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The evolution of autonomous agents is redefining information seeking, transitioning from passive retrieval to proactive, open-ended web research. However, a significant modality gap remains in processing the web's most dynamic and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Zhengyang Liang , Yan Shu , Xiangrui Liu , Minghao Qin , Kaixin Liang , Nicu Sebe , Zheng Liu , Lizi Liao

Long video question answering requires locating sparse, time-scattered visual evidence within highly redundant content. Although current MLLMs perform well on short videos, long videos introduce long-horizon search and verification, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chenhao Qiu , Yechao Zhang , Xin Luo , Shien Song , Xusheng Liu

Recent advances in multimodal LLMs and systems that use tools for long-video QA point to the promise of reasoning over hour-long episodes. However, many methods still compress content into lossy summaries or rely on limited toolsets,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Runtao Liu , Ziyi Liu , Jiaqi Tang , Yue Ma , Renjie Pi , Jipeng Zhang , Qifeng Chen

Existing MLLMs encounter significant challenges in modeling the temporal context within long videos. Currently, mainstream Agent-based methods use external tools to assist a single MLLM in answering long video questions. Despite such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Boyu Chen , Zhengrong Yue , Siran Chen , Zikang Wang , Yang Liu , Peng Li , Yali Wang

Long video understanding poses unique challenges due to their temporal complexity and low information density. Recent works address this task by sampling numerous frames or incorporating auxiliary tools using LLMs, both of which result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zeyuan Yang , Delin Chen , Xueyang Yu , Maohao Shen , Chuang Gan

Recent studies have shown that agent-based systems leveraging large language models (LLMs) for key information retrieval and integration have emerged as a promising approach for long video understanding. However, these systems face two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jialong Zuo , Yongtai Deng , Lingdong Kong , Jingkang Yang , Rui Jin , Yiwei Zhang , Nong Sang , Liang Pan , Ziwei Liu , Changxin Gao

Recent advancements in Video Question Answering (VideoQA) have introduced LLM-based agents, modular frameworks, and procedural solutions, yielding promising results. These systems use dynamic agents and memory-based mechanisms to break down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Tony Montes , Fernando Lozano

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Meng Chu , Yicong Li , Tat-Seng Chua

Video understanding has seen significant progress in recent years, with models' performance on perception from short clips continuing to rise. Yet, multiple recent benchmarks, such as LVBench, Neptune, and ActivityNet-RTL, show performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sachit Menon , Ahmet Iscen , Arsha Nagrani , Tobias Weyand , Carl Vondrick , Cordelia Schmid

Long video question answering (Long-Video QA) increasingly relies on agentic tool use to retrieve evidence from long videos. In realistic settings, this process often requires multi-hop retrieval, where agents must iteratively gather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Rongyi Yu , Chenyuan Duan , Wentao Zhang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jihao Qiu , Lingxi Xie , Xinyue Huo , Qi Tian , Qixiang Ye

We introduce V-Agent, a novel multi-agent platform designed for advanced video search and interactive user-system conversations. By fine-tuning a vision-language model (VLM) with a small video preference dataset and enhancing it with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 SunYoung Park , Jong-Hyeon Lee , Youngjune Kim , Daegyu Sung , Younghyun Yu , Young-rok Cha , Jeongho Ju

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable problem-solving capabilities by autonomously integrating with external tools for collaborative reasoning. However, due to the inherently complex and diverse nature of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Mengjie Deng , Guanting Dong , Zhicheng Dou

We propose MR. Video, an agentic long video understanding framework that demonstrates the simple yet effective MapReduce principle for processing long videos: (1) Map: independently and densely perceiving short video clips, and (2) Reduce:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Ziqi Pang , Yu-Xiong Wang

Facing scaling laws, video data from the internet becomes increasingly important. However, collecting extensive videos that meet specific needs is extremely labor-intensive and time-consuming. In this work, we study the way to expedite this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yidan Zhang , Mutian Xu , Yiming Hao , Kun Zhou , Jiahao Chang , Xiaoqiang Liu , Pengfei Wan , Hongbo Fu , Xiaoguang Han

Existing affective understanding studies have mainly focused on recognizing emotions from images, audio signals, or pre-cliped video clips, where the affective evidence is already given. This passive and clip-centered setting does not fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhen Zhang , Yuhang Yang , Yunxiang Jiang , Yuhuan Lu , Haifeng Lu , Zheng Lian , Runhao Zeng , Xiping Hu

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

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

Recent advances in video understanding have been driven by MLLMs. But these MLLMs are good at analyzing short videos, while suffering from difficulties in understanding videos with a longer context. To address this difficulty, several agent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zikang Wang , Boyu Chen , Zhengrong Yue , Yi Wang , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang , Yali Wang

Long video understanding remains challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) due to limited context windows, which necessitate identifying sparse query-relevant video segments. However, existing methods predominantly localize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Ruoliu Yang , Chu Wu , Caifeng Shan , Ran He , Chaoyou Fu