# Streaming Detection of Queried Event Start

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03567 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.03567/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 51 of its 74 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 4 Dec 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 51)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning for NLP](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1902.00751/) (2019)
- [Quo Vadis, Action Recognition? A New Model and the Kinetics Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.07750/) (2017)
- [Is Space-Time Attention All You Need for Video Understanding?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.05095/) (2021)
- [ViViT: A Video Vision Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.15691/) (2021)
- [Ego4D: Around the World in 3,000 Hours of Egocentric Video](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.07058/) (2021)
- [A Closer Look at Spatiotemporal Convolutions for Action Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.11248/) (2017)
- [HowTo100M: Learning a Text-Video Embedding by Watching Hundred Million Narrated Video Clips](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.03327/) (2019)
- [Scaling Egocentric Vision: The EPIC-KITCHENS Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.02748/) (2018)
- [Dense-Captioning Events in Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.00754/) (2017)
- [AdaptFormer: Adapting Vision Transformers for Scalable Visual Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.13535/) (2022)
- [X3D: Expanding Architectures for Efficient Video Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.04730/) (2020)
- [Towards Automatic Learning of Procedures from Web Instructional Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.09788/) (2017)
- [Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.08621/) (2023)
- [TALL: Temporal Activity Localization via Language Query](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.02101/) (2017)
- [Rescaling Egocentric Vision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.13256/) (2020)
- [Quantifying the Carbon Emissions of Machine Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.09700/) (2019)
- [End-to-End Learning of Visual Representations from Uncurated Instructional Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.06430/) (2019)
- [MERLOT: Multimodal Neural Script Knowledge Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.02636/) (2021)
- [Temporal Action Detection with Structured Segment Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.06228/) (2017)
- [Span-based Localizing Network for Natural Language Video Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.13931/) (2020)
- [Egocentric Video-Language Pretraining](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.01670/) (2022)
- [The EPIC-KITCHENS Dataset: Collection, Challenges and Baselines](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.00343/) (2020)
- [The THUMOS Challenge on Action Recognition for Videos "in the Wild"](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1604.06182/) (2016)
- [Learning Video Representations from Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.04501/) (2022)
- [Anticipative Video Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.02036/) (2021)
- [Rethinking the Faster R-CNN Architecture for Temporal Action Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.07667/) (2018)
- [MeMViT: Memory-Augmented Multiscale Vision Transformer for Efficient Long-Term Video Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.08383/) (2022)
- [Frozen CLIP Models are Efficient Video Learners](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.03550/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Eyes Wide Open: Ego Proactive Video-LLM for Streaming Video](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.14560/) (2025)
- [DiscussLLM: Teaching Large Language Models When to Speak](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.18167/) (2025)
- [Linear Scaling Video VLMs for Long Video Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.31598/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Robotics, autonomous driving, augmented reality, and many embodied computer vision applications must quickly react to user-defined events unfolding in real time. We address this setting by proposing a novel task for multimodal video understanding-Streaming Detection of Queried Event Start (SDQES). The goal of SDQES is to identify the beginning of a complex event as described by a natural language query, with high accuracy and low latency. We introduce a new benchmark based on the Ego4D dataset, as well as new task-specific metrics to study streaming multimodal detection of diverse events in an egocentric video setting. Inspired by parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods in NLP and for video tasks, we propose adapter-based baselines that enable image-to-video transfer learning, allowing for efficient online video modeling. We evaluate three vision-language backbones and three adapter architectures on both short-clip and untrimmed video settings.
