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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

Video temporal grounding (VTG) is a critical task in video understanding and a key capability for extending video large language models (Vid-LLMs) to broader applications. However, existing Vid-LLMs rely on uniform frame sampling to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Rong Fan , Kaiyan Xiao , Minghao Zhu , Liuyi Wang , Kai Dai , Zhao Yang

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

Spatiotemporal video grounding aims to localize target entities in videos based on textual queries. While existing research has made significant progress in exocentric videos, the egocentric setting remains relatively underexplored, despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Shuo Liang , Yiwu Zhong , Zi-Yuan Hu , Yeyao Tao , Liwei Wang

Localizing moments in a longer video via natural language queries is a new, challenging task at the intersection of language and video understanding. Though moment localization with natural language is similar to other language and vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Lisa Anne Hendricks , Oliver Wang , Eli Shechtman , Josef Sivic , Trevor Darrell , Bryan Russell

We address the problem of video question answering (video QA) with temporal grounding in a weakly supervised setup, without any temporal annotations. Given a video and a question, we generate an open-ended answer grounded with the start and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ayush Gupta , Anirban Roy , Rama Chellappa , Nathaniel D. Bastian , Alvaro Velasquez , Susmit Jha

Video-Language Pre-training models have recently significantly improved various multi-modal downstream tasks. Previous dominant works mainly adopt contrastive learning to achieve global feature alignment across modalities. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Fan Ma , Xiaojie Jin , Heng Wang , Jingjia Huang , Linchao Zhu , Jiashi Feng , Yi Yang

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

Spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG) aims to localize queried objects within dynamic video segments. Prevailing fully-trained approaches are notoriously data-hungry. However, gathering large-scale STVG data is exceptionally challenging:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Zanyi Wang , Fan Li , Dengyang Jiang , Liuzhuozheng Li , Yunhua Zhong , Guang Dai , Mengmeng Wang

Temporal grounding, which localizes video moments related to a natural language query, is a core problem of vision-language learning and video understanding. To encode video moments of varying lengths, recent methods employ a multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Thong Thanh Nguyen , Yi Bin , Xiaobao Wu , Zhiyuan Hu , Cong-Duy T Nguyen , See-Kiong Ng , Anh Tuan Luu

Temporal sentence grounding (TSG) is a highly challenging task aiming to localize the temporal segment within an untrimmed video corresponding to a given natural language description. Benefiting from the design of learnable queries, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yifan Wang , Ziyi Liu , Xiaolong Sun , Jiawei Wang , Hongmin Liu

Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG) aims to retrieve the spatio-temporal tube of a target object or person in a video given a text query. Most existing approaches perform frame-wise spatial localization within a predicted temporal span,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Heng Zhao , Yew-Soon Ong , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Automatic video captioning is challenging due to the complex interactions in dynamic real scenes. A comprehensive system would ultimately localize and track the objects, actions and interactions present in a video and generate a description…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Mihai Zanfir , Elisabeta Marinoiu , Cristian Sminchisescu

This paper aims to tackle a novel task - Temporal Sentence Grounding in Streaming Videos (TSGSV). The goal of TSGSV is to evaluate the relevance between a video stream and a given sentence query. Unlike regular videos, streaming videos are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Tian Gan , Xiao Wang , Yan Sun , Jianlong Wu , Qingpei Guo , Liqiang Nie

Video-text Large Language Models (video-text LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in answering questions and holding conversations on simple videos. However, they perform almost the same as random on grounding text queries in long and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Yueqian Wang , Xiaojun Meng , Jianxin Liang , Yuxuan Wang , Qun Liu , Dongyan Zhao

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in coarse-grained video understanding, however, they struggle with fine-grained temporal grounding. In this paper, we introduce Grounded-VideoLLM, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Haibo Wang , Zhiyang Xu , Yu Cheng , Shizhe Diao , Yufan Zhou , Yixin Cao , Qifan Wang , Weifeng Ge , Lifu Huang

Make-up temporal video grounding (MTVG) aims to localize the target video segment which is semantically related to a sentence describing a make-up activity, given a long video. Compared with the general video grounding task, MTVG focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Jiaxiu Li , Kun Li , Jia Li , Guoliang Chen , Dan Guo , Meng Wang

Video temporal grounding (VTG), which localizes the start and end times of a queried event in an untrimmed video, is a key test of whether multimodal large language models (MLLMs) understand not only what happens but also when it happens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Dazhao Du , Liao Duan , Jian Liu , Tao Han , Yujia Zhang , Eric Liu , Xi Chen , Song Guo

Video temporal grounding (VTG) aims to localize the start and end timestamps of the event described by a given query within an untrimmed video. Despite the strong open-world video understanding and recognition ability of video language…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pengcheng Fang , Yuxia Chen , Xiaohao Cai

Temporal sentence grounding in videos (TSGV), \aka natural language video localization (NLVL) or video moment retrieval (VMR), aims to retrieve a temporal moment that semantically corresponds to a language query from an untrimmed video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Hao Zhang , Aixin Sun , Wei Jing , Joey Tianyi Zhou