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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

Long videos contain a vast amount of information, making video-text retrieval an essential and challenging task in multimodal learning. However, existing benchmarks suffer from limited video duration, low-quality captions, and coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Qifeng Cai , Hao Liang , Zhaoyang Han , Hejun Dong , Meiyi Qiang , Ruichuan An , Quanqing Xu , Bin Cui , Wentao Zhang

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have recently emerged as a powerful tool for long video understanding (LVU), prompting the development of standardized LVU benchmarks to evaluate their performance. However, our investigation reveals a rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Wentao Ma , Weiming Ren , Yiming Jia , Zhuofeng Li , Ping Nie , Ge Zhang , Wenhu Chen

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) capable of video understanding are advancing rapidly. To effectively assess their video comprehension capabilities, long video understanding benchmarks, such as Video-MME and MLVU, are proposed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xichen Tan , Yunfan Ye , Yuanjing Luo , Qian Wan , Fang Liu , Zhiping Cai

Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) struggle with hour-level video understanding, facing significant challenges not only in modeling the substantial information volume of long videos but also in overcoming the memory wall and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hong Gao , Yiming Bao , Xuezhen Tu , Bin Zhong , Linan Yue , Minling Zhang

Long video understanding (LVU) remains a core challenge in multimodal learning. Although recent vision-language models (VLMs) have made notable progress, existing benchmarks mainly focus on either fine-grained perception or coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Seng Nam Chen , Hao Chen , Chenglam Ho , Xinyu Mao , Jinping Wang , Yu Zhang , Chao Li

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant progress in reasoning capabilities and shown promising effectiveness in video anomaly understanding (VAU) tasks. However, existing MLLM-based approaches remain largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zihao Zhao , Shengting Cao , Muchao Ye

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models (LLMs) to dynamically access external information, which is powerful for answering questions over previously unseen documents. Nonetheless, they struggle with high-level…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chi-Hsiang Hsiao , Yi-Cheng Wang , Tzung-Sheng Lin , Yi-Ren Yeh , Chu-Song Chen

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), such as GPT-4o, Gemini, LLaVA, and Flamingo, have made significant progress in integrating visual and textual modalities, excelling in tasks like visual question answering (VQA), image captioning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Junxiao Xue , Quan Deng , Fei Yu , Yanhao Wang , Jun Wang , Yuehua Li

How can we enable models to comprehend video anomalies occurring over varying temporal scales and contexts? Traditional Video Anomaly Understanding (VAU) methods focus on frame-level anomaly prediction, often missing the interpretability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Huaxin Zhang , Xiaohao Xu , Xiang Wang , Jialong Zuo , Xiaonan Huang , Changxin Gao , Shanjun Zhang , Li Yu , Nong Sang

Understanding long-form video content presents significant challenges due to its temporal complexity and the substantial computational resources required. In this work, we propose an agent-based approach to enhance both the efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Sullam Jeoung , Goeric Huybrechts , Bhavana Ganesh , Aram Galstyan , Sravan Bodapati

Recent advancements in large-scale video-language models have shown significant potential for real-time planning and detailed interactions. However, their high computational demands and the scarcity of annotated datasets limit their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuxuan Wang , Yiqi Song , Cihang Xie , Yang Liu , Zilong Zheng

Long video understanding is a complex task that requires both spatial detail and temporal awareness. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) obtain frame-level understanding capabilities through multi-frame input, they suffer from information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ziyi Wang , Haoran Wu , Yiming Rong , Deyang Jiang , Yixin Zhang , Yunlong Zhao , Shuang Xu , Bo XU

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are crucial for applications requiring integrated understanding textual and visual information. However, existing VLMs struggle with long videos due to computational inefficiency, memory limitations, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Anxhelo Diko , Tinghuai Wang , Wassim Swaileh , Shiyan Sun , Ioannis Patras

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) is a challenging task that requires understanding complex visual and temporal relationships within videos to answer questions accurately. In this work, we introduce \textbf{ReasVQA} (Reasoning-enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jianxin Liang , Xiaojun Meng , Huishuai Zhang , Yueqian Wang , Jiansheng Wei , Dongyan Zhao

The scaling of large language models to encode all the world's knowledge in model parameters is unsustainable and has exacerbated resource barriers. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) presents a potential solution, yet its application to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Varun Nagaraj Rao , Siddharth Choudhary , Aditya Deshpande , Ravi Kumar Satzoda , Srikar Appalaraju

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

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are widely used for visual perception, understanding, and reasoning. However, long video processing and precise moment retrieval remain challenging due to LLMs' limited context size and coarse frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Weiheng Lu , Jian Li , An Yu , Ming-Ching Chang , Shengpeng Ji , Min Xia

Video Anomaly Understanding (VAU) is essential for applications such as smart cities, security surveillance, and disaster alert systems, yet remains challenging due to its demand for fine-grained spatio-temporal perception and robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Liyun Zhu , Qixiang Chen , Xi Shen , Xiaodong Cun

We introduce a full-stack framework that scales up reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs) to long videos, leveraging reinforcement learning. We address the unique challenges of long video reasoning by integrating three critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yukang Chen , Wei Huang , Baifeng Shi , Qinghao Hu , Hanrong Ye , Ligeng Zhu , Zhijian Liu , Pavlo Molchanov , Jan Kautz , Xiaojuan Qi , Sifei Liu , Hongxu Yin , Yao Lu , Song Han