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Recent progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has led to a surge of benchmarks for long-video reasoning. However, most existing benchmarks rely on localized cues and fail to capture narrative reasoning, the ability to track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Rahul Jain , Keval Doshi , Burak Uzkent , Garin Kessler

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) demands models that jointly reason over spatial, temporal, and linguistic cues. However, the task's inherent complexity often requires multi-step reasoning that current large multimodal models (LMMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jason Nguyen , Ameet Rao , Alexander Chang , Ishaan Kumar , Erin Tan

In this paper, the LCV2 modular method is proposed for the Grounded Visual Question Answering task in the vision-language multimodal domain. This approach relies on a frozen large language model (LLM) as intermediate mediator between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuhan Chen , Lumei Su , Lihua Chen , Zhiwei Lin

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) requires identifying sparse critical moments in long videos and reasoning about their causal relationships to answer semantically complex questions. While recent advances in multimodal learning have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xinxin Dong , Baoyun Peng , Haokai Ma , Yufei Wang , Zixuan Dong , Fei Hu , Xiaodong Wang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable progress in various multimodal tasks, yet they often struggle with complex visual reasoning that requires multi-step inference. To address this limitation, we propose MF-SQ-LLaVA, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Liu Jing , Amirul Rahman

Visual question answering (VQA) is the task of answering questions about an image. The task assumes an understanding of both the image and the question to provide a natural language answer. VQA has gained popularity in recent years due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Deepanway Ghosal , Navonil Majumder , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

The ability to understand long videos is vital for embodied intelligent agents, because their effectiveness depends on how well they can accumulate, organize, and leverage long-horizon perceptual memories. Recently, multimodal LLMs have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Tatiana Zemskova , Solomon Andryushenko , Ilya Obrubov , Viktoriia Khoruzhaia , Ekaterina Eroshenko , Ekaterina Derevyanka , Dmitry Yudin

To address computational and memory limitations of Large Multimodal Models in the Video Question-Answering task, several recent methods extract textual representations per frame (e.g., by captioning) and feed them to a Large Language Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Andreas Goulas , Vasileios Mezaris , Ioannis Patras

Vision Language Models (VLMs), which extend Large Language Models (LLM) by incorporating visual understanding capability, have demonstrated significant advancements in addressing open-ended visual question-answering (VQA) tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Wenbo Hu , Yifan Xu , Yi Li , Weiyue Li , Zeyuan Chen , Zhuowen Tu

Multimodal large language models have recently achieved remarkable progress in video question answering (VideoQA) by jointly processing visual, textual, and audio information. However, it remains unclear which video representations are most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Zhi Li , Yanan Wang , Hao Niu , Julio Vizcarra , Masato Taya

Zero-shot Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a prominent vision-language task that examines both the visual and textual understanding capability of systems in the absence of training data. Recently, by converting the images into captions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Yunshi Lan , Xiang Li , Xin Liu , Yang Li , Wei Qin , Weining Qian

Recent advancements in Video Question Answering (VideoQA) have introduced LLM-based agents, modular frameworks, and procedural solutions, yielding promising results. These systems use dynamic agents and memory-based mechanisms to break down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Tony Montes , Fernando Lozano

Long video understanding is a significant and ongoing challenge in the intersection of multimedia and artificial intelligence. Employing large language models (LLMs) for comprehending video becomes an emerging and promising method. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yunxin Li , Xinyu Chen , Baotain Hu , Min Zhang

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

Enabling large language models (LLMs) to read videos is vital for multimodal LLMs. Existing works show promise on short videos whereas long video (longer than e.g.~1 minute) comprehension remains challenging. The major problem lies in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yu Wang , Zeyuan Zhang , Julian McAuley , Zexue He

This paper addresses the critical and underexplored challenge of long video understanding with low computational budgets. We propose LongVideo-R1, an active, reasoning-equipped multimodal large language model (MLLM) agent designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jihao Qiu , Lingxi Xie , Xinyue Huo , Qi Tian , Qixiang Ye

Recent advancements in video large language models (Video LLMs) have significantly advanced the field of video question answering (VideoQA). While existing methods perform well on short videos, they often struggle with long-range reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Mustafa Chasmai , Gauri Jagatap , Gouthaman KV , Grant Van Horn , Subhransu Maji , Andrea Fanelli

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promising progress in understanding and analyzing video content. However, processing long videos remains a significant challenge constrained by LLM's context size. To address this…

This paper presents question-answering on dense video events, a novel task that answers and grounds dense-event questions in long videos, thus challenging MLLMs to faithfully comprehend and reason about multiple events over extended periods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Hangyu Qin , Junbin Xiao , Angela Yao