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Contextual reasoning is essential to understand events in long untrimmed videos. In this work, we systematically explore different captioning models with various contexts for the dense-captioning events in video task, which aims to generate…

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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

We present the first systematic analysis of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) in personalized question-answering requiring ego-grounding - the ability to understand the camera-wearer in egocentric videos. To this end, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Junbin Xiao , Shenglang Zhang , Pengxiang Zhu , Angela Yao

Recent advancements in Video Question Answering (VideoQA) have introduced LLM-based agents, modular frameworks, and procedural solutions, yielding promising results. These systems use dynamic agents and memory-based mechanisms to break down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Tony Montes , Fernando Lozano

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) requires identifying sparse critical moments in long videos and reasoning about their causal relationships to answer semantically complex questions. While recent advances in multimodal learning have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xinxin Dong , Baoyun Peng , Haokai Ma , Yufei Wang , Zixuan Dong , Fei Hu , Xiaodong Wang

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of answering a question about an image and requires processing multimodal input and reasoning to obtain the answer. Modular solutions that use declarative representations within the reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Thomas Eiter , Jan Hadl , Nelson Higuera , Johannes Oetsch

Dense event captioning aims to detect and describe all events of interest contained in a video. Despite the advanced development in this area, existing methods tackle this task by making use of dense temporal annotations, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Xuguang Duan , Wenbing Huang , Chuang Gan , Jingdong Wang , Wenwu Zhu , Junzhou Huang

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) demands models that jointly reason over spatial, temporal, and linguistic cues. However, the task's inherent complexity often requires multi-step reasoning that current large multimodal models (LMMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jason Nguyen , Ameet Rao , Alexander Chang , Ishaan Kumar , Erin Tan

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

Recent advances in video understanding have been driven by MLLMs. But these MLLMs are good at analyzing short videos, while suffering from difficulties in understanding videos with a longer context. To address this difficulty, several agent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zikang Wang , Boyu Chen , Zhengrong Yue , Yi Wang , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang , Yali Wang

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

Despite the number of currently available datasets on video question answering, there still remains a need for a dataset involving multi-step and non-factoid answers. Moreover, relying on video transcripts remains an under-explored topic.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Anthony Colas , Seokhwan Kim , Franck Dernoncourt , Siddhesh Gupte , Daisy Zhe Wang , Doo Soon Kim

Real-time understanding of long video streams remains challenging for multimodal large language models (VLMs) due to redundant frame processing and rapid forgetting of past context. Existing streaming systems rely on fixed-interval decoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhenghui Guo , Yuanbin Man , Junyuan Sheng , Bowen Lin , Ahmed Ahmed , Bo Jiang , Boyuan Zhang , Miao Yin , Sian Jin , Omprakash Gnawal , Chengming Zhang

Despite significant advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), understanding complex temporal dynamics in videos remains a major challenge. Our experiments show that current Video Large Language Model (Video-LLM) architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Ali Rasekh , Erfan Bagheri Soula , Omid Daliran , Simon Gottschalk , Mohsen Fayyaz

Video large language models (Vid-LLMs), which excel in diverse video-language tasks, can be effectively constructed by adapting image-pretrained vision-language models (VLMs). However, this adaptation remains challenging, as it requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yiyang Huang , Yizhou Wang , Yun Fu

Recent progress in multimodal large language models has markedly enhanced the understanding of short videos (typically under one minute), and several evaluation datasets have emerged accordingly. However, these advancements fall short of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Weihan Wang , Zehai He , Wenyi Hong , Yean Cheng , Xiaohan Zhang , Ji Qi , Xiaotao Gu , Shiyu Huang , Bin Xu , Yuxiao Dong , Ming Ding , Jie Tang

Language models (LMs) and their extension, vision-language models (VLMs), have achieved remarkable performance across various tasks. However, they still struggle with complex reasoning tasks that require multimodal or multilingual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Wenyi Wu , Zixuan Song , Kun Zhou , Yifei Shao , Zhiting Hu , Biwei Huang

Recent advances in test-time optimization have led to remarkable reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs), enabling them to solve highly complex problems in math and coding. However, the reasoning capabilities of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Ce Zhang , Yan-Bo Lin , Ziyang Wang , Mohit Bansal , Gedas Bertasius

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

Most of the existing methods for video understanding primarily focus on videos only lasting tens of seconds, with limited exploration of techniques for handling long videos. The increased number of frames in long videos poses two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Ziyu Ma , Chenhui Gou , Hengcan Shi , Bin Sun , Shutao Li , Hamid Rezatofighi , Jianfei Cai