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Learning multimodal video understanding typically relies on datasets comprising video clips paired with manually annotated captions. However, this becomes even more challenging when dealing with long-form videos, lasting from minutes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Soumya Shamarao Jahagirdar , Jayasree Saha , C V Jawahar

Video large language models have achieved remarkable performance in tasks such as video question answering, however, their temporal understanding remains suboptimal. To address this limitation, we curate a dedicated instruction fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Yunxiao Wang , Meng Liu , Wenqi Liu , Xuemeng Song , Bin Wen , Fan Yang , Tingting Gao , Di Zhang , Guorui Zhou , Liqiang Nie

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved strong results in video understanding, yet a key question remains: do they truly comprehend visual content or only learn shallow correlations between vision and language? Real visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zongxia Li , Xiyang Wu , Guangyao Shi , Yubin Qin , Hongyang Du , Fuxiao Liu , Tianyi Zhou , Dinesh Manocha , Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber

The Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) with extensive world knowledge have revitalized autonomous driving, particularly in reasoning tasks within perceivable regions. However, when faced with perception-limited areas (dynamic or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Mingliang Zhai , Cheng Li , Zengyuan Guo , Ningrui Yang , Xiameng Qin , Sanyuan Zhao , Junyu Han , Ji Tao , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

Self-supervised learning has become increasingly important to leverage the abundance of unlabeled data available on platforms like YouTube. Whereas most existing approaches learn low-level representations, we propose a joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Chen Sun , Austin Myers , Carl Vondrick , Kevin Murphy , Cordelia Schmid

While recent large-scale video-language pre-training made great progress in video question answering, the design of spatial modeling of video-language models is less fine-grained than that of image-language models; existing practices of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hsin-Ying Lee , Hung-Ting Su , Bing-Chen Tsai , Tsung-Han Wu , Jia-Fong Yeh , Winston H. Hsu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated proficiency in handling a variety of visual-language tasks. However, current MLLM benchmarks are predominantly designed to evaluate reasoning based on static information about a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Xiyao Wang , Yuhang Zhou , Xiaoyu Liu , Hongjin Lu , Yuancheng Xu , Feihong He , Jaehong Yoon , Taixi Lu , Gedas Bertasius , Mohit Bansal , Huaxiu Yao , Furong Huang

Multimodal Vision Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a transformative topic at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, enabling machines to perceive and reason about the world through both visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zongxia Li , Xiyang Wu , Hongyang Du , Fuxiao Liu , Huy Nghiem , Guangyao Shi

Image-based visual-language (I-VL) pre-training has shown great success for learning joint visual-textual representations from large-scale web data, revealing remarkable ability for zero-shot generalisation. This paper presents a simple but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Chen Ju , Tengda Han , Kunhao Zheng , Ya Zhang , Weidi Xie

Audio often serves as an auxiliary modality in video understanding tasks of audio-visual large language models (LLMs), merely assisting in the comprehension of visual information. However, a thorough understanding of videos significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yudong Yang , Jimin Zhuang , Guangzhi Sun , Changli Tang , Yixuan Li , Peihan Li , Yifan Jiang , Wei Li , Zejun Ma , Chao Zhang

This thesis explores the central question of how to leverage temporal relations among video elements to advance video understanding. Addressing the limitations of existing methods, the work presents a five-fold contribution: (1) an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Thong Thanh Nguyen

The fusion of Large Language Models with vision models is pioneering new possibilities in user-interactive vision-language tasks. A notable application is reasoning segmentation, where models generate pixel-level segmentation masks by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Donggon Jang , Yucheol Cho , Suin Lee , Taehyeon Kim , Dae-Shik Kim

Humans construct internal world models and reason by manipulating the concepts within these models. Recent advances in AI, particularly chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, approximate such human cognitive abilities, where world models are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jialong Wu , Xiaoying Zhang , Hongyi Yuan , Xiangcheng Zhang , Tianhao Huang , Changjing He , Chaoyi Deng , Renrui Zhang , Youbin Wu , Mingsheng Long

We introduce MMCL-Bench, a benchmark for multimodal context learning: learning task-local rules, procedures, and empirical patterns from visual or mixed-modality teaching context and applying them to new visual instances. Unlike text-only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yifan Chen , Fei Yin , Qingyan Bai , Zicheng Lin , Yujiu Yang

Identifying common patterns among events is a key ability in human and machine perception, as it underlies intelligent decision making. We propose an approach for learning semantic relational set abstractions on videos, inspired by human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Alex Andonian , Camilo Fosco , Mathew Monfort , Allen Lee , Rogerio Feris , Carl Vondrick , Aude Oliva

This paper focuses on the challenge of answering questions in scenarios that are composed of rich and complex dynamic audio-visual components. Although existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) can respond to audio-visual content,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Qilang Ye , Zitong Yu , Rui Shao , Xinyu Xie , Philip Torr , Xiaochun Cao

An increasing number of datasets contain multiple views, such as video, sound and automatic captions. A basic challenge in representation learning is how to leverage multiple views to learn better representations. This is further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Nils Holzenberger , Shruti Palaskar , Pranava Madhyastha , Florian Metze , Raman Arora

Vision-language models (VLMs) pre-trained on large-scale image-text pairs have demonstrated impressive transferability on various visual tasks. Transferring knowledge from such powerful VLMs is a promising direction for building effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Wenhao Wu , Xiaohan Wang , Haipeng Luo , Jingdong Wang , Yi Yang , Wanli Ouyang

Narrative videos, such as movies, pose significant challenges in video understanding due to their rich contexts (characters, dialogues, storylines) and diverse demands (identify who, relationship, and reason). In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Kevin Qinghong Lin , Pengchuan Zhang , Difei Gao , Xide Xia , Joya Chen , Ziteng Gao , Jinheng Xie , Xuhong Xiao , Mike Zheng Shou

Videos serve as a powerful medium to convey ideas, tell stories, and provide detailed instructions, especially through long-format tutorials. Such tutorials are valuable for learning new skills at one's own pace, yet they can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Nafisa Hussain