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Recently, there is a surge in interest surrounding video large language models (Video LLMs). However, existing benchmarks fail to provide a comprehensive feedback on the temporal perception ability of Video LLMs. On the one hand, most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yuanxin Liu , Shicheng Li , Yi Liu , Yuxiang Wang , Shuhuai Ren , Lei Li , Sishuo Chen , Xu Sun , Lu Hou

Understanding temporal information and how the visual world changes over time is a fundamental ability of intelligent systems. In video understanding, temporal information is at the core of many current challenges, including compression,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Laura Sevilla-Lara , Shengxin Zha , Zhicheng Yan , Vedanuj Goswami , Matt Feiszli , Lorenzo Torresani

Recent advances in computing, communication, and data storage have led to an increasing number of large digital libraries publicly available on the Internet. Main problem of content-based video retrieval is inferring semantics from raw…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-04-18 Hadi Restgou Haghi , Mohammadreza Kangavari , Behrang QasemiZadeh

This paper does not introduce a novel method but instead establishes a straightforward, incremental, yet essential baseline for video temporal grounding (VTG), a core capability in video understanding. While multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jun Zhang , Teng Wang , Yuying Ge , Yixiao Ge , Xinhao Li , Ying Shan , Limin Wang

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

We present a self-supervised approach for learning video representations using temporal video alignment as a pretext task, while exploiting both frame-level and video-level information. We leverage a novel combination of temporal alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sanjay Haresh , Sateesh Kumar , Huseyin Coskun , Shahram Najam Syed , Andrey Konin , Muhammad Zeeshan Zia , Quoc-Huy Tran

Long-form video understanding remains a fundamental challenge for current Video Large Language Models. Most existing models rely on static reasoning over uniformly sampled frames, which weakens temporal localization and leads to substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenglin Li , Qianglong Chen , Feng Han , Yikun Wang , Xingxi Yin , Yan Gong , Ruilin Li , Yin Zhang , Jiaqi Wang

Contrastive learning has revolutionized self-supervised image representation learning field, and recently been adapted to video domain. One of the greatest advantages of contrastive learning is that it allows us to flexibly define powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Haofei Kuang , Yi Zhu , Zhi Zhang , Xinyu Li , Joseph Tighe , Sören Schwertfeger , Cyrill Stachniss , Mu Li

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have achieved significant success by adopting the paradigm of large-scale pre-training followed by supervised fine-tuning (SFT). However, existing approaches struggle with temporal reasoning due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shicheng Li , Lei Li , Kun Ouyang , Shuhuai Ren , Yuanxin Liu , Yuanxing Zhang , Fuzheng Zhang , Lingpeng Kong , Qi Liu , Xu Sun

The crux of self-supervised video representation learning is to build general features from unlabeled videos. However, most recent works have mainly focused on high-level semantics and neglected lower-level representations and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Rui Qian , Yuxi Li , Huabin Liu , John See , Shuangrui Ding , Xian Liu , Dian Li , Weiyao Lin

Leveraging temporal information has been regarded as essential for developing video understanding models. However, how to properly incorporate temporal information into the recent successful instance discrimination based contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yutong Bai , Haoqi Fan , Ishan Misra , Ganesh Venkatesh , Yongyi Lu , Yuyin Zhou , Qihang Yu , Vikas Chandra , Alan Yuille

Empowered by Large Language Models (LLMs), recent advancements in Video-based LLMs (VideoLLMs) have driven progress in various video understanding tasks. These models encode video representations through pooling or query aggregation over a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuetian Weng , Mingfei Han , Haoyu He , Xiaojun Chang , Bohan Zhuang

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have recently exhibited remarkable capabilities in general video understanding. However, they mainly focus on holistic comprehension and struggle with capturing fine-grained spatial and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yuqian Yuan , Hang Zhang , Wentong Li , Zesen Cheng , Boqiang Zhang , Long Li , Xin Li , Deli Zhao , Wenqiao Zhang , Yueting Zhuang , Jianke Zhu , Lidong Bing

The video reasoning ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is crucial for downstream tasks like video question answering and temporal grounding. While recent approaches have explored text-based chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Haoji Zhang , Xin Gu , Jiawen Li , Chixiang Ma , Sule Bai , Chubin Zhang , Bowen Zhang , Zhichao Zhou , Dongliang He , Yansong Tang

Video language models (VideoLMs) have made significant progress in multimodal understanding. However, temporal understanding, which involves identifying event order, duration, and relationships across time, still remains a core challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yumeng Shi , Quanyu Long , Yin Wu , Wenya Wang

Video understanding aims to enable models to perceive, reason about, and interact with the dynamic visual world. In contrast to image understanding, video understanding inherently requires modeling temporal dynamics and evolving visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhaochong An , Zirui Li , Mingqiao Ye , Feng Qiao , Jiaang Li , Zongwei Wu , Vishal Thengane , Chengzu Li , Lei Li , Luc Van Gool , Guolei Sun , Serge Belongie

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

Understanding videos requires more than answering open ended questions, it demands the ability to pinpoint when events occur and how entities interact across time. While recent Video LLMs have achieved remarkable progress in holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Pengcheng Fang , Yuxia Chen , Rui Guo

The exponential increase in video content poses significant challenges in terms of efficient navigation, search, and retrieval, thus requiring advanced video summarization techniques. Existing video summarization methods, which heavily rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Min Jung Lee , Dayoung Gong , Minsu Cho

Large-scale video-language pre-training has shown significant improvement in video-language understanding tasks. Previous studies of video-language pretraining mainly focus on short-form videos (i.e., within 30 seconds) and sentences,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Yuchong Sun , Hongwei Xue , Ruihua Song , Bei Liu , Huan Yang , Jianlong Fu