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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made rapid progress in perception, understanding, and reasoning, yet existing benchmarks fall short in evaluating these abilities under continuous and dynamic real-world video streams. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Shuhang Xun , Sicheng Tao , Jungang Li , Yibo Shi , Zhixin Lin , Zhanhui Zhu , Yibo Yan , Hanqian Li , Linghao Zhang , Shikang Wang , Yixin Liu , Hanbo Zhang , Ying Ma , Xuming Hu

Real-time, continuous understanding of visual signals is essential for real-world interactive AI applications, and poses a fundamental system-level challenge. Existing research on streaming video understanding, however, typically focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Guowei Tang , Tianwen Qian , Huanran Zheng , Yifei Wang , Xiaoling Wang

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

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

With the rapid development of video Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), numerous benchmarks have been proposed to assess their video understanding capability. However, due to the lack of rich events in the videos, these datasets may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yifan Du , Kun Zhou , Yuqi Huo , Yifan Li , Wayne Xin Zhao , Haoyu Lu , Zijia Zhao , Bingning Wang , Weipeng Chen , Ji-Rong Wen

Online video understanding requires models to perform continuous perception and long-range reasoning within potentially infinite visual streams. Its fundamental challenge lies in the conflict between the unbounded nature of streaming media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Siwei Wen , Zhangcheng Wang , Xingjian Zhang , Lei Huang , Wenjun Wu

Unlike offline processing, streaming video vision-language models face two fundamental constraints: causality and accumulation. Causality prevents access to future frames that offline methods exploit, while accumulation causes tokens to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xueyi Chen , Keda Tao , Kele Shao , Huan Wang

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

Benefiting from the advances in large language models and cross-modal alignment, existing multimodal large language models have achieved prominent performance in image and short video understanding. However, the understanding of long videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Haoji Zhang , Yiqin Wang , Yansong Tang , Yong Liu , Jiashi Feng , Xiaojie Jin

This paper presents StreamChat, a novel approach that enhances the interaction capabilities of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) with streaming video content. In streaming interaction scenarios, existing methods rely solely on visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jihao Liu , Zhiding Yu , Shiyi Lan , Shihao Wang , Rongyao Fang , Jan Kautz , Hongsheng Li , Jose M. Alvare

Event cameras record visual information as asynchronous pixel change streams, excelling at scene perception under unsatisfactory lighting or high-dynamic conditions. Existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) concentrate on natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Shaoyu Liu , Jianing Li , Guanghui Zhao , Yunjian Zhang , Xin Meng , Fei Richard Yu , Xiangyang Ji , Ming Li

Despite significant progress in Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) for offline video understanding, existing online Video-LLMs typically struggle to simultaneously process continuous frame-by-frame inputs and determine optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Zhenyu Yang , Kairui Zhang , Yuhang Hu , Bing Wang , Shengsheng Qian , Bin Wen , Fan Yang , Tingting Gao , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu

Online video understanding is essential for applications like public surveillance and AI glasses. However, applying Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to this domain is challenging due to the large number of video frames, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xinqi Jin , Hanxun Yu , Bohan Yu , Kebin Liu , Jian Liu , Keda Tao , Yixuan Pei , Huan Wang , Fan Dang , Jiangchuan Liu , Weiqiang Wang

Recent Large Language Models have been enhanced with vision capabilities, enabling them to comprehend images, videos, and interleaved vision-language content. However, the learning methods of these large multimodal models typically treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Joya Chen , Zhaoyang Lv , Shiwei Wu , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Chenan Song , Difei Gao , Jia-Wei Liu , Ziteng Gao , Dongxing Mao , Mike Zheng Shou

Creating AI systems that can interact with environments over long periods, similar to human cognition, has been a longstanding research goal. Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant strides in…

Long-duration streaming video understanding is fundamental for future AI agents, yet remains limited by ineffective long-term memory. We introduce video-SALMONN S, a memory-enhanced streaming audio-visual large language model that processes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Guangzhi Sun , Yixuan Li , Xiaodong Wu , Yudong Yang , Wei Li , Zejun Ma , Chao Zhang

The development of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has advanced general video understanding. However, existing video evaluation benchmarks primarily focus on non-interactive videos, such as movies and recordings. To fill this gap,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Xiaodong Wang , Langling Huang , Zhirong Wu , Xu Zhao , Teng Xu , Xuhong Xia , Peixi Peng

Vision agent memory has shown remarkable effectiveness in streaming video understanding. However, storing such memory for videos incurs substantial memory overhead, leading to high costs in both storage and computation. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Junxi Wang , Te Sun , Jiayi Zhu , Junxian Li , Haowen Xu , Zichen Wen , Xuming Hu , Zhiyu Li , Linfeng Zhang

Real-time understanding of continuous video streams is essential for interactive assistants and multimodal agents operating in dynamic environments. However, most existing video reasoning approaches follow a batch paradigm that defers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zikang Liu , Longteng Guo , Handong Li , Ru Zhen , Xingjian He , Ruyi Ji , Xiaoming Ren , Yanhao Zhang , Haonan Lu , Jing Liu

Streaming video understanding requires models not only to process temporally incoming frames, but also to anticipate user intention for realistic applications such as Augmented Reality (AR) glasses. While prior streaming benchmarks evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Daeun Lee , Subhojyoti Mukherjee , Branislav Kveton , Ryan A. Rossi , Viet Dac Lai , Seunghyun Yoon , Trung Bui , Franck Dernoncourt , Mohit Bansal