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Video-Language Pre-training models have recently significantly improved various multi-modal downstream tasks. Previous dominant works mainly adopt contrastive learning to achieve global feature alignment across modalities. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Fan Ma , Xiaojie Jin , Heng Wang , Jingjia Huang , Linchao Zhu , Jiashi Feng , Yi Yang

Extracting the true dynamical variables of a system from high-dimensional video is challenging due to distracting visual factors such as background motion, occlusions, and texture changes. We propose LyTimeT, a two-phase framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Kuai Yu , Crystal Su , Xiang Liu , Judah Goldfeder , Mingyuan Shao , Hod Lipson

Despite an exciting new wave of multimodal machine learning models, current approaches still struggle to interpret the complex contextual relationships between the different modalities present in videos. Going beyond existing methods that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Laura Hanu , Anita L. Verő , James Thewlis

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

Despite the significant impact of visual events on human cognition, understanding events in videos remains a challenging task for AI due to their complex structures, semantic hierarchies, and dynamic evolution. To address this, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Baoyu Liang , Qile Su , Shoutai Zhu , Yuchen Liang , Chao Tong

This paper proposes the synthetic long-video meta-evaluation (SLVMEval), a benchmark for meta-evaluating text-to-video (T2V) evaluation systems. The proposed SLVMEval benchmark focuses on assessing these systems on videos of up to 10,486 s…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ryosuke Matsuda , Keito Kudo , Haruto Yoshida , Nobuyuki Shimizu , Jun Suzuki

Video recognition has been advanced in recent years by benchmarks with rich annotations. However, research is still mainly limited to human action or sports recognition - focusing on a highly specific video understanding task and thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Ali Diba , Mohsen Fayyaz , Vivek Sharma , Manohar Paluri , Jurgen Gall , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Luc Van Gool

Video data, especially long-form video, is extremely dense and high-dimensional. Text-based summaries of video content offer a way to represent query-relevant content in a much more compact manner than raw video. In addition, textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Kuleen Sasse , Efsun Sarioglu Kayi , Arun Reddy

Referring Video Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment objects in videos given linguistic expressions. The key to solving RVOS is to extract long-range temporal context information from the interactions of expressions and videos to depict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Cilin Yan , Jingyun Wang , Guoliang Kang

Current video-language models struggle with long-video understanding due to limited context lengths and reliance on sparse frame subsampling, often leading to information loss. This paper introduces $\infty$-Video, which can process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Saul Santos , António Farinhas , Daniel C. McNamee , André F. T. Martins

Despite the significant progress that has been made in video generative models, existing state-of-the-art methods can only produce videos lasting 5-16 seconds, often labeled "long-form videos". Furthermore, videos exceeding 16 seconds…

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in short video understanding. However, understanding long-form videos still remains challenging for MLLMs. This paper proposes TimeSuite, a collection of new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Xiangyu Zeng , Kunchang Li , Chenting Wang , Xinhao Li , Tianxiang Jiang , Ziang Yan , Songze Li , Yansong Shi , Zhengrong Yue , Yi Wang , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang

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

We propose LocFormer, a Transformer-based model for video grounding which operates at a constant memory footprint regardless of the video length, i.e. number of frames. LocFormer is designed for tasks where it is necessary to process the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Basura Fernando , Hiroya Takamura , Qi Wu

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

Videos serve as a powerful medium to convey ideas, tell stories, and provide detailed instructions, especially through long-format tutorials. Such tutorials are valuable for learning new skills at one's own pace, yet they can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Nafisa Hussain

Large video-language models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable performance across various video-language tasks. However, they encounter significant challenges when processing long videos because of the large number of video frames involved.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Junwen Pan , Rui Zhang , Xin Wan , Yuan Zhang , Ming Lu , Qi She

Audiovisual data is everywhere in this digital age, which raises higher requirements for the deep learning models developed on them. To well handle the information of the multi-modal data is the key to a better audiovisual modal. We observe…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Meng Liu , Ke Liang , Dayu Hu , Hao Yu , Yue Liu , Lingyuan Meng , Wenxuan Tu , Sihang Zhou , Xinwang Liu

Despite recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), long-video understanding remains a challenging problem. Although state-of-the-art long-context VLMs can process around 1000 input frames, they still struggle to effectively leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Anurag Arnab , Ahmet Iscen , Mathilde Caron , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid

The forensic investigation of a terrorist attack poses a significant challenge to the investigative authorities, as often several thousand hours of video footage must be viewed. Large scale Video Analytic Platforms (VAP) assist law…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Alexander Schindler , Andrew Lindley , Anahid Jalali , Martin Boyer , Sergiu Gordea , Ross King