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Despite recent advances in Video Large Language Models (Vid-LLMs), Temporal Video Grounding (TVG), which aims to precisely localize time segments corresponding to query events, remains a significant challenge. Existing methods often match…

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Parallel event sequences, such as those collected in program execution traces and automated manufacturing pipelines, are typically visualized as interactive parallel timelines. As the dataset size grows, these charts frequently experience…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Sayef Azad Sakin , Katherine E. Isaacs

Long video understanding (LVU) remains a core challenge in multimodal learning. Although recent vision-language models (VLMs) have made notable progress, existing benchmarks mainly focus on either fine-grained perception or coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Seng Nam Chen , Hao Chen , Chenglam Ho , Xinyu Mao , Jinping Wang , Yu Zhang , Chao Li

Answering questions about complex situations in videos requires not only capturing the presence of actors, objects, and their relations but also the evolution of these relationships over time. A situation hyper-graph is a representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Aisha Urooj Khan , Hilde Kuehne , Bo Wu , Kim Chheu , Walid Bousselham , Chuang Gan , Niels Lobo , Mubarak Shah

Understanding of video creativity and content often varies among individuals, with differences in focal points and cognitive levels across different ages, experiences, and genders. There is currently a lack of research in this area, and…

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In this paper we tackle the problem of efficient video event detection. We argue that linear detection functions should be preferred in this regard due to their scalability and efficiency during estimation and evaluation. A popular approach…

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We present SEMBED, an approach for embedding an egocentric object interaction video in a semantic-visual graph to estimate the probability distribution over its potential semantic labels. When object interactions are annotated using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Michael Wray , Davide Moltisanti , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas , Dima Damen

Temporal networks are increasingly being used to model the interactions of complex systems. Most studies require the temporal aggregation of edges (or events) into discrete time steps to perform analysis. In this article we describe a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Andrew Mellor

Using offline training schemes, researchers have tackled the event segmentation problem by providing full or weak-supervision through manually annotated labels or self-supervised epoch-based training. Most works consider videos that are at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Ramy Mounir , Roman Gula , Jörn Theuerkauf , Sudeep Sarkar

The task of describing video content in natural language is commonly referred to as video captioning. Unlike conventional video captions, which are typically brief and widely available, long-form paragraph descriptions in natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Mihai Masala , Marius Leordeanu

Understanding long video content is a complex endeavor that often relies on densely sampled frame captions or end-to-end feature selectors, yet these techniques commonly overlook the logical relationships between textual queries and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Weiyu Guo , Ziyang Chen , Shaoguang Wang , Jianxiang He , Yijie Xu , Jinhui Ye , Ying Sun , Hui Xiong

Along with generative AI, interest in scene graph generation (SGG), which comprehensively captures the relationships and interactions between objects in an image and creates a structured graph-based representation, has significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Hyeongjin Kim , Sangwon Kim , Jong Taek Lee , Byoung Chul Ko

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models have driven breakthroughs in visual question answering. Yet, a critical gap persists, `conceptualization'-the ability to recognize and reason about the same concept despite variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zahra Babaiee , Peyman M. Kiasari , Daniela Rus , Radu Grosu

Autoregressive large vision--language models (LVLMs) interface video and language by projecting video features into the LLM's embedding space as continuous visual token embeddings. However, it remains unclear where temporal evidence is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiming Zhang , Zhuokai Zhao , Chengzhang Yu , Kun Wang , Zhendong Chu , Qiankun Li , Zihan Chen , Yang Liu , Zenghui Ding , Yining Sun , Qingsong Wen

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

Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos (TSGV) aims to detect the event timestamps described by the natural language query from untrimmed videos. This paper discusses the challenge of achieving efficient computation in TSGV models while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Renjie Liang , Yiming Yang , Hui Lu , Li Li

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) leverage aligned visual encoders to transform images into visual tokens, allowing them to be processed similarly to text by the backbone large language model (LLM). This unified input paradigm enables VLMs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bangzheng Li , Fei Wang , Wenxuan Zhou , Nan Xu , Ben Zhou , Sheng Zhang , Hoifung Poon , Muhao Chen

Precisely evaluating semantic alignment between text prompts and generated videos remains a challenge in Text-to-Video (T2V) Generation. Existing text-to-video alignment metrics like CLIPScore only generate coarse-grained scores without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Kaisi Guan , Zhengfeng Lai , Yuchong Sun , Peng Zhang , Wei Liu , Kieran Liu , Meng Cao , Ruihua Song

This paper presents a novel approach for temporal and semantic segmentation of edited videos into meaningful segments, from the point of view of the storytelling structure. The objective is to decompose a long video into more manageable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Lorenzo Baraldi , Costantino Grana , Rita Cucchiara

Despite advances in Large Multi-modal Models, applying them to long and untrimmed video content remains challenging due to limitations in context length and substantial memory overhead. These constraints often lead to significant…

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