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Video Question Answering (QA) is an important task in understanding video temporal structure. We observe that there are three unique attributes of video QA compared with image QA: (1) it deals with long sequences of images containing richer…

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made striking progress, yet their spatial reasoning remains fragile: models that answer an original input correctly can still fail under paired transformations with predictable answer mappings, revealing a…

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Video Question Answering is a challenging problem in visual information retrieval, which provides the answer to the referenced video content according to the question. However, the existing visual question answering approaches mainly tackle…

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