| Saliency-Guided DETR for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection | ✓ Link | 58.80 | 74.20 | 60.40 | 76.20 | 60.80 | SG-DETR (w/ PT) | 2024-10-02 |
| See More, Store Less: Memory-Efficient Resolution for Video Moment Retrieval | | 54.72 | 76.39 | 62.84 | 70.40 | 55.90 | SMORE | 2026-01-14 |
| Saliency-Guided DETR for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection | ✓ Link | 54.10 | 72.20 | 56.60 | 73.20 | 55.80 | SG-DETR | 2024-10-02 |
| Decoupling Moment from Event for Video Temporal Grounding | | 53.87 | 70.1 | 55.13 | 71.41 | 55.52 | ME-DETR | 2026-09-08 |
| Sparse-Dense Side-Tuner for efficient Video Temporal Grounding | ✓ Link | 53.31 | | | 71.31 | 54.99 | SDST | 2025-07-10 |
| IAE-VTG: Interaction-Aligned Action-Entity Video Temporal Grounding | | 52.91 | | | 73.51 | 55.31 | IAE-VTG | 2026-09-09 |
| LLaVA-MR: Large Language-and-Vision Assistant for Video Moment Retrieval | ✓ Link | 52.73 | 76.59 | 61.48 | 69.41 | 54.40 | LLaVA-MR | 2024-11-21 |
| Empower Words: DualGround for Structured Phrase and Sentence-Level Temporal Grounding | | 52.73 | 71.87 | 56.94 | 72.41 | 54.38 | DualGround (IV2) | 2025-10-23 |
| SuperClip Pyramid for Video Temporal Grounding | | 52.73 | | | 73.78 | 53.70 | SCVTG | 2026-10-17 |
| FlashVTG: Feature Layering and Adaptive Score Handling Network for Video Temporal Grounding | ✓ Link | 52.00 | 70.69 | 53.96 | 72.33 | 53.85 | FlashVTG | 2024-12-18 |
| DE2TR: Dual Evidence Detection Transformer for Video Temporal Grounding | ✓ Link | 49.87 | 67.98 | 52.46 | 68.36 | 51.24 | DE2TR‡ | 2026-09-08 |
| InternVideo2: Scaling Foundation Models for Multimodal Video Understanding | ✓ Link | 49.24 | 71.42 | 56.45 | | | InternVideo2-6B | 2024-03-22 |
| Empower Words: DualGround for Structured Phrase and Sentence-Level Temporal Grounding | | 49.02 | 68.20 | 51.72 | 69.23 | 47.71 | DualGround (SF+C) | 2025-10-23 |
| Correlation-Guided Query-Dependency Calibration for Video Temporal Grounding | ✓ Link | 47.97 | 68.48 | 53.11 | 69.40 | 49.12 | CG-DETR (w/ PT) | 2023-11-15 |
| VideoLights: Feature Refinement and Cross-Task Alignment Transformer for Joint Video Highlight Detection and Moment Retrieval | ✓ Link | 47.94 | 70.36 | 55.25 | 69.53 | 49.17 | VideoLights-B-pt | 2024-12-02 |
| MASRA: MLLM-Assisted Semantic-Relational Consistent Alignment for Video Temporal Grounding | | 47.94 | | | 68.16 | 48.58 | MASRA | 2026-05-05 |
| Length-Aware DETR for Robust Moment Retrieval | ✓ Link | 47.93 | 63.94 | 51.10 | 65.65 | 49.44 | LA-DETR | 2024-12-30 |
| CVA: Context-aware Video-text Alignment for Video Temporal Grounding | | 47.49 | 70.05 | 55.32 | 69.49 | 48.45 | CVA (extra data) | 2026-03-26 |
| Moment Quantization for Video Temporal Grounding | ✓ Link | 47.08 | 66.28 | 50.00 | 67.98 | 48.55 | MQVTG (extra data) | 2025-04-03 |
| Sim-DETR: Unlock DETR for Temporal Sentence Grounding | ✓ Link | 46.93 | | | 67.81 | 47.59 | Sim-DETR | 2025-09-28 |
| BAM-DETR: Boundary-Aligned Moment Detection Transformer for Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos | ✓ Link | 46.91 | 64.07 | 48.12 | 65.61 | 47.51 | BAM-DETR (w/ audio) | 2023-11-30 |
| The Devil is in the Spurious Correlations: Boosting Moment Retrieval with Dynamic Learning | ✓ Link | 46.69 | 64.53 | 50.37 | 66.21 | 47.32 | TD-DETR (extra data) | 2025-01-13 |
| CoSTL: Comprehensive Spatial-Temporal Representation Learning for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection | | 46.68 | | | 71.48 | 48.45 | CoSTL | 2026-05-31 |
| BAM-DETR: Boundary-Aligned Moment Detection Transformer for Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos | ✓ Link | 46.67 | 63.88 | 47.92 | 66.33 | 48.22 | BAM-DETR (w/ PT ASR Captions) | 2023-11-30 |
| SE-DETR: Explicit Semantic Exploration for Generalizability and Distinguishability in Video Temporal Grounding | ✓ Link | 46.42 | 68.22 | 49.96 | 69.74 | 49.16 | SE-DETR+ | 2026-09-08 |
| LD-DETR: Loop Decoder DEtection TRansformer for Video Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection | ✓ Link | 46.41 | 66.80 | 51.04 | 67.61 | 46.99 | LD-DETR | 2025-01-18 |
| $R^2$-Tuning: Efficient Image-to-Video Transfer Learning for Video Temporal Grounding | ✓ Link | 46.17 | 68.03 | 49.35 | 69.04 | 47.56 | R^2-Tuning | 2024-03-31 |
| Length Matters: Length-Aware Transformer for Temporal Sentence Grounding | | 46.07 | | | 67.33 | 46.12 | LATR | 2025-08-06 |
| BAM-DETR: Boundary-Aligned Moment Detection Transformer for Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos | ✓ Link | 45.36 | 62.71 | 48.64 | 64.57 | 46.33 | BAM-DETR | 2023-11-30 |
| Video Mamba Suite: State Space Model as a Versatile Alternative for Video Understanding | ✓ Link | 45.18 | 66.65 | 52.19 | 64.37 | 46.68 | video-mamba-suite | 2024-03-14 |
| MS-DETR: Towards Effective Video Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection by Joint Motion-Semantic Learning | ✓ Link | 44.89 | | | 66.41 | 44.91 | MS-DETR | 2025-07-16 |
| Prior Knowledge Integration via LLM Encoding and Pseudo Event Regulation for Video Moment Retrieval | ✓ Link | 44.05 | 66.73 | 49.94 | 65.76 | 43.91 | LLMEPET | 2024-07-21 |
| Bridging the Gap: A Unified Video Comprehension Framework for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection | ✓ Link | 43.8 | 64.53 | 48.31 | 64.78 | 43.65 | UVCOM (w/ PT ASR Captions) | 2023-11-28 |
| UniVTG: Towards Unified Video-Language Temporal Grounding | ✓ Link | 43.63 | 65.43 | 50.06 | 64.06 | 45.02 | UniVTG (w/ PT) | 2023-07-31 |
| Bridging the Gap: A Unified Video Comprehension Framework for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection | ✓ Link | 43.18 | 63.55 | 47.47 | 63.37 | 42.67 | UVCOM | 2023-11-28 |
| Correlation-Guided Query-Dependency Calibration for Video Temporal Grounding | ✓ Link | 42.86 | 65.43 | 48.38 | 64.51 | 42.77 | CG-DETR | 2023-11-15 |
| DTOS: Dynamic Time Object Sensing with Large Multimodal Model | ✓ Link | 40.98 | 72.24 | 49.22 | 64.75 | 41.78 | DTOS-TCS | 2025-06-11 |
| Query-Dependent Video Representation for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection | ✓ Link | 40.62 | 64.1 | 46.1 | 64.3 | 40.5 | QD-DETR (w/ PT) | 2023-03-24 |
| Beyond Uncertainty: Evidential Deep Learning for Robust Video Temporal Grounding | ✓ Link | 40.6 | 62.26 | 45.53 | 61.2 | 41.8 | SRAM-Large | 2024-08-29 |
| Query-Dependent Video Representation for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection | ✓ Link | 40.19 | 63.06 | 45.10 | 63.04 | 40.10 | QD-DETR (w/ audio) | 2023-03-24 |
| Background-aware Moment Detection for Video Moment Retrieval | ✓ Link | 40.08 | 60.12 | 43.05 | 63.08 | 40.18 | BM-DETR | 2023-06-05 |
| Query-Dependent Video Representation for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection | ✓ Link | 40.0 | 63.2 | 45.2 | 63.4 | 40.4 | QD-DETR (only Video w/ PT ASR Captions) | 2023-03-24 |
| Query-Dependent Video Representation for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection | ✓ Link | 39.86 | 62.40 | 44.98 | 62.52 | 39.88 | QD-DETR (only Video) | 2023-03-24 |
| Mitigating Modality and Language-Style Gaps for Zero-Shot Video Moment Retrieval | | 38.3 | 59.7 | 42.2 | 59.2 | | Self-SiMS | 2026-07-21 |
| UMT: Unified Multi-modal Transformers for Joint Video Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection | ✓ Link | 38.08 | | | | | UMT (w/ audio + PT ASR Cpations) | 2022-03-23 |
| QVHighlights: Detecting Moments and Highlights in Videos via Natural Language Queries | ✓ Link | 36.14 | 59.78 | 40.33 | 60.51 | 35.36 | Moment-DETR (w/ PT ASR Cpations) | 2021-07-20 |
| UMT: Unified Multi-modal Transformers for Joint Video Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection | ✓ Link | 36.12 | | | | | UMT | 2022-03-23 |
| UniVTG: Towards Unified Video-Language Temporal Grounding | ✓ Link | 35.47 | 58.86 | 40.86 | 57.60 | 35.59 | UniVTG | 2023-07-31 |
| | 32.3 | 54.5 | 36.5 | | | SeViLA-Localizer | |
| UnLoc: A Unified Framework for Video Localization Tasks | ✓ Link | | 66.1 | 46.7 | | | UnLoc-L | 2023-08-21 |
| UnLoc: A Unified Framework for Video Localization Tasks | ✓ Link | | 64.5 | 48.8 | | | UnLoc-B | 2023-08-21 |
| Boundary-Denoising for Video Activity Localization | ✓ Link | | 59.27 | 45.07 | | | DenoiseLoc | 2023-04-06 |
| VTG-GPT: Tuning-Free Zero-Shot Video Temporal Grounding with GPT | ✓ Link | 30.5 | 53.81 | 38.13 | 54.13 | 29.24 | VTG-GPT (zero-shot) (extra data) | 2024-03-04 |