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Despite the recent advances in the video understanding ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), long video understanding remains a challenge. One of the main issues is that the number of vision tokens grows linearly with video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Siyou Li , Huanan Wu , Juexi Shao , Yinghao Ma , Yujian Gan , Yihao Luo , Yuwei Wang , Dong Nie , Lu Wang , Wenqing Wu , Le Zhang , Massimo Poesio , Juntao Yu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are able to process increasingly longer videos. Yet, important visual information is easily lost throughout the entire context and missed by VLMs. Also, it is important to design tools that enable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Galann Pennec , Zhengyuan Liu , Nicholas Asher , Philippe Muller , Nancy F. Chen

Recent advances in test-time optimization have led to remarkable reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs), enabling them to solve highly complex problems in math and coding. However, the reasoning capabilities of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Ce Zhang , Yan-Bo Lin , Ziyang Wang , Mohit Bansal , Gedas Bertasius

It is desirable but challenging to generate content-rich long videos in the scale of minutes. Autoregressive large language models (LLMs) have achieved great success in generating coherent and long sequences of tokens in the domain of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yuqing Wang , Tianwei Xiong , Daquan Zhou , Zhijie Lin , Yang Zhao , Bingyi Kang , Jiashi Feng , Xihui Liu

With recent advancements in video backbone architectures, combined with the remarkable achievements of large language models (LLMs), the analysis of long-form videos spanning tens of minutes has become both feasible and increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Yuxiao Chen , Jue Wang , Zhikang Zhang , Jingru Yi , Xu Zhang , Yang Zou , Zhaowei Cai , Jianbo Yuan , Xinyu Li , Hao Yang , Davide Modolo

This paper presents Audio-Visual LLM, a Multimodal Large Language Model that takes both visual and auditory inputs for holistic video understanding. A key design is the modality-augmented training, which involves the integration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Fangxun Shu , Lei Zhang , Hao Jiang , Cihang Xie

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has been highly successful in solving complex tasks in natural language processing, and recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have extended this paradigm to video reasoning. However, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yiwu Zhong , Zi-Yuan Hu , Yin Li , Liwei Wang

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

Long video understanding is a key challenge that plagues the advancement of \emph{Multimodal Large language Models} (MLLMs). In this paper, we study this problem from the perspective of visual memory mechanism, and proposed a novel and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tao Chen , Kun Zhang , Qiong Wu , Xiao Chen , Chao Chang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji

We introduce a full-stack framework that scales up reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs) to long videos, leveraging reinforcement learning. We address the unique challenges of long video reasoning by integrating three critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yukang Chen , Wei Huang , Baifeng Shi , Qinghao Hu , Hanrong Ye , Ligeng Zhu , Zhijian Liu , Pavlo Molchanov , Jan Kautz , Xiaojuan Qi , Sifei Liu , Hongxu Yin , Yao Lu , Song Han

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

The rapid development of multimodal large-language models (MLLMs) has significantly expanded the scope of visual language reasoning, enabling unified systems to interpret and describe complex visual content. However, applying these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Xinkui Zhao , Zuxin Wang , Yifan Zhang , Guanjie Cheng , Yueshen Xu , Shuiguang Deng , Chang Liu , Naibo Wang , Jianwei Yin

This paper introduces VideoScan, an efficient vision-language model (VLM) inference framework designed for real-time video interaction that effectively comprehends and retains streamed video inputs while delivering rapid and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Ruanjun Li , Yuedong Tan , Yuanming Shi , Jiawei Shao

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) models have made significant progress in video understanding over the past few years. However, processing long video inputs remains a major challenge due to high memory and computational costs. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Minghao Qin , Xiangrui Liu , Zhengyang Liang , Yan Shu , Huaying Yuan , Juenjie Zhou , Shitao Xiao , Bo Zhao , Zheng Liu

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled open-world visual understanding by injecting visual input as extra tokens into large language models (LLMs) as contexts. However, when the visual input changes from a single image to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Xi Tang , Jihao Qiu , Lingxi Xie , Yunjie Tian , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye

With the burgeoning growth of online video platforms and the escalating volume of video content, the demand for proficient video understanding tools has intensified markedly. Given the remarkable capabilities of large language models (LLMs)…

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

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

Video Large Language Models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance on various vision-language tasks, yet their practical use is limited by the massive number of visual tokens produced from raw video frames, which quickly exhausts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Guangyu Sun , Archit Singhal , Burak Uzkent , Mubarak Shah , Chen Chen , Garin Kessler

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have made remarkable progress in video understanding tasks. However, they are constrained by the maximum length of input tokens, making it impractical to input entire videos. Existing frame selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Sicheng Yu , Chengkai Jin , Huanyu Wang , Zhenghao Chen , Sheng Jin , Zhongrong Zuo , Xiaolei Xu , Zhenbang Sun , Bingni Zhang , Jiawei Wu , Hao Zhang , Qianru Sun