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most citedLanguage Models with Image Descriptors are Strong Few-Shot Video-Language Learners

52 citations · 126 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

cs.CV2025

PuzzleGPT: Emulating Human Puzzle-Solving Ability for Time and Location Prediction

Hammad Ayyubi, Xuande Feng, Junzhang Liu +3

The task of predicting time and location from images is challenging and requires complex human-like puzzle-solving ability over different clues. In this work, we formalize this abi…

cs.CV2025

ENTER: Event Based Interpretable Reasoning for VideoQA

Hammad Ayyubi, Junzhang Liu, Ali Asgarov +10

In this paper, we present ENTER, an interpretable Video Question Answering (VideoQA) system based on event graphs. Event graphs convert videos into graphical representations, where…

cs.CV2024

SCHEMA: State CHangEs MAtter for Procedure Planning in Instructional Videos

Yulei Niu, Wenliang Guo, Long Chen +2

We study the problem of procedure planning in instructional videos, which aims to make a goal-oriented sequence of action steps given partial visual state observations. The motivat…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Video Summarization: Towards Entity-Aware Captions

Hammad A. Ayyubi, Tianqi Liu, Arsha Nagrani +7

Existing popular video captioning benchmarks and models deal with generic captions devoid of specific person, place or organization named entities. In contrast, news videos present…

cs.CL2023

Non-Sequential Graph Script Induction via Multimedia Grounding

Yu Zhou, Sha Li, Manling Li +4

Online resources such as WikiHow compile a wide range of scripts for performing everyday tasks, which can assist models in learning to reason about procedures. However, the scripts…

cs.CL2023

Language Models are Causal Knowledge Extractors for Zero-shot Video Question Answering

Hung-Ting Su, Yulei Niu, Xudong Lin +2

Causal Video Question Answering (CVidQA) queries not only association or temporal relations but also causal relations in a video. Existing question synthesis methods pre-trained qu…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Supervised Masked Knowledge Distillation for Few-Shot Transformers

Han Lin, Guangxing Han, Jiawei Ma +3

Vision Transformers (ViTs) emerge to achieve impressive performance on many data-abundant computer vision tasks by capturing long-range dependencies among local features. However,…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

In Defense of Structural Symbolic Representation for Video Event-Relation Prediction

Andrew Lu, Xudong Lin, Yulei Niu +1

Understanding event relationships in videos requires a model to understand the underlying structures of events (i.e. the event type, the associated argument roles, and correspondin…

cs.CV2022

TempCLR: Temporal Alignment Representation with Contrastive Learning

Yuncong Yang, Jiawei Ma, Shiyuan Huang +4

Video representation learning has been successful in video-text pre-training for zero-shot transfer, where each sentence is trained to be close to the paired video clips in a commo…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Video Event Extraction via Tracking Visual States of Arguments

Guang Yang, Manling Li, Jiajie Zhang +3

Video event extraction aims to detect salient events from a video and identify the arguments for each event as well as their semantic roles. Existing methods focus on capturing the…

cs.CV2022★ 8 cited

Learning to Decompose Visual Features with Latent Textual Prompts

Feng Wang, Manling Li, Xudong Lin +3

Recent advances in pre-training vision-language models like CLIP have shown great potential in learning transferable visual representations. Nonetheless, for downstream inference,…

cs.CV2022

Weakly-Supervised Temporal Article Grounding

Long Chen, Yulei Niu, Brian Chen +6

Given a long untrimmed video and natural language queries, video grounding (VG) aims to temporally localize the semantically-aligned video segments. Almost all existing VG work hol…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Beyond Grounding: Extracting Fine-Grained Event Hierarchies Across Modalities

Hammad A. Ayyubi, Christopher Thomas, Lovish Chum +8

Events describe happenings in our world that are of importance. Naturally, understanding events mentioned in multimedia content and how they are related forms an important way of c…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Towards Fast Adaptation of Pretrained Contrastive Models for Multi-channel Video-Language Retrieval

Xudong Lin, Simran Tiwari, Shiyuan Huang +4

Multi-channel video-language retrieval require models to understand information from different channels (e.g. videoquestion, videospeech) to correctly link a video with a tex…

cs.CV2022★ 52 cited

Language Models with Image Descriptors are Strong Few-Shot Video-Language Learners

Zhenhailong Wang, Manling Li, Ruochen Xu +10

The goal of this work is to build flexible video-language models that can generalize to various video-to-text tasks from few examples, such as domain-specific captioning, question…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

All in One: Exploring Unified Video-Language Pre-training

Alex Jinpeng Wang, Yixiao Ge, Rui Yan +7

Mainstream Video-Language Pre-training models \cite{actbert,clipbert,violet} consist of three parts, a video encoder, a text encoder, and a video-text fusion Transformer. They purs…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Revitalize Region Feature for Democratizing Video-Language Pre-training of Retrieval

Guanyu Cai, Yixiao Ge, Binjie Zhang +8

Recent dominant methods for video-language pre-training (VLP) learn transferable representations from the raw pixels in an end-to-end manner to achieve advanced performance on down…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Learning To Recognize Procedural Activities with Distant Supervision

Xudong Lin, Fabio Petroni, Gedas Bertasius +3

In this paper we consider the problem of classifying fine-grained, multi-step activities (e.g., cooking different recipes, making disparate home improvements, creating various form…

cs.CV2022★ 8 cited

CLIP-Event: Connecting Text and Images with Event Structures

Manling Li, Ruochen Xu, Shuohang Wang +6

Vision-language (V+L) pretraining models have achieved great success in supporting multimedia applications by understanding the alignments between images and text. While existing v…

cs.CV2021★ 7 cited

Video-Text Pre-training with Learned Regions

Rui Yan, Mike Zheng Shou, Yixiao Ge +4

Video-Text pre-training aims at learning transferable representations from large-scale video-text pairs via aligning the semantics between visual and textual information. State-of-…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

MuMuQA: Multimedia Multi-Hop News Question Answering via Cross-Media Knowledge Extraction and Grounding

Revanth Gangi Reddy, Xilin Rui, Manling Li +9

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in building question answering (QA) models that reason across multiple modalities, such as text and images. However, QA using images…

cs.CV2021

Object-aware Video-language Pre-training for Retrieval

Alex Jinpeng Wang, Yixiao Ge, Guanyu Cai +5

Recently, by introducing large-scale dataset and strong transformer network, video-language pre-training has shown great success especially for retrieval. Yet, existing video-langu…

cs.CV2021★ 3 cited

Joint Multimedia Event Extraction from Video and Article

Brian Chen, Xudong Lin, Christopher Thomas +5

Visual and textual modalities contribute complementary information about events described in multimedia documents. Videos contain rich dynamics and detailed unfoldings of events, w…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Co-Grounding Networks with Semantic Attention for Referring Expression Comprehension in Videos

Sijie Song, Xudong Lin, Jiaying Liu +2

In this paper, we address the problem of referring expression comprehension in videos, which is challenging due to complex expression and scene dynamics. Unlike previous methods wh…