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Video-Question-Answering (VideoQA) comprises the capturing of complex visual relation changes over time, remaining a challenge even for advanced Video Language Models (VLM), i.a., because of the need to represent the visual content to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Sofian Chaybouti , Walid Bousselham , Moritz Wolter , Hilde Kuehne

Video Question Answering (Video QA) is a challenging video understanding task that requires models to comprehend entire videos, identify the most relevant information based on contextual cues from a given question, and reason accurately to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Roberto Amoroso , Gengyuan Zhang , Rajat Koner , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara , Volker Tresp

Long-form video understanding remains challenging due to the extended temporal structure and dense multimodal cues. Despite recent progress, many existing approaches still rely on hand-crafted reasoning pipelines or employ token-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yufei Yin , Qianke Meng , Minghao Chen , Jiajun Ding , Zhenwei Shao , Zhou Yu

Videos convey rich information. Dynamic spatio-temporal relationships between people/objects, and diverse multimodal events are present in a video clip. Hence, it is important to develop automated models that can accurately extract such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Hyounghun Kim , Zineng Tang , Mohit Bansal

Video question answering (VideoQA) aims to answer natural language questions according to the given videos. Although existing models perform well in the factoid VideoQA task, they still face challenges in deep video understanding (DVU)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zhengqian Wu , Ruizhe Li , Zijun Xu , Zhongyuan Wang , Chunxia Xiao , Chao Liang

Video Question Answering methods focus on commonsense reasoning and visual cognition of objects or persons and their interactions over time. Current VideoQA approaches ignore the textual information present in the video. Instead, we argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Soumya Jahagirdar , Minesh Mathew , Dimosthenis Karatzas , C. V. Jawahar

The dense, temporal nature of video presents a profound challenge for automated analysis. Despite the use of powerful Vision-Language Models, prevailing methods for video understanding are limited by the inherent disconnect between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Keliang Li , Yansong Li , Hongze Shen , Mengdi Liu , Hong Chang , Shiguang Shan

Visual question answering (VQA) is a task that combines both the techniques of computer vision and natural language processing. It requires models to answer a text-based question according to the information contained in a visual. In recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yeyun Zou , Qiyu Xie

Humans apprehend the world through various sensory modalities, yet language is their predominant communication channel. Machine learning systems need to draw on the same multimodal richness to have informed discourses with humans in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Min Wang , Ata Mahjoubfar , Anupama Joshi

We present a Collaborative Agent-Based Framework for Multi-Image Reasoning. Our approach tackles the challenge of interleaved multimodal reasoning across diverse datasets and task formats by employing a dual-agent system: a language-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Angelos Vlachos , Giorgos Filandrianos , Maria Lymperaiou , Nikolaos Spanos , Ilias Mitsouras , Vasileios Karampinis , Athanasios Voulodimos

While vision-language models (VLMs) excel at tasks involving single images or short videos, they still struggle with Long Video Question Answering (LVQA) due to its demand for complex multi-step temporal reasoning. Vanilla approaches, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sahil Shah , S P Sharan , Harsh Goel , Minkyu Choi , Mustafa Munir , Manvik Pasula , Radu Marculescu , Sandeep Chinchali

Radiology visual question answering (RVQA) provides precise answers to questions about chest X-ray images, alleviating radiologists' workload. While recent methods based on multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and retrieval-augmented…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Ziruo Yi , Jinyu Liu , Ting Xiao , Mark V. Albert

This paper proposes a Video Graph Transformer (VGT) model for Video Quetion Answering (VideoQA). VGT's uniqueness are two-fold: 1) it designs a dynamic graph transformer module which encodes video by explicitly capturing the visual objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Junbin Xiao , Pan Zhou , Tat-Seng Chua , Shuicheng Yan

Video Question Answering (VideoQA) is the task of answering the natural language questions about a video. Producing an answer requires understanding the interplay across visual scenes in video and linguistic semantics in question. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Yicong Li , Xiang Wang , Junbin Xiao , Tat-Seng Chua

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) is a recently proposed task, where an agent is placed in a rich 3D environment and must act based solely on its egocentric input to answer a given question. The desired outcome is that the agent learns to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Cătălina Cangea , Eugene Belilovsky , Pietro Liò , Aaron Courville

With the increasing prevalence of video content, effectively understanding and answering questions about long form videos has become essential for numerous applications. Although large vision language models (LVLMs) have enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Urjitkumar Patel , Fang-Chun Yeh , Chinmay Gondhalekar

Visual question answering (VQA) is the task of answering questions about an image. The task assumes an understanding of both the image and the question to provide a natural language answer. VQA has gained popularity in recent years due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Deepanway Ghosal , Navonil Majumder , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

Question Answering (QA) systems have traditionally relied on structured text data, but the rapid growth of multimedia content (images, audio, video, and structured metadata) has introduced new challenges and opportunities for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Rahul Raja , Arpita Vats

The dominant paradigm of monolithic scaling in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is failing for understanding and reasoning in documents, yielding diminishing returns as it struggles with the inherent need of this domain for document-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Xinlei Yu , Chengming Xu , Zhangquan Chen , Yudong Zhang , Shilin Lu , Cheng Yang , Jiangning Zhang , Shuicheng Yan , Xiaobin Hu

Different from short videos and GIFs, video stories contain clear plots and lists of principal characters. Without identifying the connection between appearing people and character names, a model is not able to obtain a genuine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Shijie Geng , Ji Zhang , Zuohui Fu , Peng Gao , Hang Zhang , Gerard de Melo