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The rapid growth of online video platforms, particularly live streaming services, has created an urgent need for real-time video understanding systems. These systems must process continuous video streams and respond to user queries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Linli Yao , Yicheng Li , Yuancheng Wei , Lei Li , Shuhuai Ren , Yuanxin Liu , Kun Ouyang , Lean Wang , Shicheng Li , Sida Li , Lingpeng Kong , Qi Liu , Yuanxing Zhang , Xu Sun

The emergence of GPT-4o-like large multimodal models (LMMs) has raised the exploration of integrating text, vision, and speech modalities to support more flexible multimodal interaction. Existing LMMs typically concatenate representation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shaolei Zhang , Shoutao Guo , Qingkai Fang , Yan Zhou , Yang Feng

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) excel at understanding videos in-context, provided they have full access to the video when answering queries. However, these models face challenges in streaming scenarios where hour-long videos must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Vaggelis Dorovatas , Soroush Seifi , Gunshi Gupta , Rahaf Aljundi

This paper proposes a novel Semantic Communication (SemCom) framework for real-time adaptive-bitrate video streaming by integrating Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) within the FFmpeg techniques. This solution addresses the challenges of high…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zijiang Yan , Jianhua Pei , Hongda Wu , Hina Tabassum , Ping Wang

In this paper, we present a vision for a new generation of multimodal streaming systems that embed MLLMs as first-class operators, enabling real-time query processing across multiple modalities. Achieving this is non-trivial: while recent…

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in streaming applications such as multi-round dialogue, where long interactions are expected, is urgently needed but poses two major challenges. Firstly, during the decoding stage, caching previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Guangxuan Xiao , Yuandong Tian , Beidi Chen , Song Han , Mike Lewis

Recent progress in video large language models (Video-LLMs) has enabled strong offline reasoning over long and complex videos. However, real-world deployments increasingly require streaming perception and proactive interaction, where video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Junho Kim , Hosu Lee , James M. Rehg , Minsu Kim , Yong Man Ro

With the rise of real-world human-AI interaction applications, such as AI assistants, the need for Streaming Video Dialogue is critical. To address this need, we introduce StreamMind, a video LLM framework that achieves ultra-FPS streaming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xin Ding , Hao Wu , Yifan Yang , Shiqi Jiang , Donglin Bai , Zhibo Chen , Ting Cao

Large language models for vertical domains are bottlenecked by the scarcity of complex, domain-specific task-oriented dialogues. Existing data acquisition pipelines face a persistent trilemma: expert annotation is expensive, real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Liang Xue , Haoyu Liu , Cheng Wang , Pengyu Chen , Haozhuo Zheng , Yang Liu

This work proposes TimeChat, a time-sensitive multimodal large language model specifically designed for long video understanding. Our model incorporates two key architectural contributions: (1) a timestamp-aware frame encoder that binds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Shuhuai Ren , Linli Yao , Shicheng Li , Xu Sun , Lu Hou

Large Language Models (LLMs) are primarily designed for batch processing. Existing methods for adapting LLMs to streaming rely either on expensive re-encoding or specialized architectures with limited scalability. This work identifies three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Junlong Tong , Jinlan Fu , Zixuan Lin , Yingqi Fan , Anhao Zhao , Hui Su , Xiaoyu Shen

The development of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has advanced general video understanding. However, existing video evaluation benchmarks primarily focus on non-interactive videos, such as movies and recordings. To fill this gap,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Xiaodong Wang , Langling Huang , Zhirong Wu , Xu Zhao , Teng Xu , Xuhong Xia , Peixi Peng

The rapid development of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has expanded their capabilities from image comprehension to video understanding. However, most of these MLLMs focus primarily on offline video comprehension, necessitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Junming Lin , Zheng Fang , Chi Chen , Zihao Wan , Fuwen Luo , Peng Li , Yang Liu , Maosong Sun

Recently, multi-modal large language models have made significant progress. However, visual information lacking of guidance from the user's intention may lead to redundant computation and involve unnecessary visual noise, especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zheng Cheng , Rendong Wang , Zhicheng Wang

Proactive streaming video understanding requires models to continuously process video streams and decide when to respond, rather than merely what to respond. This naturally introduces a decision-making problem under partial observations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ao Li , Zihan Xiao , Zihao Yue , Boshen Xu , Linli Yao , Jiaze Li , Pei Fu , Jianzhong Ju , Jian Luan , Qin Jin

Dense video captioning involves detecting and describing events within video sequences. Traditional methods operate in an offline setting, assuming the entire video is available for analysis. In contrast, in this work we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Eduardo Blanco-Fernández , Carlos Gutiérrez-Álvarez , Nadia Nasri , Saturnino Maldonado-Bascón , Roberto J. López-Sastre

To render each generated token in real-time for users, the Large Language Model (LLM) server generates tokens one by one and streams each token (or group of a few tokens) through the network to the user right after generation, which we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Hanchen Li , Yuhan Liu , Yihua Cheng , Siddhant Ray , Kuntai Du , Junchen Jiang

In this paper, we introduce a new problem, Online-MMSI, where the model must perform multimodal social interaction understanding (MMSI) using only historical information. Given a recorded video and a multi-party dialogue, the AI assistant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xinpeng Li , Shijian Deng , Bolin Lai , Weiguo Pian , James M. Rehg , Yapeng Tian

The escalating scale of Large Language Models (LLMs) necessitates efficient adaptation techniques. Model merging has gained prominence for its efficiency and controllability. However, existing merging techniques typically serve as post-hoc…

The rapid advancement of multi-modal language models (MLLMs) like GPT-4o has propelled the development of Omni language models, designed to process and proactively respond to continuous streams of multi-modal data. Despite their potential,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yuxuan Wang , Yueqian Wang , Bo Chen , Tong Wu , Dongyan Zhao , Zilong Zheng