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Video grounding aims to localize a moment from an untrimmed video for a given textual query. Existing approaches focus more on the alignment of visual and language stimuli with various likelihood-based matching or regression strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Guoshun Nan , Rui Qiao , Yao Xiao , Jun Liu , Sicong Leng , Hao Zhang , Wei Lu

Temporal grounding in videos aims to localize one target video segment that semantically corresponds to a given query sentence. Thanks to the semantic diversity of natural language descriptions, temporal grounding allows activity grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Juncheng Li , Junlin Xie , Long Qian , Linchao Zhu , Siliang Tang , Fei Wu , Yi Yang , Yueting Zhuang , Xin Eric Wang

The onset of long-form egocentric datasets such as Ego4D and EPIC-Kitchens presents a new challenge for the task of Temporal Sentence Grounding (TSG). Compared to traditional benchmarks on which this task is evaluated, these datasets offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Kevin Flanagan , Dima Damen , Michael Wray

Temporal sentence grounding in videos aims to detect and localize one target video segment, which semantically corresponds to a given sentence. Existing methods mainly tackle this task via matching and aligning semantics between a sentence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yitian Yuan , Lin Ma , Jingwen Wang , Wei Liu , Wenwu Zhu

A key solution to temporal sentence grounding (TSG) exists in how to learn effective alignment between vision and language features extracted from an untrimmed video and a sentence description. Existing methods mainly leverage vanilla soft…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Daizong Liu , Xiaoye Qu , Pan Zhou

This paper addresses the problem of text-to-video temporal grounding, which aims to identify the time interval in a video semantically relevant to a text query. We tackle this problem using a novel regression-based model that learns to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Jonghwan Mun , Minsu Cho , Bohyung Han

Temporal Sentence Grounding in Video (TSGV) is troubled by dataset bias issue, which is caused by the uneven temporal distribution of the target moments for samples with similar semantic components in input videos or query texts. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Zhaobo Qi , Yibo Yuan , Xiaowen Ruan , Shuhui Wang , Weigang Zhang , Qingming Huang

Temporal sentence grounding (TSG) is crucial and fundamental for video understanding. Although the existing methods train well-designed deep networks with a large amount of data, we find that they can easily forget the rarely appeared cases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Daizong Liu , Xiaoye Qu , Xing Di , Yu Cheng , Zichuan Xu , Pan Zhou

Temporal sentence grounding (TSG) is a highly challenging task aiming to localize the temporal segment within an untrimmed video corresponding to a given natural language description. Benefiting from the design of learnable queries, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yifan Wang , Ziyi Liu , Xiaolong Sun , Jiawei Wang , Hongmin Liu

This paper addresses the problem of temporal sentence grounding (TSG), which aims to identify the temporal boundary of a specific segment from an untrimmed video by a sentence query. Previous works either compare pre-defined candidate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Daizong Liu , Xiaoye Qu , Jianfeng Dong , Pan Zhou , Yu Cheng , Wei Wei , Zichuan Xu , Yulai Xie

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

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

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

Temporal sentence grounding in videos (TSGV) aims to localize a temporal segment that semantically corresponds to a sentence query from an untrimmed video. Most current methods adopt pre-trained query-agnostic visual encoders for offline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Allen He , Qi Liu , Kun Liu , Xinchen Liu , Wu Liu

Temporal Grounding is to identify specific moments or highlights from a video corresponding to textual descriptions. Typical approaches in temporal grounding treat all video clips equally during the encoding process regardless of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 WonJun Moon , Sangeek Hyun , SuBeen Lee , Jae-Pil Heo

The task of weakly supervised temporal sentence grounding (WSTSG) aims to detect temporal intervals corresponding to a language description from untrimmed videos with only video-level video-language correspondence. For an anchor sample,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lu Dong , Haiyu Zhang , Hongjie Zhang , Yifei Huang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang , Yali Wang

Identifying key temporal intervals within long videos, known as temporal grounding (TG), is important to video understanding and reasoning tasks. In this paper, we introduce a new form of the temporal grounding problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiangrui Liu , Minghao Qin , Yan Shu , Zhengyang Liang , Yang Tian , Chen Jason Zhang , Bo Zhao , Zheng Liu

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

Many studies focus on improving pretraining or developing new backbones in text-video retrieval. However, existing methods may suffer from the learning and inference bias issue, as recent research suggests in other text-video-related tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Burak Satar , Hongyuan Zhu , Hanwang Zhang , Joo Hwee Lim

The temporal answering grounding in the video (TAGV) is a new task naturally derived from temporal sentence grounding in the video (TSGV). Given an untrimmed video and a text question, this task aims at locating the matching span from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Bin Li , Yixuan Weng , Bin Sun , Shutao Li