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While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have advanced Video Temporal Grounding (VTG), existing methods often couple output paradigms with different backbones, datasets, and training protocols. This makes it challenging to isolate the…

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Vision Language Models (VLMs) struggle with long-form videos due to the quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms. We propose Language-Guided Temporal Token Pruning (LGTTP), which leverages temporal cues from queries to adaptively prune…

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Understanding abnormal events in videos is a vital and challenging task that has garnered significant attention in a wide range of applications. Although current video understanding Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yingxian Chen , Jiahui Liu , Ruidi Fan , Yanwei Li , Chirui Chang , Shizhen Zhao , Wilton W. T. Fok , Xiaojuan Qi , Yik-Chung Wu

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to identify visual frames in a video clip that match text queries. Recent studies in VTG employ cross-attention to correlate visual frames and text queries as individual token sequences. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Jongbhin Woo , Hyeonggon Ryu , Youngjoon Jang , Jae Won Cho , Joon Son Chung

Temporal sentence grounding in videos (TSGV), \aka natural language video localization (NLVL) or video moment retrieval (VMR), aims to retrieve a temporal moment that semantically corresponds to a language query from an untrimmed video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Hao Zhang , Aixin Sun , Wei Jing , Joey Tianyi Zhou

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jiahao Nie , Wenbin An , Gongjie Zhang , Yicheng Xu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot , Shijian Lu

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently expanded from static image understanding to video reasoning, but their scalability is fundamentally limited by the quadratic cost of processing dense frame sequences. Long videos often exceed the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Natan Bagrov , Eugene Khvedchenia , Borys Tymchenko , Shay Aharon , Lior Kadoch , Tomer Keren , Ofri Masad , Yonatan Geifman , Ran Zilberstein , Tuomas Rintamaki , Matthieu Le , Andrew Tao

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize the video segment that corresponds to a natural language query, which requires a comprehensive understanding of complex temporal dynamics. Existing Vision-LMMs typically perceive temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chaohong Guo , Yihan He , Yongwei Nie , Fei Ma , Xuemiao Xu , Chengjiang Long

Spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG) aims at localizing the spatio-temporal tube of a video, as specified by the input text query. In this paper, we utilize multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to explore a zero-shot solution in STVG.…

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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential for enhancing scene understanding in autonomous driving systems through powerful logical reasoning capabilities. However, the deployment of these models faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Yunsheng Ma , Amr Abdelraouf , Rohit Gupta , Ziran Wang , Kyungtae Han

Video temporal grounding (VTG), which localizes the start and end times of a queried event in an untrimmed video, is a key test of whether multimodal large language models (MLLMs) understand not only what happens but also when it happens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Dazhao Du , Liao Duan , Jian Liu , Tao Han , Yujia Zhang , Eric Liu , Xi Chen , Song Guo

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize temporal segments in long, untrimmed videos that align with a given natural language query. This task typically comprises two subtasks: Moment Retrieval (MR) and Highlight Detection (HD).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Minseok Kang , Minhyeok Lee , Minjung Kim , Donghyeong Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Video temporal grounding (VTG) aims to localize the start and end timestamps of the event described by a given query within an untrimmed video. Despite the strong open-world video understanding and recognition ability of video language…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pengcheng Fang , Yuxia Chen , Xiaohao Cai

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment and track objects in videos based on natural language expressions, requiring precise alignment between visual content and textual queries. However, existing methods often suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Seunghun Lee , Jiwan Seo , Jeonghoon Kim , Sungho Moon , Siwon Kim , Haeun Yun , Hyogyeong Jeon , Wonhyeok Choi , Jaehoon Jeong , Zane Durante , Sang Hyun Park , Sunghoon Im

Visual grounding is a long-lasting problem in vision-language understanding due to its diversity and complexity. Current practices concentrate mostly on performing visual grounding in still images or well-trimmed video clips. This work, on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Qianyu Feng , Yunchao Wei , Mingming Cheng , Yi Yang

Large language models (LLMs) excel at retrieving information from lengthy text, but their vision-language counterparts (VLMs) face difficulties with hour-long videos, especially for temporal grounding. Specifically, these VLMs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Tanveer Hannan , Md Mohaiminul Islam , Jindong Gu , Thomas Seidl , Gedas Bertasius

Text spotting, a task involving the extraction of textual information from image or video sequences, faces challenges in cross-domain adaption, such as image-to-image and image-to-video generalization. In this paper, we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yuliang Liu , Mingxin Huang , Hao Yan , Linger Deng , Weijia Wu , Hao Lu , Chunhua Shen , Lianwen Jin , Xiang Bai

This paper presents a computational model for universal video temporal grounding, which accurately localizes temporal moments in videos based on natural language queries (e.g., questions or descriptions). Unlike existing methods that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Zeqian Li , Shangzhe Di , Zhonghua Zhai , Weilin Huang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Understanding videos requires more than answering open ended questions, it demands the ability to pinpoint when events occur and how entities interact across time. While recent Video LLMs have achieved remarkable progress in holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Pengcheng Fang , Yuxia Chen , Rui Guo

Token pruning is essential for enhancing the computational efficiency of vision-language models (VLMs), particularly for video-based tasks where temporal redundancy is prevalent. Prior approaches typically prune tokens either (1) within the…

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