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Long video understanding remains a formidable challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) due to the prohibitive computational cost of processing dense frame sequences. Prevailing solutions, which select a keyframe subset,…

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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…

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Visual agents operating in the wild must respond to queries precisely when sufficient evidence first appears in a video stream, a critical capability that is overlooked by conventional video LLMs evaluated in offline settings. The shift to…

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Online video understanding requires models to perform continuous perception and long-range reasoning within potentially infinite visual streams. Its fundamental challenge lies in the conflict between the unbounded nature of streaming media…

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have enabled substantial progress in video understanding by leveraging cross-modal reasoning capabilities. However, their effectiveness is limited by the restricted context window and the high computational…

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Streaming video understanding often involves time-sensitive scenarios where models need to answer exactly when the supporting visual evidence appears: answering before the evidence reflects speculation, answering after it has passed reduces…

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Streaming vision-language models (VLMs) continuously generate responses given an instruction prompt and an online stream of input frames. This is a core mechanism for real-time visual assistants. Existing VLM frameworks predominantly assess…

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Notable breakthroughs in unified understanding and generation modeling have led to remarkable advancements in image understanding, reasoning, production and editing, yet current foundational models predominantly focus on processing images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zhiyu Tan , Hao Yang , Luozheng Qin , Jia Gong , Mengping Yang , Hao Li

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…

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Enabling efficient text-video retrieval on edge-end devices is critical for real-world applications. Yet, existing methods face a critical challenge in balancing accuracy and computational efficiency: uniform frame sampling methods ensure…

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Streaming video question answering (Streaming Video QA) poses distinct challenges for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), as video frames arrive sequentially and user queries can be issued at arbitrary time points. Existing solutions…

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Benefiting from the advancements in large language models and cross-modal alignment, existing multi-modal video understanding methods have achieved prominent performance in offline scenario. However, online video streams, as one of the most…

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Embodied perception refers to the ability of an autonomous agent to perceive its environment so that it can (re)act. The responsiveness of the agent is largely governed by latency of its processing pipeline. While past work has studied the…

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Online streaming video understanding requires models to process continuous visual inputs and respond to user queries in real time, where the unbounded stream and unpredictable query timing turn memory management into a central challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hang Wu , Sherin Mary Mathews , Yujun Cai , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Yiwei Wang

The rapid development of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has expanded their capabilities from image comprehension to video understanding. However, most of these MLLMs focus primarily on offline video comprehension, necessitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Junming Lin , Zheng Fang , Chi Chen , Zihao Wan , Fuwen Luo , Peng Li , Yang Liu , Maosong Sun

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models have greatly improved visual understanding and reasoning, yet their quadratic attention and offline training protocols make them ill-suited for streaming settings where frames arrive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yulin Zhang , Cheng Shi , Sibei Yang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have reshaped user profiling, yet current evaluations mainly focus on static data snapshots. This paradigm overlooks the reality of personalized systems, where User-Generated Content (UGC) arrives continuously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Sizhe Wang , Feiyu Duan , Juelin Wang , Liwen Zhang , Zhongyu Wei

The rapid advancement of multi-modal language models (MLLMs) like GPT-4o has propelled the development of Omni language models, designed to process and proactively respond to continuous streams of multi-modal data. Despite their potential,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yuxuan Wang , Yueqian Wang , Bo Chen , Tong Wu , Dongyan Zhao , Zilong Zheng

Human cognition of new concepts is inherently a streaming process: we continuously recognize new objects or identities and update our memories over time. However, current multimodal personalization methods are largely limited to static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yuanhong Zheng , Ruichuan An , Xiaopeng Lin , Yuxing Liu , Sihan Yang , Huanyu Zhang , Haodong Li , Qintong Zhang , Renrui Zhang , Guopeng Li , Yifan Zhang , Yuheng Li , Wentao Zhang

Recent advancements in large-scale video-language models have shown significant potential for real-time planning and detailed interactions. However, their high computational demands and the scarcity of annotated datasets limit their…

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