recent success of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) in image-language understanding and reasoning, they deal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Haibo Wang , Chenghang Lai , Yixuan Sun , Weifeng Ge

Using only image-sentence pairs, weakly-supervised visual-textual grounding aims to learn region-phrase correspondences of the respective entity mentions. Compared to the supervised approach, learning is more difficult since bounding boxes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Davide Rigoni , Luca Parolari , Luciano Serafini , Alessandro Sperduti , Lamberto Ballan

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) has gained significant popularity since it relies only on weak labels such as image level annotations rather than pixel level annotations required by supervised semantic segmentation (SSS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kunhao Yuan , Gerald Schaefer , Yu-Kun Lai , Yifan Wang , Xiyao Liu , Lin Guan , Hui Fang

Temporal sentence grounding aims to detect event timestamps described by the natural language query from given untrimmed videos. The existing fully-supervised setting achieves great results but requires expensive annotation costs; while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Haicheng Wang , Chen Ju , Weixiong Lin , Chaofan Ma , Shuai Xiao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Unsupervised sentence embedding aims to obtain the most appropriate embedding for a sentence to reflect its semantic. Contrastive learning has been attracting developing attention. For a sentence, current models utilize diverse data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Hao Wang , Yangguang Li , Zhen Huang , Yong Dou , Lingpeng Kong , Jing Shao

Sequential video understanding, as an emerging video understanding task, has driven lots of researchers' attention because of its goal-oriented nature. This paper studies weakly supervised sequential video understanding where the accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Sixun Dong , Huazhang Hu , Dongze Lian , Weixin Luo , Yicheng Qian , Shenghua Gao

We target at the task of weakly-supervised action localization (WSAL), where only video-level action labels are available during model training. Despite the recent progress, existing methods mainly embrace a localization-by-classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Junyu Gao , Mengyuan Chen , Changsheng Xu

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

A system capturing the association between video frames and textual queries offer great potential for better video analysis. However, training such a system in a fully supervised way inevitably demands a meticulously curated video dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zhiyuan Fang , Shu Kong , Zhe Wang , Charless Fowlkes , Yezhou Yang

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

We propose weakly supervised language localization networks (WSLLN) to detect events in long, untrimmed videos given language queries. To learn the correspondence between visual segments and texts, most previous methods require temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Mingfei Gao , Larry S. Davis , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Sign language translation (SLT) converts continuous sign videos into spoken-language text, yet it remains challenging due to the intrinsic modality mismatch between visual signs and written text, particularly in gloss-free settings. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Changhao Lai , Rui Zhao , Xuewen Zhong , Jinsong Su , Yidong Chen

Temporal reasoning is a critical challenge in video-language understanding, as it requires models to align semantic concepts consistently across time. While existing large vision-language models (LVLMs) and large language models (LLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Rafael Souza , Jia-Hao Lim , Alexander Davis

In industrial settings, weakly supervised (WS) methods are usually preferred over their fully supervised (FS) counterparts as they do not require costly manual annotations. Unfortunately, the segmentation masks obtained in the WS regime are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Andrea Marelli , Luca Magri , Federica Arrigoni , Giacomo Boracchi

Temporal grounding aims to retrieve moments of the described event within an untrimmed video by a language query. Typically, existing methods assume annotations are precise and unique, yet one query may describe multiple moments in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Hao Zhou , Chongyang Zhang , Yanjun Chen , Chuanping Hu

Existing Video Scene Graph Generation (VidSGG) studies are trained in a fully supervised manner, which requires all frames in a video to be annotated, thereby incurring high annotation cost compared to Image Scene Graph Generation (ImgSGG).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Kibum Kim , Kanghoon Yoon , Yeonjun In , Jaehyeong Jeon , Jinyoung Moon , Donghyun Kim , Chanyoung Park

Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos (TSGV), i.e., grounding a natural language sentence which indicates complex human activities in a long and untrimmed video sequence, has received unprecedented attentions over the last few years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Yitian Yuan , Xiaohan Lan , Xin Wang , Long Chen , Zhi Wang , Wenwu Zhu