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Recent progress in video-text retrieval has been driven largely by advancements in model architectures and training strategies. However, the representation learning capabilities of videotext retrieval models remain constrained by lowquality…

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Composed Video Retrieval (CoVR) aims to retrieve a video based on a query video and a modifying text. Current CoVR methods fail to fully exploit modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs), either using outdated architectures or requiring…

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Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in image restoration, yet their application to video super-resolution (VSR) faces significant challenges in balancing fidelity with temporal consistency. Our evaluation reveals a…

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Panoramic video generation aims to synthesize 360-degree immersive videos, holding significant importance in the fields of VR, world models, and spatial intelligence. Existing works fail to synthesize high-quality panoramic videos due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zixun Fang , Kai Zhu , Zhiheng Liu , Yu Liu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Retrieving partially relevant segments from untrimmed videos remains difficult due to two persistent challenges: the mismatch in information density between text and video segments, and limited attention mechanisms that overlook semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Junkai Yang , Qirui Wang , Yaoqing Jin , Shuai Ma , Minghan Xu , Shanmin Pang

Text image super-resolution (Text-SR) requires more than visually plausible detail synthesis: slight errors in stroke topology may alter character identity and break readability. Existing methods improve text fidelity with stronger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zihang Xu , Xiaoyang Liu , Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang

Face video restoration (FVR) is a challenging but important problem where one seeks to recover a perceptually realistic face videos from a low-quality input. While diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have been shown to achieve remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zihao Zou , Jiaming Liu , Shirin Shoushtari , Yubo Wang , Weijie Gan , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

We present REM, a framework for segmenting a wide range of concepts in video that can be described through natural language. Our method leverages the universal visual-language mapping learned by video diffusion models on Internet-scale data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

Modern video codecs and learning-based approaches struggle for semantic reconstruction at extremely low bit-rates due to reliance on low-level spatiotemporal redundancies. Generative models, especially diffusion models, offer a new paradigm…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Maojun Zhang , Haotian Wu , Richeng Jin , Deniz Gunduz , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Composed video retrieval (CoVR) is a challenging problem in computer vision which has recently highlighted the integration of modification text with visual queries for more sophisticated video search in large databases. Existing works…

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Image-to-video generation, which aims to generate a video starting from a given reference image, has drawn great attention. Existing methods try to extend pre-trained text-guided image diffusion models to image-guided video generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Cong Wang , Jiaxi Gu , Panwen Hu , Songcen Xu , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Recently, foundational diffusion models have attracted considerable attention in image compression tasks, whereas their application to video compression remains largely unexplored. In this article, we introduce DiffVC, a diffusion-based…

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In this work, we address a challenge in video inpainting: reconstructing occluded regions in dynamic, real-world scenarios. Motivated by the need for continuous human motion monitoring in healthcare settings, where facial features are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zheyan Zhang , Diego Klabjan , Renee CB Manworren

In this paper, we explore the visual representations produced from a pre-trained text-to-video (T2V) diffusion model for video understanding tasks. We hypothesize that the latent representation learned from a pretrained generative T2V model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zixin Zhu , Xuelu Feng , Dongdong Chen , Junsong Yuan , Chunming Qiao , Gang Hua

We introduce the first zero-shot approach for Video Semantic Segmentation (VSS) based on pre-trained diffusion models. A growing research direction attempts to employ diffusion models to perform downstream vision tasks by exploiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Qian Wang , Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Mohit Mendiratta , Fangneng Zhan , Adam Kortylewski , Christian Theobalt , Peter Wonka

Video Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to localize a target object in videos based on the queried natural language. Recent improvements in video REC have been made using Transformer-based methods with learnable queries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Ji Jiang , Meng Cao , Tengtao Song , Long Chen , Yi Wang , Yuexian Zou

Video moment retrieval and highlight detection have received attention in the current era of video content proliferation, aiming to localize moments and estimate clip relevances based on user-specific queries. Given that the video content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Henghao Zhao , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Rui Yan , Zechao Li

Video restoration poses non-trivial challenges in maintaining fidelity while recovering temporally consistent details from unknown degradations in the wild. Despite recent advances in diffusion-based restoration, these methods often face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jianyi Wang , Zhijie Lin , Meng Wei , Yang Zhao , Ceyuan Yang , Fei Xiao , Chen Change Loy , Lu Jiang

Restoring low-resolution text images presents a significant challenge, as it requires maintaining both the fidelity and stylistic realism of the text in restored images. Existing text image restoration methods often fall short in hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chenglu Pan , Xiaogang Xu , Ganggui Ding , Yunke Zhang , Wenbo Li , Jiarong Xu , Qingbiao Wu

Video moment retrieval (VMR) aims to locate the most likely video moment(s) corresponding to a text query in untrimmed videos. Training of existing methods is limited by the lack of diverse and generalisable VMR datasets, hindering their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Dezhao Luo , Shaogang Gong , Jiabo Huang , Hailin Jin , Yang Liu