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Masked video modeling~(MVM) has emerged as a highly effective pre-training strategy for visual foundation models, whereby the model reconstructs masked spatiotemporal tokens using information from visible tokens. However, a key challenge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Ayush K. Rai , Kyle Min , Tarun Krishna , Feiyan Hu , Alan F. Smeaton , Noel E. O'Connor

This technical report presents an overview of our solution used in the submission to 2021 HACS Temporal Action Localization Challenge on both Supervised Learning Track and Weakly-Supervised Learning Track. Temporal Action Localization (TAL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Haisheng Su , Peiqin Zhuang , Yukun Li , Dongliang Wang , Weihao Gan , Wei Wu , Yu Qiao

Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) offer a promising paradigm for parallel text generation, but in practice they face an accuracy-parallelism trade-off, where increasing tokens per forward (TPF) often degrades generation quality.…

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Reinforcement learning based post-training paradigms for Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) have achieved significant success by optimizing for visual-semantic tasks such as captioning or VideoQA. However, while these approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xiaokun Sun , Zezhong Wu , Zewen Ding , Linli Xu

Traditional temporal action localization (TAL) methods rely on large amounts of detailed annotated data, whereas few-shot TAL reduces this dependence by using only a few training samples to identify unseen action categories. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Mengshi Qi , Hongwei Ji , Wulian Yun , Xianlin Zhang , Huadong Ma

Point-supervised Temporal Action Localization (PTAL) adopts a lightly frame-annotated paradigm (\textit{i.e.}, labeling only a single frame per action instance) to train a model to effectively locate action instances within untrimmed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yunchuan Ma , Laiyun Qing , Guorong Li , Yuqing Liu , Yuankai Qi , Qingming Huang

Long-form video understanding requires designing approaches that are able to temporally localize activities or language. End-to-end training for such tasks is limited by the compute device memory constraints and lack of temporal annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Mengmeng Xu , Erhan Gundogdu , Maksim Lapin , Bernard Ghanem , Michael Donoser , Loris Bazzani

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) faces a cross-modal semantic gap that often leads to background features being incorrectly aligned with the query, while directly matching the query to moments results in insufficient discriminability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ran Ran , Jiwei Wei , Shuchang Zhou , Yitong Qin , Shiyuan He , Zeyu Ma , Yuyang Zhou , Yang Yang

Point-level supervised temporal action localization (PTAL) aims at recognizing and localizing actions in untrimmed videos where only a single point (frame) within every action instance is annotated in training data. Without temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yuan Yin , Yifei Huang , Ryosuke Furuta , Yoichi Sato

We address the problem of language-based temporal localization of moments in untrimmed videos. Compared to temporal localization with fixed categories, this problem is more challenging as the language-based queries have no predefined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Madhawa Vidanapathirana , Supriya Pandhre , Sonia Raychaudhuri , Anjali Khurana

The temporal answering grounding in the video (TAGV) is a new task naturally derived from temporal sentence grounding in the video (TSGV). Given an untrimmed video and a text question, this task aims at locating the matching span from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Bin Li , Yixuan Weng , Bin Sun , Shutao Li

Enhancing the temporal understanding of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is essential for advancing long-form video analysis, enabling tasks such as temporal localization, action detection, and time-sensitive question answering.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Tao Wu , Li Yang , Gen Zhan , Yabin Zhang , Yiting Liao , Junlin Li , Deliang Fu , Li Zhang , Limin Wang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable progress in offline tasks such as image captioning and video question answering. However, real-time interactive environments impose new demands on VLMs, requiring them to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Keunwoo Peter Yu , Joyce Chai

The goal of visual answering localization (VAL) in the video is to obtain a relevant and concise time clip from a video as the answer to the given natural language question. Early methods are based on the interaction modelling between video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Yixuan Weng , Bin Li

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) offer attractive advantages over Auto-Regressive (AR) models, such as full-attention parallel decoding and flexible generation. However, standard DLM training uses a static, single-step masked prediction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zehua Pei , Hui-Ling Zhen , Weizhe Lin , Sinno Jialin Pan , Yunhe Wang , Mingxuan Yuan , Bei Yu

Temporal action localization (TAL) involves dual tasks to classify and localize actions within untrimmed videos. However, the two tasks often have conflicting requirements for features. Existing methods typically employ separate heads for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Qiang Li , Di Liu , Jun Kong , Sen Li , Hui Xu , Jianzhong Wang

Large diffusion vision-language models (LDVLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive models, enabling parallel decoding for efficient inference and leveraging bidirectional attention for global context. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Sujung Hong , Chanyong Yoon , Seong Jae Hwang

Due to the lack of temporal annotation, current Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) methods are generally stuck into over-complete or incomplete localization. In this paper, we aim to leverage the text information to boost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Guozhang Li , De Cheng , Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Xiaoyu Wang , Xinbo Gao

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) remains a fundamental challenge in video understanding, aiming to identify the start time, end time, and category of all action instances within untrimmed videos. While recent single-stage, anchor-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Thisara Rathnayaka , Uthayasanker Thayasivam

The rapid progress of auto-regressive vision-language models (VLMs) has inspired growing interest in vision-language-action models (VLA) for robotic manipulation. Recently, masked diffusion models, a paradigm distinct from autoregressive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Yuqing Wen , Hebei Li , Kefan Gu , Yucheng Zhao , Tiancai Wang , Xiaoyan Sun