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Research into Video Large Language Models (LLMs) has progressed rapidly, with numerous models and benchmarks emerging in just a few years. Typically, these models are initialized with a pretrained text-only LLM and finetuned on both image-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 George Lydakis , Alexander Hermans , Ali Athar , Daan de Geus , Bastian Leibe

Video temporal grounding (VTG), which localizes the start and end times of a queried event in an untrimmed video, is a key test of whether multimodal large language models (MLLMs) understand not only what happens but also when it happens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Dazhao Du , Liao Duan , Jian Liu , Tao Han , Yujia Zhang , Eric Liu , Xi Chen , Song Guo

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

There has been tremendous progress in multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs). Recent works have extended these models to video input with promising instruction following capabilities. However, an important missing piece is temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 De-An Huang , Shijia Liao , Subhashree Radhakrishnan , Hongxu Yin , Pavlo Molchanov , Zhiding Yu , Jan Kautz

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly improved performance across various image-language applications. Recently, there has been a growing interest in adapting image pre-trained MLLMs for video-related tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Mingze Gao , Jingyu Liu , Mingda Li , Jiangtao Xie , Qingbin Liu , Bo Zhao , Xi Chen , Hui Xiong

We introduce TemporalVLM, a video large language model (video LLM) for temporal reasoning and fine-grained understanding in long videos. Our approach includes a visual encoder for mapping a long-term video into features which are time-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Fawad Javed Fateh , Umer Ahmed , Hamza Khan , M. Zeeshan Zia , Quoc-Huy Tran

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated a wide range of capabilities across many domains, including Embodied AI. In this work, we study how to best ground a MLLM into different embodiments and their associated action…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Andrew Szot , Bogdan Mazoure , Harsh Agrawal , Devon Hjelm , Zsolt Kira , Alexander Toshev

Rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced multimodal large language models (LMMs), particularly in vision-language tasks. However, existing video-language models often overlook precise temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shimin Chen , Xiaohan Lan , Yitian Yuan , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma

Our research investigates the capability of modern multimodal reasoning models, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), to facilitate vision-powered assistants for multi-step daily activities. Such assistants must be able to 1) encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Mrinal Verghese , Brian Chen , Hamid Eghbalzadeh , Tushar Nagarajan , Ruta Desai

Large Language Models (LLMs) present a promising frontier in robotic task planning by leveraging extensive human knowledge. Nevertheless, the current literature often overlooks the critical aspects of robots' adaptability and error…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Sthithpragya Gupta , Kunpeng Yao , Loïc Niederhauser , Aude Billard

While Large Language Models (LLM) enable non-experts to specify open-world multi-robot tasks, the generated plans often lack kinematic feasibility and are not efficient, especially in long-horizon scenarios. Formal methods like Linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shuyuan Hu , Tao Lin , Kai Ye , Yang Yang , Tianwei Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the use of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for generating virtual activities, leveraging the integration of vision-language modalities to enable the interpretation of virtual environments. Our approach…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Changyang Li , Qingan Yan , Minyoung Kim , Zhan Li , Yi Xu , Lap-Fai Yu

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with visual encoders has recently shown promising performance in visual understanding tasks, leveraging their inherent capability to comprehend and generate human-like text for visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Heqing Zou , Tianze Luo , Guiyang Xie , Victor , Zhang , Fengmao Lv , Guangcong Wang , Junyang Chen , Zhuochen Wang , Hansheng Zhang , Huaijian Zhang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in short video understanding. However, understanding long-form videos still remains challenging for MLLMs. This paper proposes TimeSuite, a collection of new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Xiangyu Zeng , Kunchang Li , Chenting Wang , Xinhao Li , Tianxiang Jiang , Ziang Yan , Songze Li , Yansong Shi , Zhengrong Yue , Yi Wang , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG), which requires pinpointing relevant temporal segments from video based on language query, has always been a highly challenging task in the field of video understanding. Videos often have a larger volume of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Feng Yue , Zhaoxing Zhang , Junming Jiao , Zhengyu Liang , Shiwen Cao , Feifei Zhang , Rong Shen

This paper presents a computational model for universal video temporal grounding, which accurately localizes temporal moments in videos based on natural language queries (e.g., questions or descriptions). Unlike existing methods that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Zeqian Li , Shangzhe Di , Zhonghua Zhai , Weilin Huang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

We address the problem of text-guided video temporal grounding, which aims to identify the time interval of a certain event based on a natural language description. Different from most existing methods that only consider RGB images as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Yi-Wen Chen , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

A robot in a human-centric environment needs to account for the human's intent and future motion in its task and motion planning to ensure safe and effective operation. This requires symbolic reasoning about probable future actions and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Moritz A. Graule , Volkan Isler

Learning to localize temporal boundaries of procedure steps in instructional videos is challenging due to the limited availability of annotated large-scale training videos. Recent works focus on learning the cross-modal alignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yuxiao Chen , Kai Li , Wentao Bao , Deep Patel , Yu Kong , Martin Renqiang Min , Dimitris N. Metaxas

We address the problem of language-based temporal localization of moments in untrimmed videos. Compared to temporal localization with fixed categories, this problem is more challenging as the language-based queries have no predefined…

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