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We present HourVideo, a benchmark dataset for hour-long video-language understanding. Our dataset consists of a novel task suite comprising summarization, perception (recall, tracking), visual reasoning (spatial, temporal, predictive,…

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The video reasoning ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is crucial for downstream tasks like video question answering and temporal grounding. While recent approaches have explored text-based chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning…

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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…

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Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) have made significant strides in video understanding but struggle with long videos due to the limitations of their backbone LLMs. Existing solutions rely on length extrapolation, which is…

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Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation (VOS) aims at identifying the contours of primary foreground objects in videos without any prior knowledge. However, previous methods do not fully use spatial-temporal context and fail to tackle this…

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Video summarization aims to create short, accurate, and cohesive summaries of longer videos. Despite the existence of various video summarization datasets, a notable limitation is their limited amount of source videos, which hampers the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Hang Hua , Yolo Yunlong Tang , Chenliang Xu , Jiebo Luo

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant progress in vision-language tasks, yet they still face challenges when processing long-duration video inputs. The limitation arises from MLLMs' context limit and…

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We introduce Long-VITA, a simple yet effective large multi-modal model for long-context visual-language understanding tasks. It is adept at concurrently processing and analyzing modalities of image, video, and text over 4K frames or 1M…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yunhang Shen , Chaoyou Fu , Shaoqi Dong , Xiong Wang , Yi-Fan Zhang , Peixian Chen , Mengdan Zhang , Haoyu Cao , Ke Li , Shaohui Lin , Xiawu Zheng , Yan Zhang , Yiyi Zhou , Ran He , Caifeng Shan , Rongrong Ji , Xing Sun

Long-form videos that span across wide temporal intervals are highly information redundant and contain multiple distinct events or entities that are often loosely related. Therefore, when performing long-form video question answering…

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Despite the significant advancements of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) on established benchmarks, there remains a notable gap in suitable evaluation regarding their applicability in the emerging domain of long-context streaming video…

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Human intelligence requires correctness and robustness, with the former being foundational for the latter. In video understanding, correctness ensures the accurate interpretation of visual content, and robustness maintains consistent…

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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

Understanding fine-grained temporal dynamics is crucial for multimodal video comprehension and generation. Due to the lack of fine-grained temporal annotations, existing video benchmarks mostly resemble static image benchmarks and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Mu Cai , Reuben Tan , Jianrui Zhang , Bocheng Zou , Kai Zhang , Feng Yao , Fangrui Zhu , Jing Gu , Yiwu Zhong , Yuzhang Shang , Yao Dou , Jaden Park , Jianfeng Gao , Yong Jae Lee , Jianwei Yang

In real scenarios, videos can span several minutes or even hours. However, existing research on spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG), given a textual query, mainly focuses on localizing targets in short videos of tens of seconds,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Xin Gu , Bing Fan , Jiali Yao , Zhipeng Zhang , Yan Huang , Cheng Han , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang

Existing benchmarks often highlight the remarkable performance achieved by state-of-the-art Multimodal Foundation Models (MFMs) in leveraging temporal context for video understanding. However, how well do the models truly perform visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ziyao Shangguan , Chuhan Li , Yuxuan Ding , Yanan Zheng , Yilun Zhao , Tesca Fitzgerald , Arman Cohan

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

Deep learning models have enjoyed great success for image related computer vision tasks like image classification and object detection. For video related tasks like human action recognition, however, the advancements are not as significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Xiaolin Song , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Junliang Xing , Jingyu Yang , Xiaoyan Sun

Despite significant advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), understanding complex temporal dynamics in videos remains a major challenge. Our experiments show that current Video Large Language Model (Video-LLM) architectures…

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Recent progress in multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) has significantly advanced video understanding. However, their performance on long-form videos remains limited by computational constraints and suboptimal frame selection. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Wenhui Tan , Ruihua Song , Jiaze Li , Jianzhong Ju , Zhenbo Luo

Large Video Language Models (LVLMs) have rapidly emerged as the focus of multimedia AI research. Nonetheless, when confronted with lengthy videos, these models struggle: their temporal windows are narrow, and they fail to notice…

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