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We propose LocFormer, a Transformer-based model for video grounding which operates at a constant memory footprint regardless of the video length, i.e. number of frames. LocFormer is designed for tasks where it is necessary to process the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Basura Fernando , Hiroya Takamura , Qi Wu

Long video understanding presents challenges due to the inherent high computational complexity and redundant temporal information. An effective representation for long videos must efficiently process such redundancy while preserving…

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This paper presents VideoLoom, a unified Video Large Language Model (Video LLM) for joint spatial-temporal understanding. To facilitate the development of fine-grained spatial and temporal localization capabilities, we curate LoomData-8.7k,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiapeng Shi , Junke Wang , Zuyao You , Bo He , Zuxuan Wu

The core challenge in video understanding lies in perceiving dynamic content changes over time. However, multimodal large language models struggle with temporal-sensitive video tasks, which requires generating timestamps to mark the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Henghao Zhao , Ge-Peng Ji , Rui Yan , Huan Xiong , Zechao Li

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable text understanding capabilities, which have been extended as Video LLMs to handle video data for comprehending visual details. However, existing Video LLMs can only provide a coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Bin Huang , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Zihan Song , Wenwu Zhu

Recent advances in video-based multimodal large language models (Video-LLMs) have significantly improved video understanding by processing videos as sequences of image frames. However, many existing methods treat frames independently in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jindong Jiang , Xiuyu Li , Zhijian Liu , Muyang Li , Guo Chen , Zhiqi Li , De-An Huang , Guilin Liu , Zhiding Yu , Kurt Keutzer , Sungjin Ahn , Jan Kautz , Hongxu Yin , Yao Lu , Song Han , Wonmin Byeon

Video temporal grounding aims to identify video segments within untrimmed videos that are most relevant to a given natural language query. Existing video temporal localization models rely on specific datasets for training and have high data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Minghang Zheng , Xinhao Cai , Qingchao Chen , Yuxin Peng , Yang 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

The rapid development of multimodal large-language models (MLLMs) has significantly expanded the scope of visual language reasoning, enabling unified systems to interpret and describe complex visual content. However, applying these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Xinkui Zhao , Zuxin Wang , Yifan Zhang , Guanjie Cheng , Yueshen Xu , Shuiguang Deng , Chang Liu , Naibo Wang , Jianwei Yin

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

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

Video captioning has been attracting broad research attention in multimedia community. However, most existing approaches either ignore temporal information among video frames or just employ local contextual temporal knowledge. In this work,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Yi Bin , Yang Yang , Zi Huang , Fumin Shen , Xing Xu , Heng Tao Shen

Long video question answering is a challenging task that involves recognizing short-term activities and reasoning about their fine-grained relationships. State-of-the-art video Large Language Models (vLLMs) hold promise as a viable solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Reuben Tan , Ximeng Sun , Ping Hu , Jui-hsien Wang , Hanieh Deilamsalehy , Bryan A. Plummer , Bryan Russell , Kate Saenko

Video temporal grounding (VTG) is a fine-grained video understanding problem that aims to ground relevant clips in untrimmed videos given natural language queries. Most existing VTG models are built upon frame-wise final-layer CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Ye Liu , Jixuan He , Wanhua Li , Junsik Kim , Donglai Wei , Hanspeter Pfister , Chang Wen Chen

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown strong video understanding, yet their application to long-form videos remains constrained by limited context windows. A common workaround is to compress long videos into a handful of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yun Wang , Long Zhang , Jingren Liu , Jiaqi Yan , Zhanjie Zhang , Jiahao Zheng , Ao Ma , Run Ling , Xun Yang , Dapeng Wu , Xiangyu Chen , Xuelong Li

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

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

While most modern video understanding models operate on short-range clips, real-world videos are often several minutes long with semantically consistent segments of variable length. A common approach to process long videos is applying a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Mohamed Afham , Satya Narayan Shukla , Omid Poursaeed , Pengchuan Zhang , Ashish Shah , Sernam Lim

We present a new model to determine relative skill from long videos, through learnable temporal attention modules. Skill determination is formulated as a ranking problem, making it suitable for common and generic tasks. However, for long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Hazel Doughty , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas , Dima Damen

We present a general approach to video understanding, inspired by semantic transfer techniques that have been successfully used for 2D image analysis. Our method considers a video to be a 1D sequence of clips, each one associated with its…

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