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Video Question Answering (Video QA) is a challenging video understanding task that requires models to comprehend entire videos, identify the most relevant information based on contextual cues from a given question, and reason accurately to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Roberto Amoroso , Gengyuan Zhang , Rajat Koner , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara , Volker Tresp

Large language models have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities in general knowledge question answering. However, their ability to handle temporal information remains limited. To address this limitation, existing approaches often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yimin Deng , Yejing Wang , Zhenxi Lin , Zichuan Fu , Guoshuai Zhao , Derong Xu , Yefeng Zheng , Xiangyu Zhao , Xian Wu , Li Zhu , Xueming Qian

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

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have shown great potential for video reasoning with textual Chain-of-Thought. However, they remain vulnerable to hallucinations, especially when processing long-form videos where evidence is sparse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zuhao Yang , Sudong Wang , Kaichen Zhang , Keming Wu , Sicong Leng , Yifan Zhang , Bo Li , Chengwei Qin , Shijian Lu , Xingxuan Li , Lidong Bing

Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) requires models to effectively utilize both visual and auditory modalities to answer complex and diverse questions about audio-visual scenes. However, existing methods lack sufficient flexibility and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jiayu Zhang , Shuo Ye , Qilang Ye , Xun Lin , Zihan Song , Zitong Yu

Long video understanding requires more than large context windows. It also needs a memory mechanism that decides what visual evidence to retain, keeps it searchable over long horizons, and grounds later reasoning in recoverable observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Aiden Yiliu Li , Nels Numan , Anthony Steed

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

Medical vision-language models (VLMs) excel at image-text understanding but typically rely on a single-pass reasoning that neglects localized visual cues. In clinical practice, however, human experts iteratively scan, focus, and refine the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kaitao Chen , Shaohao Rui , Yankai Jiang , Jiamin Wu , Qihao Zheng , Chunfeng Song , Xiaosong Wang , Mu Zhou , Mianxin Liu

Recent advances in video understanding have been driven by MLLMs. But these MLLMs are good at analyzing short videos, while suffering from difficulties in understanding videos with a longer context. To address this difficulty, several agent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zikang Wang , Boyu Chen , Zhengrong Yue , Yi Wang , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang , Yali Wang

Comprehending long videos remains a significant challenge for Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs). Current LMMs struggle to process even minutes to hours videos due to their lack of explicit memory and retrieval mechanisms. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Sameer Malik , Moyuru Yamada , Ayush Singh , Dishank Aggarwal

Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) struggle with hour-level video understanding, facing significant challenges not only in modeling the substantial information volume of long videos but also in overcoming the memory wall and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hong Gao , Yiming Bao , Xuezhen Tu , Bin Zhong , Linan Yue , Minling Zhang

Existing large video-language models (LVLMs) struggle to comprehend long videos correctly due to limited context. To address this problem, fine-tuning long-context LVLMs and employing GPT-based agents have emerged as promising solutions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yongdong Luo , Xiawu Zheng , Guilin Li , Shukang Yin , Haojia Lin , Chaoyou Fu , Jinfa Huang , Jiayi Ji , Fei Chao , Jiebo Luo , Rongrong Ji

The rise of short-form video platforms and the emergence of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have amplified the need for scalable, effective, zero-shot text-to-video retrieval systems. While recent advances in large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jiaxin Wu , Xiao-Yong Wei , Qing Li

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

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in jointly understanding text, images, and videos, often evaluated via Visual Question Answering (VQA). However, even state-of-the-art MLLMs struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alberto Compagnoni , Marco Morini , Sara Sarto , Federico Cocchi , Davide Caffagni , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

This paper presents a multi-agent perception-action exploration alliance, dubbed A4VL, for efficient long-video reasoning. A4VL operates in a multi-round perception-action exploration loop with a selection of VLM agents. In each round, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yichang Xu , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Rao Kompella , Tiansheng Huang , Sihao Hu , Fatih Ilhan , Selim Furkan Tekin , Zachary Yahn , Ling Liu

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable reliability and advanced capabilities through extended test-time reasoning. However, extending these capabilities to Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yuhao Dong , Zuyan Liu , Shulin Tian , Yongming Rao , Ziwei Liu

We explore how reconciling several foundation models (large language models and vision-language models) with a novel unified memory mechanism could tackle the challenging video understanding problem, especially capturing the long-term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yue Fan , Xiaojian Ma , Rujie Wu , Yuntao Du , Jiaqi Li , Zhi Gao , Qing Li

Visual reasoning models (VRMs) have recently shown strong cross-modal reasoning capabilities by integrating visual perception with language reasoning. However, they often suffer from overthinking, producing unnecessarily long reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yixu Huang , Tinghui Zhu , Muhao Chen