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Scaling multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to long videos is constrained by limited context windows. While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a promising remedy by organizing query-relevant visual evidence into a compact context,…

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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…

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Video understanding requires identifying and reasoning over semantically discriminative visual objects across frames, yet existing object-agnostic solutions struggle to effectively handle substantial object variations over time. To address…

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Temporal video grounding is a fundamental task in computer vision, aiming to localize a natural language query in a long, untrimmed video. It has a key role in the scientific community, in part due to the large amount of video generated…

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Pre-trained on tremendous image-text pairs, vision-language models like CLIP have demonstrated promising zero-shot generalization across numerous image-based tasks. However, extending these capabilities to video tasks remains challenging…

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Spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG) aims to localize queried objects within dynamic video segments. Prevailing fully-trained approaches are notoriously data-hungry. However, gathering large-scale STVG data is exceptionally challenging:…

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Video grounding aims to localize a moment from an untrimmed video for a given textual query. Existing approaches focus more on the alignment of visual and language stimuli with various likelihood-based matching or regression strategies,…

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Multimodal LLMs are turning their focus to video benchmarks, however most video benchmarks only provide outcome supervision, with no intermediate or interpretable reasoning steps. This makes it challenging to assess if models are truly able…

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Video reasoning requires a fine-grained understanding of the temporal dependencies and event-level relations between objects and events in videos. Current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are prone to severe temporal hallucinations…

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Commercial video generation systems such as Seedance2.0 and Veo3.1 have rapidly improved, strengthening the view that video generators may be evolving into "world simulators." Yet the community still lacks a benchmark that directly tests…

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Video-based numerical reasoning provides a premier arena for testing whether Vision-Language Models (VLMs) truly "understand" real-world dynamics, as accurate numerical deduction necessitates a profound grasp of temporal events, object…

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