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Music is essential when editing videos, but selecting music manually is difficult and time-consuming. Thus, we seek to automatically generate background music tracks given video input. This is a challenging task since it requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Le Zhuo , Zhaokai Wang , Baisen Wang , Yue Liao , Chenxi Bao , Stanley Peng , Songhao Han , Aixi Zhang , Fei Fang , Si Liu

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated substantial potential in video understanding. However, existing benchmarks fail to comprehensively evaluate synergistic reasoning capabilities across audio and…

We propose a novel text-to-video (T2V) generation benchmark, ChronoMagic-Bench, to evaluate the temporal and metamorphic capabilities of the T2V models (e.g. Sora and Lumiere) in time-lapse video generation. In contrast to existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Shenghai Yuan , Jinfa Huang , Yongqi Xu , Yaoyang Liu , Shaofeng Zhang , Yujun Shi , Ruijie Zhu , Xinhua Cheng , Jiebo Luo , Li Yuan

Cinematography is a cornerstone of film production and appreciation, shaping mood, emotion, and narrative through visual elements such as camera movement, shot composition, and lighting. Despite recent progress in multimodal large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xinran Wang , Songyu Xu , Xiangxuan Shan , Yuxuan Zhang , Muxi Diao , Xueyan Duan , Yanhua Huang , Kongming Liang , Zhanyu Ma

Continuous perception, the ability to integrate visual observations over time in a continuous stream fashion, is essential for robust real-world understanding, yet remains largely untested in current multimodal models. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zeyu Wang , Zhenzhen Weng , Serena Yeung-Levy

Despite recent progress in using Large Language Models (LLMs) for automatically generating 3D scenes, generated scenes often lack realistic spatial layouts and object attributes found in real-world environments. As this problem stems from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Gyeom Hwangbo , Hyungjoo Chae , Minseok Kang , Hyeonjong Ju , Soohyun Oh , Jinyoung Yeo

Several large-scale video datasets have been published these years and have advanced the area of video understanding. However, the newly emerged user-generated short-form videos have rarely been studied. This paper presents USV, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Haoyue Cheng , Su Xu , Liwei Jin , Wayne Wu , Chen Qian , Limin Wang

While language models have become impactful in many real-world applications, video generation remains largely confined to entertainment. Motivated by video's inherent capacity to demonstrate physical-world information that is difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Junhao Cheng , Liang Hou , Xin Tao , Jing Liao

Recognizing pain in video is crucial for improving patient-computer interaction systems, yet traditional data collection in this domain raises significant ethical and logistical challenges. This study introduces a novel approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Jonas Nasimzada , Jens Kleesiek , Ken Herrmann , Alina Roitberg , Constantin Seibold

The prevailing video retrieval paradigm is structurally misaligned, as narrow benchmarks incentivize correspondingly limited data and single-task training. Therefore, universal capability is suppressed due to the absence of a diagnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zhuoning Guo , Mingxin Li , Yanzhao Zhang , Dingkun Long , Pengjun Xie , Xiaowen Chu

Programmatic video generation through code offers geometric precision and temporal coherence beyond pixel-level diffusion models, yet rigorously evaluating whether language models can produce spatially correct animated outputs remains an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Qiran Zhang , Yuheng Wang , Runde Yang , Lin Wu , Jingru Fan , Shu Yao , Jie Zhang , Tianle Zhou , Huatao Li , Ruijie Shi , Yihan Li , Chen Qian

Rapid progress in video models has largely focused on visual quality, leaving their reasoning capabilities underexplored. Video reasoning grounds intelligence in spatiotemporally consistent visual environments that go beyond what text can…

Multimodal Language Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate the emerging abilities of "world models" -- interpreting and reasoning about complex real-world dynamics. To assess these abilities, we posit videos are the ideal medium, as they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Xuehai He , Weixi Feng , Kaizhi Zheng , Yujie Lu , Wanrong Zhu , Jiachen Li , Yue Fan , Jianfeng Wang , Linjie Li , Zhengyuan Yang , Kevin Lin , William Yang Wang , Lijuan Wang , Xin Eric Wang

Existing video understanding benchmarks often conflate knowledge-based and purely image-based questions, rather than clearly isolating a model's temporal reasoning ability, which is the key aspect that distinguishes video understanding from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Bo Feng , Zhengfeng Lai , Shiyu Li , Zizhen Wang , Simon Wang , Ping Huang , Meng Cao

What does it mean for two videos to be similar? Videos may appear similar when judged by the actions they depict, yet entirely different if evaluated based on the locations where they were filmed. While humans naturally compare videos by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Benedetta Liberatori , Alessandro Conti , Lorenzo Vaquero , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci , Paolo Rota

Camera-controlled video-to-video (V2V) generation enables dynamic viewpoint synthesis from monocular footage, holding immense potential for interactive filmmaking and live broadcasting. However, existing implicit synthesis methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Youcan Xu , Jiaxin Shi , Zhen Wang , Wensong Song , Feifei Shao , Chen Liang , Jun Xiao , Long Chen

Recent advances in Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have demonstrated their great potential in general-purpose video understanding. To verify the significance of these models, a number of benchmarks have been proposed to diagnose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Ye Liu , Zongyang Ma , Zhongang Qi , Yang Wu , Ying Shan , Chang Wen Chen

The emergence of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) has significantly advanced video understanding capabilities. However, existing benchmarks focus predominantly on coarse-grained tasks such as action segmentation, classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Aditya Chetan , Eric Cai , Peeyush Kushwaha , Bharath Raj Nagoor Kani , Utkarsh Mall , Qianqian Wang , Noah Snavely , Bharath Hariharan

Learning commonsense reasoning from visual contexts and scenes in real-world is a crucial step toward advanced artificial intelligence. However, existing video reasoning benchmarks are still inadequate since they were mainly designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Andong Wang , Bo Wu , Sunli Chen , Zhenfang Chen , Haotian Guan , Wei-Ning Lee , Li Erran Li , Chuang Gan

The rapid advancement of video generation models has made it increasingly challenging to distinguish AI-generated videos from real ones. This issue underscores the urgent need for effective AI-generated video detectors to prevent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Zhenliang Ni , Qiangyu Yan , Mouxiao Huang , Tianning Yuan , Yehui Tang , Hailin Hu , Xinghao Chen , Yunhe Wang