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Visual generation grounded in Visual Foundation Model (VFM) representations offers a highly promising unified pathway for integrating visual understanding, perception, and generation. Despite this potential, training large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Minglei Shi , Haolin Wang , Borui Zhang , Wenzhao Zheng , Bohan Zeng , Ziyang Yuan , Xiaoshi Wu , Yuanxing Zhang , Huan Yang , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

In recent text-video retrieval, the use of additional captions from vision-language models has shown promising effects on the performance. However, existing models using additional captions often have struggled to capture the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Chan Hur , Jeong-hun Hong , Dong-hun Lee , Dabin Kang , Semin Myeong , Sang-hyo Park , Hyeyoung Park

We introduce VideoComp, a benchmark and learning framework for advancing video-text compositionality understanding, aimed at improving vision-language models (VLMs) in fine-grained temporal alignment. Unlike existing benchmarks focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Dahun Kim , AJ Piergiovanni , Ganesh Mallya , Anelia Angelova

Video captioning aims to describe the content of videos using natural language. Although significant progress has been made, there is still much room to improve the performance for real-world applications, mainly due to the long-tail words…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xin Gu , Guang Chen , Yufei Wang , Libo Zhang , Tiejian Luo , Longyin Wen

Video generation models are rapidly advancing, but can still struggle with complex video outputs that require significant semantic branching or repeated high-level reasoning about what should happen next. In this paper, we introduce a new…

Text-to-video (T2V) synthesis has advanced rapidly, yet current evaluation metrics primarily capture visual quality and temporal consistency, offering limited insight into how synthetic videos perform in downstream tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Zecheng Zhao , Selena Song , Tong Chen , Zhi Chen , Shazia Sadiq , Yadan Luo

While current video generation focuses on text or image conditions, practical applications like video editing and vlogging often need to seamlessly connect separate clips. In our work, we introduce Video Connecting, an innovative task that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Zhiyu Yin , Zhipeng Liu , Kehai Chen , Lemao Liu , Jin Liu , Hong-Dong Li , Yang Xiang , Min Zhang

Existing text-to-video (T2V) evaluation benchmarks, such as VBench and EvalCrafter, suffer from two limitations. (i) While the emphasis is on subject-centric prompts or static camera scenes, camera motion essential for producing cinematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Nithin C. Babu , Aniruddha Mahapatra , Harsh Rangwani , Rajiv Soundararajan , Kuldeep Kulkarni

Video represents the majority of internet traffic today, driving a continual race between the generation of higher quality content, transmission of larger file sizes, and the development of network infrastructure. In addition, the recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Pulkit Tandon , Shubham Chandak , Pat Pataranutaporn , Yimeng Liu , Anesu M. Mapuranga , Pattie Maes , Tsachy Weissman , Misha Sra

Diffusion-based \textit{image-to-video} (I2V) generation has become a central direction in generative models by turning a reference image, with optional conditions, into a temporally coherent video. Compared with broader video generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xianlong Wang , Wenbo Pan , Shijia Zhou , Ke Li , Yuqi Wang , Zeyu Ye , Hangtao Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Xiaohua Jia

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) aims to localize a moment from an untrimmed video given the language description. Since the annotation of TVG is labor-intensive, TVG under limited supervision has accepted attention in recent years. The great…

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We introduce Playground v3 (PGv3), our latest text-to-image model that achieves state-of-the-art (SoTA) performance across multiple testing benchmarks, excels in graphic design abilities and introduces new capabilities. Unlike traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Bingchen Liu , Ehsan Akhgari , Alexander Visheratin , Aleks Kamko , Linmiao Xu , Shivam Shrirao , Chase Lambert , Joao Souza , Suhail Doshi , Daiqing Li

Recent advances in text-to-video generation have produced increasingly realistic and diverse content, yet evaluating such videos remains a fundamental challenge due to their multi-faceted nature encompassing visual quality, semantic…

We propose a new task, dataset and model for grounded video caption generation. This task unifies captioning and object grounding in video, where the objects in the caption are grounded in the video via temporally consistent bounding boxes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Evangelos Kazakos , Cordelia Schmid , Josef Sivic

The creation of high-quality human-labeled image-caption datasets presents a significant bottleneck in the development of Visual-Language Models (VLMs). In this work, we investigate an approach that leverages the strengths of Large Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Sahand Sharifzadeh , Christos Kaplanis , Shreya Pathak , Dharshan Kumaran , Anastasija Ilic , Jovana Mitrovic , Charles Blundell , Andrea Banino

Training supervised video captioning model requires coupled video-caption pairs. However, for many targeted languages, sufficient paired data are not available. To this end, we introduce the unpaired video captioning task aiming to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Fenglin Liu , Xian Wu , Chenyu You , Shen Ge , Yuexian Zou , Xu Sun

In the dynamic field of digital content creation using generative models, state-of-the-art video editing models still do not offer the level of quality and control that users desire. Previous works on video editing either extended from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Max Ku , Cong Wei , Weiming Ren , Harry Yang , Wenhu Chen

Video captioning, the task of describing the content of a video, has seen some promising improvements in recent years with sequence-to-sequence models, but accurately learning the temporal and logical dynamics involved in the task still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Ramakanth Pasunuru , Mohit Bansal

Video paragraph captioning aims to generate a multi-sentence description of an untrimmed video with several temporal event locations in coherent storytelling. Following the human perception process, where the scene is effectively understood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Kashu Yamazaki , Khoa Vo , Sang Truong , Bhiksha Raj , Ngan Le

Video understanding, including video captioning and retrieval, is still a great challenge for video-language models (VLMs). The existing video retrieval and caption benchmarks only include short descriptions, limits their ability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yifan Xu , Xinhao Li , Yichun Yang , Desen Meng , Rui Huang , Limin Wang