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The recently-developed DETR approach applies the transformer encoder and decoder architecture to object detection and achieves promising performance. In this paper, we handle the critical issue, slow training convergence, and present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Depu Meng , Xiaokang Chen , Zejia Fan , Gang Zeng , Houqiang Li , Yuhui Yuan , Lei Sun , Jingdong Wang

Given an untrimmed video and natural language query, video sentence grounding aims to localize the target temporal moment in the video. Existing methods mainly tackle this task by matching and aligning semantics of the descriptive sentence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Wei Ji , Long Chen , Yinwei Wei , Yiming Wu , Tat-Seng Chua

We present in this paper a novel denoising training method to speedup DETR (DEtection TRansformer) training and offer a deepened understanding of the slow convergence issue of DETR-like methods. We show that the slow convergence results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Feng Li , Hao Zhang , Shilong Liu , Jian Guo , Lionel M. Ni , Lei Zhang

Temporal Sentence Grounding (TSG), which aims to localize moments from videos based on the given natural language queries, has attracted widespread attention. Existing works are mainly designed for short videos, failing to handle TSG in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Houlun Chen , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Zihan Song , Jia Jia , Wenwu Zhu

This paper addresses the temporal sentence grounding (TSG). Although existing methods have made decent achievements in this task, they not only severely rely on abundant video-query paired data for training, but also easily fail into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Daizong Liu , Xiaoye Qu , Jianfeng Dong , Pan Zhou , Zichuan Xu , Haozhao Wang , Xing Di , Weining Lu , Yu Cheng

The task of video grounding, which temporally localizes a natural language description in a video, plays an important role in understanding videos. Existing studies have adopted strategies of sliding window over the entire video or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Dongliang He , Xiang Zhao , Jizhou Huang , Fu Li , Xiao Liu , Shilei Wen

Temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to localize the temporal segment which is semantically aligned with a natural language query in an untrimmed video.Most existing methods extract frame-grained features or object-grained features by 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Zeyu Xiong , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Jiahao Zhu

Video Moment Retrieval (MR) and Highlight Detection (HD) aim to pinpoint specific moments and assess clip-wise relevance based on the text query. While DETR-based joint frameworks have made significant strides, there remains untapped…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Hongxu Ma , Guanshuo Wang , Fufu Yu , Qiong Jia , Shouhong Ding

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

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

Temporal sentence grounding in videos(TSGV), which aims to localize one target segment from an untrimmed video with respect to a given sentence query, has drawn increasing attentions in the research community over the past few years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Xiaohan Lan , Yitian Yuan , Xin Wang , Zhi Wang , Wenwu Zhu

The onset of long-form egocentric datasets such as Ego4D and EPIC-Kitchens presents a new challenge for the task of Temporal Sentence Grounding (TSG). Compared to traditional benchmarks on which this task is evaluated, these datasets offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Kevin Flanagan , Dima Damen , Michael Wray

This paper presents a general scheme for enhancing the convergence and performance of DETR (DEtection TRansformer). We investigate the slow convergence problem in transformers from a new perspective, suggesting that it arises from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Xiuquan Hou , Meiqin Liu , Senlin Zhang , Ping Wei , Badong Chen , Xuguang Lan

Given some video-query pairs with untrimmed videos and sentence queries, temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to locate query-relevant segments in these videos. Although previous respectable TSG methods have achieved remarkable success,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Wanlong Fang , Changshuo Wang , Daizong Liu , Keke Tang , Jianfeng Dong , Pan Zhou , Beibei Li

The temporal sentence grounding in video (TSGV) task is to locate a temporal moment from an untrimmed video, to match a language query, i.e., a sentence. Without considering bias in moment annotations (e.g., start and end positions in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Hao Zhang , Aixin Sun , Wei Jing , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to identify the temporal boundary of a specific segment from an untrimmed video by a sentence query. All existing works first utilize a sparse sampling strategy to extract a fixed number of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Jiahao Zhu , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Xing Di , Yu Cheng , Song Yang , Wenzheng Xu , Zichuan Xu , Yao Wan , Lichao Sun , Zeyu Xiong

In this paper, we study the problem of visual grounding by considering both phrase extraction and grounding (PEG). In contrast to the previous phrase-known-at-test setting, PEG requires a model to extract phrases from text and locate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Shilong Liu , Yaoyuan Liang , Feng Li , Shijia Huang , Hao Zhang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Lei Zhang

Temporal sentence grounding aims to detect event timestamps described by the natural language query from given untrimmed videos. The existing fully-supervised setting achieves great results but requires expensive annotation costs; while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Haicheng Wang , Chen Ju , Weixiong Lin , Chaofan Ma , Shuai Xiao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Temporal Action Detection (TAD) is challenging but fundamental for real-world video applications. Recently, DETR-based models have been devised for TAD but have not performed well yet. In this paper, we point out the problem in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jihwan Kim , Miso Lee , Jae-Pil Heo

Video moment retrieval (VMR) identifies a specific moment in an untrimmed video for a given natural language query. This task is prone to suffer the weak alignment problem innate in video datasets. Due to the ambiguity, a query does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Minjoon Jung , Youwon Jang , Seongho Choi , Joochan Kim , Jin-Hwa Kim , Byoung-Tak Zhang