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Despite recent advances in Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs), effectively understanding long-form videos remains a significant challenge. Perceiving lengthy videos containing thousands of frames poses substantial computational burden.…

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We investigate whether off-the-shelf Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) can tackle Online Episodic-Memory Video Question Answering (OEM-VQA) without additional training. Our pipeline converts a streaming egocentric video into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Giuseppe Lando , Rosario Forte , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Antonino Furnari

Text-rich VQA, namely Visual Question Answering based on text recognition in the images, is a cross-modal task that requires both image comprehension and text recognition. In this work, we focus on investigating the advantages and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Xuejing Liu , Wei Tang , Xinzhe Ni , Jinghui Lu , Rui Zhao , Zechao Li , Fei Tan

The increasing application of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) across various sectors have spotlighted the essence of their output reliability and accuracy, particularly their ability to produce content grounded in factual…

In this work, we tackle the problem of long-form video-language grounding (VLG). Given a long-form video and a natural language query, a model should temporally localize the precise moment that answers the query. Humans can easily solve VLG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Hyogun Lee , Soyeon Hong , Mujeen Sung , Jinwoo Choi

Despite recent advances in video understanding, the capabilities of Large Video Language Models (LVLMs) to perform video-based causal reasoning remains underexplored, largely due to the absence of relevant and dedicated benchmarks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Pritam Sarkar , Ali Etemad

Inspired by the success of Large Language Models in dealing with new tasks via In-Context Learning (ICL) in NLP, researchers have also developed Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) with ICL capabilities. However, when implementing ICL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Li Li , Jiawei Peng , Huiyi Chen , Chongyang Gao , Xu Yang

Recently, image-based Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have made significant progress in video question-answering (VideoQA) using a frame-wise approach by leveraging large-scale pretraining in a zero-shot manner. Nevertheless, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Chuyi Shang , Amos You , Sanjay Subramanian , Trevor Darrell , Roei Herzig

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) demonstrate exceptional performance in vision-language tasks, yet their processing of long videos is constrained by input context length and high computational costs. Sparse frame sampling thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jianxiang He , Meisheng Hong , Jungang Li , Weiyu Guo , Xuming Hu , Hui Xiong

Large vision--language models (VLMs) are increasingly applied to long-video question answering, yet inference is often bottlenecked by the number of input frames and resulting visual tokens. Naive sparse sampling can miss decisive moments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yuning Huang , Xiaoyu Ji , Joseph Huang , Yichi Zhang , Fengqing Zhu

Modern Video Large Language Models (VLLMs) often rely on uniform frame sampling for video understanding, but this approach frequently fails to capture critical information due to frame redundancy and variations in video content. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Pengyi Li , Irina Abdullaeva , Alexander Gambashidze , Andrey Kuznetsov , Ivan Oseledets

Despite impressive advancements in recent multimodal reasoning approaches, they are still limited in flexibility and efficiency, as these models typically process only a few fixed modality inputs and require updates to numerous parameters.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shoubin Yu , Jaehong Yoon , Mohit Bansal

In the field of multi-modal language models, the majority of methods are built on an architecture similar to LLaVA. These models use a single-layer ViT feature as a visual prompt, directly feeding it into the language models alongside…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Kaibing Chen , Dong Shen , Hanwen Zhong , Huasong Zhong , Kui Xia , Di Xu , Wei Yuan , Yifei Hu , Bin Wen , Tianke Zhang , Changyi Liu , Dewen Fan , Huihui Xiao , Jiahong Wu , Fan Yang , Size Li , Di Zhang

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

Recent long-form video-language understanding benchmarks have driven progress in video large multimodal models (Video-LMMs). However, the scarcity of well-annotated long videos has left the training of hour-long Video-LMMs underexplored. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Jingyang Lin , Jialian Wu , Ximeng Sun , Ze Wang , Jiang Liu , Yusheng Su , Xiaodong Yu , Hao Chen , Jiebo Luo , Zicheng Liu , Emad Barsoum

In the past year, video-based large language models (Video LLMs) have achieved impressive progress, particularly in their ability to process long videos through extremely extended context lengths. However, this comes at the cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shangkun Sun , Ruyang Liu , Haoran Tang , Yixiao Ge , Haibo Lu , Wei Gao , Jiankun Yang , Chen Li

Video-based quality assurance (QA) for long-form gameplay video is labor-intensive and error-prone, yet valuable for assessing game stability and visual correctness over extended play sessions. Vision language models (VLMs) promise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Wentao Lu , Alexander Senchenko , Alan Sayle , Abram Hindle , Cor-Paul Bezemer

Understanding long videos requires extracting query-relevant information from long sequences under tight compute budgets. Existing text-then-LLM pipelines lose fine-grained visual cues, while video-based multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yufei Yin , Yuchen Xing , Qianke Meng , Minghao Chen , Yan Yang , Zhou Yu

There has been impressive progress in Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). Recent works extend these models to long inputs, including multi-page documents and long videos. However, the model size and performance of these long context models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 De-An Huang , Subhashree Radhakrishnan , Zhiding Yu , Jan Kautz

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