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Recent video recognition models utilize Transformer models for long-range spatio-temporal context modeling. Video transformer designs are based on self-attention that can model global context at a high computational cost. In comparison,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Syed Talal Wasim , Muhammad Uzair Khattak , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Mubarak Shah , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Human action recognition in long-term videos, characterized by complex backgrounds and subtle action differences, poses significant challenges for traditional deep learning models due to computational overhead, difficulty in capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Kaining Li , Shuwei He , Zihan Xu

This paper is on long-term video understanding where the goal is to recognise human actions over long temporal windows (up to minutes long). In prior work, long temporal context is captured by constructing a long-term memory bank consisting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ioanna Ntinou , Enrique Sanchez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Long videos, characterized by temporal complexity and sparse task-relevant information, pose significant reasoning challenges for AI systems. Although existing Large Language Model (LLM)-based approaches have advanced long video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jiahua Li , Zhanhe Zhang , Chenghao Xu , Zhe Xu , Kun Wei , Xu Yang , Cheng Deng

Learning computer vision models from (and for) movies has a long-standing history. While great progress has been attained, there is still a need for a pretrained multimodal model that can perform well in the ever-growing set of movie…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Dawit Mureja Argaw , Joon-Young Lee , Markus Woodson , In So Kweon , Fabian Caba Heilbron

Benefiting from the advancements in large language models and cross-modal alignment, existing multi-modal video understanding methods have achieved prominent performance in offline scenario. However, online video streams, as one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Haoji Zhang , Yiqin Wang , Yansong Tang , Yong Liu , Jiashi Feng , Jifeng Dai , Xiaojie Jin

We propose VideoPerceiver, a novel video multimodal large language model (VMLLM) that enhances fine-grained perception in video understanding, addressing VMLLMs' limited ability to reason about brief actions in short clips or rare transient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Fufangchen Zhao , Liao Zhang , Daiqi Shi , Yuanjun Gao , Chen Ye , Yang Cai , Jian Gao , Danfeng Yan

Developing end-to-end action recognition models on long videos is fundamental and crucial for long-video action understanding. Due to the unaffordable cost of end-to-end training on the whole long videos, existing works generally train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Jiaming Zhou , Hanjun Li , Kun-Yu Lin , Junwei Liang

The introduction of Transformer model has led to tremendous advancements in sequence modeling, especially in text domain. However, the use of attention-based models for video understanding is still relatively unexplored. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Saurabh Sahu , Palash Goyal

Video understanding has advanced rapidly, fueled by increasingly complex datasets and powerful architectures. Yet existing surveys largely classify models by task or family, overlooking the structural pressures through which datasets guide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Lei Wang , Piotr Koniusz , Yongsheng Gao

Concepts involved in long-form videos such as people, objects, and their interactions, can be viewed as following an implicit prior. They are notably complex and continue to pose challenges to be comprehensively learned. In recent years,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Jinheng Xie , Jiajun Feng , Zhaoxu Tian , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Yawen Huang , Xi Xia , Nanxu Gong , Xu Zuo , Jiaqi Yang , Yefeng Zheng , Mike Zheng Shou

The recent success of Transformers in the language domain has motivated adapting it to a multimodal setting, where a new visual model is trained in tandem with an already pretrained language model. However, due to the excessive memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Sangho Lee , Youngjae Yu , Gunhee Kim , Thomas Breuel , Jan Kautz , Yale Song

Long-form egocentric video understanding provides rich contextual information and unique insights into long-term human behaviors, holding significant potential for applications in embodied intelligence, long-term activity analysis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wenqi Zhou , Kai Cao , Hao Zheng , Yunze Liu , Xinyi Zheng , Miao Liu , Per Ola Kristensson , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas , Fan Zhang , Weizhe Lin , Junxiao Shen

Video generation is a rapidly advancing research area, garnering significant attention due to its broad range of applications. One critical aspect of this field is the generation of long-duration videos, which presents unique challenges and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Chengxuan Li , Di Huang , Zeyu Lu , Yang Xiao , Qingqi Pei , Lei Bai

Typical human actions last several seconds and exhibit characteristic spatio-temporal structure. Recent methods attempt to capture this structure and learn action representations with convolutional neural networks. Such representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Gül Varol , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

State-of-the-art transformer-based large multimodal models (LMMs) struggle to handle hour-long video inputs due to the quadratic complexity of the causal self-attention operations, leading to high computational costs during training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Weiming Ren , Wentao Ma , Huan Yang , Cong Wei , Ge Zhang , Wenhu Chen

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to identify, track and segment the objects in a video based on language descriptions, which has received great attention in recent years. However, existing datasets remain focus on short video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Tianming Liang , Haichao Jiang , Yuting Yang , Chaolei Tan , Shuai Li , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

Recently, there is a surge in interest surrounding video large language models (Video LLMs). However, existing benchmarks fail to provide a comprehensive feedback on the temporal perception ability of Video LLMs. On the one hand, most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yuanxin Liu , Shicheng Li , Yi Liu , Yuxiang Wang , Shuhuai Ren , Lei Li , Sishuo Chen , Xu Sun , Lu Hou

With the rapid development of multimodal models, the demand for assessing video understanding capabilities has been steadily increasing. However, existing benchmarks for evaluating video understanding exhibit significant limitations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Qi Wu , Quanlong Zheng , Yanhao Zhang , Junlin Xie , Jinguo Luo , Kuo Wang , Peng Liu , Qingsong Xie , Ru Zhen , Zhenyu Yang , Haonan Lu

Transformer-based models have achieved top performance on major video recognition benchmarks. Benefiting from the self-attention mechanism, these models show stronger ability of modeling long-range dependencies compared to CNN-based models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Rui Wang , Zuxuan Wu , Dongdong Chen , Yinpeng Chen , Xiyang Dai , Mengchen Liu , Luowei Zhou , Lu Yuan , Yu-Gang Jiang