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Recent progress in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has demonstrated strong semantic understanding capabilities, but struggles to perform precise spatio-temporal understanding. Existing spatio-temporal methods primarily focus on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Wentao Wang , Heqing Zou , Tianze Luo , Rui Huang , Yutian Zhao , Zhuochen Wang , Hansheng Zhang , Chengwei Qin , Yan Wang , Lin Zhao , Huaijian Zhang

This paper explores the task of Temporal Video Grounding (TVG) where, given an untrimmed video and a natural language sentence query, the goal is to recognize and determine temporal boundaries of action instances in the video described by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Erica K. Shimomoto , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Hiroya Takamura , Ichiro Kobayashi , Hideki Nakayama , Yusuke Miyao

This paper presents a novel approach for the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task in continuous 3D environments, which requires an autonomous agent to follow natural language instructions in unseen environments. Existing end-to-end…

Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos (TSGV) aims to temporally localize segments of a video that correspond to a given natural language query. Despite recent progress, most existing TSGV approaches operate under closed-vocabulary settings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tingting Han , Xinsong Tao , Yufei Yin , Min Tan , Sicheng Zhao , Zhou Yu

Effectively retrieving, reasoning, and understanding multimodal information remains a critical challenge for agentic systems. Traditional Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG) methods rely on linear interaction histories, which struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Qiuchen Wang , Shihang Wang , Yu Zeng , Qiang Zhang , Fanrui Zhang , Zhuoning Guo , Bosi Zhang , Wenxuan Huang , Lin Chen , Zehui Chen , Pengjun Xie , Ruixue Ding

Spatio-temporal reasoning is a core capability for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) operating in the real world. As such, evaluating it precisely has become an essential challenge. However, existing spatio-temporal reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jinho Park , Youbin Kim , Hogun Park , Eunbyung Park

The spatial reasoning task aims to reason about the spatial relationships in 2D and 3D space, which is a fundamental capability for Visual Question Answering (VQA) and robotics. Although vision language models (VLMs) have developed rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xun Liang , Xin Guo , Zhongming Jin , Weihang Pan , Penghui Shang , Deng Cai , Binbin Lin , Jieping Ye

Spatial reasoning, the ability to ground language in 3D understanding, remains a persistent challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs). We identify two fundamental bottlenecks: inadequate 3D understanding capabilities stemming from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yejie Guo , Yunzhong Hou , Wufei Ma , Meng Tang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) generation with diffusion models have garnered significant attention. However, they typically perform well in scenes with a single object and motion, struggling in compositional scenarios with multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yuanhang Li , Qi Mao , Lan Chen , Zhen Fang , Lei Tian , Xinyan Xiao , Libiao Jin , Hua Wu

Temporal action proposal generation (TAPG) is a fundamental and challenging task in video understanding, especially in temporal action detection. Most previous works focus on capturing the local temporal context and can well locate simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Fan Wang , Hao Li , Jiashi Feng

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) is an essential capability for embodied AI, requiring agents to localize objects in 3D scenes based on natural language descriptions. Recent zero-shot methods leverage 2D vision-language models (LVLMs). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Cuong Huynh , Maxim Popov , Denis Gridusov , Sergey Kolyubin

Visual grounding is a common vision task that involves grounding descriptive sentences to the corresponding regions of an image. Most existing methods use independent image-text encoding and apply complex hand-crafted modules or…

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful approach for enhancing large language models' question-answering capabilities through the integration of external knowledge. However, when adapting RAG systems to specialized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Xin Sun , Zhongqi Chen , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Bowen Song , Weiqiang Wang , Zilei Wang , Liang Wang

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…

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Visual-based perception is the key module for autonomous driving. Among those visual perception tasks, video object detection is a primary yet challenging one because of feature degradation caused by fast motion or multiple poses. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yiming Cui , Cheng Han , Dongfang Liu

This paper addresses the problem of text-to-video temporal grounding, which aims to identify the time interval in a video semantically relevant to a text query. We tackle this problem using a novel regression-based model that learns to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Jonghwan Mun , Minsu Cho , Bohyung Han

Temporal modeling is crucial for various video learning tasks. Most recent approaches employ either factorized (2D+1D) or joint (3D) spatial-temporal operations to extract temporal contexts from the input frames. While the former is more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yizhou Zhao , Zhenyang Li , Xun Guo , Yan Lu

This paper presents a novel mid-level representation for action recognition, named spatio-temporal aware non-negative component representation (STANNCR). The proposed STANNCR is based on action component and incorporates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Jianhong Wang , Tian Lan , Xu Zhang , Limin Luo

Reliable forecasting of traffic flow requires efficient modeling of traffic data. Indeed, different correlations and influences arise in a dynamic traffic network, making modeling a complicated task. Existing literature has proposed many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Kishor Kumar Bhaumik , Fahim Faisal Niloy , Saif Mahmud , Simon Woo

An effective understanding of the environment and accurate trajectory prediction of surrounding dynamic obstacles are indispensable for intelligent mobile systems (e.g. autonomous vehicles and social robots) to achieve safe and high-quality…

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