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Video understanding plays a vital role in bridging low-level visual signals with high-level cognitive reasoning, and is fundamental to applications such as autonomous driving, embodied AI, and the broader pursuit of AGI. The rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yongheng Zhang , Xu Liu , Ruihan Tao , Qiguang Chen , Hao Fei , Wanxiang Che , Libo Qin

Long-form video understanding is essential for various applications such as video retrieval, summarizing, and question answering. Yet, traditional approaches demand substantial computing power and are often bottlenecked by GPU memory. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Saket Gurukar , Asim Kadav

While Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown significant potential in multimodal understanding and reasoning tasks, how to efficiently select the most informative frames from videos remains a critical challenge. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Shihao Wang , Guo Chen , De-an Huang , Zhiqi Li , Minghan Li , Guilin Liu , Jose M. Alvarez , Lei Zhang , Zhiding Yu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated substantial value in unified text-image understanding and reasoning, primarily by converting images into sequences of patch-level tokens that align with their architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Hangzhou He , Shuang Zeng , Ourui Fu , Jiakui Hu , Zhengjian Yao , Yanye Lu

Video large language models have demonstrated strong video understanding capabilities but suffer from high inference costs due to the massive number of tokens in long videos. Inspired by event-based vision, we propose an event-guided,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wenhao Xu , Xin Dong , Yue Li , Haoyuan Shi , Zhiwei Xiong

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant improvement in offline video understanding. However, extending these capabilities to streaming video inputs, remains challenging, as existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Haowei Zhang , Shudong Yang , Jinlan Fu , See-Kiong Ng , Xipeng Qiu

Recently, Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable effectiveness for multi-modal tasks due to their abilities to generate and understand cross-modal data. However, processing long sequences of visual tokens extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Haicheng Wang , Zhemeng Yu , Gabriele Spadaro , Chen Ju , Victor Quétu , Shuai Xiao , Enzo Tartaglione

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) often face a modality representation gap during pretraining: while language embeddings remain stable, visual representations are highly sensitive to contextual noise (e.g., background clutter). To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yin Xie , Kaicheng Yang , Peirou Liang , Xiang An , Yongle Zhao , Yumeng Wang , Ziyong Feng , Roy Miles , Ismail Elezi , Jiankang Deng

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in visual-language reasoning, but their ability to efficiently handle long videos remains limited. Despite recent advances in long-context MLLMs, storing and attending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Yanlai Yang , Zhuokai Zhao , Satya Narayan Shukla , Aashu Singh , Shlok Kumar Mishra , Lizhu Zhang , Mengye Ren

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated exceptional success in various multimodal tasks, yet their deployment is frequently limited by substantial computational demands and prolonged inference times. Given that the vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zihui Zhao , Yingxin Li , Yang Li

The development of unified multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is fundamentally challenged by the granularity gap between visual understanding and generation: understanding requires high-level semantic abstractions, while image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yan Li , Ning Liao , Xiangyu Zhao , Shaofeng Zhang , Xiaoxing Wang , Yifan Yang , Junchi Yan , Xue Yang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive multimodal comprehension capabilities and are being deployed in an increasing number of online video understanding applications. While recent efforts extensively explore advancing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Shengyuan Ye , Bei Ouyang , Tianyi Qian , Liekang Zeng , Mu Yuan , Xiaowen Chu , Weijie Hong , Xu Chen

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have proven effective on various tasks. They typically encode visual inputs into Original Model sequences of tokens, which are then concatenated with textual tokens and jointly processed by the language model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Hao Zhang , Mengsi Lyu , Bo Huang , Yulong Ao , Yonghua Lin

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) models have made significant progress in video understanding over the past few years. However, processing long video inputs remains a major challenge due to high memory and computational costs. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Minghao Qin , Xiangrui Liu , Zhengyang Liang , Yan Shu , Huaying Yuan , Juenjie Zhou , Shitao Xiao , Bo Zhao , Zheng Liu

This paper does not introduce a novel method but instead establishes a straightforward, incremental, yet essential baseline for video temporal grounding (VTG), a core capability in video understanding. While multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jun Zhang , Teng Wang , Yuying Ge , Yixiao Ge , Xinhao Li , Ying Shan , Limin Wang

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

Event-based multimodal large language models (MLLMs) enable robust perception in high-speed and low-light scenarios, addressing key limitations of frame-based MLLMs. However, current event-based MLLMs often rely on dense image-like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Shaoyu Liu , Jianing Li , Guanghui Zhao , Yunjian Zhang , Wen Jiang , Ming Li , Xiangyang Ji

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated great performance on visual question answering (VQA). When it comes to knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA), MLLMs may lack the specialized domain knowledge needed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Weixi Weng , Jieming Zhu , Xiaojun Meng , Hao Zhang , Rui Zhang , Chun Yuan

Visual tokens consume substantial computational resources in multi-modal large models (MLLMs), significantly compromising their efficiency. Recent works have attempted to improve efficiency by compressing visual tokens during training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zichen Wen , Shaobo Wang , Yufa Zhou , Junyuan Zhang , Qintong Zhang , Yifeng Gao , Zhaorun Chen , Bin Wang , Weijia Li , Conghui He , Linfeng Zhang

The event-based Vision-Language Model (VLM) recently has made good progress for practical vision tasks. However, most of these works just utilize CLIP for focusing on traditional perception tasks, which obstruct model understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Pengteng Li , Yunfan Lu , Pinghao Song , Wuyang Li , Huizai Yao , Hui Xiong