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As humans, we understand events in the visual world contextually, performing multimodal reasoning across time to make inferences about the past, present, and future. We introduce MERLOT, a model that learns multimodal script knowledge by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Rowan Zellers , Ximing Lu , Jack Hessel , Youngjae Yu , Jae Sung Park , Jize Cao , Ali Farhadi , Yejin Choi

We present MMCOMET, the first multimodal commonsense knowledge graph (MMKG) that integrates physical, social, and eventive knowledge. MMCOMET extends the ATOMIC2020 knowledge graph to include a visual dimension, through an efficient image…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Eileen Wang , Hiba Arnaout , Dhita Pratama , Shuo Yang , Dangyang Liu , Jie Yang , Josiah Poon , Jeff Pan , Caren Han

There has been a growing interest in solving Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks that require the model to reason beyond the content present in the image. In this work, we focus on questions that require commonsense reasoning. In contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Sahithya Ravi , Aditya Chinchure , Leonid Sigal , Renjie Liao , Vered Shwartz

Visual reasoning is critical for a wide range of computer vision tasks that go beyond surface-level object detection and classification. Despite notable advances in relational, symbolic, temporal, causal, and commonsense reasoning, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Ayushman Sarkar , Mohd Yamani Idna Idris , Zhenyu Yu

Despite exciting recent results showing vision-language systems' capacity to reason about images using natural language, their capacity for video reasoning remains under-explored. We motivate framing video reasoning as the sequential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Vaishnavi Himakunthala , Andy Ouyang , Daniel Rose , Ryan He , Alex Mei , Yujie Lu , Chinmay Sonar , Michael Saxon , William Yang Wang

Recent studies on machine reading comprehension have focused on text-level understanding but have not yet reached the level of human understanding of the visual layout and content of real-world documents. In this study, we introduce a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Ryota Tanaka , Kyosuke Nishida , Sen Yoshida

When thinking with images, humans rarely rely on a single glance: they revisit visual evidence while reasoning. In contrast, most Multimodal Language Models encode an image once to key-value cache and then reason purely in text, making it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jiwan Chung , Junhyeok Kim , Siyeol Kim , Jaeyoung Lee , Min Soo Kim , Youngjae Yu

Visual Chain-of-Thought (VCoT) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing multimodal reasoning by integrating visual perception into intermediate reasoning steps. However, existing VCoT approaches are largely confined to static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Junhua Liu , Zhangcheng Wang , Zhike Han , Ningli Wang , Guotao Liang , Kun Kuang

Video reasoning, the task of enabling machines to infer from dynamic visual content through multi-step logic, is crucial for advanced AI. While the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) mechanism has enhanced reasoning in text-based tasks, its application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mi Luo , Zihui Xue , Alex Dimakis , Kristen Grauman

Humans can seamlessly reason with circumstantial preconditions of commonsense knowledge. We understand that a glass is used for drinking water, unless the glass is broken or the water is toxic. Despite state-of-the-art (SOTA) language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ehsan Qasemi , Filip Ilievski , Muhao Chen , Pedro Szekely

Recent breakthroughs in reasoning models have markedly advanced the reasoning capabilities of large language models, particularly via training on tasks with verifiable rewards. Yet, a significant gap persists in their adaptation to real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiaao Yu , Shenwei Li , Mingjie Han , Yifei Yin , Wenzheng Song , Chenghao Jia , Man Lan

Situated dialogue requires speakers to maintain a reliable representation of shared context rather than reasoning only over isolated utterances. Current conversational agents often struggle with this requirement, especially when the common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Biswesh Mohapatra , Giovanni Duca , Laurent Romary , Justine Cassell

Understanding images and text together is an important aspect of cognition and building advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. As a community, we have achieved good benchmarks over language and vision domains separately, however…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Shailaja Keyur Sampat , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Video understanding has achieved great success in representation learning, such as video caption, video object grounding, and video descriptive question-answer. However, current methods still struggle on video reasoning, including evidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jiangtong Li , Li Niu , Liqing Zhang

The objective of this work is human pose estimation in videos, where multiple frames are available. We investigate a ConvNet architecture that is able to benefit from temporal context by combining information across the multiple frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Tomas Pfister , James Charles , Andrew Zisserman

Predicting future frames of a video sequence has been a problem of high interest in the field of Computer Vision as it caters to a multitude of applications. The ability to predict, anticipate and reason about future events is the essence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Jasmeen Kaur , Sukhendu Das

One of the primary challenges faced by deep learning is the degree to which current methods exploit superficial statistics and dataset bias, rather than learning to generalise over the specific representations they have experienced. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Damien Teney , Peng Wang , Jiewei Cao , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Current captioning datasets focus on object-centric captions, describing the visible objects in the image, e.g. "people eating food in a park". Although these datasets are useful to evaluate the ability of Vision & Language models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Michele Cafagna , Kees van Deemter , Albert Gatt

Humans have remarkable capacity to reason abductively and hypothesize about what lies beyond the literal content of an image. By identifying concrete visual clues scattered throughout a scene, we almost can't help but draw probable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Jack Hessel , Jena D. Hwang , Jae Sung Park , Rowan Zellers , Chandra Bhagavatula , Anna Rohrbach , Kate Saenko , Yejin Choi

Current visual question answering (VQA) models tend to be trained and evaluated on image-question pairs in isolation. However, the questions people ask are dependent on their informational needs and prior knowledge about the image content.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Nandita Shankar Naik , Christopher Potts , Elisa Kreiss