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Video understanding is a crucial next step for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Various benchmarks are introduced for better evaluating the MLLMs. Nevertheless, current video benchmarks are still inefficient for evaluating video…

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Causality is essential in scientific research, enabling researchers to interpret true relationships between variables. These causal relationships are often represented by causal graphs, which are directed acyclic graphs. With the recent…

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Video causal reasoning aims to achieve a high-level understanding of videos from a causal perspective. However, it exhibits limitations in its scope, primarily executed in a question-answering paradigm and focusing on brief video segments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Tieyuan Chen , Huabin Liu , Yi Wang , Yihang Chen , Tianyao He , Chaofan Gan , Huanyu He , Weiyao Lin

Deep Learning models have shown success in a large variety of tasks by extracting correlation patterns from high-dimensional data but still struggle when generalizing out of their initial distribution. As causal engines aim to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Gaël Gendron , Michael Witbrock , Gillian Dobbie

Multi-modal Large language models (MLLMs) show remarkable ability in video understanding. Nevertheless, understanding long videos remains challenging as the models can only process a finite number of frames in a single inference,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yucheng Suo , Fan Ma , Linchao Zhu , Tianyi Wang , Fengyun Rao , Yi Yang

Video causal reasoning aims to achieve a high-level understanding of video content from a causal perspective. However, current video reasoning tasks are limited in scope, primarily executed in a question-answering paradigm and focusing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Tieyuan Chen , Huabin Liu , Tianyao He , Yihang Chen , Chaofan Gan , Xiao Ma , Cheng Zhong , Yang Zhang , Yingxue Wang , Hui Lin , Weiyao Lin

The efficacy of video generation models heavily depends on the quality of their training datasets. Most previous video generation models are trained on short video clips, while recently there has been increasing interest in training long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Tianwei Xiong , Yuqing Wang , Daquan Zhou , Zhijie Lin , Jiashi Feng , Xihui Liu

The remarkable natural language understanding, reasoning, and generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have made them attractive for application to video understanding, utilizing video tokens as contextual input. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Jiaqi Xu , Cuiling Lan , Wenxuan Xie , Xuejin Chen , Yan Lu

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

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on enormous amounts of data and encode knowledge in their parameters. We propose a pipeline to elicit causal relationships from LLMs. Specifically, (i) we sample many documents from LLMs on a given…

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Large multimodal models (LMMs) have shown remarkable progress in audio-visual understanding, yet they struggle with real-world scenarios that require complex reasoning across extensive video collections. Existing benchmarks for video…

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The increasing capture and analysis of large-scale longitudinal health data offer opportunities to improve healthcare and advance medical understanding. However, a critical gap exists between (a) -- the observation of patterns and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Arran Zeyu Wang , David Borland , David Gotz

Large multimodal models (LMMs) are processing increasingly longer and richer inputs. Albeit the progress, few public benchmark is available to measure such development. To mitigate this gap, we introduce LongVideoBench, a question-answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Haoning Wu , Dongxu Li , Bei Chen , Junnan Li

Recent advances in video large language models (VideoLLMs) call for new evaluation protocols and benchmarks for complex temporal reasoning in video-language understanding. Inspired by the needle in a haystack test widely used by LLMs, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zi-Yuan Hu , Shuo Liang , Duo Zheng , Yanyang Li , Yeyao Tao , Shijia Huang , Wei Feng , Jia Qin , Jianguang Yu , Jing Huang , Meng Fang , Yin Li , Liwei Wang

The goal of video summarization is to automatically shorten videos such that it conveys the overall story without losing relevant information. In many application scenarios, improper video summarization can have a large impact. For example…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jia-Hong Huang , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Pin-Yu Chen , Min-Hung Chen , Marcel Worring

Large language models (LLMs) have mastered abundant simple and explicit commonsense knowledge through pre-training, enabling them to achieve human-like performance in simple commonsense reasoning. Nevertheless, LLMs struggle to reason with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Kai Xiong , Xiao Ding , Yixin Cao , Yuxiong Yan , Li Du , Yufei Zhang , Jinglong Gao , Jiaqian Liu , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

This thesis explores the central question of how to leverage temporal relations among video elements to advance video understanding. Addressing the limitations of existing methods, the work presents a five-fold contribution: (1) an…

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We introduce CausalVQA, a benchmark dataset for video question answering (VQA) composed of question-answer pairs that probe models' understanding of causality in the physical world. Existing VQA benchmarks either tend to focus on surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Aaron Foss , Chloe Evans , Sasha Mitts , Koustuv Sinha , Ammar Rizvi , Justine T. Kao

Video-based human pose estimation has long been a fundamental yet challenging problem in computer vision. Previous studies focus on spatio-temporal modeling through the enhancement of architecture design and optimization strategies.…

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