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Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown strong video understanding, yet their application to long-form videos remains constrained by limited context windows. A common workaround is to compress long videos into a handful of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yun Wang , Long Zhang , Jingren Liu , Jiaqi Yan , Zhanjie Zhang , Jiahao Zheng , Ao Ma , Run Ling , Xun Yang , Dapeng Wu , Xiangyu Chen , Xuelong Li

Video Question Answering (VQA) in long videos poses the key challenge of extracting relevant information and modeling long-range dependencies from many redundant frames. The self-attention mechanism provides a general solution for sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Md Mohaiminul Islam , Tushar Nagarajan , Huiyu Wang , Gedas Bertasius , Lorenzo Torresani

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) models enhance understanding and interaction with audiovisual content, making it more accessible, searchable, and useful for a wide range of fields such as education, surveillance, entertainment, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Himanshu Patil , Geo Jolly , Ramana Raja Buddala , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Rohit Saluja

Long-context video modeling is critical for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), enabling them to process movies, online video streams, and so on. Despite its advances, handling long videos remains challenging due to the difficulty in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xinhao Li , Yi Wang , Jiashuo Yu , Xiangyu Zeng , Yuhan Zhu , Haian Huang , Jianfei Gao , Kunchang Li , Yinan He , Chenting Wang , Yu Qiao , Yali Wang , Limin Wang

Despite recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), long-video understanding remains a challenging problem. Although state-of-the-art long-context VLMs can process around 1000 input frames, they still struggle to effectively leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Anurag Arnab , Ahmet Iscen , Mathilde Caron , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid

Large video-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated promising progress in various video understanding tasks. However, their effectiveness in long-form video analysis is constrained by limited context windows. Traditional approaches, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Shuming Liu , Chen Zhao , Tianqi Xu , Bernard Ghanem

In this work, we propose an efficient Video-Language Alignment (ViLA) network. Our ViLA model addresses both efficient frame sampling and effective cross-modal alignment in a unified way. In our ViLA network, we design a new learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Xijun Wang , Junbang Liang , Chun-Kai Wang , Kenan Deng , Yu Lou , Ming Lin , Shan Yang

To address computational and memory limitations of Large Multimodal Models in the Video Question-Answering task, several recent methods extract textual representations per frame (e.g., by captioning) and feed them to a Large Language Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Andreas Goulas , Vasileios Mezaris , Ioannis Patras

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

With the rapid development of multimodal models, the demand for assessing video understanding capabilities has been steadily increasing. However, existing benchmarks for evaluating video understanding exhibit significant limitations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Qi Wu , Quanlong Zheng , Yanhao Zhang , Junlin Xie , Jinguo Luo , Kuo Wang , Peng Liu , Qingsong Xie , Ru Zhen , Zhenyu Yang , Haonan Lu

Long video understanding is inherently challenging for vision-language models (VLMs) because of the extensive number of frames. With each video frame typically expanding into tens or hundreds of tokens, the limited context length of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zheyu Zhang , Ziqi Pang , Shixing Chen , Xiang Hao , Vimal Bhat , Yu-Xiong Wang

Understanding hour-long videos with multi-modal large language models (MM-LLMs) enriches the landscape of human-centered AI applications. However, for end-to-end video understanding with LLMs, uniformly sampling video frames results in LLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Xinye Cao , Hongcan Guo , Jiawen Qian , Guoshun Nan , Chao Wang , Yuqi Pan , Tianhao Hou , Xiaojuan Wang , Yutong Gao

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

Large vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced multimodal tasks such as video question answering (QA). However, VLMs face the challenge of selecting frames effectively and efficiently, as standard uniform sampling is expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Martin Q. Ma , Willis Guo , Aditya Agrawal , Ankit Gupta , Paul Pu Liang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Louis-Philippe Morency

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) represent images and video frames as visual tokens. Scaling from single images to hour-long videos, however, inflates the token budget far beyond practical limits. Popular pipelines therefore either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Zirui Zhu , Hailun Xu , Yang Luo , Yong Liu , Kanchan Sarkar , Zhenheng Yang , Yang You

Long video understanding is still challenging for recent Large Video-Language Models (LVLMs) due to the conflict between long-form temporal understanding and detailed spatial perception. LVLMs with a uniform frame sampling mechanism, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shenghao Fu , Qize Yang , Yuan-Ming Li , Xihan Wei , Xiaohua Xie , Wei-Shi Zheng

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) demonstrate exceptional performance in vision-language tasks, yet their processing of long videos is constrained by input context length and high computational costs. Sparse frame sampling thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jianxiang He , Meisheng Hong , Jungang Li , Weiyu Guo , Xuming Hu , Hui Xiong

Long-video understanding with multimodal language models suffers from three compounding bottlenecks: heavy decode cost to obtain dense RGB frames, quadratic token growth with frame count, and weak motion perception under sparse keyframe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haopeng Jin , Hongzhu Yi , Wenlong Zhao , Jinwen Luo , Shani Ye , Zhenyu Guan , Shiquan Dong , Tiankun Yang , Tao Yu

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have recently emerged as a powerful tool for long video understanding (LVU), prompting the development of standardized LVU benchmarks to evaluate their performance. However, our investigation reveals a rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Wentao Ma , Weiming Ren , Yiming Jia , Zhuofeng Li , Ping Nie , Ge Zhang , Wenhu Chen

Long-term memory is one of the key factors influencing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Model Agents (LLM Agents). Incorporating a memory mechanism that effectively integrates past interactions can significantly enhance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Haoran Sun , Shaoning Zeng