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Temporal grounding of natural language in untrimmed videos is a fundamental yet challenging multimedia task facilitating cross-media visual content retrieval. We focus on the weakly supervised setting of this task that merely accesses to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Jie Wu , Guanbin Li , Xiaoguang Han , Liang Lin

This technical report describes the SViT approach for the Ego4D Point of No Return (PNR) Temporal Localization Challenge. We propose a learning framework StructureViT (SViT for short), which demonstrates how utilizing the structure of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Elad Ben-Avraham , Roei Herzig , Karttikeya Mangalam , Amir Bar , Anna Rohrbach , Leonid Karlinsky , Trevor Darrell , Amir Globerson

Video-language alignment is a crucial multi-modal task that benefits various downstream applications, e.g., video-text retrieval and video question answering. Existing methods either utilize multi-modal information in video-text pairs or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Shi-Xue Zhang , Hongfa Wang , Xiaobin Zhu , Weibo Gu , Tianjin Zhang , Chun Yang , Wei Liu , Xu-Cheng Yin

This paper studies the task of temporal moment localization in a long untrimmed video using natural language query. Given a query sentence, the goal is to determine the start and end of the relevant segment within the video. Our key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Basura Fernando , Hongdong Li , Stephen Gould

Video Question Answering (Video QA) is a challenging video understanding task that requires models to comprehend entire videos, identify the most relevant information based on contextual cues from a given question, and reason accurately to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Roberto Amoroso , Gengyuan Zhang , Rajat Koner , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara , Volker Tresp

Temporal sentence grounding in videos(TSGV), which aims to localize one target segment from an untrimmed video with respect to a given sentence query, has drawn increasing attentions in the research community over the past few years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Xiaohan Lan , Yitian Yuan , Xin Wang , Zhi Wang , Wenwu Zhu

Given some video-query pairs with untrimmed videos and sentence queries, temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to locate query-relevant segments in these videos. Although previous respectable TSG methods have achieved remarkable success,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiang Fang , Wanlong Fang , Changshuo Wang , Daizong Liu , Keke Tang , Jianfeng Dong , Pan Zhou , Beibei Li

We propose a novel approach for captioning and object grounding in video, where the objects in the caption are grounded in the video via temporally dense bounding boxes. We introduce the following contributions. First, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Evangelos Kazakos , Cordelia Schmid , Josef Sivic

Video grounding aims to localize the temporal segment corresponding to a sentence query from an untrimmed video. Almost all existing video grounding methods fall into two frameworks: 1) Top-down model: It predefines a set of segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Meng Cao , Long Chen , Mike Zheng Shou , Can Zhang , Yuexian Zou

Intent-oriented controlled video captioning aims to generate targeted descriptions for specific targets in a video based on customized user intent. Current Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) have gained strong instruction following and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Tianheng Qiu , Jingchun Gao , Jingyu Li , Huiyi Leong , Xuan Huang , Xi Wang , Xiaocheng Zhang , Kele Xu , Lan Zhang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Mihai Zanfir , Elisabeta Marinoiu , Cristian Sminchisescu

Recent advancements in language-model-based video understanding have been progressing at a remarkable pace, spurred by the introduction of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the focus of prior research has been predominantly on devising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Yizhou Wang , Ruiyi Zhang , Haoliang Wang , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Yun Fu , Gang Wu

Cause-and-effect reasoning in video is a significant challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), as it requires going beyond surface-level perception to a deeper understanding of causal mechanisms. However, existing benchmarks rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mingfang Zhang , Jingjing Pan , Ashutosh Kumar , Rajat Saini , Mustafa Erdogan , Hsuan-Kung Yang , Caixin Kang , Yifei Huang , Yoichi Sato , Quan Kong

A core capability towards general embodied intelligence lies in localizing task-relevant objects from an egocentric perspective, formulated as Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG). Despite recent progress, existing STVG studies remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Qi'ao Xu , Tianwen Qian , Yuqian Fu , Kailing Li , Yang Jiao , Jiacheng Zhang , Xiaoling Wang , Liang He

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

The recent introduction of the large-scale, long-form MAD and Ego4D datasets has enabled researchers to investigate the performance of current state-of-the-art methods for video grounding in the long-form setup, with interesting findings:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wayner Barrios , Mattia Soldan , Alberto Mario Ceballos-Arroyo , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Bernard Ghanem

Grounding temporal video segments described in natural language queries effectively and efficiently is a crucial capability needed in vision-and-language fields. In this paper, we deal with the fast video temporal grounding (FVTG) task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Ziyue Wu , Junyu Gao , Shucheng Huang , Changsheng Xu

Temporal grounding, which localizes video moments related to a natural language query, is a core problem of vision-language learning and video understanding. To encode video moments of varying lengths, recent methods employ a multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Thong Thanh Nguyen , Yi Bin , Xiaobao Wu , Zhiyuan Hu , Cong-Duy T Nguyen , See-Kiong Ng , Anh Tuan Luu

The core challenge in video understanding lies in perceiving dynamic content changes over time. However, multimodal large language models struggle with temporal-sensitive video tasks, which requires generating timestamps to mark the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Henghao Zhao , Ge-Peng Ji , Rui Yan , Huan Xiong , Zechao Li

Recent advancements in Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) have enabled strong performance across diverse multimodal video tasks. To reduce the high computational cost of processing dense video frames, efficiency-oriented methods such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yeonkyung Lee , Dayun Ju , Youngmin Kim , Seil Kang , Seong Jae Hwang