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Given a collection of untrimmed and unsegmented videos, video corpus moment retrieval (VCMR) is to retrieve a temporal moment (i.e., a fraction of a video) that semantically corresponds to a given text query. As video and text are from two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Hao Zhang , Aixin Sun , Wei Jing , Guoshun Nan , Liangli Zhen , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Rick Siow Mong Goh

This paper studies the task of temporal moment localization in a long untrimmed video using natural language query. Given a query sentence, the goal is to determine the start and end of the relevant segment within the video. Our key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Basura Fernando , Hongdong Li , Stephen Gould

Video moment retrieval aims to search the moment most relevant to a given language query. However, most existing methods in this community often require temporal boundary annotations which are expensive and time-consuming to label. Hence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Ding Li , Rui Wu , Yongqiang Tang , Zhizhong Zhang , Wensheng Zhang

We address the problem of retrieving a specific moment from an untrimmed video by natural language. It is a challenging problem because a target moment may take place in the context of other temporal moments in the untrimmed video. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Songyang Zhang , Houwen Peng , Jianlong Fu , Yijuan Lu , Jiebo Luo

In this paper we undertake the task of text-based video moment retrieval from a corpus of videos. To train the model, text-moment paired datasets were used to learn the correct correspondences. In typical training methods, ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Sho Maeoki , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

Recently, video moment retrieval and highlight detection (MR/HD) are being spotlighted as the demand for video understanding is drastically increased. The key objective of MR/HD is to localize the moment and estimate clip-wise accordance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 WonJun Moon , Sangeek Hyun , SangUk Park , Dongchan Park , Jae-Pil Heo

Video Moment Retrieval is a common task to evaluate the performance of visual-language models - it involves localising start and end times of moments in videos from query sentences. The current task formulation assumes that the queried…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Kevin Flanagan , Dima Damen , Michael Wray

Video-language alignment is a crucial multi-modal task that benefits various downstream applications, e.g., video-text retrieval and video question answering. Existing methods either utilize multi-modal information in video-text pairs or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Shi-Xue Zhang , Hongfa Wang , Xiaobin Zhu , Weibo Gu , Tianjin Zhang , Chun Yang , Wei Liu , Xu-Cheng Yin

Given a query, the task of Natural Language Video Localization (NLVL) is to localize a temporal moment in an untrimmed video that semantically matches the query. In this paper, we adopt a proposal-based solution that generates proposals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jing Wang , Aixin Sun , Hao Zhang , Xiaoli Li

Most existing video moment retrieval methods rely on temporal sequences of frame- or clip-level features that primarily encode global visual and semantic information. However, such representations often fail to capture fine-grained object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zongyao Li , Yongkang Wong , Satoshi Yamazaki , Jianquan Liu , Mohan Kankanhalli

Temporal moment localization aims to retrieve the best video segment matching a moment specified by a query. The existing methods generate the visual and semantic embeddings independently and fuse them without full consideration of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Jungkyoo Shin , Jinyoung Moon

Video moment search, the process of finding relevant moments in a video corpus to match a user's query, is crucial for various applications. Existing solutions, however, often assume a single perfect matching moment, struggle with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Chongzhi Zhang , Xizhou Zhu , Aixin Sun

Text-driven video moment retrieval (VMR) remains challenging due to limited capture of hidden temporal dynamics in untrimmed videos, leading to imprecise grounding in long sequences. Traditional methods rely on natural language queries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yunzhuo Sun , Xinyue Liu , Yanyang Li , Nanding Wu , Yifang Xu , Linlin Zong , Xianchao Zhang , Wenxin Liang

Finding relevant moments and highlights in videos according to natural language queries is a natural and highly valuable common need in the current video content explosion era. Nevertheless, jointly conducting moment retrieval and highlight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ye Liu , Siyuan Li , Yang Wu , Chang Wen Chen , Ying Shan , Xiaohu Qie

We address the task of aligning CAD models to a video sequence of a complex scene containing multiple objects. Our method can process arbitrary videos and fully automatically recover the 9 DoF pose for each object appearing in it, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Stefan Popov , Matthias Nießner , Vittorio Ferrari

Video moment localization, also known as video moment retrieval, aiming to search a target segment within a video described by a given natural language query. Beyond the task of temporal action localization whereby the target actions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Meng Liu , Liqiang Nie , Yunxiao Wang , Meng Wang , Yong Rui

Video retrieval requires aligning visual content with corresponding natural language descriptions. In this paper, we introduce Modality Auxiliary Concepts for Video Retrieval (MAC-VR), a novel approach that leverages modality-specific tags…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Adriano Fragomeni , Dima Damen , Michael Wray

Existing Moment Retrieval methods face three critical bottlenecks: (1) data scarcity forces models into shallow keyword-feature associations; (2) boundary ambiguity in transition regions between adjacent events; (3) insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhengxuan Wei , Jiajin Tang , Sibei Yang

Video Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection aim to find corresponding content in the video based on a text query. Existing models usually first use contrastive learning methods to align video and text features, then fuse and extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Pengcheng Zhao , Zhixian He , Fuwei Zhang , Shujin Lin , Fan Zhou

Partially relevant video retrieval (PRVR) is a practical yet challenging task in text-to-video retrieval, where videos are untrimmed and contain much background content. The pursuit here is of both effective and efficient solutions to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Peipei Song , Long Zhang , Long Lan , Weidong Chen , Dan Guo , Xun Yang , Meng Wang