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Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has been highly successful in solving complex tasks in natural language processing, and recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have extended this paradigm to video reasoning. However, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yiwu Zhong , Zi-Yuan Hu , Yin Li , Liwei Wang

Many reasoning techniques for large multimodal models adapt language model approaches, such as Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting, which express reasoning as word sequences. While effective for text, these methods are suboptimal for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Tan-Hanh Pham , Chris Ngo

Reasoning Video Object Segmentation is a challenging task, aiming at generating a mask sequence from an input video given a complex and implicit text query. While existing works finetune Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) for the task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shiu-hong Kao , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Multimodal large language models (LLMs) have made rapid progress in visual understanding, yet their extension from images to videos often reduces to a naive concatenation of frame tokens. In this work, we investigate what video finetuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ruiqi Yang , Tian Yun , Zihan Wang , Ellie Pavlick

Cause-and-effect reasoning in video is a significant challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), as it requires going beyond surface-level perception to a deeper understanding of causal mechanisms. However, existing benchmarks rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mingfang Zhang , Jingjing Pan , Ashutosh Kumar , Rajat Saini , Mustafa Erdogan , Hsuan-Kung Yang , Caixin Kang , Yifei Huang , Yoichi Sato , Quan Kong

In this paper, we introduce Motion-Grounded Video Reasoning, a new motion understanding task that requires generating visual answers (video segmentation masks) according to the input question, and hence needs implicit spatiotemporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Andong Deng , Tongjia Chen , Shoubin Yu , Taojiannan Yang , Lincoln Spencer , Yapeng Tian , Ajmal Saeed Mian , Mohit Bansal , Chen Chen

Video understanding plays a vital role in bridging low-level visual signals with high-level cognitive reasoning, and is fundamental to applications such as autonomous driving, embodied AI, and the broader pursuit of AGI. The rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yongheng Zhang , Xu Liu , Ruihan Tao , Qiguang Chen , Hao Fei , Wanxiang Che , Libo Qin

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is evolving from geometric localization to Semantic MOT (SMOT) to answer complex relational queries, yet progress is hindered by semantic data scarcity and a structural disconnect between tracking architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Pan Liao , Feng Yang , Di Wu , Jinwen Yu , Yuhua Zhu , Wenhui Zhao , Dingwen Zhang

Traditional video captioning requests a holistic description of the video, yet the detailed descriptions of the specific objects may not be available. Without associating the moving trajectories, these image-based data-driven methods cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Fangyi Zhu , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Zhanyu Ma , Guang Chen , Jun Guo

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved significant success in multimodal tasks, with multimodal chain-of-thought (MCoT) further enhancing performance and interpretability. Recent MCoT methods fall into two categories: (i)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zihui Cheng , Qiguang Chen , Xiao Xu , Jiaqi Wang , Weiyun Wang , Hao Fei , Yidong Wang , Alex Jinpeng Wang , Zhi Chen , Wanxiang Che , Libo Qin

Spatio-temporal reasoning is a remarkable capability of Vision Language Models (VLMs), but the underlying mechanisms of such abilities remain largely opaque. We postulate that visual/geometrical and textual representations of spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Raphi Kang , Hongqiao Chen , Georgia Gkioxari , Pietro Perona

Although large-scale video-language pre-training models, which usually build a global alignment between the video and the text, have achieved remarkable progress on various downstream tasks, the idea of adopting fine-grained information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Weihong Zhong , Mao Zheng , Duyu Tang , Xuan Luo , Heng Gong , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin

This paper presents a new task, the grounding of spatio-temporal identifying descriptions in videos. Previous work suggests potential bias in existing datasets and emphasizes the need for a new data creation schema to better model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Peratham Wiriyathammabhum , Abhinav Shrivastava , Vlad I. Morariu , Larry S. Davis

Interleaved-Modal Chain-of-Thought (I-MCoT) advances vision-language reasoning, such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). This paradigm integrates specially selected visual evidence from the input image into the context of Vision-Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xiping Li , Jianghong Ma

Referring multi-object tracking (RMOT) is a task of associating all the objects in a video that semantically match with given textual queries or referring expressions. Existing RMOT approaches decompose object grounding and tracking into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zijia Lu , Jingru Yi , Jue Wang , Yuxiao Chen , Junwen Chen , Xinyu Li , Davide Modolo

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced video understanding, yet most still "think about videos" ie once a video is encoded, reasoning unfolds entirely in text, treating visual input as a static context. This passive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Hanoona Rasheed , Mohammed Zumri , Muhammad Maaz , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan

Recent advances in vision language models (VLMs) offer reasoning capabilities, yet how these unfold and integrate visual and textual information remains unclear. We analyze reasoning dynamics in 18 VLMs covering instruction-tuned and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Danae Sánchez Villegas , Samuel Lewis-Lim , Nikolaos Aletras , Desmond Elliott

Despite impressive visual fidelity, modern video generative models frequently produce sequences that violate intuitive physical laws, such as objects floating, teleporting, or morphing in ways that defy causality. While humans can easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Saman Motamed , Minghao Chen , Luc Van Gool , Iro Laina

Existing Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) struggle with complex video understanding, exhibiting limited reasoning capabilities and potential hallucinations. In particular, these methods tend to perform reasoning solely relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Qizhong Tan , Zhuotao Tian , Guangming Lu , Jun Yu , Wenjie Pei

Long-form video understanding, characterized by long-range temporal dependencies and multiple events, remains a challenge. Existing methods often rely on static reasoning or external visual-language models (VLMs), which face issues like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yuan Xie , Tianshui Chen , Zheng Ge , Lionel Ni