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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

To address computational and memory limitations of Large Multimodal Models in the Video Question-Answering task, several recent methods extract textual representations per frame (e.g., by captioning) and feed them to a Large Language Model…

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Multi-page Document Visual Question Answering requires reasoning over semantics, layouts, and visual elements in long, visually dense documents. Existing OCR-free methods face a trade-off between capacity and precision: end-to-end models…

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Long-form videos that span across wide temporal intervals are highly information redundant and contain multiple distinct events or entities that are often loosely related. Therefore, when performing long-form video question answering…

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Video Question Answering (Video QA) is a challenging video understanding task that requires models to comprehend entire videos, identify the most relevant information based on contextual cues from a given question, and reason accurately to…

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Recent Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, yet remain challenged by video understanding tasks that require consistent temporal ordering and causal coherence. Many parameter-efficient…

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Vision Language Models (VLMs) have recently shown significant advancements in video understanding, especially in feature alignment, event reasoning, and instruction-following tasks. However, their capability for counterfactual reasoning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yuefei Chen , Jiang Liu , Xiaodong Lin , Ruixiang Tang

Compositional spatio-temporal reasoning poses a significant challenge in the field of video question answering (VideoQA). Existing approaches struggle to establish effective symbolic reasoning structures, which are crucial for answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Lili Liang , Guanglu Sun , Jin Qiu , Lizhong Zhang

Generating semantically and temporally aligned audio content in accordance with video input has become a focal point for researchers, particularly following the remarkable breakthrough in text-to-video generation. In this work, we aim to…

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Video Question Answering (VideoQA) has been significantly advanced from the scaling of recent Large Language Models (LLMs). The key idea is to convert the visual information into the language feature space so that the capacity of LLMs can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Junting Pan , Ziyi Lin , Yuying Ge , Xiatian Zhu , Renrui Zhang , Yi Wang , Yu Qiao , Hongsheng Li

We present AlignNet, a model that synchronizes videos with reference audios under non-uniform and irregular misalignments. AlignNet learns the end-to-end dense correspondence between each frame of a video and an audio. Our method is…

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Large multimodal models (LMMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in video question answering (VideoQA), yet reasoning over video remains challenging due to high inference cost and diluted information. Keyframe selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Minchan Kwon , Hyounguk Shon , Junmo Kim

Bridging the semantic gap between image and question is an important step to improve the accuracy of the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. However, most of the existing VQA methods focus on attention mechanisms or visual relations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Binh X. Nguyen , Tuong Do , Huy Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

Recent progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has led to a surge of benchmarks for long-video reasoning. However, most existing benchmarks rely on localized cues and fail to capture narrative reasoning, the ability to track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Rahul Jain , Keval Doshi , Burak Uzkent , Garin Kessler

Compositional generalization is the ability of generalizing novel compositions from seen primitives, and has received much attention in vision-and-language (V\&L) recently. Due to the multi-modal nature of V\&L tasks, the primitives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chuanhao Li , Wenbo Ye , Zhen Li , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

Most existing approaches to Visual Question Answering (VQA) answer questions directly, however, people usually decompose a complex question into a sequence of simple sub questions and finally obtain the answer to the original question after…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Ruonan Wang , Yuxi Qian , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang , Huixing Jiang

Manual annotation of high-quality visual question answering with grounding (VQA-G) datasets, which pair visual questions with evidential grounding, is crucial for advancing vision-language models (VLMs), but remains unscalable. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Rongsheng Hu , Runwei Guan , Yicheng Di , Jiayu Bao , Yuan Liu

Compositional generalization is the capability of a model to understand novel compositions composed of seen concepts. There are multiple levels of novel compositions including phrase-phrase level, phrase-word level, and word-word level.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Chuanhao Li , Zhen Li , Chenchen Jing , Xiaomeng Fan , Wenbo Ye , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

Grounded Video Question Answering (Grounded VideoQA) requires aligning textual answers with explicit visual evidence. However, modern multimodal models often rely on linguistic priors and spurious correlations, resulting in poorly grounded…

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