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While recent multimodal models have shown progress in vision-language tasks, small-scale variants still struggle with the fine-grained temporal reasoning required for video understanding. We introduce ReasonAct, a method that enhances video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiaxin Liu , Zhaolu Kang

While vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks combining textual and visual information, they continue to struggle with fine-grained visual perception tasks that require detailed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zhehao Zhang , Ryan Rossi , Tong Yu , Franck Dernoncourt , Ruiyi Zhang , Jiuxiang Gu , Sungchul Kim , Xiang Chen , Zichao Wang , Nedim Lipka

Image classification has traditionally relied on parameter-intensive model training, requiring large-scale annotated datasets and extensive fine tuning to achieve competitive performance. While recent vision language models (VLMs) alleviate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Wonduk Seo , Minhyeong Yu , Hyunjin An , Seunghyun Lee

Long-horizon omnimodal question answering answers questions by reasoning over text, images, audio, and video. Despite recent progress on OmniLLMs, low-resource long audio-video QA still suffers from costly dense encoding, weak fine-grained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yifan Zhu , Xinyu Mu , Tao Feng , Zhonghong Ou , Yuning Gong , Haoran Luo

Sensemaking report writing often requires multiple refinements in the iterative process. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating initial reports based on human visual workspace representations, they struggle to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Xuxin Tang , Rehema Abulikemu , Eric Krokos , Kirsten Whitley , Xuan Wang , Chris North

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown significant progress in video understanding, yet they face substantial challenges in tasks requiring precise spatiotemporal localization at the instance level. Existing methods primarily rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yiming Zhao , Yu Zeng , Wenxuan Huang , Zhen Fang , Qing Miao , Qisheng Su , Jiawei Zhao , Jiayin Cai , Lin Chen , Zehui Chen , Yukun Qi , Yao Hu , Xiaolong Jiang , Feng Zhao

Referring-based Video Object Segmentation is a multimodal problem that requires producing fine-grained segmentation results guided by external cues. Traditional approaches to this task typically involve training specialized models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Tuyen Tran , Thao Minh Le , Truyen Tran

Visual reasoning -- the ability to interpret the visual world -- is crucial for embodied agents that operate within three-dimensional scenes. Progress in AI has led to vision and language models capable of answering questions from images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Damiano Marsili , Rohun Agrawal , Yisong Yue , Georgia Gkioxari

While Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) significantly advances image reasoning in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), its application to complex video reasoning remains underdeveloped. This gap stems primarily from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Congzhi Zhang , Zhibin Wang , Yinchao Ma , Jiawei Peng , Yihan Wang , Qiang Zhou , Jun Song , Bo Zheng

Recent advancements in visual generative models have enabled high-quality image and video generation, opening diverse applications. However, evaluating these models often demands sampling hundreds or thousands of images or videos, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Fan Zhang , Shulin Tian , Ziqi Huang , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu

This paper addresses the critical and underexplored challenge of long video understanding with low computational budgets. We propose LongVideo-R1, an active, reasoning-equipped multimodal large language model (MLLM) agent designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jihao Qiu , Lingxi Xie , Xinyue Huo , Qi Tian , Qixiang Ye

Automated tools for video editing and assembly have applications ranging from filmmaking and advertisement to content creation for social media. Previous video editing work has mainly focused on either retrieval or user interfaces, leaving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Marcelo Sandoval-Castaneda , Bryan Russell , Josef Sivic , Gregory Shakhnarovich , Fabian Caba Heilbron

Visual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (VRAG) empowers Vision-Language Models to retrieve and reason over visually rich documents. To tackle complex queries requiring multi-step reasoning, agentic VRAG systems interleave reasoning with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yucheng Shen , Jiulong Wu , Jizhou Huang , Dawei Yin , Lingyong Yan , Min Cao

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in vision-language tasks yet remain limited in long video understanding due to the limited context window. Consequently, prevailing approaches tend to rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yang Ding , Yizhen Zhang , Xin Lai , Ruihang Chu , Yujiu Yang

This paper introduces MovieCORE, a novel video question answering (VQA) dataset designed to probe deeper cognitive understanding of movie content. Unlike existing datasets that focus on surface-level comprehension, MovieCORE emphasizes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Gueter Josmy Faure , Min-Hung Chen , Jia-Fong Yeh , Ying Cheng , Hung-Ting Su , Yung-Hao Tang , Shang-Hong Lai , Winston H. Hsu

Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as promising tools for solving challenging robotic tasks, even in the presence of action and observation uncertainties. Recent LLM-based decision-making methods (also referred to as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Abhinav Jain , Chris Jermaine , Vaibhav Unhelkar

Computer-use agents can operate computers and automate laborious tasks, but despite recent rapid progress, they still lag behind human users, especially when tasks require domain-specific procedural knowledge about particular applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yujian Liu , Ze Wang , Hao Chen , Ximeng Sun , Xiaodong Yu , Jialian Wu , Jiang Liu , Emad Barsoum , Zicheng Liu , Shiyu Chang

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) is a challenging task that requires understanding complex visual and temporal relationships within videos to answer questions accurately. In this work, we introduce \textbf{ReasVQA} (Reasoning-enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jianxin Liang , Xiaojun Meng , Huishuai Zhang , Yueqian Wang , Jiansheng Wei , Dongyan Zhao

Despite the rapid progress, existing works on action understanding focus strictly on one type of action agent, which we call actor---a human adult, ignoring the diversity of actions performed by other actors. To overcome this narrow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Chenliang Xu , Caiming Xiong , Jason J. Corso

Long videos, characterized by temporal complexity and sparse task-relevant information, pose significant reasoning challenges for AI systems. Although existing Large Language Model (LLM)-based approaches have advanced long video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jiahua Li , Zhanhe Zhang , Chenghao Xu , Zhe Xu , Kun Wei , Xu Yang , Cheng Deng