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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

Recent developments in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) have demonstrated significant potential for Speaker Verification (SV), but closing the performance gap with supervised systems remains an ongoing challenge. SSL frameworks rely on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Theo Lepage , Reda Dehak

Contrastive learning has achieved remarkable success in learning effective representations, with supervised contrastive learning often outperforming self-supervised approaches. However, in real-world scenarios, data annotations are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zi-Hao Zhou , Jun-Jie Wang , Tong Wei , Min-Ling Zhang

Temporal sentence grounding involves the retrieval of a video moment with a natural language query. Many existing works directly incorporate the given video and temporally localized query for temporal grounding, overlooking the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Cai Chen , Runzhong Zhang , Jianjun Gao , Kejun Wu , Kim-Hui Yap , Yi Wang

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) aims to localize a moment from an untrimmed video given the language description. Since the annotation of TVG is labor-intensive, TVG under limited supervision has accepted attention in recent years. The great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Xing Zhang , Jiaxi Gu , Haoyu Zhao , Shicong Wang , Hang Xu , Renjing Pei , Songcen Xu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Contrastive learning has emerged as an essential approach for self-supervised learning in visual representation learning. The central objective of contrastive learning is to maximize the similarities between two augmented versions of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hengkui Dong , Xianzhong Long , Yun Li , Lei Chen

Contrastive learning predicts whether two images belong to the same category by training a model to make their feature representations as close or as far away as possible. In this paper, we rethink how to mine samples in contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Hengkui Dong , Xianzhong Long , Yun Li

The task of temporal grounding aims to locate video moment in an untrimmed video, with a given sentence query. This paper for the first time investigates some superficial biases that are specific to the temporal grounding task, and proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Peijun Bao , Yadong Mu

Contrastive Learning has recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of tasks. Many contrastive learning approaches use mined hard negatives to make batches more informative during training but these approaches are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Vin Sachidananda , Ziyi Yang , Chenguang Zhu

Semi-Supervised Video Paragraph Grounding (SSVPG) aims to localize multiple sentences in a paragraph from an untrimmed video with limited temporal annotations. Existing methods focus on teacher-student consistency learning and video-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yaokun Zhong , Siyu Jiang , Jian Zhu , Jian-Fang Hu

This study focuses on weakly-supervised Video Moment Retrieval (VMR), aiming to identify a moment semantically similar to the given query within an untrimmed video using only video-level correspondences, without relying on temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Bolin Zhang , Chao Yang , Bin Jiang , Takahiro Komamizu , Ichiro Ide

Existing video-language pre-training methods primarily focus on instance-level alignment between video clips and captions via global contrastive learning but neglect rich fine-grained local information in both videos and text, which is of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yuanhao Xiong , Long Zhao , Boqing Gong , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Florian Schroff , Ting Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Liangzhe Yuan

Making decent multi-lingual sentence representations is critical to achieve high performances in cross-lingual downstream tasks. In this work, we propose a novel method to align multi-lingual embeddings based on the similarity of sentences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Minsu Park , Seyeon Choi , Chanyeol Choi , Jun-Seong Kim , Jy-yong Sohn

Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos (TSGV), which aims to ground a natural language sentence in an untrimmed video, has drawn widespread attention over the past few years. However, recent studies have found that current benchmark datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Xiaohan Lan , Yitian Yuan , Xin Wang , Long Chen , Zhi Wang , Lin Ma , Wenwu Zhu

Despite recent progress in video and language representation learning, the weak or sparse correspondence between the two modalities remains a bottleneck in the area. Most video-language models are trained via pair-level loss to predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Zixu Wang , Yujie Zhong , Yishu Miao , Lin Ma , Lucia Specia

Short text classification has gained significant attention in the information age due to its prevalence and real-world applications. Recent advancements in graph learning combined with contrastive learning have shown promising results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Yonghao Liu , Fausto Giunchiglia , Lan Huang , Ximing Li , Xiaoyue Feng , Renchu Guan

Weakly-supervised video scene graph generation (WS-VSGG) aims to parse video content into structured relational triplets without bounding box annotations and with only sparse temporal labeling, significantly reducing annotation costs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Minseok Kang , Minhyeok Lee , Minjung Kim , Jungho Lee , Donghyeong Kim , Sungmin Woo , Inseok Jeon , Sangyoun Lee

Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos (TSGV) aims to detect the event timestamps described by the natural language query from untrimmed videos. This paper discusses the challenge of achieving efficient computation in TSGV models while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Renjie Liang , Yiming Yang , Hui Lu , Li Li

Contrastive learning has been demonstrated to be effective in enhancing pre-trained language models (PLMs) to derive superior universal sentence embeddings. However, existing contrastive methods still have two limitations. Firstly, previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yuxin Jiang , Linhan Zhang , Wei Wang

Contrastive learning produces coherent semantic feature embeddings by encouraging positive samples to cluster closely while separating negative samples. However, existing contrastive learning methods lack principled guarantees on coverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yahya Alkhatib , Wee Peng Tay