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The analysis of extended video content poses unique challenges in artificial intelligence, particularly when dealing with the complexity of tracking and understanding visual elements across time. Current methodologies that process video…

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This paper addresses the critical and underexplored challenge of long video understanding with low computational budgets. We propose LongVideo-R1, an active, reasoning-equipped multimodal large language model (MLLM) agent designed for…

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Massive frame redundancy and limited context window make efficient frame selection crucial for long-video understanding with large vision-language models (LVLMs). Prevailing approaches, however, adopt a flat sampling paradigm which treats…

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Ultra-long egocentric videos spanning multiple days present significant challenges for video understanding. Existing approaches still rely on fragmented local processing and limited temporal modeling, restricting their ability to reason…

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Recent Video-Language Models (VLMs) achieve promising results on long-video understanding, but their performance still lags behind that achieved on tasks involving images or short videos. This has led to great interest in improving the long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lars Doorenbos , Federico Spurio , Juergen Gall

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…

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Video Multimodal Large Language Models~(Video-MLLM) have achieved remarkable advancements in video understanding tasks. However, constrained by the context length limitation in the underlying LLMs, existing Video-MLLMs typically exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kuo Wang , Quanlong Zheng , Junlin Xie , Yanhao Zhang , Jinguo Luo , Haonan Lu , Liang Lin , Fan Zhou , Guanbin Li

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly considered as a foundation for embodied agents, yet it remains unclear whether they can reliably reason about the long-term physical consequences of actions from an egocentric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Chengjun Yu , Xuhan Zhu , Chaoqun Du , Pengfei Yu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) offer strong perception and reasoning capabilities for image-text input, Visual Question Answering (VQA) focusing on small image details still remains a challenge. Although visual cropping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Liangyu Zhong , Fabio Rosenthal , Joachim Sicking , Fabian Hüger , Thorsten Bagdonat , Hanno Gottschalk , Leo Schwinn

Learning multimodal video understanding typically relies on datasets comprising video clips paired with manually annotated captions. However, this becomes even more challenging when dealing with long-form videos, lasting from minutes to…

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Recent advances in test-time optimization have led to remarkable reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs), enabling them to solve highly complex problems in math and coding. However, the reasoning capabilities of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Ce Zhang , Yan-Bo Lin , Ziyang Wang , Mohit Bansal , Gedas Bertasius

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

The rapid development of multimodal large-language models (MLLMs) has significantly expanded the scope of visual language reasoning, enabling unified systems to interpret and describe complex visual content. However, applying these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Xinkui Zhao , Zuxin Wang , Yifan Zhang , Guanjie Cheng , Yueshen Xu , Shuiguang Deng , Chang Liu , Naibo Wang , Jianwei Yin

Recent large vision-language models (LVLMs) for video understanding are primarily fine-tuned with various videos scraped from online platforms. Existing datasets, such as ActivityNet, require considerable human labor for structuring and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhende Song , Chenchen Wang , Jiamu Sheng , Chi Zhang , Shengji Tang , Jiayuan Fan , Tao Chen

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

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) perform well in video understanding but degrade on long videos due to fixed-length context and weak long-term dependency modeling. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) can expand knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Zhucun Xue , Jiangning Zhang , Xurong Xie , Yuxuan Cai , Yong Liu , Xiangtai Li , Dacheng Tao

Automatic keyframe detection from videos is an exercise in selecting scenes that can best summarize the content for long videos. Providing a summary of the video is an important task to facilitate quick browsing and content summarization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Samed Arslan , Senem Tanberk

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in vision-language tasks yet remain limited in long video understanding due to the limited context window. Consequently, prevailing approaches tend to rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yang Ding , Yizhen Zhang , Xin Lai , Ruihang Chu , Yujiu Yang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate remarkable performance in short-video tasks such as video question answering, but struggle in long-video understanding. The linear frame sampling strategy, conventionally used by LVLMs, fails…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Joao Pereira , Vasco Lopes , David Semedo , Joao Neves

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating program workflows for visual tasks. However, previous approaches often rely on closed-source models, lack systematic reasoning, and struggle with long-form video question…

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