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Long video understanding is essential for human-like intelligence, enabling coherent perception and reasoning over extended temporal contexts. While the emerging thinking-with-frames paradigm, which alternates between global temporal…

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While previous multimodal slow-thinking methods have demonstrated remarkable success in single-image understanding scenarios, their effectiveness becomes fundamentally constrained when extended to more complex multi-image comprehension…

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In Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), agents are designed with social capabilities, allowing them to understand and reason about social concepts such as norms when interacting with others (e.g., inter-robot interactions). In Normative MAS (NorMAS),…

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Humans possess a unified cognitive ability to perceive, comprehend, and interact with the physical world. Why can't large language models replicate this holistic understanding? Through a systematic analysis of existing training paradigms in…

This work highlights that video world modeling, alongside vision-language pre-training, establishes a fresh and independent foundation for robot learning. Intuitively, video world models provide the ability to imagine the near future by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lin Li , Qihang Zhang , Yiming Luo , Shuai Yang , Ruilin Wang , Fei Han , Mingrui Yu , Zelin Gao , Nan Xue , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Yinghao Xu

Geo-temporal understanding, the ability to infer location, time, and contextual properties from visual input alone, underpins applications such as disaster management, traffic planning, embodied navigation, world modeling, and geography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Azmine Toushik Wasi , Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy , Koushik Ahamed Tonmoy , Kinga Tshering , S. M. Muhtasimul Hasan , Wahid Faisal , Tasnim Mohiuddin , Md Rizwan Parvez

Visual commonsense reasoning (VCR) is a challenging multi-modal task, which requires high-level cognition and commonsense reasoning ability about the real world. In recent years, large-scale pre-training approaches have been developed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Cheng Yang , Rui Xu , Ye Guo , Peixiang Huang , Yiru Chen , Wenkui Ding , Zhongyuan Wang , Hong Zhou

Can large multimodal models have a human-like ability for emotional and social reasoning, and if so, how does it work? Recent research has discovered emergent theory-of-mind (ToM) reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs). LLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zhawnen Chen , Tianchun Wang , Yizhou Wang , Michal Kosinski , Xiang Zhang , Yun Fu , Sheng Li

The "Thinking with Text" and "Thinking with Images" paradigms significantly improve the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, these paradigms have inherent limitations. (1) Images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jingqi Tong , Yurong Mou , Hangcheng Li , Mingzhe Li , Yongzhuo Yang , Ming Zhang , Qiguang Chen , Tianyi Liang , Xiaomeng Hu , Yining Zheng , Xinchi Chen , Jun Zhao , Xuanjing Huang , Xipeng Qiu

The recent advancement in video temporal grounding (VTG) has significantly enhanced fine-grained video understanding, primarily driven by multimodal large language models (MLLMs). With superior multimodal comprehension and reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Jianlong Wu , Wei Liu , Ye Liu , Meng Liu , Liqiang Nie , Zhouchen Lin , Chang Wen Chen

Despite recent advancements in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) on diverse understanding tasks, these models struggle to solve problems which require extensive multi-step reasoning. This is primarily due to the progressive dilution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Byungwoo Jeon , Yoonwoo Jeong , Hyunseok Lee , Minsu Cho , Jinwoo Shin

This paper introduces MiniGPT4-Video, a multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) designed specifically for video understanding. The model is capable of processing both temporal visual and textual data, making it adept at understanding the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Kirolos Ataallah , Xiaoqian Shen , Eslam Abdelrahman , Essam Sleiman , Deyao Zhu , Jian Ding , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently achieved remarkable progress in vision-language understanding. Yet, human perception is inherently multisensory, integrating sight, sound, and motion to reason about the world. Among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Bingwen Zhu , Yuqian Fu , Qiaole Dong , Guolei Sun , Tianwen Qian , Yuzheng Wu , Danda Pani Paudel , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in mainstream visual understanding tasks, but their ability to process action scenes that contradict everyday common sense remains undertested. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Chen Ling , Tongwei Zhang , Hanqian Li , Nai Ding

Comprehending a dialogue requires a model to capture diverse kinds of key information in the utterances, which are either scattered around or implicitly implied in different turns of conversations. Therefore, dialogue comprehension requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Chao Zhao , Wenlin Yao , Dian Yu , Kaiqiang Song , Dong Yu , Jianshu Chen

"Read the room" is a significant social reasoning capability in human daily life. Humans can infer others' mental states from subtle social cues. Previous social reasoning tasks and datasets lack complexity (e.g., simple scenes, basic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Lixing Niu , Jiapeng Li , Xingping Yu , Shu Wang , Ruining Feng , Bo Wu , Ping Wei , Yisen Wang , Lifeng Fan

Video prediction aims to predict future frames by modeling the complex spatiotemporal dynamics in videos. However, most of the existing methods only model the temporal information and the spatial information for videos in an independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Zheng Chang , Xinfeng Zhang , Shanshe Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance across many tasks, yet most systems remain limited to offline inference, requiring complete inputs before generating outputs. Recent streaming methods reduce latency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Junyan Lin , Junlong Tong , Hao Wu , Jialiang Zhang , Jinming Liu , Xin Jin , Xiaoyu Shen

Existing dense or paragraph video captioning approaches rely on holistic representations of videos, possibly coupled with learned object/action representations, to condition hierarchical language decoders. However, they fundamentally lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Shih-Han Chou , James J. Little , Leonid Sigal

Accurately predicting human behaviors is crucial for mobile robots operating in human-populated environments. While prior research primarily focuses on predicting actions in single-human scenarios from an egocentric view, several robotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Utsav Panchal , Yuchen Liu , Luigi Palmieri , Ilche Georgievski , Marco Aiello