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In recent years, online lecture videos have become an increasingly popular resource for acquiring new knowledge. Systems capable of effectively understanding/indexing lecture videos are thus highly desirable, enabling downstream tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Kangda Wei , Zhengyu Zhou , Bingqing Wang , Jun Araki , Lukas Lange , Ruihong Huang , Zhe Feng

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are crucial for applications requiring integrated understanding textual and visual information. However, existing VLMs struggle with long videos due to computational inefficiency, memory limitations, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Anxhelo Diko , Tinghuai Wang , Wassim Swaileh , Shiyan Sun , Ioannis Patras

Long video understanding presents significant challenges for vision-language models due to extremely long context windows. Existing solutions relying on naive chunking strategies with retrieval-augmented generation, typically suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Xinlei Yin , Xiulian Peng , Xiao Li , Zhiwei Xiong , Yan Lu

Long-form video understanding remains fundamentally challenged by pervasive spatiotemporal redundancy and intricate narrative dependencies that span extended temporal horizons. While recent structured representations compress visual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yuehan Zhu , Jingqi Zhao , Jiawen Zhao , Xudong Mao , Baoquan Zhao

Online video understanding requires models to perform continuous perception and long-range reasoning within potentially infinite visual streams. Its fundamental challenge lies in the conflict between the unbounded nature of streaming media…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Siwei Wen , Zhangcheng Wang , Xingjian Zhang , Lei Huang , Wenjun Wu

The recent growth of web video sharing platforms has increased the demand for systems that can efficiently browse, retrieve and summarize video content. Query-aware multi-video summarization is a promising technique that caters to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Safa Messaoud , Ismini Lourentzou , Assma Boughoula , Mona Zehni , Zhizhen Zhao , Chengxiang Zhai , Alexander G. Schwing

Long-term memory is one of the key factors influencing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Model Agents (LLM Agents). Incorporating a memory mechanism that effectively integrates past interactions can significantly enhance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Haoran Sun , Shaoning Zeng

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown strong video understanding, yet their application to long-form videos remains constrained by limited context windows. A common workaround is to compress long videos into a handful of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yun Wang , Long Zhang , Jingren Liu , Jiaqi Yan , Zhanjie Zhang , Jiahao Zheng , Ao Ma , Run Ling , Xun Yang , Dapeng Wu , Xiangyu Chen , Xuelong Li

Long-term agent memory is increasingly multimodal, yet existing evaluations rarely test whether agents preserve the visual evidence needed for later reasoning. In prior work, many visually grounded questions can be answered using only…

Understanding long-form egocentric videos remains challenging for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) due to limited context length and insufficient grounding of fine-grained visual details. The recently proposed HD-EPIC benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yinsong Xu , Wei Jing , Liuxin Zhang , Wanjun Lv , Hui Li

Real-world agents operate over long and evolving horizons, where information is repeatedly updated and may interfere across memories, requiring accurate recall and aggregated reasoning over multiple pieces of information. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Hyunji Lee , Justin Chih-Yao Chen , Joykirat Singh , Zaid Khan , Elias Stengel-Eskin , Mohit Bansal

Long-term memory is essential for conversational agents to maintain coherence, track persistent tasks, and provide personalized interactions across extended dialogues. However, existing approaches as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Juwei Yue , Chuanrui Hu , Jiawei Sheng , Zuyi Zhou , Wenyuan Zhang , Tingwen Liu , Li Guo , Yafeng Deng

With the increasing complexity of video data and the need for more efficient long-term temporal understanding, existing long-term video understanding methods often fail to accurately capture and analyze extended video sequences. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sosuke Yamao , Natsuki Miyahara , Yuki Harazono , Shun Takeuchi

Despite rapid developments and widespread applications of MLLM agents, they still struggle with long-form video understanding (LVU) tasks, which are characterized by high information density and extended temporal spans. Recent research on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Haiyang Yan , Hongyun Zhou , Peng Xu , Xiaoxue Feng , Mengyi Liu

Despite rapid progress in large-scale language and vision models, AI agents still suffer from a fundamental limitation: they cannot remember. Without reliable memory, agents catastrophically forget past experiences, struggle with…

Videos, with their unique temporal dimension, demand precise grounded understanding, where answers are directly linked to visual, interpretable evidence. Despite significant breakthroughs in text-based reasoning with large language models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ye Liu , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Chang Wen Chen , Mike Zheng Shou

With the success of large language models (LLMs), integrating the vision model into LLMs to build vision-language foundation models has gained much more interest recently. However, existing LLM-based large multimodal models (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Bo He , Hengduo Li , Young Kyun Jang , Menglin Jia , Xuefei Cao , Ashish Shah , Abhinav Shrivastava , Ser-Nam Lim

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end trainable Video Question Answering (VideoQA) framework with three major components: 1) a new heterogeneous memory which can effectively learn global context information from appearance and motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Chenyou Fan , Xiaofan Zhang , Shu Zhang , Wensheng Wang , Chi Zhang , Heng Huang

Advanced chart question answering requires both precise perception of small visual elements and multi-step reasoning across several subplots. While existing MLLMs are strong at understanding single plots, they often struggle with multi-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Qihua Dong , Ruozhen He , Junwen Chen , Yizhou Wang , Xu Ma , Songyao Jiang , Yun Fu

Human emotions entail a complex set of behavioral, physiological and cognitive changes. Current state-of-the-art models fuse the behavioral and physiological components using classic machine learning, rather than recent deep learning…