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Efficient long-video understanding~(LVU) remains a challenging task in computer vision. Current long-context vision-language models~(LVLMs) suffer from information loss due to compression and brute-force downsampling. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Huaying Yuan , Zheng Liu , Minghao Qin , Hongjin Qian , Yan Shu , Zhicheng Dou , Ji-Rong Wen , Nicu Sebe

Long-video understanding has emerged as a crucial capability in real-world applications such as video surveillance, meeting summarization, educational lecture analysis, and sports broadcasting. However, it remains computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Benjamin Schneider , Dongfu Jiang , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Wenhu Chen

Long Video Question-Answering (LVQA) presents a significant challenge for Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) due to immense context and overloaded information, which could also lead to prohibitive memory consumption. While existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Henghui Du , Chunjie Zhang , Xi Chen , Chang Zhou , Di Hu

Long video understanding is a complex task that requires both spatial detail and temporal awareness. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) obtain frame-level understanding capabilities through multi-frame input, they suffer from information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ziyi Wang , Haoran Wu , Yiming Rong , Deyang Jiang , Yixin Zhang , Yunlong Zhao , Shuang Xu , Bo XU

Short video platforms are evolving rapidly, making the identification of inappropriate content increasingly critical. Existing approaches typically train separate and small classification models for each type of issue, which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zixuan Wang , Yu Sun , Hongwei Wang , Baoyu Jing , Xiang Shen , Xin Dong , Zhuolin Hao , Hongyu Xiong , Yang Song

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

In the past year, video-based large language models (Video LLMs) have achieved impressive progress, particularly in their ability to process long videos through extremely extended context lengths. However, this comes at the cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shangkun Sun , Ruyang Liu , Haoran Tang , Yixiao Ge , Haibo Lu , Wei Gao , Jiankun Yang , Chen Li

With the exponential growth of video data, there is an urgent need for automated technology to analyze and comprehend video content. However, existing video understanding models are often task-specific and lack a comprehensive capability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Guo Chen , Yin-Dong Zheng , Jiahao Wang , Jilan Xu , Yifei Huang , Junting Pan , Yi Wang , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Tong Lu , Limin Wang

Long videos, ranging from minutes to hours, present significant challenges for current Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) due to their complex events, diverse scenes, and long-range dependencies. Direct encoding of such videos is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zizhong Li , Haopeng Zhang , Jiawei Zhang

While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable success across a wide range of tasks, long-form video understanding remains a significant challenge. In this study, we focus on video understanding by MLLMs. This task is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Daichi Yashima , Shuhei Kurita , Yusuke Oda , Komei Sugiura

Understanding ultra-long videos such as egocentric recordings, live streams, or surveillance footage spanning days to weeks, remains a challenge. For current multimodal LLMs: even with million-token context windows, frame budgets cover only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiazheng Li , Chi-Hao Wu , Yunze Liu , Kaize Ding , Jundong Li , Chuxu Zhang

Understanding text-rich videos requires reading small, transient textual cues that often demand repeated inspection. Yet most video QA models rely on single-pass perception over fixed frames, leading to hallucinations and failures on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yolo Y. Tang , Daiki Shimada , Hang Hua , Chao Huang , Jing Bi , Rogerio Feris , Chenliang Xu

Understanding long videos requires extracting query-relevant information from long sequences under tight compute budgets. Existing text-then-LLM pipelines lose fine-grained visual cues, while video-based multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yufei Yin , Yuchen Xing , Qianke Meng , Minghao Chen , Yan Yang , Zhou Yu

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has emerged as a powerful tool for multimodal large language models on video understanding tasks. However, its necessity and advantages over direct answering remain underexplored. In this paper, we first…

Long-form videos that span across wide temporal intervals are highly information redundant and contain multiple distinct events or entities that are often loosely related. Therefore, when performing long-form video question answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jongwoo Park , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Kumara Kahatapitiya , Wonjeong Ryu , Donghyun Kim , Michael S. Ryoo

Long-form video understanding presents significant challenges due to extensive temporal-spatial complexity and the difficulty of question answering under such extended contexts. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiaoyi Zhang , Zhaoyang Jia , Zongyu Guo , Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Houqiang Li , Yan Lu

Long-form video understanding represents a significant challenge within computer vision, demanding a model capable of reasoning over long multi-modal sequences. Motivated by the human cognitive process for long-form video understanding, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xiaohan Wang , Yuhui Zhang , Orr Zohar , Serena Yeung-Levy

The challenge of long video understanding lies in its high computational complexity and prohibitive memory cost, since the memory and computation required by transformer-based LLMs scale quadratically with input sequence length. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Weili Xu , Enxin Song , Wenhao Chai , Xuexiang Wen , Tian Ye , Gaoang Wang

Long videos contain a vast amount of information, making video-text retrieval an essential and challenging task in multimodal learning. However, existing benchmarks suffer from limited video duration, low-quality captions, and coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Qifeng Cai , Hao Liang , Zhaoyang Han , Hejun Dong , Meiyi Qiang , Ruichuan An , Quanqing Xu , Bin Cui , Wentao Zhang

Traditional video reasoning segmentation methods rely on supervised fine-tuning, which limits generalization to out-of-distribution scenarios and lacks explicit reasoning. To address this, we propose \textbf{VideoSeg-R1}, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zishan Xu , Yifu Guo , Yuquan Lu , Fengyu Yang , Junxin Li