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Video Question Answering (VideoQA) aims to answer natural language questions based on the given video, with prior work primarily focusing on identifying the duration of relevant segments, referred to as explicit visual evidence. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Tieyuan Chen , Huabin Liu , Yi Wang , Chaofan Gan , Mingxi Lyu , Ziran Qin , Shijie Li , Liquan Shen , Junhui Hou , Zheng Wang , Weiyao Lin

Next-generation AI companions must go beyond general video understanding to resolve spatial and temporal references in dynamic, real-world environments. Existing Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs), while capable of coarse-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Honglu Zhou , Xiangyu Peng , Shrikant Kendre , Michael S. Ryoo , Silvio Savarese , Caiming Xiong , Juan Carlos Niebles

This paper considers the problem of spatiotemporal object-centric reasoning in videos. Central to our approach is the notion of object permanence, i.e., the ability to reason about the location of objects as they move through the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Honglu Zhou , Asim Kadav , Farley Lai , Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil , Martin Renqiang Min , Mubbasir Kapadia , Hans Peter Graf

We introduce CausalVQA, a benchmark dataset for video question answering (VQA) composed of question-answer pairs that probe models' understanding of causality in the physical world. Existing VQA benchmarks either tend to focus on surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Aaron Foss , Chloe Evans , Sasha Mitts , Koustuv Sinha , Ammar Rizvi , Justine T. Kao

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end trainable Video Question Answering (VideoQA) framework with three major components: 1) a new heterogeneous memory which can effectively learn global context information from appearance and motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Chenyou Fan , Xiaofan Zhang , Shu Zhang , Wensheng Wang , Chi Zhang , Heng Huang

The rapid development of multimodal large-language models (MLLMs) has significantly expanded the scope of visual language reasoning, enabling unified systems to interpret and describe complex visual content. However, applying these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Xinkui Zhao , Zuxin Wang , Yifan Zhang , Guanjie Cheng , Yueshen Xu , Shuiguang Deng , Chang Liu , Naibo Wang , Jianwei Yin

Event-Level Video Question Answering (EVQA) requires complex reasoning across video events to obtain the visual information needed to provide optimal answers. However, despite significant progress in model performance, few studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chenyang Lyu , Tianbo Ji , Yvette Graham , Jennifer Foster

In this paper, we focus on the Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) task, which aims to answer questions regarding different visual objects, sounds, and their associations in videos. The problem requires comprehensive multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Guangyao Li , Yake Wei , Yapeng Tian , Chenliang Xu , Ji-Rong Wen , Di Hu

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) is a challenging video understanding task since it requires a deep understanding of both question and video. Previous studies mainly focus on extracting sophisticated visual and language embeddings, fusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Fangtao Li , Ting Bai , Chenyu Cao , Zihe Liu , Chenghao Yan , Bin Wu

Temporal logical understanding, a core facet of human cognition, plays a pivotal role in capturing complex sequential events and their temporal relationships within videos. This capability is particularly crucial in tasks like Video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sirnam Swetha , Hilde Kuehne , Mubarak Shah

Video Question Answering is a challenging task, which requires the model to reason over multiple frames and understand the interaction between different objects to answer questions based on the context provided within the video, especially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Bhanu Prakash Reddy Guda , Tanmay Kulkarni , Adithya Sampath , Swarnashree Mysore Sathyendra

To build Video Question Answering (VideoQA) systems capable of assisting humans in daily activities, seeking answers from long-form videos with diverse and complex events is a must. Existing multi-modal VQA models achieve promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Difei Gao , Luowei Zhou , Lei Ji , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang , Mike Zheng Shou

Text-based Visual Question Answering~(TextVQA) aims to produce correct answers for given questions about the images with multiple scene texts. In most cases, the texts naturally attach to the surface of the objects. Therefore, spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Hao Li , Jinfa Huang , Peng Jin , Guoli Song , Qi Wu , Jie Chen

Compositional spatio-temporal reasoning poses a significant challenge in the field of video question answering (VideoQA). Existing approaches struggle to establish effective symbolic reasoning structures, which are crucial for answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Lili Liang , Guanglu Sun , Jin Qiu , Lizhong Zhang

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) task serves as a critical playground for evaluating whether foundation models can effectively perceive, understand, and reason about dynamic real-world scenarios. However, existing Multimodal Large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Sunqi Fan , Jiashuo Cui , Meng-Hao Guo , Shuojin Yang

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) has emerged as a vital tool to evaluate agents' ability to understand human daily behaviors. Despite the recent success of large vision language models in many multi-modal tasks, complex situation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Ziyi Bai , Ruiping Wang , Xilin Chen

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a novel problem domain where multi-modal inputs must be processed in order to solve the task given in the form of a natural language. As the solutions inherently require to combine visual and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Mikyas T. Desta , Larry Chen , Tomasz Kornuta

Cause-and-effect reasoning in video is a significant challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), as it requires going beyond surface-level perception to a deeper understanding of causal mechanisms. However, existing benchmarks rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mingfang Zhang , Jingjing Pan , Ashutosh Kumar , Rajat Saini , Mustafa Erdogan , Hsuan-Kung Yang , Caixin Kang , Yifei Huang , Yoichi Sato , Quan Kong

Human understanding of video dynamics relies on forming structured representations of entities, actions, and temporal relations before engaging in abstract reasoning. In contrast, existing Video-LLMs apply unstructured chain-of-thought…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zinuo Li , Yongxin Guo , Jun Liu , Jiawei Zhan , Xi Jiang , Chengjie Wang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Feng Zheng , Qiuhong Ke

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) is the task of answering questions about a video. At its core is understanding the alignments between visual scenes in video and linguistic semantics in question to yield the answer. In leading VideoQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yicong Li , Xiang Wang , Junbin Xiao , Wei Ji , Tat-Seng Chua