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Understanding egocentric videos plays a vital role for embodied intelligence. Recent multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) can accept both visual and audio inputs. However, due to the challenge of obtaining text labels with coherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ashish Seth , Xinhao Mei , Changsheng Zhao , Varun Nagaraja , Ernie Chang , Gregory P. Meyer , Gael Le Lan , Yunyang Xiong , Vikas Chandra , Yangyang Shi , Dinesh Manocha , Zhipeng Cai

People often capture memories through photos, screenshots, and videos. While existing AI-based tools enable querying this data using natural language, they only support retrieving individual pieces of information like certain objects in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Jiahao Nick Li , Zhuohao Jerry Zhang , Jiaju Ma

LLM-powered embodied agents have shown success on conventional object-rearrangement tasks, but providing personalized assistance that leverages user-specific knowledge from past interactions presents new challenges. We investigate these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Taeyoon Kwon , Dongwook Choi , Hyojun Kim , Sunghwan Kim , Seungjun Moon , Beong-woo Kwak , Kuan-Hao Huang , Jinyoung Yeo

People often struggle to remember specific details of past experiences, which can lead to the need to revisit these memories. Consequently, lifelog retrieval has emerged as a crucial application. Various studies have explored methods to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yu-Fei Shih , An-Zi Yen , Hen-Hsen Huang , Hsin-Hsi Chen

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end Retrieval-Augmented Visual Language Model (REVEAL) that learns to encode world knowledge into a large-scale memory, and to retrieve from it to answer knowledge-intensive queries. REVEAL consists of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Ziniu Hu , Ahmet Iscen , Chen Sun , Zirui Wang , Kai-Wei Chang , Yizhou Sun , Cordelia Schmid , David A. Ross , Alireza Fathi

Inspired by the cognitive science theory of the explicit human memory systems, we have modeled an agent with short-term, episodic, and semantic memory systems, each of which is modeled with a knowledge graph. To evaluate this system and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Taewoon Kim , Michael Cochez , Vincent François-Lavet , Mark Neerincx , Piek Vossen

Next-generation visual assistants, such as smart glasses, embodied agents, and always-on life-logging systems, must reason over an entire day or more of continuous visual experience. In ultra-long video settings, relevant information is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ziyang Wang , Yue Zhang , Shoubin Yu , Ce Zhang , Zengqi Zhao , Jaehong Yoon , Hyunji Lee , Gedas Bertasius , Mohit Bansal

The advent of always-on personal AI assistants, enabled by all-day wearable devices such as smart glasses, demands a new level of contextual understanding, one that goes beyond short, isolated events to encompass the continuous,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Aniket Rege , Arka Sadhu , Yuliang Li , Kejie Li , Ramya Korlakai Vinayak , Yuning Chai , Yong Jae Lee , Hyo Jin Kim

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

Understanding long-form video content presents significant challenges due to its temporal complexity and the substantial computational resources required. In this work, we propose an agent-based approach to enhance both the efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Sullam Jeoung , Goeric Huybrechts , Bhavana Ganesh , Aram Galstyan , Sravan Bodapati

Understanding ultra-long videos such as egocentric recordings, live streams, or surveillance footage spanning days to weeks, remains a challenge. For current multimodal LLMs: even with million-token context windows, frame budgets cover only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiazheng Li , Chi-Hao Wu , Yunze Liu , Kaize Ding , Jundong Li , Chuxu Zhang

We present the first systematic analysis of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) in personalized question-answering requiring ego-grounding - the ability to understand the camera-wearer in egocentric videos. To this end, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Junbin Xiao , Shenglang Zhang , Pengxiang Zhu , Angela Yao

Memory is the process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information, allowing humans to retain experiences, knowledge, skills, and facts over time, and serving as the foundation for growth and effective interaction with the world. It…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yaxiong Wu , Sheng Liang , Chen Zhang , Yichao Wang , Yongyue Zhang , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Yong Liu

Large Language Model (LLM) has exhibited strong reasoning ability in text-based contexts across various domains, yet the limitation of context window poses challenges for the model on long-range inference tasks and necessitates a memory…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Mengwei Yuan , Jianan Liu , Jing Yang , Xianyou Li , Weiran Yan , Yichao Wu , Penghao Liang

Language models (LMs) and their extension, vision-language models (VLMs), have achieved remarkable performance across various tasks. However, they still struggle with complex reasoning tasks that require multimodal or multilingual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Wenyi Wu , Zixuan Song , Kun Zhou , Yifei Shao , Zhiting Hu , Biwei Huang

Large language model (LLM) agents are constrained by limited context windows, necessitating external memory systems for long-term information understanding. Current memory-augmented agents typically depend on pre-defined instructions and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yu Wang , Ryuichi Takanobu , Zhiqi Liang , Yuzhen Mao , Yuanzhe Hu , Julian McAuley , Xiaojian Wu

We present a memory augmented neural network for natural language understanding: Neural Semantic Encoders. NSE is equipped with a novel memory update rule and has a variable sized encoding memory that evolves over time and maintains the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Hong Yu

Egocentric AI agents, such as smart glasses, rely on pointing gestures to resolve referential ambiguities in natural language commands. However, despite advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), current systems often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Chentao Li , Zirui Gao , Mingze Gao , Yinglian Ren , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

In order to bring artificial agents into our lives, we will need to go beyond supervised learning on closed datasets to having the ability to continuously expand knowledge. Inspired by a student learning in a classroom, we present an agent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Kevin Shen , Amlan Kar , Sanja Fidler

All-day smart glasses are likely to emerge as platforms capable of continuous contextual sensing, uniquely positioning them for unprecedented assistance in our daily lives. Integrating the multi-modal AI agents required for human memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Akshay Paruchuri , Sinan Hersek , Lavisha Aggarwal , Qiao Yang , Xin Liu , Achin Kulshrestha , Andrea Colaco , Henry Fuchs , Ishan Chatterjee