Enrich and Detect: Video Temporal Grounding with Multimodal LLMs

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Main Authors: Pramanick, Shraman, Mavroudi, Effrosyni, Song, Yale, Chellappa, Rama, Torresani, Lorenzo, Afouras, Triantafyllos
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author Pramanick, Shraman
Mavroudi, Effrosyni
Song, Yale
Chellappa, Rama
Torresani, Lorenzo
Afouras, Triantafyllos
author_facet Pramanick, Shraman
Mavroudi, Effrosyni
Song, Yale
Chellappa, Rama
Torresani, Lorenzo
Afouras, Triantafyllos
contents We introduce ED-VTG, a method for fine-grained video temporal grounding utilizing multi-modal large language models. Our approach harnesses the capabilities of multimodal LLMs to jointly process text and video, in order to effectively localize natural language queries in videos through a two-stage process. Rather than being directly grounded, language queries are initially transformed into enriched sentences that incorporate missing details and cues to aid in grounding. In the second stage, these enriched queries are grounded, using a lightweight decoder, which specializes at predicting accurate boundaries conditioned on contextualized representations of the enriched queries. To mitigate noise and reduce the impact of hallucinations, our model is trained with a multiple-instance-learning objective that dynamically selects the optimal version of the query for each training sample. We demonstrate state-of-the-art results across various benchmarks in temporal video grounding and paragraph grounding settings. Experiments reveal that our method significantly outperforms all previously proposed LLM-based temporal grounding approaches and is either superior or comparable to specialized models, while maintaining a clear advantage against them in zero-shot evaluation scenarios.
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spellingShingle Enrich and Detect: Video Temporal Grounding with Multimodal LLMs
Pramanick, Shraman
Mavroudi, Effrosyni
Song, Yale
Chellappa, Rama
Torresani, Lorenzo
Afouras, Triantafyllos
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
We introduce ED-VTG, a method for fine-grained video temporal grounding utilizing multi-modal large language models. Our approach harnesses the capabilities of multimodal LLMs to jointly process text and video, in order to effectively localize natural language queries in videos through a two-stage process. Rather than being directly grounded, language queries are initially transformed into enriched sentences that incorporate missing details and cues to aid in grounding. In the second stage, these enriched queries are grounded, using a lightweight decoder, which specializes at predicting accurate boundaries conditioned on contextualized representations of the enriched queries. To mitigate noise and reduce the impact of hallucinations, our model is trained with a multiple-instance-learning objective that dynamically selects the optimal version of the query for each training sample. We demonstrate state-of-the-art results across various benchmarks in temporal video grounding and paragraph grounding settings. Experiments reveal that our method significantly outperforms all previously proposed LLM-based temporal grounding approaches and is either superior or comparable to specialized models, while maintaining a clear advantage against them in zero-shot evaluation scenarios.
title Enrich and Detect: Video Temporal Grounding with Multimodal LLMs
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17023