Video QA

QA: Question Answering

Overview

Video question answering asks models to identify events, people, actions, and relationships in video, including when things happen and why. Approaches include vision-language models, question-aware frame selection and retrieval, temporal memory, scene graphs, and agentic systems that inspect evidence with tools. Benchmarks test settings such as long-form and streaming video, egocentric activity, causal reasoning, and precise temporal grounding. A central challenge is that high answer accuracy can coexist with weak use of visual evidence, poor temporal grounding, and overconfidence when evidence is incomplete.

Latest papers

CardsList

184 papers25 papers in the last four weeks, up 47% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. SVAgent: Storyline-Guided Long Video Understanding via Cross-Modal Multi-Agent Collaboration

    Apr 6, 2026Zhongyu Yang, Zuhao Yang, Shuo Zhan +3Video QALong-Video QA

  2. SGTA: Scene-Graph Based Multi-Modal Traffic Agent for Video Understanding

    Apr 4, 2026Xingcheng Zhou, Mingyu Liu, Walter Zimmer +2Video QAVisual Question Answering

  3. Progressive Video Condensation with MLLM Agent for Long-form Video Understanding

    Apr 3, 2026Yufei Yin, Yuchen Xing, Qianke Meng +3Long-Video QAQuery-Aware Video Frame Selection

  4. STRIVE: Structured Spatiotemporal Exploration for Reinforcement Learning in Video Question Answering

    Apr 2, 2026Emad Bahrami, Olga Zatsarynna, Parth Pathak +3Video QARL for Video Reasoning

  5. Query-Conditioned Evidential Keyframe Sampling for MLLM-Based Long-Form Video Understanding

    Apr 1, 2026Yiheng Wang, Lichen Zhu, Yueqian Lin +4Query-Aware Video Frame SelectionLong-Video Understanding

  6. Reinforcing Structured Chain-of-Thought for Video Understanding

    Mar 26, 2026Peiyao Wang, Haotian Xu, Noranart Vesdapunt +6Structured CoT ReasoningRL for VLMs

  7. ForeSea: AI Forensic Search with Multi-modal Queries for Video Surveillance

    Mar 24, 2026Hyojin Park, Yi Li, Janghoon Cho +8Video SurveillanceMultimodal IR

  8. MVPBench: A Multi-Video Perception Evaluation Benchmark for Multi-Modal Video Understanding

    Mar 24, 2026Purui Bai, Tao Wu, Jiayang Sun +3Video UnderstandingVideo-Language Model Evaluation

  9. Overreliance on AI in Information-seeking from Video Content

    Mar 20, 2026Anders Giovanni Møller, Elisa Bassignana, Francesco Pierri +1Video QATrust in AI

  10. HORNet: Task-Guided Frame Selection for Video Question Answering with Vision-Language Models

    Mar 19, 2026Xiangyu Bai, Bishoy Galoaa, Sarah OstadabbasVideo QAQuery-Aware Video Frame Selection

  11. VideoAtlas: Navigating Long-Form Video in Logarithmic Compute

    Mar 18, 2026Mohamed Eltahir, Ali Habibullah, Yazan Alshoibi +3Long-Video UnderstandingVideo Representation Learning

  12. When Thinking Hurts: Mitigating Visual Forgetting in Video Reasoning via Frame Repetition

    Mar 17, 2026Xiaokun Sun, Yubo Wang, Haoyu Cao +1Video ReasoningVideo QA

  13. Clue Matters: Leveraging Latent Visual Clues to Empower Video Reasoning

    Mar 16, 2026Kaixin zhang, Xiaohe Li, Jiahao Li +4Video ReasoningVideo QA

  14. Learning Question-Aware Keyframe Selection with Synthetic Supervision for Video Question Answering

    Mar 16, 2026Minchan Kwon, Hyounguk Shon, Junmo KimVideo QAQuery-Aware Video Frame Selection

  15. Do You See What I Am Pointing At? Gesture-Based Egocentric Video Question Answering

    Mar 13, 2026Yura Choi, Roy Miles, Rolandos Alexandros Potamias +3Egocentric Video QAVideo QA

  16. TemporalDoRA: Temporal PEFT for Robust Surgical Video Question Answering

    Mar 10, 2026Luca Carlini, Chiara Lena, Cesare Hassan +4Video QAParameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

  17. MEGC2026: Micro-Expression Grand Challenge on Visual Question Answering

    Mar 9, 2026Xinqi Fan, Jingting Li, John See +3Micro-Expression RecognitionVideo QA

  18. StreamReady: Learning What to Answer and When in Long Streaming Videos

    Mar 9, 2026Shehreen Azad, Vibhav Vineet, Yogesh Singh RawatStreaming Video UnderstandingVideo QA

  19. Think, Then Verify: A Hypothesis-Verification Multi-Agent Framework for Long Video Understanding

    Mar 5, 2026Zheng Wang, Haoran Chen, Haoxuan Qin +3Long-Video UnderstandingLong-Video QA

  20. RIVER: A Real-Time Interaction Benchmark for Video LLMs

    Mar 4, 2026Yansong Shi, Qingsong Zhao, Tianxiang Jiang +3Video-Language Model EvaluationStreaming Video Understanding

  21. DynaTokens: Controlling Token Dynamics for Continual Video-Language Understanding

    Mar 2, 2026Toan Nguyen, Yang Liu, Celso De Melo +1Continual LearningVideo QA

  22. WaterVideoQA: ASV-Centric Perception and Rule-Compliant Reasoning via Multi-Modal Agents

    Feb 26, 2026Runwei Guan, Shaofeng Liang, Ningwei Ouyang +9Video QAVideo Reasoning

  23. Going Down Memory Lane: Scaling Tokens for Video Stream Understanding with Dynamic KV-Cache Memory

    Feb 20, 2026Vatsal Agarwal, Saksham Suri, Matthew Gwilliam +2Streaming Video UnderstandingMemory-Augmented VLMs

  24. Video-Browser: Towards Open-web Agentic Video Browsing

    Dec 28, 2025Zhengyang Liang, Yan Shu, Xiangrui Liu +5Multimodal Search AgentsVideo QA