Overview

Temporal video grounding studies how to identify when a described action, event, or state occurs in a video, often returning one or more time intervals. Methods range from proposal-based models and cross-modal alignment to zero-shot video-language models, query-guided frame selection, and agents that search long videos in stages. Training commonly uses temporal annotations and benchmarks such as QVHighlights, Charades-STA, and ActivityNet-Captions, while newer work explores weak supervision, reinforcement learning, and open-world queries. A central challenge is that fluent answers and broad event recognition do not guarantee precise, faithful evidence localization, especially in long videos or when queries are ambiguous or match multiple moments.

Latest papers

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169 papers28 papers in the last four weeks, up 115% on the four weeks before. 0.2% of all new papers.

  1. Hierarchical Step Decomposition for Training-free Online Video Step Grounding

    Oct 29, 2026Long Zhou, Luca Zanella, Paolo Rota +2Temporal Video GroundingStreaming Video Understanding

  2. Tempo-Zero: Recursive Self-Play in Executable Worlds for Video Reasoning

    Oct 23, 2026Jingmin Zhu, Yanyan Zou, Xiuyu Li +10Video ReasoningSelf-Play RL

  3. Organizing Temporal Evidence in Hyperbolic Space for Video Moment Retrieval

    Oct 23, 2026Mengnan Liu, Sanping Zhou, Kun Xia +3Video Moment RetrievalTemporal Video Grounding

  4. RVG-Bench: A Benchmark for Reasoning-Driven Audio-Visual Temporal Grounding

    Oct 23, 2026Yue Feng, Boshen Xu, Zihao Yue +5Temporal Video GroundingMultimodal Grounding

  5. EvaOmni: An Evidence-Grounded Benchmark for Audio-Visual Reasoning

    Oct 20, 2026Xiaoxing Hu, Wenxi Yao, Chaoyuan Shi +17Audio-Visual UnderstandingAudio-Visual QA

  6. OmniGround: Strengthening Omni-Modal Temporal Grounding via Attention-Consistency Training

    Oct 19, 2026Zixuan Chen, Depeng Wang, Hao Lin +5Temporal Video GroundingMultimodal Grounding

  7. DiffGround: Semantic Difference-Guided Zero-Shot Video Question Grounding

    Oct 18, 2026Cheng-Han Lee, Amir Salimi, Hsiang-Wei Huang +3Temporal Video GroundingVideo QA

  8. SuperClip Pyramid for Video Temporal Grounding

    Oct 17, 2026Sanghyeok Lee, Juyeon Ko, Joonmyung Choi +4Temporal Video GroundingVideo Moment Retrieval

  9. HAPACT: A Benchmark For Human-Centric Physical Impact Localization in Movies

    Oct 16, 2026Youngrae Kim, Yejin Jang, Eunho Kim +4Physical Reasoning in VideoTemporal Video Grounding

  10. Event-STVG: Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding for Long-Form Event Reasoning

    Oct 15, 2026Yizhe Zhang, Xujia Wang, Songqi Tang +10Video ReasoningTemporal Video Grounding

  11. Where, How, and When: Query-Guided Grounding for Video Understanding

    Oct 15, 2026Yogesh KumarVideo Moment RetrievalTemporal Video Grounding

  12. OmniCompass: A Holistic Benchmark for Omni-Modal Video Grounding and Understanding

    Oct 13, 2026Xuyang Liu, Shihao Wang, Xinyu Wei +5Video-Language Model EvaluationMultimodal Grounding

  13. VideoJev: System One Model for Video Understanding and Interaction

    Oct 13, 2026Yuhan Zhu, Xiangyu Zeng, Qingyi Si +15Video QATemporal Video Grounding

  14. VideoSlate: Stateful Commit Control for Temporally Grounded Agentic Video Reasoning

    Oct 12, 2026Shuo Zheng, Yuanjie Dang, Peng Chen +4Temporal Video GroundingVideo QA

  15. EventLens: Event-Structure Reinforcement Learning for Video Understanding

    Oct 12, 2026Guowen Zhang, Boshen Xu, Zihao Yue +6Video UnderstandingTemporal Video Understanding

  16. Investigating Query-Insensitive Behavior in Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding

    Oct 5, 2026Eryk Kołodziejczyk, Alberto Presta, Karol Szurkowski +1Temporal Video Grounding

  17. VideoEvolve: Evolving Agent Harnesses for Video Temporal Grounding

    Oct 1, 2026Bingjun Luo, Yuhuan Fan, Jialin Guo +1Temporal Video GroundingEvolutionary Optimization

  18. CoEvoWhen: Policy-Tool Coevolution for Ultra-Long Video Temporal Grounding

    Sep 30, 2026Yiduo Jia, Muzhi Zhu, Jinchuan Shi +4Temporal Video GroundingVideo Understanding

  19. Grounding with Confidence: Controllable Generative Video Temporal Grounding

    Sep 30, 2026Jinhao Chen, Benlei Cui, Ruijian Jia +7Temporal Video GroundingSelective Prediction

  20. Long Time No See: Benchmarking VLMs for Out-of-Sight Spatiotemporal Reasoning in Egocentric Videos

    Sep 28, 2026Fangzhou Ma, Ivo Alexander Ban, Eren Homburg +5Temporal Video GroundingVisual Spatial Reasoning

  21. Summarize Before Grounding: Query-Guided Chunk Condensation for Long-Video Temporal Grounding

    Sep 28, 2026Nanxing Hu, Xiaoyue Duan, Qiwei Yan +3Temporal Video GroundingVideo Token Compression

  22. Counterfactual Attention Policy Distillation for Temporal Video Grounding

    Sep 28, 2026Shaobo Ju, Haiyang Yu, Xuecheng Wu +5Temporal Video GroundingVLM Distillation

  23. Pocket-STVG: lightweight architecture for Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding

    Sep 25, 2026Alberto Presta, Michal Byra, Grzegorz Stefański +3Temporal Video GroundingVision-Language Grounding