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In the domain of moment retrieval, accurately identifying temporal segments within videos based on natural language queries remains challenging. Traditional methods often employ pre-trained models that struggle with fine-grained information…

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Temporal Video Grounding (TVG), the task of locating specific video segments based on language queries, is a core challenge in long-form video understanding. While recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown early promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ye Wang , Ziheng Wang , Boshen Xu , Yang Du , Kejun Lin , Zihan Xiao , Zihao Yue , Jianzhong Ju , Liang Zhang , Dingyi Yang , Xiangnan Fang , Zewen He , Zhenbo Luo , Wenxuan Wang , Junqi Lin , Jian Luan , Qin Jin

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RefVOS) seeks to segment target objects in videos guided by natural language descriptions, demanding both temporal reasoning and fine-grained visual comprehension. Existing sampling strategies for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ming Dai , Sen Yang , Boqiang Duan , Wankou Yang , Jingdong Wang

Conventional video matting outputs one alpha matte for all instances appearing in a video frame so that individual instances are not distinguished. While video instance segmentation provides time-consistent instance masks, results are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Jiachen Li , Roberto Henschel , Vidit Goel , Marianna Ohanyan , Shant Navasardyan , Humphrey Shi

Vision-Language models (VLMs) have excelled in the image-domain -- especially in zero-shot settings -- thanks to the availability of vast pretraining data (i.e., paired image-text samples). However for videos, such paired data is not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Anurag Arnab , Arsha Nagrani , Michael S. Ryoo

Many methods have been developed to help people find the video contents they want efficiently. However, there are still some unsolved problems in this area. For example, given a query video and a reference video, how to accurately localize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Yang Feng , Lin Ma , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang , Jiebo Luo

Real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging (rtMRI) is frequently used in speech production studies as it provides a complete view of the vocal tract during articulation. This study investigates the effectiveness of rtMRI in analyzing vocal tract…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Masoud Thajudeen Tholan , Vinayaka Hegde , Chetan Sharma , Prasanta Kumar Ghosh

We address temporal localization of events in large-scale video data, in the context of the Youtube-8M Segments dataset. This emerging field within video recognition can enable applications to identify the precise time a specified event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Mikel Bober-Irizar , Miha Skalic , David Austin

As online video content rapidly grows, the task of text-video retrieval (TVR) becomes increasingly important. A key challenge in TVR is the information asymmetry between video and text: videos are inherently richer in information, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zechen Bai , Tianjun Xiao , Tong He , Pichao Wang , Zheng Zhang , Thomas Brox , Mike Zheng Shou

The task of retrieving video content relevant to natural language queries plays a critical role in effectively handling internet-scale datasets. Most of the existing methods for this caption-to-video retrieval problem do not fully exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Valentin Gabeur , Chen Sun , Karteek Alahari , Cordelia Schmid

Temporal grounding aims to localize a video moment which is semantically aligned with a given natural language query. Existing methods typically apply a detection or regression pipeline on the fused representation with the research focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Zhenzhi Wang , Limin Wang , Tao Wu , Tianhao Li , Gangshan Wu

How do video understanding models acquire their answers? Although current Vision Language Models (VLMs) reason over complex scenes with diverse objects, action performances, and scene dynamics, understanding and controlling their internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Alexandros Stergiou

The rapid proliferation of online video content necessitates effective video summarization techniques. Traditional methods, often relying on a single modality (typically visual), struggle to capture the full semantic richness of videos.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Shuo wang , Jihao Zhang

In this paper, we explore the visual representations produced from a pre-trained text-to-video (T2V) diffusion model for video understanding tasks. We hypothesize that the latent representation learned from a pretrained generative T2V model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zixin Zhu , Xuelu Feng , Dongdong Chen , Junsong Yuan , Chunming Qiao , Gang Hua

Prevailing joint prediction transformers for Video Highlight Detection and Moment Retrieval (HD/MR) exhibit deficiencies in handling cross-task dynamics, achieving robust video-text alignment, and utilizing effective attention mechanisms,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dhiman Paul , Md Rizwan Parvez , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

Video moment retrieval aims to localize moments in video corresponding to a given language query. To avoid the expensive cost of annotating the temporal moments, weakly-supervised VMR (wsVMR) systems have been studied. For such systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Sunjae Yoon , Gwanhyeong Koo , Dahyun Kim , Chang D. Yoo

As an increasingly popular task in multimedia information retrieval, video moment retrieval (VMR) aims to localize the target moment from an untrimmed video according to a given language query. Most previous methods depend heavily on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Yuchong Hu

Video-Text Retrieval (VTR) aims to search for the most relevant video related to the semantics in a given sentence, and vice versa. In general, this retrieval task is composed of four successive steps: video and textual feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Cunjuan Zhu , Qi Jia , Wei Chen , Yanming Guo , Yu Liu

The introduction of Transformer model has led to tremendous advancements in sequence modeling, especially in text domain. However, the use of attention-based models for video understanding is still relatively unexplored. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Saurabh Sahu , Palash Goyal

Recent DETR-based video grounding models have made the model directly predict moment timestamps without any hand-crafted components, such as a pre-defined proposal or non-maximum suppression, by learning moment queries. However, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Jinhyun Jang , Jungin Park , Jin Kim , Hyeongjun Kwon , Kwanghoon Sohn