arXiv:2505.01583v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Understanding causal event relationships and achieving fine-grained temporal grounding in videos remain challenging for vision-language models (VLM...
By Jen-Hao Cheng, Yi-Hao Peng, Huapeng Zhou, Vivian Wang, Huayu Wang, Hsiang-Wei Huang, Wenhao Chai, Hou-I Liu, Kuang-Ming Chen, Cheng-Yen Yang, Yi-Ling Chen, Vibhav Vineet, Qin Cai, Jenq-Neng Hwang
Video captioning requires fine-grained spatio-temporal understanding of videos, including spatial perception of where objects are located and temporal perception of when events occur. Existing MLLMs usually generate captions directly from video inputs without exposing the perceptual evidence behind descriptions.
VideoTIR introduces a reinforcement‑learning approach to improve long‑video understanding by encouraging multimodal large language models to use comprehensive multi‑level toolkits efficiently. It combines Zero‑RL and SFT cold‑starting strategies to help models retrieve and focus on meaningful video segments, images, and regions, thereby reducing hallucinations. The method includes Toolkit Action Grouped Policy Optimization (TAGPO) to streamline tool‑calling and a sandbox‑based trajectory synthesis framework for high‑quality data, achieving strong results on three long‑video QA benchmarks.
By Zhe Gao, Shiyu Shen, Taifeng Chai, Weinong Wang, Haotian Xu, Xing Wu, Wenbin Li, Qi Fan, Yang Gao, Dacheng Tao
arXiv:2601. 07761v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) face a fundamental dilemma in video reasoning: they are caught between the prohibitive computational costs of verbose reasoning and the hallucination risks of efficient, ungrounded approaches.
By Yanxiang Huang, Guohua Gao, Zhaoyang Wei
arXiv:2607. 15778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have made significant advancements in various video understanding tasks.
By Wei Feng, Xin Wang, Yu-Wei Zhan, Yuwei Zhou, Wenwu Zhu
PercepCap is a video captioning framework that explicitly models spatio‑temporal perception before generating captions. It follows a perceive‑describe chain, first producing a perception trace of object trajectories and temporal events, then generating the final caption conditioned on that trace. The method uses a two‑stage training strategy—supervised fine‑tuning followed by perception‑grounded reinforcement learning—and builds caption‑aligned perception data to ensure the perception trace and caption refer to the same objects and events.
By Yifan Xu, Zihao Wang, Zhixiao Wang, Jiaming Zhang, Yichun Yang, Desen Meng, Yuanxing Zhang, Pengfei Wan, Limin Wang
arXiv:2605. 06094v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training VideoLLMs for complex reasoning remains challenging due to sparse sequence level rewards and the lack of fine grained credit assignment over long, temporally grounded reasoning trajectories.
By Hao Lin, Kunyang Lv, Xu Jiang, Jingqi Tian, Zhongjing Du, Jiayu Ding, Qiaoman Zhang, Hongbo Jin
arXiv:2506. 01274v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent progress in Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) has enabled effective vision-language reasoning, yet the ability to video understanding remains constrained by suboptimal frame selection strategies, albeit with the rapid development of video-specialized LMMs.
By Hosu Lee, Junho Kim, Hyunjun Kim, Yong Man Ro
arXiv:2610.08674v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Current large video-language models (LVLMs) still face challenges when dealing with long videos, mainly because frames are often processed independentl...
By Yuhao Qin, Junbo Wang, Yuke Li, Yining Zhu
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.
By Harsh Goel, S P Sharan, Sahil Shah, Minkyu Choi, Joungbin An, Kristen Grauman, Sandeep P. Chinchali
arXiv:2607. 02963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense video captioning aims to generate temporally grounded descriptions of video events, benefiting both event-level video understanding and generation.
By Wenzheng Zeng, Siyi Jiao, Chen Gao, Hwee Tou Ng, Mike Zheng Shou
EventVL introduces the first generative event-based multimodal large language model (MLLM) designed for explicit semantic understanding of event streams. The framework leverages a newly annotated dataset of nearly 1.4 million event–image/video–text pairs and incorporates an Event Spatiotemporal Representation to capture comprehensive event information, along with Dynamic Semantic Alignment to refine sparse semantic spaces. Experiments demonstrate that EventVL outperforms existing MLLM baselines in event captioning and scene description generation tasks, advancing the field of event vision.
By Pengteng Li, Yunfan Lu, Pinghao Song, Wuyang Li, Huizai Yao, Hui Xiong