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Despite recent advances in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for video understanding, effectively understanding long-form video content remains underexplored due to the vast scale and high complexity of video data. Current RAG approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Nianbo Zeng , Haowen Hou , Fei Richard Yu , Si Shi , Ying Tiffany He

Video understanding plays a vital role in bridging low-level visual signals with high-level cognitive reasoning, and is fundamental to applications such as autonomous driving, embodied AI, and the broader pursuit of AGI. The rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yongheng Zhang , Xu Liu , Ruihan Tao , Qiguang Chen , Hao Fei , Wanxiang Che , Libo Qin

Despite remarkable progress toward general-purpose video models, a critical question remains unanswered: how far are these models from achieving true multimodal reasoning? Existing benchmarks fail to address this question rigorously, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xiaotian Zhang , Jianhui Wei , Yuan Wang , Jie Tan , Yichen Li , Yan Zhang , Ziyi Chen , Daoan Zhang , Dezhi YU , Wei Xu , Songtao Jiang , Zuozhu Liu

Streaming video understanding often involves time-sensitive scenarios where models need to answer exactly when the supporting visual evidence appears: answering before the evidence reflects speculation, answering after it has passed reduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Shehreen Azad , Vibhav Vineet , Yogesh Singh Rawat

Video question answering (VideoQA) is a challenging task that requires integrating spatial, temporal, and semantic information to capture the complex dynamics of video sequences. Although recent advances have introduced various approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zhongyu Yang , Zuhao Yang , Shuo Zhan , Tan Yue , Wei Pang , Yingfang Yuan

Reasoning in the real world is not divorced from situations. How to capture the present knowledge from surrounding situations and perform reasoning accordingly is crucial and challenging for machine intelligence. This paper introduces a new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Bo Wu , Shoubin Yu , Zhenfang Chen , Joshua B Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Video reasoning, the task of enabling machines to infer from dynamic visual content through multi-step logic, is crucial for advanced AI. While the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) mechanism has enhanced reasoning in text-based tasks, its application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mi Luo , Zihui Xue , Alex Dimakis , Kristen Grauman

Recent advances in video generation have posed great challenges in the assessment of AI-generated content, particularly with the emergence of increasingly sophisticated models. The various inconsistencies and defects observed in such videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Rui Chen , Lei Sun , Jing Tang , Geng Li , Xiangxiang Chu

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have achieved remarkable progress across various capabilities; however, complex video reasoning in the scientific domain remains a significant and challenging frontier. Current video benchmarks predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Andong Deng , Taojiannan Yang , Shoubin Yu , Lincoln Spencer , Mohit Bansal , Chen Chen , Serena Yeung-Levy , Xiaohan Wang

Precise video retrieval requires multi-modal correlations to handle unseen vocabulary and scenes, becoming more complex for lengthy videos where models must perform effectively without prior training on a specific dataset. We introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mohamed Eltahir , Osamah Sarraj , Mohammed Bremoo , Mohammed Khurd , Abdulrahman Alfrihidi , Taha Alshatiri , Mohammad Almatrafi , Tanveer Hussain

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) perform well in video understanding but degrade on long videos due to fixed-length context and weak long-term dependency modeling. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) can expand knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Zhucun Xue , Jiangning Zhang , Xurong Xie , Yuxuan Cai , Yong Liu , Xiangtai Li , Dacheng Tao

Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MRAG) has emerged as a key paradigm for grounding MLLMs with external knowledge. While query pre-processing (e.g., rewriting) is standard in text-based RAG, existing MRAG pipelines predominantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jiankun Zhang , Shenglai Zeng , Kai Guo , Xinnan Dai , Hui Liu , Jiliang Tang , Yi Chang

Advertisement videos serve as a rich and valuable source of purpose-driven information, encompassing high-quality visual, textual, and contextual cues designed to engage viewers. They are often more complex than general videos of similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zheyuan Zhang , Monica Dou , Linkai Peng , Hongyi Pan , Ulas Bagci , Boqing Gong

The surge in video and social media content underscores the need for a deeper understanding of multimedia data. Most of the existing mature video understanding techniques perform well with short formats and content that requires only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Yuanxing Xu , Yuting Wei , Bin Wu

While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at algorithmic code generation, they struggle with front-end development, where correctness is judged on rendered pixels and interaction. We present ReLook, an agentic, vision-grounded reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yuhang Li , Chenchen Zhang , Ruilin Lv , Ao Liu , Ken Deng , Yuanxing Zhang , Jiaheng Liu , Wiggin Zhou , Bo Zhou

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

Video anomaly detection (VAD) has been paid increasing attention due to its potential applications, its current dominant tasks focus on online detecting anomalies% at the frame level, which can be roughly interpreted as the binary or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Peng Wu , Jing Liu , Xiangteng He , Yuxin Peng , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) aims to answer natural language questions according to the given videos. It has earned increasing attention with recent research trends in joint vision and language understanding. Yet, compared with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yaoyao Zhong , Junbin Xiao , Wei Ji , Yicong Li , Weihong Deng , Tat-Seng Chua

Multimodal deep search agents have shown great potential in solving complex tasks by iteratively collecting textual and visual evidence. However, managing the heterogeneous information and high token costs associated with multimodal inputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yifan Du , Zikang Liu , Jinbiao Peng , Jie Wu , Junyi Li , Jinyang Li , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Recent advances in text-only large language models (LLMs), such as DeepSeek-R1, demonstrate remarkable reasoning ability. However, these models remain fragile or entirely incapable when extended to multi-modal tasks. Existing approaches…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Weijia Zhang , Zijia Liu , Haoru Li , Haoqi Chen , Jiaxuan You