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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

Long videos, ranging from minutes to hours, present significant challenges for current Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) due to their complex events, diverse scenes, and long-range dependencies. Direct encoding of such videos is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zizhong Li , Haopeng Zhang , Jiawei Zhang

This work proposes TimeChat, a time-sensitive multimodal large language model specifically designed for long video understanding. Our model incorporates two key architectural contributions: (1) a timestamp-aware frame encoder that binds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Shuhuai Ren , Linli Yao , Shicheng Li , Xu Sun , Lu Hou

While most modern video understanding models operate on short-range clips, real-world videos are often several minutes long with semantically consistent segments of variable length. A common approach to process long videos is applying a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Mohamed Afham , Satya Narayan Shukla , Omid Poursaeed , Pengchuan Zhang , Ashish Shah , Sernam Lim

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

We present HourVideo, a benchmark dataset for hour-long video-language understanding. Our dataset consists of a novel task suite comprising summarization, perception (recall, tracking), visual reasoning (spatial, temporal, predictive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran , Agrim Gupta , Lea M. Hadzic , Taran Kota , Jimming He , Cristóbal Eyzaguirre , Zane Durante , Manling Li , Jiajun Wu , Li Fei-Fei

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown strong video understanding, yet their application to long-form videos remains constrained by limited context windows. A common workaround is to compress long videos into a handful of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yun Wang , Long Zhang , Jingren Liu , Jiaqi Yan , Zhanjie Zhang , Jiahao Zheng , Ao Ma , Run Ling , Xun Yang , Dapeng Wu , Xiangyu Chen , Xuelong Li

Existing audio-visual event localization (AVE) handles manually trimmed videos with only a single instance in each of them. However, this setting is unrealistic as natural videos often contain numerous audio-visual events with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Tiantian Geng , Teng Wang , Jinming Duan , Runmin Cong , Feng Zheng

Existing MLLMs encounter significant challenges in modeling the temporal context within long videos. Currently, mainstream Agent-based methods use external tools to assist a single MLLM in answering long video questions. Despite such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Boyu Chen , Zhengrong Yue , Siran Chen , Zikang Wang , Yang Liu , Peng Li , Yali Wang

Event classification is inherently sequential and multimodal. Therefore, deep neural models need to dynamically focus on the most relevant time window and/or modality of a video. In this study, we propose the Multi-level Attention Fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Mathilde Brousmiche , Jean Rouat , Stéphane Dupont

Accurately locating key moments within long videos is crucial for solving long video understanding (LVU) tasks. However, existing benchmarks are either severely limited in terms of video length and task diversity, or they focus solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Huaying Yuan , Jian Ni , Zheng Liu , Yueze Wang , Junjie Zhou , Zhengyang Liang , Bo Zhao , Zhao Cao , Zhicheng Dou , Ji-Rong Wen

Empowered by Large Language Models (LLMs), recent advancements in Video-based LLMs (VideoLLMs) have driven progress in various video understanding tasks. These models encode video representations through pooling or query aggregation over a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuetian Weng , Mingfei Han , Haoyu He , Xiaojun Chang , Bohan Zhuang

Video-to-audio synthesis, which generates synchronized audio for visual content, critically enhances viewer immersion and narrative coherence in film and interactive media. However, video-to-audio dubbing for long-form content remains an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yehang Zhang , Xinli Xu , Xiaojie Xu , Li Liu , Yingcong Chen

Temporal video segmentation and classification have been advanced greatly by public benchmarks in recent years. However, such research still mainly focuses on human actions, failing to describe videos in a holistic view. In addition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Jie Jiang , Zhimin Li , Jiangfeng Xiong , Rongwei Quan , Qinglin Lu , Wei Liu

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) for video-audio understanding have traditionally been evaluated only on shorter videos of a few minutes long. In this paper, we introduce QMAVIS (Q Team-Multimodal Audio Video Intelligent Sensemaking), a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zixing Lin , Jiale Wang , Gee Wah Ng , Lee Onn Mak , Chan Zhi Yang Jeriel , Jun Yang Lee , Yaohao Li

This paper introduces LongViTU, a large-scale (~121k QA pairs, ~900h videos), automatically generated dataset for long-form video understanding. We propose a systematic approach that organizes videos into a hierarchical tree structure for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Rujie Wu , Xiaojian Ma , Hai Ci , Yue Fan , Yuxuan Wang , Haozhe Zhao , Qing Li , Yizhou Wang

Existing video object segmentation (VOS) benchmarks focus on short-term videos which just last about 3-5 seconds and where objects are visible most of the time. These videos are poorly representative of practical applications, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Lingyi Hong , Wenchao Chen , Zhongying Liu , Wei Zhang , Pinxue Guo , Zhaoyu Chen , Wenqiang Zhang

Detecting generic, taxonomy-free event boundaries invideos represents a major stride forward towards holisticvideo understanding. In this paper we present a technique forgeneric event boundary detection based on a two stream in-flated 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Ayush K Rai , Tarun Krishna , Julia Dietlmeier , Kevin McGuinness , Alan F Smeaton , Noel E O'Connor

Video surveillance is a well researched area of study with substantial work done in the aspects of object detection, tracking and behavior analysis. With the abundance of video data captured over a long period of time, we can understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Huai-Qian Khor , John See

Publishing open-source academic video recordings is an emergent and prevalent approach to sharing knowledge online. Such videos carry rich multimodal information including speech, the facial and body movements of the speakers, as well as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zhe Chen , Heyang Liu , Wenyi Yu , Guangzhi Sun , Hongcheng Liu , Ji Wu , Chao Zhang , Yu Wang , Yanfeng Wang