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Despite advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), current approaches struggle in medium-to-long video understanding due to frame and context length limitations. As a result, these models often depend on frame sampling, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Shehreen Azad , Vibhav Vineet , Yogesh Singh Rawat

Current video-language models struggle with long-video understanding due to limited context lengths and reliance on sparse frame subsampling, often leading to information loss. This paper introduces $\infty$-Video, which can process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Saul Santos , António Farinhas , Daniel C. McNamee , André F. T. Martins

Recently, multimodal large language models have made significant advancements in video understanding tasks. However, their ability to understand unprocessed long videos is very limited, primarily due to the difficulty in supporting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yiwei Sun , Zhihang Liu , Chuanbin Liu , Bowei Pu , Zhihan Zhang , Hongtao Xie

Multimodal large language models have become a popular topic in deep visual understanding due to many promising real-world applications. However, hour-long video understanding, spanning over one hour and containing tens of thousands of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Heqing Zou , Tianze Luo , Guiyang Xie , Victor Xiao Jie Zhang , Fengmao Lv , Guangcong Wang , Junyang Chen , Zhuochen Wang , Hansheng Zhang , Huaijian Zhang

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

We propose an efficient framework to compress massive video-frame features before feeding them into large multimodal models, thereby mitigating the severe token explosion arising from hour-long videos. Our design leverages a bidirectional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Geewook Kim , Minjoon Seo

In the context of long-term video understanding with large multimodal models, many frameworks have been proposed. Although transformer-based visual compressors and memory-augmented approaches are often used to process long videos, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sosuke Yamao , Natsuki Miyahara , Yuankai Qi , Shun Takeuchi

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

Long video understanding is a key challenge that plagues the advancement of \emph{Multimodal Large language Models} (MLLMs). In this paper, we study this problem from the perspective of visual memory mechanism, and proposed a novel and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tao Chen , Kun Zhang , Qiong Wu , Xiao Chen , Chao Chang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji

This paper introduces the system we developed for the Youtube-8M Video Understanding Challenge, in which a large-scale benchmark dataset was used for multi-label video classification. The proposed framework contains hierarchical deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Luming Tang , Boyang Deng , Haiyu Zhao , Shuai Yi

We propose a novel supervised learning technique for summarizing videos by automatically selecting keyframes or key subshots. Casting the problem as a structured prediction problem on sequential data, our main idea is to use Long Short-Term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Ke Zhang , Wei-Lun Chao , Fei Sha , Kristen Grauman

Long video understanding is a complex task that requires both spatial detail and temporal awareness. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) obtain frame-level understanding capabilities through multi-frame input, they suffer from information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ziyi Wang , Haoran Wu , Yiming Rong , Deyang Jiang , Yixin Zhang , Yunlong Zhao , Shuang Xu , Bo XU

Streaming Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across various video understanding tasks, but they face significant challenges in real-time deployment due to the high computational cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yiyu Wang , Xuyang Liu , Xiyan Gui , Xinying Lin , Boxue Yang , Chenfei Liao , Tailai Chen , Linfeng Zhang

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) models have made significant progress in video understanding over the past few years. However, processing long video inputs remains a major challenge due to high memory and computational costs. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Minghao Qin , Xiangrui Liu , Zhengyang Liang , Yan Shu , Huaying Yuan , Juenjie Zhou , Shitao Xiao , Bo Zhao , Zheng Liu

This paper presents a state-of-the-art model for visual question answering (VQA), which won the first place in the 2017 VQA Challenge. VQA is a task of significant importance for research in artificial intelligence, given its multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Damien Teney , Peter Anderson , Xiaodong He , Anton van den Hengel

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Dingxin Cheng , Mingda Li , Jingyu Liu , Yongxin Guo , Bin Jiang , Qingbin Liu , Xi Chen , Bo Zhao

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) excel at understanding videos in-context, provided they have full access to the video when answering queries. However, these models face challenges in streaming scenarios where hour-long videos must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Vaggelis Dorovatas , Soroush Seifi , Gunshi Gupta , Rahaf Aljundi

Video question answering is a challenging task that requires understanding jointly the language input, the visual information in individual video frames, as well as the temporal information about the events occurring in the video. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 AJ Piergiovanni , Kairo Morton , Weicheng Kuo , Michael S. Ryoo , Anelia Angelova

As the scale of data and models for video understanding rapidly expand, handling long-form video input in transformer-based models presents a practical challenge. Rather than resorting to input sampling or token dropping, which may result…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Seon-Ho Lee , Jue Wang , Zhikang Zhang , David Fan , Xinyu Li

Despite recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), long-video understanding remains a challenging problem. Although state-of-the-art long-context VLMs can process around 1000 input frames, they still struggle to effectively leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Anurag Arnab , Ahmet Iscen , Mathilde Caron , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid