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Temporal awareness is essential for video large language models (LLMs) to understand and reason about events within long videos, enabling applications like dense video captioning and temporal video grounding in a unified system. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Andong Deng , Zhongpai Gao , Anwesa Choudhuri , Benjamin Planche , Meng Zheng , Bin Wang , Terrence Chen , Chen Chen , Ziyan Wu

The training of controllable text-to-video (T2V) models relies heavily on the alignment between videos and captions, yet little existing research connects video caption evaluation with T2V generation assessment. This paper introduces…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xinlong Chen , Yuanxing Zhang , Chongling Rao , Yushuo Guan , Jiaheng Liu , Fuzheng Zhang , Chengru Song , Qiang Liu , Di Zhang , Tieniu Tan

Transferring and integrating knowledge across first-person (egocentric) and third-person (exocentric) viewpoints is intrinsic to human intelligence, enabling humans to learn from others and convey insights from their own experiences.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yuping He , Yifei Huang , Guo Chen , Baoqi Pei , Jilan Xu , Tong Lu , Jiangmiao Pang

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) are improving rapidly, yet current Video Question Answering (VideoQA) benchmarks often admit single-cue shortcuts, under-testing reasoning that must integrate evidence across time. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Dan Ben-Ami , Gabriele Serussi , Kobi Cohen , Chaim Baskin

Current video benchmarks for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) focus on event recognition, temporal ordering, and long-context recall, but overlook a harder capability required for expert procedural judgment: tracking how ongoing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Xiyang Huang , Jiawei Lin , Keying Wu , Jiaxin Huang , Kailai Yang , Renxiong Wei , Cheng zeng , Jiayi Xiang , Ziyan Kuang , Min Peng , Qianqian Xie , Sophia Ananiadou

In recent years, large-scale models have achieved significant advancements, accompanied by the emergence of numerous high-quality benchmarks for evaluating various aspects of their comprehension abilities. However, most existing benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Kangning Li , Zheyang Jia , Anyu Ying

Video understanding requires models to continuously track and update world state during playback. While existing benchmarks have advanced video understanding evaluation across multiple dimensions, the observation of how models maintain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Pengyiang Liu , Zhongyue Shi , Hongye Hao , Qi Fu , Xueting Bi , Siwei Zhang , Xiaoyang Hu , Zitian Wang , Linjiang Huang , Si Liu

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have demonstrated outstanding capabilities in various visual perception tasks, which has in turn made the evaluation of LMMs significant. However, the capability of video aesthetic quality assessment, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yunhao Li , Sijing Wu , Zhilin Gao , Zicheng Zhang , Qi Jia , Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

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

Recently spatial-temporal intelligence of Visual-Language Models (VLMs) has attracted much attention due to its importance for autonomous driving, embodied AI and general AI. Existing spatial-temporal benchmarks mainly focus on egocentric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Qinghongbing Xie , Zhaoyuan Xia , Feng Zhu , Lijun Gong , Ziyue Li , Rui Zhao , Long Zeng

The popularity of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has triggered a recent surge in research efforts dedicated to evaluating these models. Nevertheless, existing evaluation studies of MLLMs primarily focus on the comprehension and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Xiaocui Yang , Wenfang Wu , Shi Feng , Ming Wang , Daling Wang , Yang Li , Qi Sun , Yifei Zhang , Xiaoming Fu , Soujanya Poria

Understanding temporal information and how the visual world changes over time is a fundamental ability of intelligent systems. In video understanding, temporal information is at the core of many current challenges, including compression,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Laura Sevilla-Lara , Shengxin Zha , Zhicheng Yan , Vedanuj Goswami , Matt Feiszli , Lorenzo Torresani

The sequential structure of videos poses a challenge to the ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to locate multi-frame evidence and conduct multimodal reasoning. However, existing video benchmarks mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Kejian Zhu , Zhuoran Jin , Hongbang Yuan , Jiachun Li , Shangqing Tu , Pengfei Cao , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

Large Video-Language Models (Video-LMs) have achieved impressive progress in multimodal understanding, yet their reasoning remains weakly grounded in space and time. We present Know-Show, a new benchmark designed to evaluate spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chinthani Sugandhika , Chen Li , Deepu Rajan , Basura Fernando

Despite the advancements and impressive performance of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) on benchmarks, their effectiveness in real-world, long-context, and multi-image tasks is unclear due to the benchmarks' limited scope. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Dingjie Song , Shunian Chen , Guiming Hardy Chen , Fei Yu , Xiang Wan , Benyou Wang

Enhancing the temporal understanding of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is essential for advancing long-form video analysis, enabling tasks such as temporal localization, action detection, and time-sensitive question answering.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Tao Wu , Li Yang , Gen Zhan , Yabin Zhang , Yiting Liao , Junlin Li , Deliang Fu , Li Zhang , Limin Wang

Video temporal understanding is crucial for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to reason over events in videos. Despite recent advances in general video understanding, current MLLMs still struggle with fine-grained temporal reasoning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Fuwen Luo , Shengfeng Lou , Chi Chen , Ziyue Wang , Chenliang Li , Weizhou Shen , Jiyue Guo , Peng Li , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Yang Liu

Long video summarization presents significant challenges for current multimodal large language models (MLLMs), particularly in maintaining temporal fidelity over extended durations and producing summaries that are both semantically and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Alkesh Patel , Melis Ozyildirim , Ying-Chang Cheng , Ganesh Nagarajan

Modern vision-language models (VLMs) excel at many multimodal tasks, yet their grasp of temporal information in video remains weak and has not been adequately evaluated. We probe this gap with a deceptively simple but revealing challenge:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Shiho Matta , Lis Kanashiro Pereira , Peitao Han , Fei Cheng , Shigeru Kitazawa

We introduce MMCL-Bench, a benchmark for multimodal context learning: learning task-local rules, procedures, and empirical patterns from visual or mixed-modality teaching context and applying them to new visual instances. Unlike text-only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yifan Chen , Fei Yin , Qingyan Bai , Zicheng Lin , Yujiu Yang