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Video temporal understanding is crucial for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to reason over events in videos. Despite recent advances in general video understanding, current MLLMs still struggle with fine-grained temporal reasoning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Fuwen Luo , Shengfeng Lou , Chi Chen , Ziyue Wang , Chenliang Li , Weizhou Shen , Jiyue Guo , Peng Li , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Yang Liu

Spatio-temporal video grounding (or STVG) task aims at locating a spatio-temporal tube for a specific instance given a text query. Despite advancements, current methods easily suffer the distractors or heavy object appearance variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Xin Gu , Heng Fan , Yan Huang , Tiejian Luo , Libo Zhang

The temporal answering grounding in the video (TAGV) is a new task naturally derived from temporal sentence grounding in the video (TSGV). Given an untrimmed video and a text question, this task aims at locating the matching span from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Bin Li , Yixuan Weng , Bin Sun , Shutao Li

Video grounding aims to localize a spatio-temporal section in a video corresponding to an input text query. This paper addresses a critical limitation in current video grounding methodologies by introducing an Open-Vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Syed Talal Wasim , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) aims to localize video segments corresponding to a given textual query, which often describes human actions. However, we observe that current methods, usually optimizing for high temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zhaoyu Chen , Hongnan Lin , Yongwei Nie , Fei Ma , Xuemiao Xu , Fei Yu , Chengjiang Long

Video temporal grounding (VTG) is typically tackled with dataset-specific models that transfer poorly across domains and query styles. Recent efforts to overcome this limitation have adapted large multimodal language models (MLLMs) to VTG,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Joungbin An , Agrim Jain , Kristen Grauman

Long-form clinical videos are central to visual evidence-based decision-making, with growing importance for applications such as surgical robotics and related settings. However, current multimodal large language models typically process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Wenjie Li , Yujie Zhang , Haoran Sun , Xingqi He , Hongcheng Gao , Chenglong Ma , Ming Hu , Guankun Wang , Shiyi Yao , Renhao Yang , Hongliang Ren , Lei Wang , Junjun He , Yankai Jiang

Temporal Sentence Grounding (TSG) aims to identify relevant moments in an untrimmed video that semantically correspond to a given textual query. Despite existing studies having made substantial progress, they often overlook the issue of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kefan Tang , Lihuo He , Jisheng Dang , Xinbo Gao

In real scenarios, videos can span several minutes or even hours. However, existing research on spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG), given a textual query, mainly focuses on localizing targets in short videos of tens of seconds,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Xin Gu , Bing Fan , Jiali Yao , Zhipeng Zhang , Yan Huang , Cheng Han , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang

Long video understanding is challenging due to rich and complicated multimodal clues in long temporal range.Current methods adopt reasoning to improve the model's ability to analyze complex video clues in long videos via text-form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Houlun Chen , Xin Wang , Guangyao Li , Yuwei Zhou , Yihan Chen , Jia Jia , Wenwu Zhu

Despite progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), the challenge of interpreting long-form videos in response to linguistic queries persists, largely due to the inefficiency in temporal grounding and limited pre-trained context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yuxuan Wang , Yueqian Wang , Pengfei Wu , Jianxin Liang , Dongyan Zhao , Yang Liu , Zilong Zheng

Temporal localization in untrimmed videos, which aims to identify specific timestamps, is crucial for video understanding but remains challenging. This task encompasses several subtasks, including temporal action localization, temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chen-Lin Zhang , Lin Sui , Shuming Liu , Fangzhou Mu , Zhangcheng Wang , Bernard Ghanem

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) aims to precisely localize video segments corresponding to natural language queries, which is a critical capability for long-form video understanding. Although existing reinforcement learning approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chaohong Guo , Xun Mo , Yongwei Nie , Xuemiao Xu , Chao Xu , Fei Yu , Chengjiang Long

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to extract relevant video segments based on a given natural language query. Recently, zero-shot VTG methods have gained attention by leveraging pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) to localize target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jin-Seop Lee , SungJoon Lee , Jaehan Ahn , YunSeok Choi , Jee-Hyong Lee

While Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown significant potential in multimodal understanding and reasoning tasks, how to efficiently select the most informative frames from videos remains a critical challenge. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Shihao Wang , Guo Chen , De-an Huang , Zhiqi Li , Minghan Li , Guilin Liu , Jose M. Alvarez , Lei Zhang , Zhiding Yu

In this work, we introduce a novel task - Humancentric Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (HC-STVG). Unlike the existing referring expression tasks in images or videos, by focusing on humans, HC-STVG aims to localize a spatiotemporal tube of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Zongheng Tang , Yue Liao , Si Liu , Guanbin Li , Xiaojie Jin , Hongxu Jiang , Qian Yu , Dong Xu

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

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

This paper tackles an emerging and challenging problem of long video temporal grounding~(VTG) that localizes video moments related to a natural language (NL) query. Compared with short videos, long videos are also highly demanded but less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Zhijian Hou , Wanjun Zhong , Lei Ji , Difei Gao , Kun Yan , Wing-Kwong Chan , Chong-Wah Ngo , Zheng Shou , Nan Duan

In this paper, we study the problem of temporal video grounding (TVG), which aims to predict the starting/ending time points of moments described by a text sentence within a long untrimmed video. Benefiting from fine-grained 3D visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Yimeng Zhang , Xin Chen , Jinghan Jia , Sijia Liu , Ke Ding