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Motivated by the increasing need of saving search effort by obtaining relevant video clips instead of whole videos, we propose a new task, named Semantic Video Moments Retrieval at scale (SVMR), which aims at finding relevant videos coupled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Na Li

Online temporal action localization (On-TAL) is the task of identifying multiple action instances given a streaming video. Since existing methods take as input only a video segment of fixed size per iteration, they are limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Youngkil Song , Dongkeun Kim , Minsu Cho , Suha Kwak

This research strives for natural language moment retrieval in long, untrimmed video streams. The problem is not trivial especially when a video contains multiple moments of interests and the language describes complex temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Da Zhang , Xiyang Dai , Xin Wang , Yuan-Fang Wang , Larry S. Davis

This paper tackles a recently proposed Video Corpus Moment Retrieval task. This task is essential because advanced video retrieval applications should enable users to retrieve a precise moment from a large video corpus. We propose a novel…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Zhijian Hou , Chong-Wah Ngo , Wing Kwong Chan

Accurately locating key moments within long videos is crucial for solving long video understanding (LVU) tasks. However, existing benchmarks are either severely limited in terms of video length and task diversity, or they focus solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Huaying Yuan , Jian Ni , Zheng Liu , Yueze Wang , Junjie Zhou , Zhengyang Liang , Bo Zhao , Zhao Cao , Zhicheng Dou , Ji-Rong Wen

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

We address the problem of retrieving a specific moment from an untrimmed video by a query sentence. This is a challenging problem because a target moment may take place in relations to other temporal moments in the untrimmed video. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Songyang Zhang , Houwen Peng , Jianlong Fu , Jiebo Luo

Video moment retrieval (VMR) is to search for a visual temporal moment in an untrimmed raw video by a given text query description (sentence). Existing studies either start from collecting exhaustive frame-wise annotations on the temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Weitong Cai , Jiabo Huang , Shaogang Gong

Video Moment Retrieval (VMR) aims at retrieving the most relevant events from an untrimmed video with natural language queries. Existing VMR methods suffer from two defects: (1) massive expensive temporal annotations are required to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Xun Jiang , Zailei Zhou , Xing Xu , Yang Yang , Guoqing Wang , Heng Tao Shen

Existing Moment retrieval (MR) methods focus on Single-Moment Retrieval (SMR). However, one query can correspond to multiple relevant moments in real-world applications. This makes the existing datasets and methods insufficient for video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zhuo Cao , Heming Du , Bingqing Zhang , Xin Yu , Xue Li , Sen Wang

Despite the recent success of neural networks in image feature learning, a major problem in the video domain is the lack of sufficient labeled data for learning to model temporal information. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Linchao Zhu , Zhongwen Xu , Yi Yang

Zero-shot video moment retrieval (ZVMR) is the task of localizing a temporal moment within an untrimmed video using a natural language query without relying on task-specific training data. The primary challenge in this setting lies in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Mingyu Jeon , Sunjae Yoon , Jonghee Kim , Junyeoung Kim

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) faces a cross-modal semantic gap that often leads to background features being incorrectly aligned with the query, while directly matching the query to moments results in insufficient discriminability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ran Ran , Jiwei Wei , Shuchang Zhou , Yitong Qin , Shiyuan He , Zeyu Ma , Yuyang Zhou , Yang Yang

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG), which requires pinpointing relevant temporal segments from video based on language query, has always been a highly challenging task in the field of video understanding. Videos often have a larger volume of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Feng Yue , Zhaoxing Zhang , Junming Jiao , Zhengyu Liang , Shiwen Cao , Feifei Zhang , Rong Shen

Given a natural language query, video moment retrieval aims to localize the described temporal moment in an untrimmed video. A major challenge of this task is its heavy dependence on labor-intensive annotations for training. Unlike existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Peijun Bao , Chenqi Kong , Zihao Shao , Boon Poh Ng , Meng Hwa Er , Alex C. Kot

Video Moment Retrieval is a task in video understanding that aims to localize a specific temporal segment in an untrimmed video based on a natural language query. Despite recent progress in moment retrieval from videos using both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 An Yu , Weiheng Lu , Jian Li , Zhenfei Zhang , Yunhang Shen , Felix X. -F. Ye , Ming-Ching Chang

Moment retrieval aims to locate the most relevant moment in an untrimmed video based on a given natural language query. Existing solutions can be roughly categorized into moment-based and clip-based methods. The former often involves heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jiajun He , Tomoki Toda

Video moment retrieval uses a text query to locate a moment from a given untrimmed video reference. Locating corresponding video moments with text queries helps people interact with videos efficiently. Current solutions for this task have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Chaochen Wu , Guan Luo , Meiyun Zuo , Zhitao Fan

Learning discriminative spatiotemporal representation is the key problem of video understanding. Recently, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown their power in learning long-term video dependency with self-attention. Unfortunately, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Kunchang Li , Yali Wang , Yinan He , Yizhuo Li , Yi Wang , Limin Wang , Yu Qiao

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in videos remains challenging due to complex object motions and crowded scenes. Recent DETR-based frameworks offer end-to-end solutions but typically process detection and tracking queries jointly within a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xu Yang , Gady Agam