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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have enabled substantial progress in video understanding by leveraging cross-modal reasoning capabilities. However, their effectiveness is limited by the restricted context window and the high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zeyu Xu , Junkang Zhang , Qiang Wang , Yi Liu

Video Reasoning Segmentation (VRS) aims to segment target objects in videos based on implicit instructions that convey human intent and temporal logic. Existing MLLM-based methods predict masks with a [SEG] token after selecting frames via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junwei Wen , Deshui Miao , Guangming Lu , Xin Li , Wenjie Pei

While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit strong performance on single-video tasks (e.g., video question answering), their capability for spatiotemporal pattern reasoning across multiple videos remains a critical gap in pattern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Nannan Zhu , Yonghao Dong , Teng Wang , Xueqian Li , Shengjun Deng , Yijia Wang , Zheng Hong , Tiantian Geng , Guo Niu , Hanyan Huang , Xiongfei Yao , Shuaiwei Jiao

Long video understanding is a significant and ongoing challenge in the intersection of multimedia and artificial intelligence. Employing large language models (LLMs) for comprehending video becomes an emerging and promising method. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yunxin Li , Xinyu Chen , Baotain Hu , Min Zhang

Contextual information plays a core role for video semantic segmentation (VSS). This paper summarizes contexts for VSS in two-fold: local temporal contexts (LTC) which define the contexts from neighboring frames, and global temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Guolei Sun , Yun Liu , Henghui Ding , Min Wu , Luc Van Gool

We present READMem (Robust Embedding Association for a Diverse Memory), a modular framework for semi-automatic video object segmentation (sVOS) methods designed to handle unconstrained videos. Contemporary sVOS works typically aggregate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Stéphane Vujasinović , Sebastian Bullinger , Stefan Becker , Norbert Scherer-Negenborn , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Recent advancements in large-scale video-language models have shown significant potential for real-time planning and detailed interactions. However, their high computational demands and the scarcity of annotated datasets limit their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuxuan Wang , Yiqi Song , Cihang Xie , Yang Liu , Zilong Zheng

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating program workflows for visual tasks. However, previous approaches often rely on closed-source models, lack systematic reasoning, and struggle with long-form video question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chenglin Li , Feng Han , Yikun Wang , Ruilin Li , Shuai Dong , Haowen Hou , Haitao Li , Qianglong Chen , Feng Tao , Jingqi Tong , Yin Zhang , Jiaqi Wang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve ever-stronger performance on visual-language tasks. Even as traditional visual question answering (VQA) benchmarks approach saturation, reliable deployment requires satisfying low error…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hector G. Rodriguez , Marcus Rohrbach

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

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have expanded research in video understanding, primarily focusing on high-level tasks such as video captioning and question-answering. Meanwhile, a smaller body of work addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Ali Athar , Xueqing Deng , Liang-Chieh Chen

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have recently exhibited remarkable capabilities in general video understanding. However, they mainly focus on holistic comprehension and struggle with capturing fine-grained spatial and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yuqian Yuan , Hang Zhang , Wentong Li , Zesen Cheng , Boqiang Zhang , Long Li , Xin Li , Deli Zhao , Wenqiao Zhang , Yueting Zhuang , Jianke Zhu , Lidong Bing

What makes good representations for video understanding, such as anticipating future activities, or answering video-conditioned questions? While earlier approaches focus on end-to-end learning directly from video pixels, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Shijie Wang , Qi Zhao , Minh Quan Do , Nakul Agarwal , Kwonjoon Lee , Chen Sun

Real-world long video understanding requires models to perform continuous tracking, information integration and memory retention over massive temporal spans within extreme video durations. Mastering this intense cognitive load constitutes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Haichen He , Jiayi Zhou , Sifeng Shang , Yihan Hu , Yuanhan Zhang , Kaiyang Zhou

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) models enhance understanding and interaction with audiovisual content, making it more accessible, searchable, and useful for a wide range of fields such as education, surveillance, entertainment, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Himanshu Patil , Geo Jolly , Ramana Raja Buddala , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Rohit Saluja

Long-form video reasoning remains a major challenge for Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs), as static uniform frame sampling leads to information dilution and obscures critical evidence. Furthermore, existing pixel-space video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Xuchen Li , Xuzhao Li , Shiyu Hu , Kaiqi Huang

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

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world and embodied settings where safety decisions depend on visual context. However, it remains unclear which visual evidence drives these judgments. We study whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Carlos Hinojosa , Clemens Grange , Bernard Ghanem

Memory is essential for large vision-language models (LVLMs) to handle long, multimodal interactions, with two method directions providing this capability: long-context LVLMs and memory-augmented agents. However, no existing benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xiyu Ren , Zhaowei Wang , Yiming Du , Zhongwei Xie , Chi Liu , Xinlin Yang , Haoyue Feng , Wenjun Pan , Tianshi Zheng , Baixuan Xu , Zhengnan Li , Yangqiu Song , Ginny Wong , Simon See

We propose a novel supervised learning technique for summarizing videos by automatically selecting keyframes or key subshots. Casting the problem as a structured prediction problem on sequential data, our main idea is to use Long Short-Term…

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