arXiv:2512. 05774v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long video understanding (LVU) is challenging because answering real-world queries often depends on sparse, temporally dispersed cues buried in hours of mostly redundant and irrelevant content.
arXiv:2609.12818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long video understanding often behaves like a visual needle-in-a-haystack problem: query-relevant evidence is sparsely distributed across long temporal...
arXiv:2609.15606v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress on short video understanding yet remain limited on long videos due to the...
arXiv:2609.09985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world video understanding requires integrating visual, audio, textual, and temporal evidence distributed across a video. Yet many pipelines use a...
AgentVidBench is a new multi‑hop video question‑answering benchmark designed to evaluate spatial, temporal, and causal reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Unlike existing tests that focus on simple scene queries or global summaries, AgentVidBench includes step‑by‑step solution traces to assess whether agents gather the necessary evidence to justify their answers. Experiments with 12 MLLMs show limited single‑turn performance, but integrating these models into agentic workflows improves both accuracy and trajectory scores, establishing AgentVidBench as a comprehensive testbed for future research on agentic video understanding.
ARGOS is a new benchmark and agent framework for multi‑camera person search that transforms the task from one‑shot retrieval into interactive reasoning using partial witness clues. The framework requires agents to plan questions, use spatial or temporal tools, and interpret ambiguous natural‑language responses within a limited turn budget, leveraging a Spatio‑Temporal Topology Graph that encodes camera connectivity and transition times. The benchmark includes 2,691 tasks across 14 real‑world scenarios, divided into semantic, spatial, and temporal tracks, and introduces Turn‑Weighted Success (TWS) as a metric that jointly measures correctness and turn efficiency, with current best agents achieving TWS scores of 0.383 and 0.590 on the spatial and temporal tracks respectively.
arXiv:2608.31005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing long-video agents acquire evidence through one uniform behavior, ignoring whether the required evidence is concentrated, requires broad occurr...
arXiv:2606. 07512v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current Vision-Language Models struggle with hours-long videos because processing full-length visual sequences induces prohibitive token explosion and attention dilution.
arXiv:2607. 02959v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce VSeek, an agentic framework that transforms long-video question answering (LVQA) from a passive, single-pass perception task into a multi-turn retrieval process.
arXiv:2608. 08612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, retrieval-augmented and memory-augmented methods have emerged as two promising paradigms for long-video question answering.
The paper introduces PACE, a factor-guided, progressive framework for acquiring evidence in long-video question answering. PACE first indexes clip-level descriptions using question-derived factors, then refines evidence retrieval with contrastive cues derived from candidate answers. On the MMR‑V dataset, PACE achieves 42.6% accuracy and recovers 66.9% of annotated cues, outperforming direct inference and prior agentic baselines, and shows consistent improvements across several long-video benchmarks.
arXiv:2608.27871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-video understanding remains challenging for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) due to limited context length. Uniform sampling may miss cruc...
arXiv:2608. 14015v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding tens-of-minutes surgical videos requires long-horizon temporal reasoning, answering what happens before, after, or across stages of a procedure by grounding the question in visual evidence spread across time.