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Stimulated by the sophisticated reasoning capabilities of recent Large Language Models (LLMs), a variety of strategies for bridging video modality have been devised. A prominent strategy involves Video Language Models (VideoLMs), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Wonkyun Kim , Changin Choi , Wonseok Lee , Wonjong Rhee

This paper does not introduce a novel method but instead establishes a straightforward, incremental, yet essential baseline for video temporal grounding (VTG), a core capability in video understanding. While multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jun Zhang , Teng Wang , Yuying Ge , Yixiao Ge , Xinhao Li , Ying Shan , Limin Wang

Recent advances in robot manipulation increasingly leverage Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for high-level reasoning, such as decomposing task instructions into sequential action plans expressed in natural language that guide downstream…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sehun Jung , HyunJee Song , Dong-Hee Kim , Reuben Tan , Jianfeng Gao , Yong Jae Lee , Donghyun Kim

In several modern applications, data are generated continuously over time, such as data generated from smartwatches. We assume data are collected and analyzed sequentially, in batches. Since traditional or offline methods can be extremely…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-22 Payel Ghosal , Shamriddha De , Joyee Ghosh

Vision language models (VLMs) like CLIP show stellar zero-shot capability on classification benchmarks. However, selecting the VLM with the highest performance on the unlabeled downstream task is non-trivial. Existing VLM selection methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yuhe Ding , Bo Jiang , Aihua Zheng , Qin Xu , Jian Liang

Video generative models (VGMs) pretrained on large-scale internet data can produce temporally coherent rollout videos that capture rich object dynamics, offering a compelling foundation for zero-shot robotic manipulation. However, VGMs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Gehao Zhang , Zhenyang Ni , Payal Mohapatra , Han Liu , Ruohan Zhang , Qi Zhu

The video grounding (VG) task aims to locate the queried action or event in an untrimmed video based on rich linguistic descriptions. Existing proposal-free methods are trapped in complex interaction between video and query, overemphasizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Kun Li , Dan Guo , Meng Wang

Recent video diffusion models have enhanced video editing, but it remains challenging to handle instructional editing and diverse tasks (e.g., adding, removing, changing) within a unified framework. In this paper, we introduce VEGGIE, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shoubin Yu , Difan Liu , Ziqiao Ma , Yicong Hong , Yang Zhou , Hao Tan , Joyce Chai , Mohit Bansal

Current large multimodal models (LMMs) face challenges in grounding, which requires the model to relate language components to visual entities. Contrary to the common practice that fine-tunes LMMs with additional grounding supervision, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Shengcao Cao , Liang-Yan Gui , Yu-Xiong Wang

We present a simplified, task-agnostic multi-modal pre-training approach that can accept either video or text input, or both for a variety of end tasks. Existing pre-training are task-specific by adopting either a single cross-modal encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Hu Xu , Gargi Ghosh , Po-Yao Huang , Prahal Arora , Masoumeh Aminzadeh , Christoph Feichtenhofer , Florian Metze , Luke Zettlemoyer

General-purpose robots require decision-making models that generalize across diverse tasks and environments. Recent works build robot foundation models by extending multimodal large language models (MLLMs) with action outputs, creating…

Pre-trained multi-modal vision-language models (VLMs) are becoming increasingly popular due to their exceptional performance on downstream vision applications, particularly in the few- and zero-shot settings. However, selecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Orr Zohar , Shih-Cheng Huang , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Serena Yeung

Given an untrimmed video and a language query depicting a specific temporal moment in the video, video grounding aims to localize the time interval by understanding the text and video simultaneously. One of the most challenging issues is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Dahye Kim , Jungin Park , Jiyoung Lee , Seongheon Park , Kwanghoon Sohn

3D visual grounding (3DVG) identifies objects in 3D scenes from language descriptions. Existing zero-shot approaches leverage 2D vision-language models (VLMs) by converting 3D spatial information (SI) into forms amenable to VLM processing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yuanyuan Liu , Haiyang Mei , Dongyang Zhan , Jiayue Zhao , Dongsheng Zhou , Bo Dong , Xin Yang

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

Large video-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated promising progress in various video understanding tasks. However, their effectiveness in long-form video analysis is constrained by limited context windows. Traditional approaches, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Shuming Liu , Chen Zhao , Tianqi Xu , Bernard Ghanem

In this paper, we introduce a new task, spoken video grounding (SVG), which aims to localize the desired video fragments from spoken language descriptions. Compared with using text, employing audio requires the model to directly exploit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Yan Xia , Zhou Zhao , Shangwei Ye , Yang Zhao , Haoyuan Li , Yi Ren

Understanding complex human activities demands the ability to decompose motion into fine-grained, semantic-aligned sub-actions. This motion grounding process is crucial for behavior analysis, embodied AI and virtual reality. Yet, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yunjiao Zhou , Xinyan Chen , Junlang Qian , Lihua Xie , Jianfei Yang

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

Large video language models (LVLMs) have made notable progress in video understanding, spurring the development of corresponding evaluation benchmarks. However, existing benchmarks generally assess overall performance across entire video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Hou Xia , Zheren Fu , Fangcan Ling , Jiajun Li , Yi Tu , Zhendong Mao , Yongdong Zhang