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Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects in videos based on natural language descriptions. However, fixed keyframe-based approaches that couple a vision language model with a separate propagation module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jihwan Hong , Jaeyoung Do

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have recently shown strong performance in basic video understanding tasks, such as captioning and coarse-grained question answering, but struggle with compositional reasoning that requires multi-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Haiyi Qiu , Minghe Gao , Long Qian , Kaihang Pan , Qifan Yu , Juncheng Li , Wenjie Wang , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang , Tat-Seng Chua

Table reasoning with large language models (LLMs) plays a critical role in building intelligent systems capable of understanding and analyzing tabular data. Despite recent progress, existing methods still face key limitations: their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Huajian Zhang , Mingyue Cheng , Yucong Luo , Xiaoyu Tao

Video-grounded dialogues are very challenging due to (i) the complexity of videos which contain both spatial and temporal variations, and (ii) the complexity of user utterances which query different segments and/or different objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Hung Le , Doyen Sahoo , Nancy F. Chen , Steven C. H. Hoi

Answering complex visual questions like `Which red furniture can be used for sitting?' requires multi-step reasoning, including object recognition, attribute filtering, and relational understanding. Recent work improves interpretability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yu Cheng , Arushi Goel , Hakan Bilen

Many video reasoning tasks require tracking motion, temporal order, and evolving visual states across frames. Existing methods built on large vision-language models (LVLMs) often address this challenge by externalizing reasoning through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yiming Liang , Yixiao Chen , Yiyang Zhou , Yixuan Wang , Shoubin Yu , Andong Deng , Fuxiao Liu , Qin Zhang , Chen Chen , Mohit Bansal , Huaxiu Yao

Outlier detection is critical in real applications to prevent financial fraud, defend network intrusions, or detecting imminent device failures. To reduce the human effort in evaluating outlier detection results and effectively turn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Yu Wang , Lei Cao , Yizhou Yan , Samuel Madden

This paper presents a new task, the grounding of spatio-temporal identifying descriptions in videos. Previous work suggests potential bias in existing datasets and emphasizes the need for a new data creation schema to better model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Peratham Wiriyathammabhum , Abhinav Shrivastava , Vlad I. Morariu , Larry S. Davis

We present the task of Spatio-Temporal Video Question Answering, which requires intelligent systems to simultaneously retrieve relevant moments and detect referenced visual concepts (people and objects) to answer natural language questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Jie Lei , Licheng Yu , Tamara L. Berg , Mohit Bansal

In this paper, we present a spatio-temporal tendency reasoning (STR) network for recovering human body pose and shape from videos. Previous approaches have focused on how to extend 3D human datasets and temporal-based learning to promote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Boyang Zhang , SuPing Wu , Hu Cao , Kehua Ma , Pan Li , Lei Lin

We introduce STRIVE (SpatioTemporal Reinforcement with Importance-aware Variant Exploration), a structured reinforcement learning framework for video question answering. While group-based policy optimization methods have shown promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Emad Bahrami , Olga Zatsarynna , Parth Pathak , Sunando Sengupta , Juergen Gall , Mohsen Fayyaz

Although significant achievements have been achieved by recurrent neural network (RNN) based video prediction methods, their performance in datasets with high resolutions is still far from satisfactory because of the information loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Zheng Chang , Xinfeng Zhang , Shanshe Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Recent studies on long-term time series forecasting have shown that simple linear models and MLP-based predictors can achieve strong performance without increasingly complex architectures. However, many competitive baselines still rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zhenan Yu , Guangxin Jiang , Jin Yang

In the video-language domain, recent works in leveraging zero-shot Large Language Model-based reasoning for video understanding have become competitive challengers to previous end-to-end models. However, long video understanding presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ruotong Liao , Max Erler , Huiyu Wang , Guangyao Zhai , Gengyuan Zhang , Yunpu Ma , Volker Tresp

Reasoning in the real world is not divorced from situations. How to capture the present knowledge from surrounding situations and perform reasoning accordingly is crucial and challenging for machine intelligence. This paper introduces a new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Bo Wu , Shoubin Yu , Zhenfang Chen , Joshua B Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Cause-and-effect reasoning in video is a significant challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), as it requires going beyond surface-level perception to a deeper understanding of causal mechanisms. However, existing benchmarks rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mingfang Zhang , Jingjing Pan , Ashutosh Kumar , Rajat Saini , Mustafa Erdogan , Hsuan-Kung Yang , Caixin Kang , Yifei Huang , Yoichi Sato , Quan Kong

The internalization of chain-of-thought processes into hidden states has emerged as a highly efficient paradigm for scaling test-time compute. However, existing activation steering methods rely on static control vectors that fail to adapt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Zhenning Shi , Yijia Zhu , Junhan Shi , Xun Zhang , Lei Wang , Congcong Miao

Mobile robots are often deployed over long durations in diverse open, dynamic scenes, including indoor setting such as warehouses and manufacturing facilities, and outdoor settings such as agricultural and roadway operations. A core…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Mingfeng Yuan , Hao Zhang , Mahan Mohammadi , Runhao Li , Jinjun Shan , Steven L. Waslander

Long-form video understanding, characterized by long-range temporal dependencies and multiple events, remains a challenge. Existing methods often rely on static reasoning or external visual-language models (VLMs), which face issues like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yuan Xie , Tianshui Chen , Zheng Ge , Lionel Ni

Object-centric learning aims to break down complex visual scenes into more manageable object representations, enhancing the understanding and reasoning abilities of machine learning systems toward the physical world. Recently, slot-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jian Li , Pu Ren , Yang Liu , Hao Sun