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Visual grounding (VG) aims to establish fine-grained alignment between vision and language. Ideally, it can be a testbed for vision-and-language models to evaluate their understanding of the images and texts and their reasoning abilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zhihong Chen , Ruifei Zhang , Yibing Song , Xiang Wan , Guanbin Li

Fine-tuning MLLMs for Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) often improves in-domain performance but degrades sharply under domain shift. In this work, we find that this failure is primarily driven not just by unseen query concepts, but by visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Geo Ahn , Jiwook Han , Youngrae Kim , Joonseok Lee , Jinwoo Choi

Identifying key temporal intervals within long videos, known as temporal grounding (TG), is important to video understanding and reasoning tasks. In this paper, we introduce a new form of the temporal grounding problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiangrui Liu , Minghao Qin , Yan Shu , Zhengyang Liang , Yang Tian , Chen Jason Zhang , Bo Zhao , Zheng Liu

We propose an effective two-stage approach to tackle the problem of language-based Human-centric Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (HC-STVG) task. In the first stage, we propose an Augmented 2D Temporal Adjacent Network (Augmented 2D-TAN) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Chaolei Tan , Zihang Lin , Jian-Fang Hu , Xiang Li , Wei-Shi Zheng

Real-world robots localize objects from natural-language instructions while scenes around them keep changing. Yet most of the existing 3D visual grounding (3DVG) method still assumes a reconstructed and up-to-date point cloud, an assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Miao Hu , Zhiwei Huang , Tai Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Dahua Lin , Nanning Zheng , Runsen Xu

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

Visual grounding, the task of linking textual queries to specific regions within images, plays a pivotal role in vision-language integration. Existing methods typically rely on extensive task-specific annotations and fine-tuning, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Liqin Luo , Guangyao Chen , Xiawu Zheng , Yongxing Dai , Yixiong Zou , Yonghong Tian

State-of-the-art Text-to-Video (T2V) diffusion models can generate visually impressive results, yet they still frequently fail to compose complex scenes or follow logical temporal instructions. In this paper, we argue that many errors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mariam Hassan , Bastien Van Delft , Wuyang Li , Alexandre Alahi

Video Large Language Models (Vid-LLMs) have made remarkable advancements in comprehending video content for QA dialogue. However, they struggle to extend this visual understanding to tasks requiring precise temporal localization, known as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yongliang Wu , Xinting Hu , Yuyang Sun , Yizhou Zhou , Wenbo Zhu , Fengyun Rao , Bernt Schiele , Xu Yang

Visual Grounding (VG) aims to localize specific objects in an image according to natural language expressions, serving as a fundamental task in vision-language understanding. However, existing VG benchmarks are mostly derived from datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Tianyi Zhao , Jiawen Xi , Linhui Xiao , Junnan Li , Xue Yang , Maoxun Yuan , Xingxing Wei

Spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG) requires localizing a target object in untrimmed videos both temporally and spatially from natural language descriptions. Despite their strong language understanding, multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xin Gu , Haoji Zhang , Qihang Fan , Jingxuan Niu , Zhipeng Zhang , Libo Zhang , Guang Chen , Fan Chen , Longyin Wen , Sijie Zhu

Today's VidSGG models are all proposal-based methods, i.e., they first generate numerous paired subject-object snippets as proposals, and then conduct predicate classification for each proposal. In this paper, we argue that this prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Kaifeng Gao , Long Chen , Yulei Niu , Jian Shao , Jun Xiao

Grounding events in videos serves as a fundamental capability in video analysis. While Vision Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly employed for this task, existing approaches predominantly train models to associate events with timestamps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Fangxu Yu , Ziyao Lu , Liqiang Niu , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

Make-up temporal video grounding (MTVG) aims to localize the target video segment which is semantically related to a sentence describing a make-up activity, given a long video. Compared with the general video grounding task, MTVG focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Jiaxiu Li , Kun Li , Jia Li , Guoliang Chen , Dan Guo , Meng Wang

Existing Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) models excel in accuracy but often overlook open-world challenges posed by open-vocabulary queries and untrimmed videos. This leads to unreliable predictions for noisy, corrupted, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Kaijing Ma , Haojian Huang , Jin Chen , Haodong Chen , Pengliang Ji , Xianghao Zang , Han Fang , Chao Ban , Hao Sun , Mulin Chen , Xuelong Li

Visual grounding, i.e., localizing objects in images according to natural language queries, is an important topic in visual language understanding. The most effective approaches for this task are based on deep learning, which generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Haojun Jiang , Yuanze Lin , Dongchen Han , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Despite progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), the challenge of interpreting long-form videos in response to linguistic queries persists, largely due to the inefficiency in temporal grounding and limited pre-trained context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yuxuan Wang , Yueqian Wang , Pengfei Wu , Jianxin Liang , Dongyan Zhao , Yang Liu , Zilong Zheng

Dense video understanding requires answering several questions such as who is doing what to whom, with what, how, why, and where. Recently, Video Situation Recognition (VidSitu) is framed as a task for structured prediction of multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Zeeshan Khan , C. V. Jawahar , Makarand Tapaswi

Video Paragraph Grounding (VPG) is an emerging task in video-language understanding, which aims at localizing multiple sentences with semantic relations and temporal order from an untrimmed video. However, existing VPG approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Chaolei Tan , Jianhuang Lai , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have revolutionized visual content creation, but extending these capabilities to text-to-video (T2V) generation remains a challenge, particularly in preserving temporal consistency. Existing methods that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Dohun Lee , Bryan S Kim , Geon Yeong Park , Jong Chul Ye