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Autoregressive large vision--language models (LVLMs) interface video and language by projecting video features into the LLM's embedding space as continuous visual token embeddings. However, it remains unclear where temporal evidence is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiming Zhang , Zhuokai Zhao , Chengzhang Yu , Kun Wang , Zhendong Chu , Qiankun Li , Zihan Chen , Yang Liu , Zenghui Ding , Yining Sun , Qingsong Wen

Predicting temporal progress from visual trajectories is important for intelligent robots that can learn, adapt, and improve. However, learning such progress estimator, or temporal value function, across different tasks and domains requires…

There has been tremendous progress in multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs). Recent works have extended these models to video input with promising instruction following capabilities. However, an important missing piece is temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 De-An Huang , Shijia Liao , Subhashree Radhakrishnan , Hongxu Yin , Pavlo Molchanov , Zhiding Yu , Jan Kautz

Long video understanding poses a significant challenge for current Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Notably, the MLLMs are constrained by their limited context lengths and the substantial costs while processing long videos.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yan Shu , Zheng Liu , Peitian Zhang , Minghao Qin , Junjie Zhou , Zhengyang Liang , Tiejun Huang , Bo Zhao

Understanding fine-grained temporal dynamics is crucial in egocentric videos, where continuous streams capture frequent, close-up interactions with objects. In this work, we bring to light that current egocentric video question-answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Chiara Plizzari , Alessio Tonioni , Yongqin Xian , Achin Kulshrestha , Federico Tombari

Video large language models (Video-LLMs) have made strong progress in general video understanding, but their ability to maintain temporal object consistency remains underexplored. Existing benchmarks often emphasize event recognition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Junzhe Chen , Siyuan Meng , Yuxi Chen , Man Zhao , Wenyao Gui , Xiaojie Guo

Video captioning is a critical task in the field of multimodal machine learning, aiming to generate descriptive and coherent textual narratives for video content. While large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown significant progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ji-jun Park , Soo-joon Choi

Integrating vision models into large language models (LLMs) has sparked significant interest in creating vision-language foundation models, especially for video understanding. Recent methods often utilize memory banks to handle untrimmed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Sakib Reza , Xiyun Song , Heather Yu , Zongfang Lin , Mohsen Moghaddam , Octavia Camps

Building models that comprehends videos and responds specific user instructions is a practical and challenging topic, as it requires mastery of both vision understanding and knowledge reasoning. Compared to language and image modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ji Qi , Kaixuan Ji , Jifan Yu , Duokang Wang , Bin Xu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Recent efforts in video reasoning segmentation (VRS) integrate large language models (LLMs) with perception models to localize and track objects via textual instructions, achieving barely satisfactory results in simple scenarios. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Rongkun Zheng , Lu Qi , Xi Chen , Yi Wang , Kun Wang , Yu Qiao , Hengshuang Zhao

Video action localization aims to find the timings of specific actions from a long video. Although existing learning-based approaches have been successful, they require annotating videos, which comes with a considerable labor cost. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Naoki Wake , Atsushi Kanehira , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Jun Takamatsu , Katsushi Ikeuchi

This paper introduces MiniGPT4-Video, a multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) designed specifically for video understanding. The model is capable of processing both temporal visual and textual data, making it adept at understanding the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Kirolos Ataallah , Xiaoqian Shen , Eslam Abdelrahman , Essam Sleiman , Deyao Zhu , Jian Ding , Mohamed Elhoseiny

The goal of the Step Grounding task is to locate temporal boundaries of activities based on natural language descriptions. This technical report introduces a Bayesian-VSLNet to address the challenge of identifying such temporal segments in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Carlos Plou , Lorenzo Mur-Labadia , Ruben Martinez-Cantin , Ana C. Murillo

How are we able to learn about complex current events just from short snippets of video? While natural language enables straightforward ways to represent under-specified, partially observable events, visual data does not facilitate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Kate Sanders , Reno Kriz , David Etter , Hannah Recknor , Alexander Martin , Cameron Carpenter , Jingyang Lin , Benjamin Van Durme

A truly capable AI system must do more than detect objects or recognize activities in isolation. It must form unified, grounded representations of who is acting, what they are doing, and when and where these actions unfold. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Tanveer Hannan , Shuaicong Wu , Mark Weber , Suprosanna Shit , Jindong Gu , Rajat Koner , Aljoša Ošep , Laura Leal-Taixé , Thomas Seidl

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RefVOS) seeks to segment target objects in videos guided by natural language descriptions, demanding both temporal reasoning and fine-grained visual comprehension. Existing sampling strategies for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ming Dai , Sen Yang , Boqiang Duan , Wankou Yang , Jingdong Wang

Temporal moment localization aims to retrieve the best video segment matching a moment specified by a query. The existing methods generate the visual and semantic embeddings independently and fuse them without full consideration of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Jungkyoo Shin , Jinyoung Moon

Temporal Action Detection and Moment Retrieval constitute two pivotal tasks in video understanding, focusing on precisely localizing temporal segments corresponding to specific actions or events. Recent advancements introduced Moment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Weijun Zhuang , Qizhang Li , Xin Li , Ming Liu , Xiaopeng Hong , Feng Gao , Fan Yang , Wangmeng Zuo

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with complex video QA benchmarks like HD-EPIC VQA due to ambiguous queries/options, poor long-range temporal reasoning, and non-standardized outputs. We propose a framework integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Sicheng Yang , Yukai Huang , Shitong Sun , Weitong Cai , Jiankang Deng , Jifei Song , Zhensong Zhang

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) localizes the temporal boundaries of a query-relevant moment in long, untrimmed videos, making video-language-model (VLM) pipelines prohibitively expensive. While recent training-free visual token pruning has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jiaqi Li , Shuntian Zheng , Yixian Shen , Jia-Hong Huang , Xiaoman Lu , Minzhe Ni , Yu Guan