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Video summarization is among challenging tasks in computer vision, which aims at identifying highlight frames or shots over a lengthy video input. In this paper, we propose an novel attention-based framework for video summarization with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Yen-Ting Liu , Yu-Jhe Li , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Comprehending long videos remains a significant challenge for Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs). Current LMMs struggle to process even minutes to hours videos due to their lack of explicit memory and retrieval mechanisms. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Sameer Malik , Moyuru Yamada , Ayush Singh , Dishank Aggarwal

The objective of this work is to learn an object-centric video representation, with the aim of improving transferability to novel tasks, i.e., tasks different from the pre-training task of action classification. To this end, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Chuhan Zhang , Ankush Gupta , Andrew Zisserman

Multimodal large language models have become a popular topic in deep visual understanding due to many promising real-world applications. However, hour-long video understanding, spanning over one hour and containing tens of thousands of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Heqing Zou , Tianze Luo , Guiyang Xie , Victor Xiao Jie Zhang , Fengmao Lv , Guangcong Wang , Junyang Chen , Zhuochen Wang , Hansheng Zhang , Huaijian Zhang

Large-scale video-language pre-training has shown significant improvement in video-language understanding tasks. Previous studies of video-language pretraining mainly focus on short-form videos (i.e., within 30 seconds) and sentences,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Yuchong Sun , Hongwei Xue , Ruihua Song , Bei Liu , Huan Yang , Jianlong Fu

Benefiting from the advances in large language models and cross-modal alignment, existing multimodal large language models have achieved prominent performance in image and short video understanding. However, the understanding of long videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Haoji Zhang , Yiqin Wang , Yansong Tang , Yong Liu , Jiashi Feng , Xiaojie Jin

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to significant breakthroughs in video understanding. However, existing models still struggle with long video processing due to the context length constraint of LLMs and the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Haoran Hao , Jiaming Han , Yiyuan Zhang , Xiangyu Yue

Modeling long-term context in videos is crucial for many fine-grained tasks including temporal action segmentation. An interesting question that is still open is how much long-term temporal context is needed for optimal performance. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Emad Bahrami , Gianpiero Francesca , Juergen Gall

Experience and reasoning occur across multiple temporal scales: milliseconds, seconds, hours or days. The vast majority of computer vision research, however, still focuses on individual images or short videos lasting only a few seconds.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Olivia Wiles , Joao Carreira , Iain Barr , Andrew Zisserman , Mateusz Malinowski

Addressing the dual challenges of local redundancy and global dependencies in video understanding, this work innovatively adapts the Mamba to the video domain. The proposed VideoMamba overcomes the limitations of existing 3D convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Kunchang Li , Xinhao Li , Yi Wang , Yinan He , Yali Wang , Limin Wang , Yu Qiao

Long-form video understanding represents a significant challenge within computer vision, demanding a model capable of reasoning over long multi-modal sequences. Motivated by the human cognitive process for long-form video understanding, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xiaohan Wang , Yuhui Zhang , Orr Zohar , Serena Yeung-Levy

Long-form video understanding remains challenging due to the extended temporal structure and dense multimodal cues. Despite recent progress, many existing approaches still rely on hand-crafted reasoning pipelines or employ token-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yufei Yin , Qianke Meng , Minghao Chen , Jiajun Ding , Zhenwei Shao , Zhou Yu

With the increasing complexity of video data and the need for more efficient long-term temporal understanding, existing long-term video understanding methods often fail to accurately capture and analyze extended video sequences. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sosuke Yamao , Natsuki Miyahara , Yuki Harazono , Shun Takeuchi

Long-video understanding~(LVU) is a challenging problem in computer vision. Existing methods either downsample frames for single-pass reasoning, sacrificing fine-grained details, or depend on textual reasoning over task-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Huaying Yuan , Zheng Liu , Junjie Zhou , Hongjin Qian , Yan Shu , Nicu Sebe , Ji-Rong Wen , Zhicheng Dou

Since their release, Transformers have revolutionized many fields from Natural Language Understanding to Computer Vision. Document Understanding (DU) was not left behind with first Transformer based models for DU dating from late 2019.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Thibault Douzon , Stefan Duffner , Christophe Garcia , Jérémy Espinas

AI-driven video analytics has become increasingly important across diverse domains. However, existing systems are often constrained to specific, predefined tasks, limiting their adaptability in open-ended analytical scenarios. The recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Yuxuan Yan , Shiqi Jiang , Ting Cao , Yifan Yang , Qianqian Yang , Yuanchao Shu , Yuqing Yang , Lili Qiu

While today's video recognition systems parse snapshots or short clips accurately, they cannot connect the dots and reason across a longer range of time yet. Most existing video architectures can only process <5 seconds of a video without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Chao-Yuan Wu , Yanghao Li , Karttikeya Mangalam , Haoqi Fan , Bo Xiong , Jitendra Malik , Christoph Feichtenhofer

The challenge of long video understanding lies in its high computational complexity and prohibitive memory cost, since the memory and computation required by transformer-based LLMs scale quadratically with input sequence length. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Weili Xu , Enxin Song , Wenhao Chai , Xuexiang Wen , Tian Ye , Gaoang Wang

Dynamic attention mechanism and global modeling ability make Transformer show strong feature learning ability. In recent years, Transformer has become comparable to CNNs methods in computer vision. This review mainly investigates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Yuting Yang , Licheng Jiao , Xu Liu , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Zhixi Feng , Xu Tang

While existing video benchmarks largely consider specialized downstream tasks like retrieval or question-answering (QA), contemporary multimodal AI systems must be capable of well-rounded common-sense reasoning akin to human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Kate Sanders , Benjamin Van Durme