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Long video understanding requires more than large context windows. It also needs a memory mechanism that decides what visual evidence to retain, keeps it searchable over long horizons, and grounds later reasoning in recoverable observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Aiden Yiliu Li , Nels Numan , Anthony Steed

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are crucial for applications requiring integrated understanding textual and visual information. However, existing VLMs struggle with long videos due to computational inefficiency, memory limitations, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Anxhelo Diko , Tinghuai Wang , Wassim Swaileh , Shiyan Sun , Ioannis Patras

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often yield inconsistent descriptions of the same object across viewpoints, hindering the ability of embodied agents to construct consistent semantic representations over time. Previous methods resolved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tommaso Galliena , Stefano Rosa , Tommaso Apicella , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue , Lorenzo Natale

Long videos, characterized by temporal complexity and sparse task-relevant information, pose significant reasoning challenges for AI systems. Although existing Large Language Model (LLM)-based approaches have advanced long video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jiahua Li , Zhanhe Zhang , Chenghao Xu , Zhe Xu , Kun Wei , Xu Yang , Cheng Deng

Omnimodal large language models have made significant strides in unifying audio and visual modalities; however, they often face challenges in fine-grained cross-modal understanding and have difficulty with multimodal alignment. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Keda Tao , Wenjie Du , Bohan Yu , Weiqiang Wang , Jian Liu , Huan Wang

Existing large video-language models (LVLMs) struggle to comprehend long videos correctly due to limited context. To address this problem, fine-tuning long-context LVLMs and employing GPT-based agents have emerged as promising solutions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yongdong Luo , Xiawu Zheng , Guilin Li , Shukang Yin , Haojia Lin , Chaoyou Fu , Jinfa Huang , Jiayi Ji , Fei Chao , Jiebo Luo , Rongrong Ji

Long-form video understanding has always been a challenging problem due to the significant redundancy in both temporal and spatial contents. This challenge is further exacerbated by the limited context length of Multimodal Large Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Ruyang Liu , Shangkun Sun , Haoran Tang , Ge Li , Wei Gao

We present PresentAgent, a multimodal agent that transforms long-form documents into narrated presentation videos. While existing approaches are limited to generating static slides or text summaries, our method advances beyond these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jingwei Shi , Zeyu Zhang , Biao Wu , Yanjie Liang , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Yang Zhao

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

By leveraging tool-augmented Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), multi-agent frameworks are driving progress in video understanding. However, most of them adopt static and non-learnable tool invocation mechanisms, which limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Boyu Chen , Zikang Wang , Zhengrong Yue , Kainan Yan , Chenyun Yu , Yi Huang , Zijun Liu , Yafei Wen , Xiaoxin Chen , Yang Liu , Peng Li , Yali Wang

Recent advances in multimodal LLMs and systems that use tools for long-video QA point to the promise of reasoning over hour-long episodes. However, many methods still compress content into lossy summaries or rely on limited toolsets,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Runtao Liu , Ziyi Liu , Jiaqi Tang , Yue Ma , Renjie Pi , Jipeng Zhang , Qifeng Chen

We introduce M3-Agent, a novel multimodal agent framework equipped with long-term memory. Like humans, M3-Agent can process real-time visual and auditory inputs to build and update episodic and semantic memories, gradually accumulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Lin Long , Yichen He , Wentao Ye , Yiyuan Pan , Yuan Lin , Hang Li , Junbo Zhao , Wei Li

Recent advancements in large-scale video-language models have shown significant potential for real-time planning and detailed interactions. However, their high computational demands and the scarcity of annotated datasets limit their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuxuan Wang , Yiqi Song , Cihang Xie , Yang Liu , Zilong Zheng

Long-form multimodal video understanding requires integrating vision, speech, and ambient audio with coherent long-range reasoning. Existing benchmarks emphasize either temporal length or multimodal richness, but rarely both and while some…

This work proposes TimeChat, a time-sensitive multimodal large language model specifically designed for long video understanding. Our model incorporates two key architectural contributions: (1) a timestamp-aware frame encoder that binds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Shuhuai Ren , Linli Yao , Shicheng Li , Xu Sun , Lu Hou

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown significant progress in video understanding, yet they face substantial challenges in tasks requiring precise spatiotemporal localization at the instance level. Existing methods primarily rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yiming Zhao , Yu Zeng , Wenxuan Huang , Zhen Fang , Qing Miao , Qisheng Su , Jiawei Zhao , Jiayin Cai , Lin Chen , Zehui Chen , Yukun Qi , Yao Hu , Xiaolong Jiang , Feng Zhao

Recently, integrating video foundation models and large language models to build a video understanding system can overcome the limitations of specific pre-defined vision tasks. Yet, existing methods either employ complex spatial-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Enxin Song , Wenhao Chai , Tian Ye , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Xi Li , Gaoang Wang

Video agentic models have advanced challenging video-language tasks. However, most agentic approaches still heavily rely on greedy parsing over densely sampled video frames, resulting in high computational cost. We present VideoSeek, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jingyang Lin , Jialian Wu , Jiang Liu , Ximeng Sun , Ze Wang , Xiaodong Yu , Jiebo Luo , Zicheng Liu , Emad Barsoum

Videos are often used to learn or extract the necessary information to complete tasks in ways different than what text and static imagery alone can provide. However, many existing agent benchmarks neglect long-context video understanding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Lawrence Jang , Yinheng Li , Dan Zhao , Charles Ding , Justin Lin , Paul Pu Liang , Rogerio Bonatti , Kazuhito Koishida

In recent years, online lecture videos have become an increasingly popular resource for acquiring new knowledge. Systems capable of effectively understanding/indexing lecture videos are thus highly desirable, enabling downstream tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Kangda Wei , Zhengyu Zhou , Bingqing Wang , Jun Araki , Lukas Lange , Ruihong Huang , Zhe Feng