The field of multimodal video understanding is rapidly advancing, with a focus on developing more efficient and effective models for long video understanding, video question answering, and video reasoning. Recent research has explored the use of novel architectures, such as hierarchical feature fusion and multi-step reasoning, to improve the performance of large vision-language models. Additionally, there is a growing interest in incorporating reinforcement learning and interactive agents to enable models to dynamically request visual information and adapt to new video actions. Noteworthy papers in this area include WAVE, which introduces a unified representation space for text, audio, and video modalities, and ReWatch-R1, which proposes a novel multi-stage synthesis pipeline to synthesize video-grounded Chain-of-Thought data. Other notable papers include FrameMind, FrameThinker, and LOVE-R1, which advance the state of the art in flexible and efficient video understanding. These developments have significant implications for applications such as video question answering, long video understanding, and multimodal content analysis.
Advances in Multimodal Video Understanding
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WAVE: Learning Unified & Versatile Audio-Visual Embeddings with Multimodal LLM
ReWatch-R1: Boosting Complex Video Reasoning in Large Vision-Language Models through Agentic Data Synthesis
Video Panels for Long Video Understanding
FrameMind: Frame-Interleaved Chain-of-Thought for Video Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
FrameThinker: Learning to Think with Long Videos via Multi-Turn Frame Spotlighting
Beyond Isolated Facts: Synthesizing Narrative and Grounded Supervision for VideoQA
LOVE-R1: Advancing Long Video Understanding with an Adaptive Zoom-in Mechanism via Multi-Step Reasoning
StreamForest: Efficient Online Video Understanding with Persistent Event Memory
Perceive, Reflect and Understand Long Video: Progressive Multi-Granular Clue Exploration with Interactive Agents
VideoAnchor: Reinforcing Subspace-Structured Visual Cues for Coherent Visual-Spatial Reasoning
FinCap: Topic-Aligned Captions for Short-Form Financial YouTube Videos
POVQA: Preference-Optimized Video Question Answering with Rationales for Data Efficiency
From Videos to Indexed Knowledge Graphs -- Framework to Marry Methods for Multimodal Content Analysis and Understanding
From Frames to Clips: Efficient Key Clip Selection for Long-Form Video Understanding
VideoNSA: Native Sparse Attention Scales Video Understanding