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Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to precisely identify video event segments in response to textual queries. The outputs of VTG tasks manifest as sequences of events, each defined by precise timestamps, saliency scores, and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zuhao Yang , Yingchen Yu , Yunqing Zhao , Shijian Lu , Song Bai

In this technical report, we introduce our solution to human-centric spatio-temporal video grounding task. We propose a concise and effective framework named STVGFormer, which models spatiotemporal visual-linguistic dependencies with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Zihang Lin , Chaolei Tan , Jian-Fang Hu , Zhi Jin , Tiancai Ye , Wei-Shi Zheng

In situated collaboration, speakers often use intentionally underspecified deictic commands (e.g., ``pass me \textit{that}''), whose referent becomes identifiable only by aligning speech with a brief co-speech pointing \emph{stroke}.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Weijie Zhou , Xuantang Xiong , Zhenlin Hu , Xiaomeng Zhu , Chaoyang Zhao , Honghui Dong , Zhengyou Zhang , Ming Tang , Jinqiao 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

Spatio-Temporal video grounding (STVG) focuses on retrieving the spatio-temporal tube of a specific object depicted by a free-form textual expression. Existing approaches mainly treat this complicated task as a parallel frame-grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Yang Jin , Yongzhi Li , Zehuan Yuan , Yadong Mu

Spatio-temporal grounding describes the task of localizing events in space and time, e.g., in video data, based on verbal descriptions only. Models for this task are usually trained with human-annotated sentences and bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Brian Chen , Nina Shvetsova , Andrew Rouditchenko , Daniel Kondermann , Samuel Thomas , Shih-Fu Chang , Rogerio Feris , James Glass , Hilde Kuehne

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 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

Video reasoning models are a core component of egocentric and embodied agents. However, standard benchmarks for assessing models provide only evaluation of the output (e.g. the answer to a question), without evaluation of intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Arsha Nagrani , Jasper Uijilings , Shyamal Buch , Tobias Weyand , Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , Bo Hu , Ramin Mehran , David A Ross , Cordelia Schmid

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

Multimodal AI agents are increasingly automating complex real-world workflows that involve online web execution. However, current web-agent benchmarks suffer from a critical limitation: they focus entirely on web-based interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Shoubin Yu , Lei Shu , Antoine Yang , Yao Fu , Srinivas Sunkara , Maria Wang , Jindong Chen , Mohit Bansal , Boqing Gong

Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding requires jointly localizing target objects across both temporal and spatial dimensions based on natural language queries, posing fundamental challenges for existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xuezhen Tu , Jingyu Wu , Fangyu Kang , Qingpeng Nong , Kaijin Zhang , Chaoyue Niu , Fan Wu

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

In this work we study Weakly Supervised Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (WSTVG), a challenging task of localizing subjects spatio-temporally in videos using only textual queries and no bounding box supervision. Inspired by recent advances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Aaryan Garg , Akash Kumar , Yogesh S Rawat

A core aspect of human perception is situated awareness, the ability to relate ourselves to the surrounding physical environment and reason over possible actions in context. However, most existing benchmarks for multimodal foundation models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Chuhan Li , Ruilin Han , Joy Hsu , Yongyuan Liang , Rajiv Dhawan , Jiajun Wu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Xin Eric Wang

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

Given an untrimmed video, temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to locate a target moment semantically according to a sentence query. Although previous respectable works have made decent success, they only focus on high-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Guoshun Nan

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made remarkable progress in either temporal or spatial localization. However, they struggle to perform spatio-temporal video grounding. This limitation stems from two major challenges. Firstly,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jiankang Wang , Zhihan Zhang , Zhihang Liu , Yang Li , Jiannan Ge , Hongtao Xie , Yongdong Zhang

Transformer has attracted increasing interest in STVG, owing to its end-to-end pipeline and promising result. Existing Transformer-based STVG approaches often leverage a set of object queries, which are initialized simply using zeros and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xin Gu , Yaojie Shen , Chenxi Luo , Tiejian Luo , Yan Huang , Yuewei Lin , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang

Visual grounding associates textual descriptions with objects in an image. Conventional methods target third-person image inputs and named object queries. In applications such as AI assistants, the perspective shifts -- inputs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Pengzhan Sun , Junbin Xiao , Tze Ho Elden Tse , Yicong Li , Arjun Akula , Angela Yao