Event-Oriented State Alignment Network for Weakly Supervised Temporal Language Grounding

Author:

Wu Hongzhou1,Zhang Xiang1,Tang Tao1,Yang Canqun1,Luo Zhigang1

Affiliation:

1. School of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

Abstract

Weakly supervised temporal language grounding (TLG) aims to locate events in untrimmed videos based on natural language queries without temporal annotations, necessitating a deep understanding of semantic context across both video and text modalities. Existing methods often focus on simple correlations between query phrases and isolated video segments, neglecting the event-oriented semantic coherence and consistency required for accurate temporal grounding. This can lead to misleading results due to partial frame correlations. To address these limitations, we propose the Event-oriented State Alignment Network (ESAN), which constructs “start–event–end” semantic state sets for both textual and video data. ESAN employs relative entropy for cross-modal alignment through knowledge distillation from pre-trained large models, thereby enhancing semantic coherence within each modality and ensuring consistency across modalities. Our approach leverages vision–language models to extract static frame semantics and large language models to capture dynamic semantic changes, facilitating a more comprehensive understanding of events. Experiments conducted on two benchmark datasets demonstrate that ESAN significantly outperforms existing methods. By reducing false high correlations and improving the overall performance, our method effectively addresses the challenges posed by previous approaches. These advancements highlight the potential of ESAN to improve the precision and reliability of temporal language grounding tasks.

Publisher

MDPI AG

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