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This paper explores the task of Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) where, given an untrimmed video and a natural language sentence query, the goal is to recognize and determine temporal boundaries of action instances in the video described by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Erica K. Shimomoto , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Hiroya Takamura , Ichiro Kobayashi , Hideki Nakayama , Yusuke Miyao

This work investigates a fundamental question: Do Video-Language Models (VidLMs) robustly account for video content, temporal sequence, and motion? Our investigation shows that, surprisingly, they often do not. We introduce REVEAL{}, a…

This paper presents VideoLoom, a unified Video Large Language Model (Video LLM) for joint spatial-temporal understanding. To facilitate the development of fine-grained spatial and temporal localization capabilities, we curate LoomData-8.7k,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiapeng Shi , Junke Wang , Zuyao You , Bo He , Zuxuan Wu

This paper studies the multimedia problem of temporal sentence grounding (TSG), which aims to accurately determine the specific video segment in an untrimmed video according to a given sentence query. Traditional TSG methods mainly follow…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Zichuan Xu , Ruixuan Li

Video temporal grounding is a critical video understanding task, which aims to localize moments relevant to a language description. The challenge of this task lies in distinguishing relevant and irrelevant moments. Previous methods focused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Xiaolong Sun , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou , Liushuai Shi , Kun Xia , Mengnan Liu , Yabing Wang , Gang Hua

Video-text Large Language Models (video-text LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in answering questions and holding conversations on simple videos. However, they perform almost the same as random on grounding text queries in long and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Yueqian Wang , Xiaojun Meng , Jianxin Liang , Yuxuan Wang , Qun Liu , Dongyan Zhao

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

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

Large language models (LLMs) excel at retrieving information from lengthy text, but their vision-language counterparts (VLMs) face difficulties with hour-long videos, especially for temporal grounding. Specifically, these VLMs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Tanveer Hannan , Md Mohaiminul Islam , Jindong Gu , Thomas Seidl , Gedas Bertasius

Despite significant advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), understanding complex temporal dynamics in videos remains a major challenge. Our experiments show that current Video Large Language Model (Video-LLM) architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Ali Rasekh , Erfan Bagheri Soula , Omid Daliran , Simon Gottschalk , Mohsen Fayyaz

Temporally localizing user-queried events through natural language is a crucial capability for video models. Recent methods predominantly adapt video LLMs to generate event boundary timestamps for temporal localization tasks, which struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zongshang Pang , Mayu Otani , Yuta Nakashima

Current Video-LLM approaches for Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) typically rely on direct timestamp generation from an unstructured visual-token stream, often leading to brittle numerics and inconsistent boundaries. To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zelin Zheng , Xinyan Liu , Ruixin Li , Antoni B. Chan , Guorong Li , Qingming Huang , Laiyun Qing

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have shown promise in procedural tasks, but the potential of multimodal instructions augmented by texts and videos to assist users remains under-explored. To address this gap, we propose the Visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Muhammet Furkan Ilaslan , Ali Koksal , Kevin Qinhong Lin , Burak Satar , Mike Zheng Shou , Qianli Xu

Vision-language models (VLMs) demonstrate strong image-level scene understanding but often lack persistent memory, explicit spatial representations, and computational efficiency when reasoning over long video sequences. We present VL-KnG, a…

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on video-and-language tasks, such as video question answering. However, most existing Video LLMs neglect temporal information in video data, leading to struggles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zi-Yuan Hu , Yiwu Zhong , Shijia Huang , Michael R. Lyu , Liwei Wang

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

In this work, we tackle the problem of long-form video-language grounding (VLG). Given a long-form video and a natural language query, a model should temporally localize the precise moment that answers the query. Humans can easily solve VLG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Hyogun Lee , Soyeon Hong , Mujeen Sung , Jinwoo Choi

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown strong video understanding, yet their application to long-form videos remains constrained by limited context windows. A common workaround is to compress long videos into a handful of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yun Wang , Long Zhang , Jingren Liu , Jiaqi Yan , Zhanjie Zhang , Jiahao Zheng , Ao Ma , Run Ling , Xun Yang , Dapeng Wu , Xiangyu Chen , Xuelong Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable proficiency in comprehending and handling text-based tasks. Many efforts are being made to transfer these attributes to video modality, which are termed Video-LLMs. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Long Qian , Juncheng Li , Yu Wu , Yaobo Ye , Hao Fei , Tat-Seng Chua , Yueting Zhuang , Siliang Tang

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