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Recently, with the emergence of large language models, multimodal LLMs have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in image and video modalities. Despite advancements in video comprehension, the substantial computational demands of long…

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Understanding long-form video content presents significant challenges due to its temporal complexity and the substantial computational resources required. In this work, we propose an agent-based approach to enhance both the efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Sullam Jeoung , Goeric Huybrechts , Bhavana Ganesh , Aram Galstyan , Sravan Bodapati

Efficiently understanding long-form videos remains a fundamental challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). In this paper, we present MLLM-Sampler Joint Evolution (MSJoE), a novel framework that jointly evolves the MLLM and a…

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This paper presents VideoStreaming, an advanced vision-language large model (VLLM) for video understanding, that capably understands arbitrary-length video with a constant number of video tokens streamingly encoded and adaptively selected.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Rui Qian , Xiaoyi Dong , Pan Zhang , Yuhang Zang , Shuangrui Ding , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

Recent advancements in video large language models (Video LLMs) have significantly advanced the field of video question answering (VideoQA). While existing methods perform well on short videos, they often struggle with long-range reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Mustafa Chasmai , Gauri Jagatap , Gouthaman KV , Grant Van Horn , Subhransu Maji , Andrea Fanelli

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant capabilities in image understanding, but long-video are constrained by context windows and computational cost. Uniform frame sampling often leads to substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yifeng Yao , Yike Yun , Jing Wang , Huishuai Zhang , Dongyan Zhao , Ke Tian , Zhihao Wang , Minghui Qiu , Tao Wang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Saul Santos , António Farinhas , Daniel C. McNamee , André F. T. Martins

Long video understanding is inherently challenging for vision-language models (VLMs) because of the extensive number of frames. With each video frame typically expanding into tens or hundreds of tokens, the limited context length of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zheyu Zhang , Ziqi Pang , Shixing Chen , Xiang Hao , Vimal Bhat , Yu-Xiong Wang

Video question-answering is a fundamental task in the field of video understanding. Although current vision--language models (VLMs) equipped with Video Transformers have enabled temporal modeling and yielded superior results, they are at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wei Han , Hui Chen , Min-Yen Kan , Soujanya Poria

Long video understanding is still challenging for recent Large Video-Language Models (LVLMs) due to the conflict between long-form temporal understanding and detailed spatial perception. LVLMs with a uniform frame sampling mechanism, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shenghao Fu , Qize Yang , Yuan-Ming Li , Xihan Wei , Xiaohua Xie , Wei-Shi Zheng

While most modern video understanding models operate on short-range clips, real-world videos are often several minutes long with semantically consistent segments of variable length. A common approach to process long videos is applying a…

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Referring Video Object Segmentation (RefVOS) seeks to segment target objects in videos guided by natural language descriptions, demanding both temporal reasoning and fine-grained visual comprehension. Existing sampling strategies for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ming Dai , Sen Yang , Boqiang Duan , Wankou Yang , Jingdong Wang

Long-form video understanding poses a significant challenge for video large language models (VideoLLMs) due to prohibitively high computational and memory demands. In this paper, we propose FlexSelect, a flexible and efficient token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yunzhu Zhang , Yu Lu , Tianyi Wang , Fengyun Rao , Yi Yang , Linchao Zhu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant success in visual understanding tasks. However, challenges persist in adapting these models for video comprehension due to the large volume of data and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Shaojie Zhang , Jiahui Yang , Jianqin Yin , Zhenbo Luo , Jian Luan

Large video-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated promising progress in various video understanding tasks. However, their effectiveness in long-form video analysis is constrained by limited context windows. Traditional approaches, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Shuming Liu , Chen Zhao , Tianqi Xu , Bernard Ghanem

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been widely studied and applied in numerous applications. However, the emphasis on brief summary texts during pre-training prevents CLIP from understanding long descriptions. This issue is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Jiapeng Wang , Chengyu Wang , Kunzhe Huang , Jun Huang , Lianwen Jin

Video captioning models convert frames into visual tokens and generate descriptions with large language models (LLMs). Since encoding all frames is prohibitively expensive, uniform sampling is the default choice, but it enforces equal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Lianying Chao , Linfeng Yin , Peiyu Ren , Yifan Jiang , Qiaoyu Ren , Dingcheng Shan , Jing-cheng Pang , Sijie Wu , Xubin Li , Kai Zhang , Xin Chen

Long video understanding is essential for human-like intelligence, enabling coherent perception and reasoning over extended temporal contexts. While the emerging thinking-with-frames paradigm, which alternates between global temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Pengfei Hu , Meng Cao , Yingyao Wang , Yi Wang , Jiahua Dong , Jun Song , Yu Cheng , Bo Zheng , Xiaodan Liang

The ability to understand long videos is vital for embodied intelligent agents, because their effectiveness depends on how well they can accumulate, organize, and leverage long-horizon perceptual memories. Recently, multimodal LLMs have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Tatiana Zemskova , Solomon Andryushenko , Ilya Obrubov , Viktoriia Khoruzhaia , Ekaterina Eroshenko , Ekaterina Derevyanka , Dmitry Yudin

Despite the recent advances in the video understanding ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), long video understanding remains a challenge. One of the main issues is that the number of vision tokens grows linearly with video…

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