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This research aims to comprehensively explore building a multimodal foundation model for egocentric video understanding. To achieve this goal, we work on three fronts. First, as there is a lack of QA data for egocentric video understanding,…

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This paper focuses on embodied task planning, where an agent acquires visual observations from the environment and executes atomic actions to accomplish a given task. Although recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Peiran Xu , Jiaqi Zheng , Yadong Mu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are crucial for applications requiring integrated understanding textual and visual information. However, existing VLMs struggle with long videos due to computational inefficiency, memory limitations, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Anxhelo Diko , Tinghuai Wang , Wassim Swaileh , Shiyan Sun , Ioannis Patras

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

Existing long-form video generation frameworks lack automated planning, requiring manual input for storylines, scenes, cinematography, and character interactions, resulting in high costs and inefficiencies. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Weijia Wu , Zeyu Zhu , Mike Zheng Shou

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…

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Egocentric video understanding requires procedural reasoning under partial observability and continuously shifting viewpoints. Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) struggle with this setting, often generating plausible but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yogesh Kulkarni , Pooyan Fazli

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are increasingly deployed in interactive applications such as virtual and augmented reality, where a first-person (egocentric) view captured by head-mounted cameras serves as key input. While this view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Insu Lee , Wooje Park , Jaeyun Jang , Minyoung Noh , Kyuhong Shim , Byonghyo Shim

We live in a world filled with never-ending streams of multimodal information. As a more natural recording of the real scenario, long form audio-visual videos are expected as an important bridge for better exploring and understanding the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Wenxuan Hou , Guangyao Li , Yapeng Tian , Di Hu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities in geo-localization, yet they often struggle in real-world scenarios where visual cues are sparse, long-tailed, and highly ambiguous. Previous approaches,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Furong Jia , Ling Dai , Wenjin Deng , Fan Zhang , Chen Hu , Daxin Jiang , Yu Liu

Scalable and generalizable analysis of brain activity is essential for advancing both clinical diagnostics and cognitive research. Electroencephalography (EEG), a non-invasive modality with high temporal resolution, has been widely used for…

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Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable problem-solving capabilities by autonomously integrating with external tools for collaborative reasoning. However, due to the inherently complex and diverse nature of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Mengjie Deng , Guanting Dong , Zhicheng Dou

Long video question answering requires locating sparse, time-scattered visual evidence within highly redundant content. Although current MLLMs perform well on short videos, long videos introduce long-horizon search and verification, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chenhao Qiu , Yechao Zhang , Xin Luo , Shien Song , Xusheng Liu

We present STAgent, an agentic large language model tailored for spatio-temporal understanding, designed to solve complex tasks such as constrained point-of-interest discovery and itinerary planning. STAgent is a specialized model capable…

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in short video understanding tasks but face great challenges when applied to long video understanding. In contrast, Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit outstanding…

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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

Large language models (LLMs), the foundation of generative AI systems like ChatGPT, are transforming many fields and applications, including multimedia, enabling more advanced content generation, analysis, and interaction. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zoha Azimi , Reza Farahani , Radu Prodan , Christian Timmerer

While vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks combining textual and visual information, they continue to struggle with fine-grained visual perception tasks that require detailed…

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Recent VLM-based agents aim to replicate OpenAI O3's "thinking with images" via tool use, yet most open-source methods restrict inputs to a single image, limiting their applicability to real-world multi-image QA tasks. To address this gap,…

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