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Long video understanding has emerged as an increasingly important yet challenging task in computer vision. Agent-based approaches are gaining popularity for processing long videos, as they can handle extended sequences and integrate various…

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Long Video Question-Answering (LVQA) presents a significant challenge for Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) due to immense context and overloaded information, which could also lead to prohibitive memory consumption. While existing…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have allowed recent LLM-based approaches to achieve excellent performance on long-video understanding benchmarks. We investigate how extensive world knowledge and strong reasoning skills of underlying LLMs…

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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in text understanding, which has paved the way for their expansion into video LLMs (Vid-LLMs) to analyze video data. However, current Vid-LLMs struggle to…

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Most of the existing methods for video understanding primarily focus on videos only lasting tens of seconds, with limited exploration of techniques for handling long videos. The increased number of frames in long videos poses two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Ziyu Ma , Chenhui Gou , Hengcan Shi , Bin Sun , Shutao Li , Hamid Rezatofighi , Jianfei Cai

Long video understanding is a complex task that requires both spatial detail and temporal awareness. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) obtain frame-level understanding capabilities through multi-frame input, they suffer from information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ziyi Wang , Haoran Wu , Yiming Rong , Deyang Jiang , Yixin Zhang , Yunlong Zhao , Shuang Xu , Bo XU

Large language models (LLMs) excel at many NLP tasks but struggle to sustain long-term interactions due to limited attention over extended dialogue histories. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) mitigates this issue but lacks reliable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Chunliang Chen , Ming Guan , Xiao Lin , Jiaxu Li , Luxi Lin , Qiyi Wang , Xiangyu Chen , Jixiang Luo , Changzhi Sun , Dell Zhang , Xuelong Li

The analysis of extended video content poses unique challenges in artificial intelligence, particularly when dealing with the complexity of tracking and understanding visual elements across time. Current methodologies that process video…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Meng Chu , Yicong Li , Tat-Seng Chua

Despite recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), long-video understanding remains a challenging problem. Although state-of-the-art long-context VLMs can process around 1000 input frames, they still struggle to effectively leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Anurag Arnab , Ahmet Iscen , Mathilde Caron , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid

Long-form video understanding has always been a challenging problem due to the significant redundancy in both temporal and spatial contents. This challenge is further exacerbated by the limited context length of Multimodal Large Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Ruyang Liu , Shangkun Sun , Haoran Tang , Ge Li , Wei Gao

Real-time understanding of long video streams remains challenging for multimodal large language models (VLMs) due to redundant frame processing and rapid forgetting of past context. Existing streaming systems rely on fixed-interval decoding…

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Current video-language models struggle with long-video understanding due to limited context lengths and reliance on sparse frame subsampling, often leading to information loss. This paper introduces $\infty$-Video, which can process…

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Large language models (LLMs) excel at retrieving information from lengthy text, but their vision-language counterparts (VLMs) face difficulties with hour-long videos, especially for temporal grounding. Specifically, these VLMs are…

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Long-form egocentric video understanding provides rich contextual information and unique insights into long-term human behaviors, holding significant potential for applications in embodied intelligence, long-term activity analysis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wenqi Zhou , Kai Cao , Hao Zheng , Yunze Liu , Xinyi Zheng , Miao Liu , Per Ola Kristensson , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas , Fan Zhang , Weizhe Lin , Junxiao Shen

Large multimodal models (LMMs) are processing increasingly longer and richer inputs. Albeit the progress, few public benchmark is available to measure such development. To mitigate this gap, we introduce LongVideoBench, a question-answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Haoning Wu , Dongxu Li , Bei Chen , Junnan Li

Long-video understanding has emerged as a crucial capability in real-world applications such as video surveillance, meeting summarization, educational lecture analysis, and sports broadcasting. However, it remains computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Benjamin Schneider , Dongfu Jiang , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Wenhu Chen

Understanding ultra-long videos such as egocentric recordings, live streams, or surveillance footage spanning days to weeks, remains a challenge. For current multimodal LLMs: even with million-token context windows, frame budgets cover only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiazheng Li , Chi-Hao Wu , Yunze Liu , Kaize Ding , Jundong Li , Chuxu Zhang

Existing MLLMs encounter significant challenges in modeling the temporal context within long videos. Currently, mainstream Agent-based methods use external tools to assist a single MLLM in answering long video questions. Despite such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Boyu Chen , Zhengrong Yue , Siran Chen , Zikang Wang , Yang Liu , Peng Li , Yali Wang

Long-form video understanding remains a fundamental challenge for current Video Large Language Models. Most existing models rely on static reasoning over uniformly sampled frames, which weakens temporal localization and leads to substantial…

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