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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

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG), which aims to ground target clips from videos (such as consecutive intervals or disjoint shots) according to custom language queries (e.g., sentences or words), is key for video browsing on social media. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Kevin Qinghong Lin , Pengchuan Zhang , Joya Chen , Shraman Pramanick , Difei Gao , Alex Jinpeng Wang , Rui Yan , Mike Zheng Shou

Multi-task visual grounding (MTVG) includes two sub-tasks, i.e., Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) and Referring Expression Segmentation (RES). The existing representative approaches generally follow the research pipeline which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jingchao Wang , Hong Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Kunhua Ji , Dingjiang Huang , Yefeng Zheng

Temporal video grounding (TVG) aims to retrieve the time interval of a language query from an untrimmed video. A significant challenge in TVG is the low "Semantic Noise Ratio (SNR)", which results in worse performance with lower SNR. Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Qi Zhang , Sipeng Zheng , Qin Jin

Given a text description, Temporal Language Grounding (TLG) aims to localize temporal boundaries of the segments that contain the specified semantics in an untrimmed video. TLG is inherently a challenging task, as it requires comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Fan Luo , Shaoxiang Chen , Jingjing Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos (TSGV) aims to temporally localize segments of a video that correspond to a given natural language query. Despite recent progress, most existing TSGV approaches operate under closed-vocabulary settings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tingting Han , Xinsong Tao , Yufei Yin , Min Tan , Sicheng Zhao , Zhou Yu

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to identify visual frames in a video clip that match text queries. Recent studies in VTG employ cross-attention to correlate visual frames and text queries as individual token sequences. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Jongbhin Woo , Hyeonggon Ryu , Youngjoon Jang , Jae Won Cho , Joon Son Chung

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) commonly grounds targets in videos based on static textual cues. MeViS benchmark extends this by incorporating motion-centric expressions (referring & reasoning motion expressions) and introducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Dengxian Gong , Quanzhu Niu , Shihao Chen , Yuanzheng Wu , Yikang Zhou , Tao Zhang , Haobo Yuan , Lu Qi , Shunping Ji

Delving into the realm of egocentric vision, the advancement of referring video object segmentation (RVOS) stands as pivotal in understanding human activities. However, existing RVOS task primarily relies on static attributes such as object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Liangyang Ouyang , Ruicong Liu , Yifei Huang , Ryosuke Furuta , Yoichi Sato

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced from image-level reasoning to pixel-level grounding, but extending these capabilities to videos remains challenging as models must achieve spatial precision and temporally consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Mohamad Alansari , Naufal Suryanto , Divya Velayudhan , Sajid Javed , Naoufel Werghi , Muzammal Naseer

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

This paper addresses the task of unsupervised video multi-object segmentation. Current approaches follow a two-stage paradigm: 1) detect object proposals using pre-trained Mask R-CNN, and 2) conduct generic feature matching for temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Tianfei Zhou , Jianwu Li , Xueyi Li , Ling Shao

The task of video object segmentation with referring expressions (language-guided VOS) is to, given a linguistic phrase and a video, generate binary masks for the object to which the phrase refers. Our work argues that existing benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Miriam Bellver , Carles Ventura , Carina Silberer , Ioannis Kazakos , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) has recently generated great popularity in computer vision due to its widespread applications. Existing RVOS setting contains elaborately trimmed videos, with text-referred objects always appearing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mingqi Gao , Jinyu Yang , Jingnan Luo , Xiantong Zhen , Jungong Han , Giovanni Montana , Feng Zheng

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

Remote sensing visual grounding (RSVG) aims to localize objects in remote sensing images based on free-form natural language expressions. Existing approaches are typically constrained to closed-set vocabularies, limiting their applicability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ke Li , Di Wang , Ting Wang , Fuyu Dong , Yiming Zhang , Luyao Zhang , Xiangyu Wang , Shaofeng Li , Quan Wang

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

Video reasoning segmentation (VRS) endeavors to delineate referred objects in videos guided by implicit instructions that encapsulate human intent and temporal logic. Previous approaches leverage large vision language models (LVLMs) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Sitong Gong , Lu Zhang , Yunzhi Zhuge , Xu Jia , Pingping Zhang , Huchuan Lu

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

Video understanding is inherently intention-driven-humans naturally focus on relevant frames based on their goals. Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled flexible query-driven reasoning; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ziqiang Xu , Qi Dai , Tian Xie , Yifan Yang , Kai Qiu , DongDong Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Chong Luo