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Despite remarkable recent progress, existing long-form VideoQA datasets fall short of meeting the criteria for genuine long-form video understanding. This is primarily due to the use of short videos for question curation, and the reliance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Hongjie Zhang , Lu Dong , Yi Liu , Yifei Huang , Yali Wang , Limin Wang , Yu Qiao

Long-form video understanding remains a fundamental challenge for current Video Large Language Models. Most existing models rely on static reasoning over uniformly sampled frames, which weakens temporal localization and leads to substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenglin Li , Qianglong Chen , Feng Han , Yikun Wang , Xingxi Yin , Yan Gong , Ruilin Li , Yin Zhang , Jiaqi Wang

With the exponential growth of video data, there is an urgent need for automated technology to analyze and comprehend video content. However, existing video understanding models are often task-specific and lack a comprehensive capability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Guo Chen , Yin-Dong Zheng , Jiahao Wang , Jilan Xu , Yifei Huang , Junting Pan , Yi Wang , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Tong Lu , Limin Wang

In the context of long-term video understanding with large multimodal models, many frameworks have been proposed. Although transformer-based visual compressors and memory-augmented approaches are often used to process long videos, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sosuke Yamao , Natsuki Miyahara , Yuankai Qi , Shun Takeuchi

Understanding hour-long videos with multi-modal large language models (MM-LLMs) enriches the landscape of human-centered AI applications. However, for end-to-end video understanding with LLMs, uniformly sampling video frames results in LLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Xinye Cao , Hongcan Guo , Jiawen Qian , Guoshun Nan , Chao Wang , Yuqi Pan , Tianhao Hou , Xiaojuan Wang , Yutong Gao

Video text-based visual question answering (Video TextVQA) aims to answer questions by reasoning over visual textual content appearing in videos. Despite the strong multimodal video understanding capabilities of recent Video-LLMs, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Haibin He , Maoyuan Ye , Jing Zhang , Juhua Liu , Bo Du

Despite rapid developments and widespread applications of MLLM agents, they still struggle with long-form video understanding (LVU) tasks, which are characterized by high information density and extended temporal spans. Recent research on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Haiyang Yan , Hongyun Zhou , Peng Xu , Xiaoxue Feng , Mengyi Liu

Video Question Answering (Video QA) is a challenging video understanding task that requires models to comprehend entire videos, identify the most relevant information based on contextual cues from a given question, and reason accurately to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Roberto Amoroso , Gengyuan Zhang , Rajat Koner , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara , Volker Tresp

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to localize abnormal events on the timeline of long-range surveillance videos. Anomaly-scoring-based methods have been prevailing for years but suffer from the high complexity of thresholding and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Hui Lv , Qianru Sun

Multimodal large language models have recently achieved remarkable progress in video question answering (VideoQA) by jointly processing visual, textual, and audio information. However, it remains unclear which video representations are most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Zhi Li , Yanan Wang , Hao Niu , Julio Vizcarra , Masato Taya

Recent advancements in video understanding within visual large language models (VLLMs) have led to notable progress. However, the complexity of video data and contextual processing limitations still hinder long-video comprehension. A common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Yanan Guo , Wenhui Dong , Jun Song , Shiding Zhu , Xuan Zhang , Hanqing Yang , Yingbo Wang , Yang Du , Xianing Chen , Bo Zheng

We propose MR. Video, an agentic long video understanding framework that demonstrates the simple yet effective MapReduce principle for processing long videos: (1) Map: independently and densely perceiving short video clips, and (2) Reduce:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Ziqi Pang , Yu-Xiong Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated that large-scale pretraining enables systems to adapt rapidly to new problems with little supervision in the language domain. This success, however, has not translated as effectively to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Pablo Acuaviva , Aram Davtyan , Mariam Hassan , Sebastian Stapf , Ahmad Rahimi , Alexandre Alahi , Paolo Favaro

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an extremely stimulating and challenging research area where Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processig (NLP) have recently met. In image captioning and video summarization, the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Silvio Barra , Carmen Bisogni , Maria De Marsico , Stefano Ricciardi

While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved substantial progress in video understanding, their application to long video reasoning is hindered by uniform frame sampling and static textual reasoning, which are inefficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zefeng He , Xiaoye Qu , Yafu Li , Siyuan Huang , Daizong Liu , Yu Cheng

In this work, we present a novel method to tackle the token generation challenge in Vision Language Models (VLMs) for video and image understanding, called LLaMA-VID. Current VLMs, while proficient in tasks like image captioning and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yanwei Li , Chengyao Wang , Jiaya Jia

Learning multimodal video understanding typically relies on datasets comprising video clips paired with manually annotated captions. However, this becomes even more challenging when dealing with long-form videos, lasting from minutes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Soumya Shamarao Jahagirdar , Jayasree Saha , C V Jawahar

Benefiting from the advances in large language models and cross-modal alignment, existing multimodal large language models have achieved prominent performance in image and short video understanding. However, the understanding of long videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Haoji Zhang , Yiqin Wang , Yansong Tang , Yong Liu , Jiashi Feng , Xiaojie Jin

Long-form video understanding is essential for various applications such as video retrieval, summarizing, and question answering. Yet, traditional approaches demand substantial computing power and are often bottlenecked by GPU memory. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Saket Gurukar , Asim Kadav

The Visual Question Answering (VQA) task combines challenges for processing data with both Visual and Linguistic processing, to answer basic `common sense' questions about given images. Given an image and a question in natural language, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Yash Srivastava , Vaishnav Murali , Shiv Ram Dubey , Snehasis Mukherjee