The paper introduces Grounded Human-Attributed Description and Activity Recognition (GHADAR), a task that requires describing the characteristics and activities of every person in a video given their locations. It presents a new dataset derived from AVA-Actions with open‑set captions, a method that constrains cross‑attention masks in vision‑language models to better use grounding information, and a holistic VLM‑based evaluation schema that compares concepts directly between video and predictions. Experiments show the proposed method surpasses state‑of‑the‑art VLMs and highlight limitations of existing evaluation metrics.
Video provides a rich record of human behavior, interaction, and situated contexts, offering important evidence for understanding people and conducting human-centered research. As vision-language mode...
arXiv:2610.10163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linking people's appearance and actions to character identities is essential for understanding video narratives. We present a framework for identity-aw...
The paper investigates when vision‑language models (VLMs) can independently analyze human‑centered video and when human oversight is still needed. By reviewing 1,702 CHI 2026 papers, the authors develop a five‑dimensional taxonomy of video annotation tasks and build a benchmark of 15 representative tasks. Experiments show that VLMs alone achieve near‑human accuracy (HNS = 97.0), while human verification of VLM outputs yields the highest accuracy (HNS = 121.5) and significantly reduces annotation time and cost.
arXiv:2606. 07433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video understanding is being rapidly transformed by multimodal large language models (MLLMs), as research moves from short clips to long, multimodal, and knowledge-intensive video scenarios.
ReText is a method that enhances image-based person re-identification by incorporating textual descriptions into training. The authors augment existing multi-camera datasets with captions generated by a fine‑tuned Vision‑Language Model and train the system on three tasks: Re-ID, image‑text matching, and image reconstruction guided by text. Experiments show that ReText improves generalization across unseen domains and outperforms current state‑of‑the‑art approaches on cross‑domain Re‑ID benchmarks.
arXiv:2608. 07417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world video reasoning often involves multimodal, multi-source inputs, whereas existing video reasoning tasks typically assume a simplified video-text setting, limiting identity matching and person-centric reasoning.
arXiv:2501.04001v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work presents Sa2VA, the first comprehensive, unified model for dense grounded understanding of both images and videos. Unlike existing multi-...
arXiv:2606. 00054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in generalizable embodied control has been driven by large-scale pretraining of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.
arXiv:2607. 02680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: MLLMs have shown strong zero-shot capabilities across diverse inputs such as across images, video, audio, and text.
OmniVBench introduces a comprehensive benchmark and a large-scale dataset for omni reference-to-video (R2V) generation, addressing gaps in existing evaluations that focus only on limited reference types and holistic consistency. The benchmark expands evaluation across 7 task families and 18 fine-grained tasks, covering content, motion, style, structure, narrative, and multi-reference settings, and employs a factor‑grounded evaluation with 12,172 checklist items to assess preservation, disentanglement, and routing of reference factors. The accompanying Omni‑R2V Dataset provides 340K training samples derived from professional video footage, along with task‑specific pipelines for scalable data construction, enabling broader research and revealing performance gaps in current R2V models.
arXiv:2608.27997v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Air-ground cross-view referring person detection is a necessary component in the language-to-perception-to-control chain of collective embodied intelli...
The paper introduces Temporally-Grounded Language Generation (TGLG), a benchmark that tests vision‑language models on their ability to produce semantically accurate and temporally precise utterances in real‑time settings. It identifies perceptual updating and contingency awareness as key capabilities, curates datasets from sports broadcasting and egocentric interactions, and proposes the TRACE metric to jointly evaluate semantic similarity and temporal alignment. The authors also present VLM‑TSI, a model that interleaves visual and linguistic tokens in a time‑synchronized manner, achieving better performance than a strong baseline yet still showing modest overall results, underscoring the challenge of real‑time VLMs.