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This paper addresses the critical and underexplored challenge of long video understanding with low computational budgets. We propose LongVideo-R1, an active, reasoning-equipped multimodal large language model (MLLM) agent designed for…

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With recent advancements in video backbone architectures, combined with the remarkable achievements of large language models (LLMs), the analysis of long-form videos spanning tens of minutes has become both feasible and increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Yuxiao Chen , Jue Wang , Zhikang Zhang , Jingru Yi , Xu Zhang , Yang Zou , Zhaowei Cai , Jianbo Yuan , Xinyu Li , Hao Yang , Davide Modolo

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

The remarkable natural language understanding, reasoning, and generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have made them attractive for application to video understanding, utilizing video tokens as contextual input. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Jiaqi Xu , Cuiling Lan , Wenxuan Xie , Xuejin Chen , Yan Lu

Long-form video understanding represents a significant challenge within computer vision, demanding a model capable of reasoning over long multi-modal sequences. Motivated by the human cognitive process for long-form video understanding, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xiaohan Wang , Yuhui Zhang , Orr Zohar , Serena Yeung-Levy

Long video understanding requires more than large context windows. It also needs a memory mechanism that decides what visual evidence to retain, keeps it searchable over long horizons, and grounds later reasoning in recoverable observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Aiden Yiliu Li , Nels Numan , Anthony Steed

This paper presents VideoStreaming, an advanced vision-language large model (VLLM) for video understanding, that capably understands arbitrary-length video with a constant number of video tokens streamingly encoded and adaptively selected.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Rui Qian , Xiaoyi Dong , Pan Zhang , Yuhang Zang , Shuangrui Ding , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

Understanding and reasoning over long videos pose significant challenges for large video language models (LVLMs) due to the difficulty in processing intensive video tokens beyond context window and retaining long-term sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xiaoqian Shen , Wenxuan Zhang , Jun Chen , Mohamed Elhoseiny

AI-driven video analytics has become increasingly important across diverse domains. However, existing systems are often constrained to specific, predefined tasks, limiting their adaptability in open-ended analytical scenarios. The recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Yuxuan Yan , Shiqi Jiang , Ting Cao , Yifan Yang , Qianqian Yang , Yuanchao Shu , Yuqing Yang , Lili Qiu

Long video understanding (LVU) is challenging because answering real-world queries often depends on sparse, temporally dispersed cues buried in hours of mostly redundant and irrelevant content. While agentic pipelines improve video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Ziyang Wang , Honglu Zhou , Shijie Wang , Junnan Li , Caiming Xiong , Silvio Savarese , Mohit Bansal , Michael S. Ryoo , Juan Carlos Niebles

The analysis of extended video content poses unique challenges in artificial intelligence, particularly when dealing with the complexity of tracking and understanding visual elements across time. Current methodologies that process video…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Meng Chu , Yicong Li , Tat-Seng Chua

Large Language Models (LLMs) have allowed recent LLM-based approaches to achieve excellent performance on long-video understanding benchmarks. We investigate how extensive world knowledge and strong reasoning skills of underlying LLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Kanchana Ranasinghe , Xiang Li , Kumara Kahatapitiya , Michael S. Ryoo

Video understanding with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remains challenging due to the long token sequences of videos, which contain extensive temporal dependencies and redundant frames. Existing approaches typically treat MLLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yaolun Zhang , Ruohui Wang , Jiahao Wang , Yepeng Tang , Xuanyu Zheng , Haonan Duan , Hao Lu , Hanming Deng , Lewei Lu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have enabled substantial progress in video understanding by leveraging cross-modal reasoning capabilities. However, their effectiveness is limited by the restricted context window and the high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zeyu Xu , Junkang Zhang , Qiang Wang , Yi Liu

Long video understanding remains challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) due to limited context windows, which necessitate identifying sparse query-relevant video segments. However, existing methods predominantly localize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Ruoliu Yang , Chu Wu , Caifeng Shan , Ran He , Chaoyou Fu

Ultra long video understanding remains an open challenge, as existing vision language models (VLMs) falter on such content due to limited context length and inefficient long term memory retention. To address this, recent works have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Hongbo Jin , Qingyuan Wang , Wenhao Zhang , Yang Liu , Sijie Cheng

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

Computer-use agents can operate computers and automate laborious tasks, but despite recent rapid progress, they still lag behind human users, especially when tasks require domain-specific procedural knowledge about particular applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yujian Liu , Ze Wang , Hao Chen , Ximeng Sun , Xiaodong Yu , Jialian Wu , Jiang Liu , Emad Barsoum , Zicheng Liu , Shiyu Chang

Long Video Question-Answering (LVQA) presents a significant challenge for Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) due to immense context and overloaded information, which could also lead to prohibitive memory consumption. While existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Henghui Du , Chunjie Zhang , Xi Chen , Chang Zhou , Di Hu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have experienced significant advancements in recent years. However, their performance still falls short in tasks requiring deep visual perception, such as identifying subtle differences between images. A…

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