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Multimodal Large Language Models struggle to maintain reliable performance under extreme real-world visual degradations, which impede their practical robustness. Existing robust MLLMs predominantly rely on implicit training/adaptation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Jiaqi Tang , Jianmin Chen , Wei Wei , Xiaogang Xu , Runtao Liu , Xiangyu Wu , Qipeng Xie , Jiafei Wu , Lei Zhang , Qifeng Chen

Rapid progress in video models has largely focused on visual quality, leaving their reasoning capabilities underexplored. Video reasoning grounds intelligence in spatiotemporally consistent visual environments that go beyond what text can…

Adaptive multimodal reasoning has emerged as a promising frontier in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), aiming to dynamically modulate between tool-augmented visual reasoning and text reasoning to enhance both effectiveness and efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Xintong Zhang , Xiaowen Zhang , Jingrong Wu , Zhi Gao , Shilin Yan , Zhenxin Diao , Kunpeng Gao , Xuanyan Chen , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia , Qing Li

Modern foundational Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and video world models have advanced significantly in mathematical, common-sense, and visual reasoning, but their grasp of the underlying physics remains underexplored. Existing…

Recent "Thinking with Video" approaches use Video Generation Models (VGMs) for visual reasoning by producing temporally coherent Chain-of-Frames as reasoning artifacts. Even strong VGMs, however, exhibit two recurring failure modes on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Joowon Kim , Seungho Shin , Joonhyung Park , Eunho Yang

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) focuses on locating objects in 3D scenes based on natural language descriptions, serving as a fundamental task for embodied AI and robotics. Recent advances in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Beining Xu , Siting Zhu , Zhao Jin , Junxian Li , Hesheng Wang

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for seamlessly unifying text and image understanding and generation. However, prevailing evaluations treat these abilities in isolation, such that tasks with multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yongyuan Liang , Wei Chow , Feng Li , Ziqiao Ma , Xiyao Wang , Jiageng Mao , Jiuhai Chen , Jiatao Gu , Yue Wang , Furong Huang

While language reasoning models excel in many tasks, visual reasoning remains challenging for current large multimodal models (LMMs). As a result, most LMMs default to verbalizing perceptual content into text, a strong limitation for tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 André G. Viveiros , Nuno Gonçalves , Matthias Lindemann , André Martins

Answering questions that require reading texts in an image is challenging for current models. One key difficulty of this task is that rare, polysemous, and ambiguous words frequently appear in images, e.g., names of places, products, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Difei Gao , Ke Li , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Large vision-language models have achieved remarkable progress in visual reasoning, yet most existing systems rely on single-step or text-only reasoning, limiting their ability to iteratively refine understanding across multiple visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Wenfang Sun , Hao Chen , Yingjun Du , Yefeng Zheng , Cees G. M. Snoek

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled powerful multimodal reasoning, but state-of-the-art approaches typically rely on extremely large models with prohibitive computational and memory requirements. This makes their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Abdarahmane Traore , Éric Hervet , Andy Couturier

Spatio-temporal reasoning is a core capability for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) operating in the real world. As such, evaluating it precisely has become an essential challenge. However, existing spatio-temporal reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jinho Park , Youbin Kim , Hogun Park , Eunbyung Park

Spatial reasoning from monocular images is essential for autonomous driving, yet current Vision-Language Models (VLMs) still struggle with fine-grained geometric perception, particularly under large scale variation and ambiguous object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yanchun Cheng , Rundong Wang , Xulei Yang , Alok Prakash , Daniela Rus , Marcelo H Ang , ShiJie Li

Video question answering is a challenging task, which requires agents to be able to understand rich video contents and perform spatial-temporal reasoning. However, existing graph-based methods fail to perform multi-step reasoning well,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Jianyu Wang , Bing-Kun Bao , Changsheng Xu

We propose a new spatial memory module and a spatial reasoner for the Visual Grounding (VG) task. The goal of this task is to find a certain object in an image based on a given textual query. Our work focuses on integrating the regions of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Thierry Deruyttere , Guillem Collell , Marie-Francine Moens

Physical video understanding requires more than naming an event correctly. A model can answer a question about pouring, sliding, or collision from textual regularities while still failing to localize the event in time or space. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Alibay Osmanli , Zixu Cheng , Shaogang Gong

Multidimensional human understanding is essential for real-world applications such as film analysis and virtual digital humans, yet current LVLM benchmarks largely focus on single-task settings and lack fine-grained, human-centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Kangkang Wang , Qinting Jiang , Wanping Zhang , Bowen Ren , Shengzhao Wen

Reasoning-augmented machine learning systems have shown improved performance in various domains, including image generation. However, existing reasoning-based methods for image generation either restrict reasoning to a single modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yapeng Mi , Yanpeng Zhao , Hengli Li , Chenxi Li , Huimin Wu , Xiaojian Ma , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu , Qing Li

Video generation models produce visually coherent content but struggle with tasks requiring spatial reasoning and multi-step planning. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a path to improve generalization, but its effectiveness in video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ming Liu , Yunbei Zhang , Shilong Liu , Liwen Wang , Wensheng Zhang

Video Models have achieved remarkable success in high-fidelity video generation with coherent motion dynamics. Analogous to the development from text generation to text-based reasoning in language modeling, the development of video models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Cheng Yang , Haiyuan Wan , Yiran Peng , Xin Cheng , Zhaoyang Yu , Jiayi Zhang , Junchi Yu , Xinlei Yu , Xiawu Zheng , Dongzhan Zhou , Chenglin Wu