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The rise of short-form video platforms and the emergence of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have amplified the need for scalable, effective, zero-shot text-to-video retrieval systems. While recent advances in large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jiaxin Wu , Xiao-Yong Wei , Qing Li

Video retrieval is a challenging research topic bridging the vision and language areas and has attracted broad attention in recent years. Previous works have been devoted to representing videos by directly encoding from frame-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Zerun Feng , Zhimin Zeng , Caili Guo , Zheng Li

Effectively retrieving, reasoning, and understanding multimodal information remains a critical challenge for agentic systems. Traditional Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG) methods rely on linear interaction histories, which struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Qiuchen Wang , Shihang Wang , Yu Zeng , Qiang Zhang , Fanrui Zhang , Zhuoning Guo , Bosi Zhang , Wenxuan Huang , Lin Chen , Zehui Chen , Pengjun Xie , Ruixue Ding

Efficient long-video understanding~(LVU) remains a challenging task in computer vision. Current long-context vision-language models~(LVLMs) suffer from information loss due to compression and brute-force downsampling. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Huaying Yuan , Zheng Liu , Minghao Qin , Hongjin Qian , Yan Shu , Zhicheng Dou , Ji-Rong Wen , Nicu Sebe

Text-to-video retrieval (TVR) aims to find the most relevant video in a large video gallery given a query text. The intricate and abundant context of the video challenges the performance and efficiency of TVR. To handle the serialized video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Mengxia Wu , Min Cao , Yang Bai , Ziyin Zeng , Chen Chen , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

Fully immersive experiences that tightly integrate 6-DoF visual and auditory interaction are essential for virtual and augmented reality. While such experiences can be achieved through computer-generated content, constructing them directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhengxian Yang , Shengqi Wang , Shi Pan , Hongshuai Li , Haoxiang Wang , Lin Li , Guanjun Li , Zhengqi Wen , Borong Lin , Jianhua Tao , Tao Yu

Responsing with image has been recognized as an important capability for an intelligent conversational agent. Yet existing works only focus on exploring the multimodal dialogue models which depend on retrieval-based methods, but neglecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Qingfeng Sun , Yujing Wang , Can Xu , Kai Zheng , Yaming Yang , Huang Hu , Fei Xu , Jessica Zhang , Xiubo Geng , Daxin Jiang

Text-to-3D generation approaches have advanced significantly by leveraging pretrained 2D diffusion priors, producing high-quality and 3D-consistent outputs. However, they often fail to produce out-of-domain (OOD) or rare concepts, yielding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yosef Dayani , Omer Benishu , Sagie Benaim

The rapid growth of video content demands efficient and precise retrieval systems. While vision-language models (VLMs) excel in representation learning, they often struggle with adaptive, time-sensitive video retrieval. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yicheng Duan , Xi Huang , Duo Chen

The goal of text-to-video retrieval is to search large databases for relevant videos based on text queries. Existing methods have progressed to handling explicit queries where the visual content of interest is described explicitly; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yiqing Shen , Chenxiao Fan , Chenjia Li , Mathias Unberath

Video Question Answering (VQA) inherently relies on multimodal reasoning, integrating visual, temporal, and linguistic cues to achieve a deeper understanding of video content. However, many existing methods rely on feeding frame-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Noriyuki Kugo , Xiang Li , Zixin Li , Ashish Gupta , Arpandeep Khatua , Nidhish Jain , Chaitanya Patel , Yuta Kyuragi , Yasunori Ishii , Masamoto Tanabiki , Kazuki Kozuka , Ehsan Adeli

One of the key goals of artificial intelligence (AI) is the development of a multimodal system that facilitates communication with the visual world (image and video) using a natural language query. Earlier works on medical question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Deepak Gupta , Dina Demner-Fushman

With the recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVA) such as Alexa, Google Home, etc., have become a ubiquitous part of many homes. Currently, such IVAs are mostly audio-based, but going…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-12-27 Shachi H Kumar , Eda Okur , Saurav Sahay , Jonathan Huang , Lama Nachman

Person re-identification (Re-ID) is a crucial task in computer vision, aiming to recognize individuals across non-overlapping camera views. While recent advanced vision-language models (VLMs) excel in logical reasoning and multi-task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ke Niu , Haiyang Yu , Mengyang Zhao , Teng Fu , Siyang Yi , Wei Lu , Bin Li , Xuelin Qian , Xiangyang Xue

Video Question Answering is a challenging problem in visual information retrieval, which provides the answer to the referenced video content according to the question. However, the existing visual question answering approaches mainly tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Yunan Ye , Zhou Zhao , Yimeng Li , Long Chen , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang

We introduce VIGiA, a novel multimodal dialogue model designed to understand and reason over complex, multi-step instructional video action plans. Unlike prior work which focuses mainly on text-only guidance, or treats vision and language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Diogo Glória-Silva , David Semedo , João Maglhães

Given an input video, its associated audio, and a brief caption, the audio-visual scene aware dialog (AVSD) task requires an agent to indulge in a question-answer dialog with a human about the audio-visual content. This task thus poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Shijie Geng , Peng Gao , Moitreya Chatterjee , Chiori Hori , Jonathan Le Roux , Yongfeng Zhang , Hongsheng Li , Anoop Cherian

The large number of user-generated videos uploaded on to the Internet everyday has led to many commercial video search engines, which mainly rely on text metadata for search. However, metadata is often lacking for user-generated videos,…

This paper introduces VimoRAG, a novel video-based retrieval-augmented motion generation framework for motion large language models (LLMs). As motion LLMs face severe out-of-domain/out-of-vocabulary issues due to limited annotated data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haidong Xu , Guangwei Xu , Zhedong Zheng , Xiatian Zhu , Wei Ji , Xiangtai Li , Ruijie Guo , Meishan Zhang , Min zhang , Hao Fei

Video generation is experiencing rapid growth, driven by advances in diffusion models and the development of better and larger datasets. However, producing high-quality videos remains challenging due to the high-dimensional data and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Elia Peruzzo , Dejia Xu , Xingqian Xu , Humphrey Shi , Nicu Sebe