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Video Question Answering is a challenging task, which requires the model to reason over multiple frames and understand the interaction between different objects to answer questions based on the context provided within the video, especially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Bhanu Prakash Reddy Guda , Tanmay Kulkarni , Adithya Sampath , Swarnashree Mysore Sathyendra

Generative video models, a leading approach to world modeling, face fundamental limitations. They often violate physical and logical rules, lack interactivity, and operate as opaque black boxes ill-suited for building structured, queryable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Felix O'Mahony , Roberto Cipolla , Ayush Tewari

Video generation models, as one form of world models, have emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers in AI, promising agents the ability to imagine the future by modeling the temporal evolution of complex scenes. In autonomous driving,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yang Zhou , Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Zhuofan Zong , Hongsheng Li , Steven L. Waslander

While significant progress has been made in Video Question Answering and cross-modal understanding, causal reasoning about how visual dynamics drive musical structure in music videos remains under-explored. We introduce KARMA-MV, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Archishman Ghosh , Abhinaba Roy , Dorien Herremans

In recent years, with the vigorous development of the video game industry, the proportion of gaming videos on major video websites like YouTube has dramatically increased. However, relatively little research has been done on the automatic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Xiangxu Yu , Zhengzhong Tu , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

MLLMs have been widely studied for video question answering recently. However, most existing assessments focus on natural videos, overlooking synthetic videos, such as AI-generated content (AIGC). Meanwhile, some works in video generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Tingyu Song , Tongyan Hu , Guo Gan , Yilun Zhao

Story visualization is an under-explored task that falls at the intersection of many important research directions in both computer vision and natural language processing. In this task, given a series of natural language captions which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Adyasha Maharana , Darryl Hannan , Mohit Bansal

Video generation assessment is essential for ensuring that generative models produce visually realistic, high-quality videos while aligning with human expectations. Current video generation benchmarks fall into two main categories:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Hui Han , Siyuan Li , Jiaqi Chen , Yiwen Yuan , Yuling Wu , Chak Tou Leong , Hanwen Du , Junchen Fu , Youhua Li , Jie Zhang , Chi Zhang , Li-jia Li , Yongxin Ni

Long-term video generation and prediction remain challenging tasks in computer vision, particularly in partially observable scenarios where cameras are mounted on moving platforms. The interaction between observed image frames and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Meenakshi Sarkar , Debasish Ghose

Vision-language models (VLMs) generate fluent causal explanations, but current evaluations cannot distinguish linguistic plausibility from faithful causal reasoning. We introduce a dual-probe methodology that isolates these properties. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chinh Hoang , Mohammad Rashedul Hasan

The rapid evolution of generative video foundation models has propelled the field toward professional-grade cinematic synthesis. To achieve such demanding quality, the community transitions towards Reinforcement Learning (RL) and agentic…

With the rapid growth of Internet video data amounts and types, a unified Video Quality Assessment (VQA) is needed to inspire video communication with perceptual quality. To meet the real-time and universal requirements in providing such…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Xinhui Huang , Chunyi Li , Abdelhak Bentaleb , Roger Zimmermann , Guangtao Zhai

Designing effective game tutorials is crucial for a smooth learning curve for new players, especially in games with many rules and complex core mechanics. Evaluating the effectiveness of these tutorials usually requires multiple iterations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Daniele Rege Cambrin , Gabriele Scaffidi Militone , Luca Colomba , Giovanni Malnati , Daniele Apiletti , Paolo Garza

Visual representation learning is ubiquitous in various real-world applications, including visual comprehension, video understanding, multi-modal analysis, human-computer interaction, and urban computing. Due to the emergence of huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yang Liu , Yushen Wei , Hong Yan , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Video-Action Models (VAMs) have emerged as a promising framework for embodied intelligence, learning implicit world dynamics from raw video streams to produce temporally consistent action predictions. Although such models demonstrate strong…

Despite rapid advances in video generative models, robust metrics for evaluating visual and temporal correctness of complex human actions remain elusive. Critically, existing pure-vision encoders and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xavier Thomas , Youngsun Lim , Ananya Srinivasan , Audrey Zheng , Deepti Ghadiyaram

Recent advancements in Large Video-Language Models (LVLMs) have led to promising results in multimodal video understanding. However, it remains unclear whether these models possess the cognitive capabilities required for high-level tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Chenglin Li , Qianglong Chen , Zhi Li , Feng Tao , Yin Zhang

Video generation has many unique challenges beyond those of image generation. The temporal dimension introduces extensive possible variations across frames, over which consistency and continuity may be violated. In this study, we move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Weixi Feng , Jiachen Li , Michael Saxon , Tsu-jui Fu , Wenhu Chen , William Yang Wang

Visual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (VRAG) enhances Vision-Language Models (VLMs) by incorporating external visual documents to address a given query. Existing VRAG frameworks usually depend on rigid, pre-defined external tools to extend…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yuqi Xiong , Chunyi Peng , Zhipeng Xu , Zhenghao Liu , Zulong Chen , Yukun Yan , Shuo Wang , Yu Gu , Ge Yu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit remarkable common-sense and semantic reasoning capabilities. However, they lack a grounded understanding of physical dynamics. This limitation arises from training VLMs on static internet-scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Haowen Liu , Shaoxiong Yao , Haonan Chen , Jiawei Gao , Jiayuan Mao , Jia-Bin Huang , Yilun Du