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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,…

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Recent advancements in Vision-Language (VL) research have sparked new benchmarks for complex visual reasoning, challenging models' advanced reasoning ability. Traditional Vision-Language Models (VLMs) perform well in visual perception tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhiyuan Li , Dongnan Liu , Chaoyi Zhang , Heng Wang , Tengfei Xue , Weidong Cai

Improving the reasoning capabilities of embodied agents is crucial for robots to complete complex human instructions in long-view manipulation tasks successfully. Despite the success of large language models and vision language models based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Jinrui Liu , Bingyan Nie , Boyu Li , Yaran Chen , Yuze Wang , Shunsen He , Haoran Li

Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models. As models evolve into natively multimodal architectures, extending RLVR to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chuanyu Qin , Chenxu Yang , Qingyi Si , Naibin Gu , Dingyu Yao , Zheng Lin , Peng Fu , Nan Duan , Jiaqi Wang

The spatial reasoning task aims to reason about the spatial relationships in 2D and 3D space, which is a fundamental capability for Visual Question Answering (VQA) and robotics. Although vision language models (VLMs) have developed rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xun Liang , Xin Guo , Zhongming Jin , Weihang Pan , Penghui Shang , Deng Cai , Binbin Lin , Jieping Ye

Reinforcement learning based post-training paradigms for Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) have achieved significant success by optimizing for visual-semantic tasks such as captioning or VideoQA. However, while these approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xiaokun Sun , Zezhong Wu , Zewen Ding , Linli Xu

Referring Video Object Segmentation (R-VOS) is a challenging task that aims to segment an object in a video based on a linguistic expression. Most existing R-VOS methods have a critical assumption: the object referred to must appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiang Li , Jinglu Wang , Xiaohao Xu , Xiao Li , Bhiksha Raj , Yan Lu

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced perception across text, vision, and audio, yet they often struggle with structured cross-modal reasoning, particularly when integrating audio and visual signals. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-20 Zhenghao Xing , Xiaowei Hu , Chi-Wing Fu , Wenhai Wang , Jifeng Dai , Pheng-Ann Heng

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

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable capabilities by integrating visual perception with language understanding, enabling applications such as image-grounded dialogue, visual question answering, and scientific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Tianyi Bai , Zengjie Hu , Fupeng Sun , Jiantao Qiu , Yizhen Jiang , Guangxin He , Bohan Zeng , Conghui He , Binhang Yuan , Wentao Zhang

Despite recent advancements in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) on diverse understanding tasks, these models struggle to solve problems which require extensive multi-step reasoning. This is primarily due to the progressive dilution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Byungwoo Jeon , Yoonwoo Jeong , Hyunseok Lee , Minsu Cho , Jinwoo Shin

Although chain-of-thought reasoning and reinforcement learning (RL) have driven breakthroughs in NLP, their integration into generative vision models remains underexplored. We introduce ReasonGen-R1, a two-stage framework that first imbues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yu Zhang , Yunqi Li , Yifan Yang , Rui Wang , Yuqing Yang , Dai Qi , Jianmin Bao , Dongdong Chen , Chong Luo , Lili Qiu

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) is an emerging cross-modality task that aims to generate pixel-level maps of the target objects referred by given textual expressions. The main concept involves learning an accurate alignment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Baoli Sun , Xinzhu Ma , Ning Wang , Zhihui Wang , Zhiyong Wang

The crux of Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) lies in modeling dense text-video relations to associate abstract linguistic concepts with dynamic visual contents at pixel-level. Current RVOS methods typically use vision and language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zikun Zhou , Wentao Xiong , Li Zhou , Xin Li , Zhenyu He , Yaowei Wang

Visual retrieval-augmented generation (VRAG) augments vision-language models (VLMs) with external visual knowledge to ground reasoning and reduce hallucinations. Yet current VRAG systems often fail to reliably perceive and integrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yubo Sun , Chunyi Peng , Yukun Yan , Shi Yu , Zhenghao Liu , Chi Chen , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Current top-leading solutions for video object segmentation (VOS) typically follow a matching-based regime: for each query frame, the segmentation mask is inferred according to its correspondence to previously processed and the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Yurong Zhang , Liulei Li , Wenguan Wang , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

Reasoning segmentation is an emerging vision-language task that requires reasoning over intricate text queries to precisely segment objects. However, existing methods typically suffer from overthinking, generating verbose reasoning chains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yulin He , Wei Chen , Zhikang Jian , Tianhang Guo , Wenjuan Zhou , Minglong Li , Shaowu Yang , Wenjing Yang

Self-reflection mechanisms that rely on purely text-based rethinking processes perform well in most multimodal tasks. However, when directly applied to long-form video understanding scenarios, they exhibit clear limitations. The fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jiaze Li , Hao Yin , Wenhui Tan , Jingyang Chen , Boshen Xu , Yuxun Qu , Yijing Chen , Jianzhong Ju , Zhenbo Luo , Jian Luan

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning in vision language models (VLMs) is crucial for improving interpretability and trustworthiness. However, current training recipes lack robust CoT reasoning data, relying on datasets dominated by short…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ruohong Zhang , Bowen Zhang , Yanghao Li , Haotian Zhang , Zhiqing Sun , Zhe Gan , Yinfei Yang , Ruoming Pang , Yiming Yang

Temporal Video Grounding (TVG), the task of locating specific video segments based on language queries, is a core challenge in long-form video understanding. While recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown early promise in…

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