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Video spatial reasoning, which involves inferring the underlying spatial structure from observed video frames, poses a significant challenge for existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). This limitation stems primarily from 1) the…

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Recently, rapid advancements have been made in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), especially in video understanding tasks. However, current research focuses on simple video scenarios, failing to reflect the complex and diverse nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Lu Zhu , Tiantian Geng , Yangye Chen , Teng Wang , Ping Lu , Feng Zheng

In recent years, video question answering based on multimodal large language models (MLLM) has garnered considerable attention, due to the benefits from the substantial advancements in LLMs. However, these models have a notable deficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jinglei Zhang , Yuanfan Guo , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Jiankang Deng , Hang Xu , Chao Ma

Video foundation models aim to integrate video understanding, generation, editing, and instruction following within a single framework, making them a central direction for next-generation multimodal systems. However, existing evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jianhui Wei , Xiaotian Zhang , Yichen Li , Yuan Wang , Yan Zhang , Ziyi Chen , Zhihang Tang , Wei Xu , Zuozhu Liu

The advent of large vision-language models (LVLMs) has spurred research into their applications in multi-modal contexts, particularly in video understanding. Traditional VideoQA benchmarks, despite providing quantitative metrics, often fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Xinyu Fang , Kangrui Mao , Haodong Duan , Xiangyu Zhao , Yining Li , Dahua Lin , Kai Chen

Visual texts embedded in videos carry rich semantic information, which is crucial for both holistic video understanding and fine-grained reasoning about local human actions. However, existing video understanding benchmarks largely overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhoufaran Yang , Yan Shu , Jing Wang , Zhifei Yang , Yan Zhang , Yu Li , Keyang Lu , Gangyan Zeng , Shaohui Liu , Yu Zhou , Nicu Sebe

Spatial reasoning is a core aspect of human intelligence that allows perception, inference and planning in 3D environments. However, current vision-language models (VLMs) struggle to maintain geometric coherence and cross-view consistency…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Qiyao Xue , Weichen Liu , Shiqi Wang , Haoming Wang , Yuyang Wu , Wei Gao

Reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs) has recently attracted significant attention due to its broad applicability across diverse downstream tasks. However, it remains unclear whether the superior performance of VLMs stems from genuine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yige Xu , Yongjie Wang , Zizhuo Wu , Kaisong Song , Jun Lin , Zhiqi Shen

Evaluating the nuanced human-centric video understanding capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remains a great challenge, as existing benchmarks often overlook the intricacies of emotion, behavior, and cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ting Zhou , Daoyuan Chen , Qirui Jiao , Bolin Ding , Yaliang Li , Ying Shen

Humans are able to accurately reason in 3D by gathering multi-view observations of the surrounding world. Inspired by this insight, we introduce a new large-scale benchmark for 3D multi-view visual question answering (3DMV-VQA). This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yining Hong , Chunru Lin , Yilun Du , Zhenfang Chen , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Mathematical reasoning in real-world video settings presents a fundamentally different challenge than in static images or text. It requires interpreting fine-grained visual information, accurately reading handwritten or digital text, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Hanoona Rasheed , Abdelrahman Shaker , Anqi Tang , Muhammad Maaz , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

The commonsense reasoning capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs), especially in abductive reasoning and defeasible reasoning, remain poorly understood. Most benchmarks focus on typical visual scenarios, making it difficult to discern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Aditya Chinchure , Sahithya Ravi , Raymond Ng , Vered Shwartz , Boyang Li , Leonid Sigal

Recent advancements in Vision-Language (VL) research have sparked new benchmarks for complex visual reasoning, challenging models' advanced reasoning ability. Traditional Vision-Language Models (VLMs) perform well in visual perception tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhiyuan Li , Dongnan Liu , Chaoyi Zhang , Heng Wang , Tengfei Xue , Weidong Cai

After a decade of prosperity, the development of video understanding has reached a critical juncture, where the sole reliance on massive data and complex architectures is no longer a one-size-fits-all solution to all situations. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Li Yicong

Video understanding requires not only visual recognition but also complex reasoning. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities, they typically process videos largely in a single-pass manner with limited support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hong Gao , Yiming Bao , Xuezhen Tu , Yutong Xu , Yue Jin , Yiyang Mu , Bin Zhong , Linan Yue , Min-Ling Zhang

Visual reasoning models (VRMs) have recently shown strong cross-modal reasoning capabilities by integrating visual perception with language reasoning. However, they often suffer from overthinking, producing unnecessarily long reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yixu Huang , Tinghui Zhu , Muhao Chen

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has been shown effective in enhancing the visual reflection and reasoning capabilities of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). However, existing datasets are predominantly derived from either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Haoxiang Sun , Lizhen Xu , Bing Zhao , Wotao Yin , Wei Wang , Boyu Yang , Rui Wang , Hu Wei

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) struggle with puzzles, which require precise perception, rule comprehension, and logical reasoning. Assessing and enhancing their performance in this domain is crucial, as it reflects their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yufan Ren , Konstantinos Tertikas , Shalini Maiti , Junlin Han , Tong Zhang , Sabine Süsstrunk , Filippos Kokkinos

Multimodal large language models via reinforcement learning (RL) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex visual reasoning tasks, yet they remain limited in long-horizon multimodal scenarios, often suffering from visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chenghao Li , Fusheng Hao , Xikai Zhang , Likang Xiao , Yanwei Ren , Fuxiang Wu , Quan Chen , Liu Liu

Visual reasoning (VR), which is crucial in many fields for enabling human-like visual understanding, remains highly challenging. Recently, compositional visual reasoning approaches, which leverage the reasoning abilities of large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Fucai Ke , Vijay Kumar B G , Xingjian Leng , Zhixi Cai , Zaid Khan , Weiqing Wang , Pari Delir Haghighi , Hamid Rezatofighi , Manmohan Chandraker