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This paper introduces MiniGPT4-Video, a multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) designed specifically for video understanding. The model is capable of processing both temporal visual and textual data, making it adept at understanding the…

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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…

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Existing MLLMs encounter significant challenges in modeling the temporal context within long videos. Currently, mainstream Agent-based methods use external tools to assist a single MLLM in answering long video questions. Despite such…

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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…

Long video understanding is inherently challenging for vision-language models (VLMs) because of the extensive number of frames. With each video frame typically expanding into tens or hundreds of tokens, the limited context length of large…

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Recent progress in multimodal large language models has markedly enhanced the understanding of short videos (typically under one minute), and several evaluation datasets have emerged accordingly. However, these advancements fall short of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Weihan Wang , Zehai He , Wenyi Hong , Yean Cheng , Xiaohan Zhang , Ji Qi , Xiaotao Gu , Shiyu Huang , Bin Xu , Yuxiao Dong , Ming Ding , Jie Tang

Large language models (LLMs) excel at retrieving information from lengthy text, but their vision-language counterparts (VLMs) face difficulties with hour-long videos, especially for temporal grounding. Specifically, these VLMs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Tanveer Hannan , Md Mohaiminul Islam , Jindong Gu , Thomas Seidl , Gedas Bertasius

Ultra long video understanding remains an open challenge, as existing vision language models (VLMs) falter on such content due to limited context length and inefficient long term memory retention. To address this, recent works have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Hongbo Jin , Qingyuan Wang , Wenhao Zhang , Yang Liu , Sijie Cheng

The advancements in large language models (LLMs) have propelled the improvement of video understanding tasks by incorporating LLMs with visual models. However, most existing LLM-based models (e.g., VideoLLaMA, VideoChat) are constrained to…

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Recently, integrating visual foundation models into large language models (LLMs) to form video understanding systems has attracted widespread attention. Most of the existing models compress diverse semantic information within the whole…

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Long video understanding remains challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) due to limited context windows, which necessitate identifying sparse query-relevant video segments. However, existing methods predominantly localize…

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In light of recent advances in multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs), there is increasing attention to scaling them from image-text data to more informative real-world videos. Compared to static images, video poses unique challenges for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yang Jin , Zhicheng Sun , Kun Xu , Kun Xu , Liwei Chen , Hao Jiang , Quzhe Huang , Chengru Song , Yuliang Liu , Di Zhang , Yang Song , Kun Gai , Yadong Mu

Large multimodal models (LMMs) are processing increasingly longer and richer inputs. Albeit the progress, few public benchmark is available to measure such development. To mitigate this gap, we introduce LongVideoBench, a question-answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Haoning Wu , Dongxu Li , Bei Chen , Junnan Li

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

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

Benefiting from the advances in large language models and cross-modal alignment, existing multimodal large language models have achieved prominent performance in image and short video understanding. However, the understanding of long videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Haoji Zhang , Yiqin Wang , Yansong Tang , Yong Liu , Jiashi Feng , Xiaojie Jin

The recent development of Video-based Large Language Models (VideoLLMs), has significantly advanced video summarization by aligning video features and, in some cases, audio features with Large Language Models (LLMs). Each of these VideoLLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Kuan-Chen Mu , Zhi-Yi Chin , Wei-Chen Chiu

Long-form video understanding is essential for various applications such as video retrieval, summarizing, and question answering. Yet, traditional approaches demand substantial computing power and are often bottlenecked by GPU memory. To…

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In recent years, the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced, extending their capabilities to multimodal tasks through Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, video understanding remains a…