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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance in video understanding tasks. However, they continue to struggle with long-form videos because of an inefficient perception of temporal intervals. Unlike humans, who can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chenglin Li , Qianglong Chen , fengtao , Yin Zhang

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

Understanding fine-grained temporal dynamics is crucial for multimodal video comprehension and generation. Due to the lack of fine-grained temporal annotations, existing video benchmarks mostly resemble static image benchmarks and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Mu Cai , Reuben Tan , Jianrui Zhang , Bocheng Zou , Kai Zhang , Feng Yao , Fangrui Zhu , Jing Gu , Yiwu Zhong , Yuzhang Shang , Yao Dou , Jaden Park , Jianfeng Gao , Yong Jae Lee , Jianwei Yang

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

Empowered by Large Language Models (LLMs), recent advancements in Video-based LLMs (VideoLLMs) have driven progress in various video understanding tasks. These models encode video representations through pooling or query aggregation over a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuetian Weng , Mingfei Han , Haoyu He , Xiaojun Chang , Bohan Zhuang

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) strives to accurately pinpoint event timestamps in a specific video using linguistic queries, significantly impacting downstream tasks like video browsing and editing. Unlike traditional task-specific models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yongxin Guo , Jingyu Liu , Mingda Li , Dingxin Cheng , Xiaoying Tang , Dianbo Sui , Qingbin Liu , Xi Chen , Kevin Zhao

Recent large-scale video-language pre-trained models have shown appealing performance on various downstream tasks. However, the pre-training process is computationally expensive due to the requirement of millions of video-text pairs and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Dongsheng Chen , Chaofan Tao , Lu Hou , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu

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

Inducing reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is critical for achieving human-level perception and understanding. Existing methods mainly leverage LLM reasoning to analyze parsed visuals, often limited by static perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ziang Yan , Xinhao Li , Yinan He , Zhengrong Yue , Xiangyu Zeng , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang , Yi Wang

We introduce a full-stack framework that scales up reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs) to long videos, leveraging reinforcement learning. We address the unique challenges of long video reasoning by integrating three critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yukang Chen , Wei Huang , Baifeng Shi , Qinghao Hu , Hanrong Ye , Ligeng Zhu , Zhijian Liu , Pavlo Molchanov , Jan Kautz , Xiaojuan Qi , Sifei Liu , Hongxu Yin , Yao Lu , Song Han

Human processes video reasoning in a sequential spatio-temporal reasoning logic, we first identify the relevant frames ("when") and then analyse the spatial relationships ("where") between key objects, and finally leverage these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Zixu Cheng , Jian Hu , Ziquan Liu , Chenyang Si , Wei Li , Shaogang Gong

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on video-and-language tasks, such as video question answering. However, most existing Video LLMs neglect temporal information in video data, leading to struggles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zi-Yuan Hu , Yiwu Zhong , Shijia Huang , Michael R. Lyu , Liwei Wang

While recent multimodal models have shown progress in vision-language tasks, small-scale variants still struggle with the fine-grained temporal reasoning required for video understanding. We introduce ReasonAct, a method that enhances video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiaxin Liu , Zhaolu Kang

Multi-modal language model has made advanced progress in vision and audio, but still faces significant challenges in dealing with complex reasoning tasks in the time series domain. The reasons are twofold. First, labels for multi-modal time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Haochuan Zhang , Chunhua Yang , Jie Han , Liyang Qin , Xiaoli Wang

Video language models (VideoLMs) have made significant progress in multimodal understanding. However, temporal understanding, which involves identifying event order, duration, and relationships across time, still remains a core challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yumeng Shi , Quanyu Long , Yin Wu , Wenya Wang

In recent years, video question answering based on multimodal large language models (MLLM) has garnered considerable attention, due to the benefits from the substantial advancements in LLMs. However, these models have a notable deficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jinglei Zhang , Yuanfan Guo , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Jiankang Deng , Hang Xu , Chao Ma

Large-scale video-language pre-training has shown significant improvement in video-language understanding tasks. Previous studies of video-language pretraining mainly focus on short-form videos (i.e., within 30 seconds) and sentences,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Yuchong Sun , Hongwei Xue , Ruihua Song , Bei Liu , Huan Yang , Jianlong Fu

Video captioning is a critical task in the field of multimodal machine learning, aiming to generate descriptive and coherent textual narratives for video content. While large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown significant progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ji-jun Park , Soo-joon Choi

Temporal reasoning is pivotal for Large Language Models (LLMs) to comprehend the real world. However, existing works neglect the real-world challenges for temporal reasoning: (1) intensive temporal information, (2) fast-changing event…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Shaohang Wei , Wei Li , Feifan Song , Wen Luo , Tianyi Zhuang , Haochen Tan , Zhijiang Guo , Houfeng Wang

This paper does not introduce a novel method but instead establishes a straightforward, incremental, yet essential baseline for video temporal grounding (VTG), a core capability in video understanding. While multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jun Zhang , Teng Wang , Yuying Ge , Yixiao Ge , Xinhao Li , Ying Shan , Limin Wang