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Video understanding plays a vital role in bridging low-level visual signals with high-level cognitive reasoning, and is fundamental to applications such as autonomous driving, embodied AI, and the broader pursuit of AGI. The rapid…

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Assessing the video comprehension capabilities of multimodal AI systems can effectively measure their understanding and reasoning abilities. Most video evaluation benchmarks are limited to a single language, typically English, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Xinyu Chen , Yunxin Li , Haoyuan Shi , Baotian Hu , Wenhan Luo , Yaowei Wang , Min Zhang

The emergence of artificial emotional intelligence technology is revolutionizing the fields of computers and robotics, allowing for a new level of communication and understanding of human behavior that was once thought impossible. While…

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Video Foundation Models (ViFMs) aim to learn a general-purpose representation for various video understanding tasks. Leveraging large-scale datasets and powerful models, ViFMs achieve this by capturing robust and generic features from video…

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Nowadays, the videos on the Internet are prevailing. The precise and in-depth understanding of the videos is a difficult but valuable problem for both platforms and researchers. The existing video understand models do well in object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Fan Huang

The evaluation of Long Video Understanding (LVU) performance poses an important but challenging research problem. Despite previous efforts, the existing video understanding benchmarks are severely constrained by several issues, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Junjie Zhou , Yan Shu , Bo Zhao , Boya Wu , Zhengyang Liang , Shitao Xiao , Minghao Qin , Xi Yang , Yongping Xiong , Bo Zhang , Tiejun Huang , Zheng Liu

Safety evaluation of multimodal foundation models often treats vision and language inputs separately, missing risks from joint interpretation where benign content becomes harmful in combination. Existing approaches also fail to distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Shruti Palaskar , Leon Gatys , Mona Abdelrahman , Mar Jacobo , Larry Lindsey , Rutika Moharir , Gunnar Lund , Yang Xu , Navid Shiee , Jeffrey Bigham , Charles Maalouf , Joseph Yitan Cheng

A visual metaphor constitutes a high-order form of human creativity, employing cross-domain semantic fusion to transform abstract concepts into impactful visual rhetoric. Despite the remarkable progress of generative AI, existing models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yu Xu , Yuxin Zhang , Juan Cao , Lin Gao , Chunyu Wang , Oliver Deussen , Tong-Yee Lee , Fan Tang

Recent advancements in video-language understanding have been established on the foundation of image-text models, resulting in promising outcomes due to the shared knowledge between images and videos. However, video-language understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Xiao Wang , Yaoyu Li , Tian Gan , Zheng Zhang , Jingjing Lv , Liqiang Nie

We introduce VMMU, a Vietnamese Multitask Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark designed to evaluate how vision-language models (VLMs) interpret and reason over visual and textual information beyond English. VMMU consists of 2.5k…

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Human perception and experience of music is highly context-dependent. Contextual variability contributes to differences in how we interpret and interact with music, challenging the design of robust models for information retrieval.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Kleanthis Avramidis , Shanti Stewart , Shrikanth Narayanan

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have expanded research in video understanding, primarily focusing on high-level tasks such as video captioning and question-answering. Meanwhile, a smaller body of work addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Ali Athar , Xueqing Deng , Liang-Chieh Chen

Despite significant progress in multimodal language models (LMs), it remains unclear whether visual grounding enhances their understanding of embodied knowledge compared to text-only models. To address this question, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zhihui Yang , Yupei Wang , Kaijie Mo , Zhe Zhao , Renfen Hu

Metaphors are a common communication tool used in our day-to-day life. The detection and generation of metaphors in textual form have been studied extensively but metaphors in other forms have been under-explored. Recent studies have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Abisek Rajakumar Kalarani , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Sumit Shekhar

We present our winning submission to the First International Workshop on Bodily Expressed Emotion Understanding (BEEU) challenge. Based on recent literature on the effect of context/environment on emotion, as well as visual representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Panagiotis Paraskevas Filntisis , Niki Efthymiou , Gerasimos Potamianos , Petros Maragos

Multi-modal retrieval has seen tremendous progress with the development of vision-language models. However, further improving these models require additional labelled data which is a huge manual effort. In this paper, we propose a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Avinash Madasu , Estelle Aflalo , Gabriela Ben Melech Stan , Shachar Rosenman , Shao-Yen Tseng , Gedas Bertasius , Vasudev Lal

Understanding visually-rich business documents to extract structured data and automate business workflows has been receiving attention both in academia and industry. Although recent multi-modal language models have achieved impressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zilong Wang , Yichao Zhou , Wei Wei , Chen-Yu Lee , Sandeep Tata

We introduce InternVideo2, a new family of video foundation models (ViFM) that achieve the state-of-the-art results in video recognition, video-text tasks, and video-centric dialogue. Our core design is a progressive training approach that…

Video captioning targets interpreting the complex visual contents as text descriptions, which requires the model to fully understand video scenes including objects and their interactions. Prevailing methods adopt off-the-shelf object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chunyan Miao