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Spatial understanding over continuous visual input is crucial for MLLMs to evolve into general-purpose assistants in physical environments. Yet there is still no comprehensive benchmark that holistically assesses the progress toward this…

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The sequential structure of videos poses a challenge to the ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to locate multi-frame evidence and conduct multimodal reasoning. However, existing video benchmarks mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Kejian Zhu , Zhuoran Jin , Hongbang Yuan , Jiachun Li , Shangqing Tu , Pengfei Cao , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

We present the task of Spatio-Temporal Video Question Answering, which requires intelligent systems to simultaneously retrieve relevant moments and detect referenced visual concepts (people and objects) to answer natural language questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Jie Lei , Licheng Yu , Tamara L. Berg , Mohit Bansal

Recent video multimodal large language models achieve impressive results across various benchmarks. However, current evaluations suffer from two critical limitations: (1) inflated scores can mask deficiencies in fine-grained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jiahao Meng , Tan Yue , Qi Xu , Haochen Wang , Zhongwei Ren , Weisong Liu , Yuhao Wang , Renrui Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Haodong Duan

Despite significant breakthroughs in video analysis driven by the rapid development of large multimodal models (LMMs), there remains a lack of a versatile evaluation benchmark to comprehensively assess these models' performance in video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yunxin Li , Xinyu Chen , Baotian Hu , Longyue Wang , Haoyuan Shi , Min Zhang

In this work, we propose an all-in-one video restoration framework that grounds degradation-aware semantic context of video frames in natural language via foundation models, offering interpretable and flexible guidance. Unlike prior art,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Muhammad Kamran Janjua , Amirhosein Ghasemabadi , Kunlin Zhang , Mohammad Salameh , Chao Gao , Di Niu

Event cameras offer microsecond-level latency and robustness to motion blur, making them ideal for understanding dynamic environments. Yet, connecting these asynchronous streams to human language remains an open challenge. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Lingdong Kong , Dongyue Lu , Ao Liang , Rong Li , Yuhao Dong , Tianshuai Hu , Lai Xing Ng , Wei Tsang Ooi , Benoit R. Cottereau

It is critical for vision-language models (VLMs) to comprehensively understand visual, temporal, and textual cues. However, despite rapid progress in multimodal modeling, video understanding performance still lags behind text-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yuxuan Zhang , EunJeong Hwang , Huaisong Zhang , Penghui Du , Yiming Jia , Dongfu Jiang , Xuan He , Shenhui Zhang , Ping Nie , Peter West , Kelsey R. Allen

Temporal grounding is the task of locating a specific segment from an untrimmed video according to a query sentence. This task has achieved significant momentum in the computer vision community as it enables activity grounding beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Linchao Zhu , Wenqiao Zhang , Yi Yang , Tat-Seng Chua , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang

Generative video models achieve high visual fidelity but often violate basic physical principles, limiting reliability in real-world settings. Prior attempts to inject physics rely on conditioning: frame-level signals are domain-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Saurabh Pathak , Elahe Arani , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Bahram Zonooz

Video grounding is a fundamental problem in multimodal content understanding, aiming to localize specific natural language queries in an untrimmed video. However, current video grounding datasets merely focus on simple events and are either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Chaolei Tan , Zihang Lin , Junfu Pu , Zhongang Qi , Wei-Yi Pei , Zhi Qu , Yexin Wang , Ying Shan , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jian-Fang Hu

Explainable video anomaly detection (VAD) is crucial for safety-critical applications, yet even with recent progress, much of the research still lacks spatial grounding, making the explanations unverifiable. This limitation is especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Inpyo Song , Minjun Joo , Joonhyung Kwon , Eunji Jeon , Jangwon Lee

Visual grounding refers to the ability of a model to identify a region within some visual input that matches a textual description. Consequently, a model equipped with visual grounding capabilities can target a wide range of applications in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Georgios Pantazopoulos , Eda B. Özyiğit

Event cameras capture changes in brightness with microsecond precision and remain reliable under motion blur and challenging illumination, offering clear advantages for modeling highly dynamic scenes. Yet, their integration with natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Lingdong Kong , Dongyue Lu , Ao Liang , Rong Li , Yuhao Dong , Tianshuai Hu , Lai Xing Ng , Wei Tsang Ooi , Benoit R. Cottereau

Existing efforts in text-based video question answering (TextVideoQA) are criticized for their opaque decisionmaking and heavy reliance on scene-text recognition. In this paper, we propose to study Grounded TextVideoQA by forcing models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sheng Zhou , Junbin Xiao , Xun Yang , Peipei Song , Dan Guo , Angela Yao , Meng Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

A robot's ability to understand or ground natural language instructions is fundamentally tied to its knowledge about the surrounding world. We present an approach to grounding natural language utterances in the context of factual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Rohan Paul , Andrei Barbu , Sue Felshin , Boris Katz , Nicholas Roy

With the rapid advancement of video understanding, existing benchmarks are becoming increasingly saturated, exposing a critical discrepancy between inflated leaderboard scores and real-world model capabilities. To address this widening gap,…

Video description is one of the most challenging problems in vision and language understanding due to the large variability both on the video and language side. Models, hence, typically shortcut the difficulty in recognition and generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Luowei Zhou , Yannis Kalantidis , Xinlei Chen , Jason J. Corso , Marcus Rohrbach

Grounding language in the physical world requires AI systems to interpret references that emerge dynamically during conversation. While current vision-language models (VLMs) excel at static image tasks, they struggle to resolve ambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Anna Deichler , Jim O'Regan , Fethiye Irmak Dogan , Lubos Marcinek , Anna Klezovich , Iolanda Leite , Jonas Beskow

Current Video-LLM approaches for Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) typically rely on direct timestamp generation from an unstructured visual-token stream, often leading to brittle numerics and inconsistent boundaries. To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zelin Zheng , Xinyan Liu , Ruixin Li , Antoni B. Chan , Guorong Li , Qingming Huang , Laiyun Qing