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Video understanding is inherently intention-driven-humans naturally focus on relevant frames based on their goals. Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled flexible query-driven reasoning; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ziqiang Xu , Qi Dai , Tian Xie , Yifan Yang , Kai Qiu , DongDong Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Chong Luo

Temporal awareness is essential for video large language models (LLMs) to understand and reason about events within long videos, enabling applications like dense video captioning and temporal video grounding in a unified system. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Andong Deng , Zhongpai Gao , Anwesa Choudhuri , Benjamin Planche , Meng Zheng , Bin Wang , Terrence Chen , Chen Chen , Ziyan Wu

Video large language models have achieved remarkable performance in tasks such as video question answering, however, their temporal understanding remains suboptimal. To address this limitation, we curate a dedicated instruction fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Yunxiao Wang , Meng Liu , Wenqi Liu , Xuemeng Song , Bin Wen , Fan Yang , Tingting Gao , Di Zhang , Guorui Zhou , Liqiang Nie

Video Reasoning Segmentation (VRS) aims to segment target objects in videos based on implicit instructions that convey human intent and temporal logic. Existing MLLM-based methods predict masks with a [SEG] token after selecting frames via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junwei Wen , Deshui Miao , Guangming Lu , Xin Li , Wenjie Pei

Next-token prediction serves as the foundational learning task enabling reasoning in LLMs. But what should the learning task be when aiming to equip MLLMs with temporal reasoning capabilities over video inputs? Existing tasks such as video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Haonan Wang , Hongfu Liu , Xiangyan Liu , Chao Du , Kenji Kawaguchi , Ye Wang , Tianyu Pang

Reasoning-centric video object segmentation is an inherently complex task: the query often refers to dynamics, causality, and temporal interactions, rather than static appearances. Yet existing solutions generally collapse these factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yifan Li , Yingda Yin , Lingting Zhu , Weikai Chen , Shengju Qian , Xin Wang , Yanwei Fu

Traditional visual grounding methods primarily focus on single-image scenarios with simple textual references. However, extending these methods to real-world scenarios that involve implicit and complex instructions, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Sule Bai , Mingxing Li , Yong Liu , Jing Tang , Haoji Zhang , Lei Sun , Xiangxiang Chu , Yansong Tang

Identifying key temporal intervals within long videos, known as temporal grounding (TG), is important to video understanding and reasoning tasks. In this paper, we introduce a new form of the temporal grounding problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiangrui Liu , Minghao Qin , Yan Shu , Zhengyang Liang , Yang Tian , Chen Jason Zhang , Bo Zhao , Zheng 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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Thong Thanh Nguyen

Video temporal grounding is a critical video understanding task, which aims to localize moments relevant to a language description. The challenge of this task lies in distinguishing relevant and irrelevant moments. Previous methods focused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Xiaolong Sun , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou , Liushuai Shi , Kun Xia , Mengnan Liu , Yabing Wang , Gang Hua

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zongsheng Cao , Yangfan He , Anran Liu , Feng Chen , Zepeng Wang , Jun Xie

Video understanding represents the most challenging frontier in computer vision, requiring models to reason about complex spatiotemporal relationships, long-term dependencies, and multimodal evidence. The recent emergence of Video-Large…

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable text understanding capabilities, which have been extended as Video LLMs to handle video data for comprehending visual details. However, existing Video LLMs can only provide a coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Bin Huang , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Zihan Song , Wenwu Zhu

The application of reinforcement learning (RL) to enhance the reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) constitutes a rapidly advancing research area. While MLLMs extend Large Language Models (LLMs) to handle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Guanghao Zhou , Panjia Qiu , Cen Chen , Jie Wang , Zheming Yang , Jian Xu , Minghui Qiu

Video temporal grounding aims to identify video segments within untrimmed videos that are most relevant to a given natural language query. Existing video temporal localization models rely on specific datasets for training and have high data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Minghang Zheng , Xinhao Cai , Qingchao Chen , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

Short video platforms are evolving rapidly, making the identification of inappropriate content increasingly critical. Existing approaches typically train separate and small classification models for each type of issue, which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zixuan Wang , Yu Sun , Hongwei Wang , Baoyu Jing , Xiang Shen , Xin Dong , Zhuolin Hao , Hongyu Xiong , Yang Song

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

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to extract relevant video segments based on a given natural language query. Recently, zero-shot VTG methods have gained attention by leveraging pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) to localize target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jin-Seop Lee , SungJoon Lee , Jaehan Ahn , YunSeok Choi , Jee-Hyong Lee

Recent advancements in Chain of Thought (COT) generation have significantly improved the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), with reinforcement learning (RL) emerging as an effective post-training approach. Multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yi Chen , Yuying Ge , Rui Wang , Yixiao Ge , Lu Qiu , Ying Shan , Xihui Liu

Advances in multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have inspired time series understanding and reasoning tasks, that enable natural language querying over time series, producing textual analyses of complex temporal dynamics. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Hang Ni , Weijia Zhang , Fei Wang , Zezhi Shao , Hao Liu