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Streaming video question answering (Streaming Video QA) poses distinct challenges for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), as video frames arrive sequentially and user queries can be issued at arbitrary time points. Existing solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Haocheng Lu , Nan Zhang , Wei Tao , Xiaoyang Qu , Guokuan Li , Jiguang Wan , Jianzong Wang

Current vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse video understanding applications. Designing VLMs for video inputs requires effectively modeling the temporal dimension (i.e. capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Lingyu Kong , Hongzhi Zhang , Jingyuan Zhang , Jianzhao Huang , Kunze Li , Qi Wang , Fuzheng Zhang

The Visual Question Answering (VQA) task combines challenges for processing data with both Visual and Linguistic processing, to answer basic `common sense' questions about given images. Given an image and a question in natural language, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Yash Srivastava , Vaishnav Murali , Shiv Ram Dubey , Snehasis Mukherjee

Seeking answers effectively for long videos is essential to build video question answering (videoQA) systems. Previous methods adaptively select frames and regions from long videos to save computations. However, this fails to reason over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Thong Thanh Nguyen , Zhiyuan Hu , Xiaobao Wu , Cong-Duy T Nguyen , See-Kiong Ng , Anh Tuan Luu

The task of Video Question Answering (VideoQA) consists in answering natural language questions about a video and serves as a proxy to evaluate the performance of a model in scene sequence understanding. Most methods designed for VideoQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Theophile Sautory , Nuri Cingillioglu , Alessandra Russo

Understanding long-form egocentric videos remains challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) due to limited context length and insufficient grounding of fine-grained visual details. The recently proposed HD-EPIC benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yinsong Xu , Wei Jing , Liuxin Zhang , Wanjun Lv , Hui Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased impressive capabilities in text comprehension and generation, prompting research efforts towards video LLMs to facilitate human-AI interaction at the video level. However, how to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ruyang Liu , Chen Li , Haoran Tang , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Ge Li

Amidst the advancements in image-based Large Vision-Language Models (image-LVLM), the transition to video-based models (video-LVLM) is hindered by the limited availability of quality video data. This paper addresses the challenge by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Shimin Chen , Yitian Yuan , Shaoxiang Chen , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma

A big part of the video content we consume from video providers consists of genres featuring low-light aesthetics. Low light sequences have special characteristics, such as spatio-temporal varying acquisition noise and light flickering,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Fan Zhang , Alexandra Malyugina , Paul Hill , Angeliki Katsenou

Long-video understanding~(LVU) is a challenging problem in computer vision. Existing methods either downsample frames for single-pass reasoning, sacrificing fine-grained details, or depend on textual reasoning over task-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Huaying Yuan , Zheng Liu , Junjie Zhou , Hongjin Qian , Yan Shu , Nicu Sebe , Ji-Rong Wen , Zhicheng Dou

Enabling large language models (LLMs) to read videos is vital for multimodal LLMs. Existing works show promise on short videos whereas long video (longer than e.g.~1 minute) comprehension remains challenging. The major problem lies in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yu Wang , Zeyuan Zhang , Julian McAuley , Zexue He

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) serving systems commonly employ KV-cache compression to reduce memory footprint. However, existing compression methods introduce significant processing overhead and queuing delays, particularly in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jianian Zhu , Hang Wu , Haojie Wang , Yinghui Li , Biao Hou , Ruixuan Li , Jidong Zhai

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

We explore how reconciling several foundation models (large language models and vision-language models) with a novel unified memory mechanism could tackle the challenging video understanding problem, especially capturing the long-term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yue Fan , Xiaojian Ma , Rujie Wu , Yuntao Du , Jiaqi Li , Zhi Gao , Qing Li

This paper presents question-answering on dense video events, a novel task that answers and grounds dense-event questions in long videos, thus challenging MLLMs to faithfully comprehend and reason about multiple events over extended periods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Hangyu Qin , Junbin Xiao , Angela Yao

We present XMem, a video object segmentation architecture for long videos with unified feature memory stores inspired by the Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model. Prior work on video object segmentation typically only uses one type of feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ho Kei Cheng , Alexander G. Schwing

Video summarization aims to extract keyframes/shots from a long video. Previous methods mainly take diversity and representativeness of generated summaries as prior knowledge in algorithm design. In this paper, we formulate video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Yudong Jiang , Kaixu Cui , Bo Peng , Changliang Xu

Following the successful 2023 edition, we organised the Second Perception Test challenge as a half-day workshop alongside the IEEE/CVF European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024, with the goal of benchmarking state-of-the-art video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Joseph Heyward , João Carreira , Dima Damen , Andrew Zisserman , Viorica Pătrăucean

Video large language models (VideoLLMs) show strong capability in video understanding, yet long-context inference is still dominated by massive redundant visual tokens in the prefill stage. We revisit token compression for VideoLLMs under a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Xinying Lin , Xuyang Liu , Yiyu Wang , Teng Ma , Wenqi Ren

Unlike offline processing, streaming video vision-language models face two fundamental constraints: causality and accumulation. Causality prevents access to future frames that offline methods exploit, while accumulation causes tokens to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xueyi Chen , Keda Tao , Kele Shao , Huan Wang