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  1. CapMem: A Benchmark for Caption-Based Episodic Memory in Egocentric Video

    Sep 15, 2026Dingli Liang, Yiqiao Xie, Yukai Huang +6Video Question AnsweringEpisodic Experiences

  2. Efficient Reasoning Distillation: Small Video-Language Models via Synthetic CoT and Difficulty-Aware Fine-Tuning

    Sep 14, 2026Mantek Singh, Jeshwanth Challagundla, Siddharth Raina +1Video-Language ModelsVideo Question Answering

  3. One Skill Does Not Fit All: Automatic Discovery and Taxonomy-Guided Routing of Frame-Selection Skills for Long-Video Question Answering

    Sep 14, 2026Jian Hu, Zixu Cheng, Da Li +3Video Question AnsweringSelf-Supervised

  4. Cite or Decline: A Strict Course-Grounded Chatbot for STEM Lecture Videos

    Sep 1, 2026S M Masrur Ahmed, Jaspal SubhlokVideo Question AnsweringCitations

  5. Compressing AI Traffic: Standardized Neural Network Coding of Visual-Token Representations in Split Vision-Language Inference

    Sep 1, 2026Reza Heidari, Hamed R. Tavakoli, Juho KannalaToken CompressionVision Encoders

  6. R4DSG: Relative 4D Scene Graph Memory for Object-Centric Question Answering in Long Egocentric Video

    Aug 11, 2026Ke Ma, Yamin Mao, Weiming Li +5Egocentric VideoVideo Question Answering

  7. Perception Before Reasoning: Dynamic Latent Reasoning for Video Understanding and Question Answering

    Aug 4, 2026Haotian Xia, Zilin Xiao, Junbo Zou +2Video Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

  8. Ground, Cover, and Refine: Evidence-Centric Frame Selection for Long-Video Question Answering

    Aug 3, 2026Fan Wei, Siru Zhong, Runmin Dong +3Video Question AnsweringLongvideobench

  9. ChronoStitch: Training-Free Composition of Visual KV Memories for Long-Horizon Temporal Reasoning

    Jul 21, 2026Santiram Tiwari, Nishant Sinha, Kunal KislayVideo Question AnsweringVisual Memory

  10. Searching Videos as Trees: Self-Correcting Agents for Grounded Long Video QA

    Jul 17, 2026Ce Zhang, Ziyang Wang, Yulu Pan +6Video Question AnsweringVideos

  11. Evidence-Backed Video Question Answering

    Jul 13, 2026Shijie Wang, Honglu Zhou, Ziyang Wang +5Video Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

  12. TreeSoc: Tree-Structured Dynamic Reasoning and Tool Synergy for Soccer Video Understanding

    Jul 13, 2026Thanh-Nhan Vo, Thanh-Khoi Nguyen, Trong-Thuan Nguyen +2Fine-Grained Video UnderstandingVideo Question Answering

  13. Incentivizing Vision Language Models to Search for Long Video Question Answering

    Jul 3, 2026Harsh Goel, S P Sharan, Sahil Shah +4Video Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

  14. ReQuest: Rethinking-based Question-Aware Frame Selection for Long-Form Video QA

    Jul 2, 2026Minkuk Kim, Suyong Yun, Young Tae Kim +3Video Question AnsweringKeyframe Selection

  15. Accuracy and Cost Claims Do Not Survive Re-Execution in Agentic VideoQA

    Jul 1, 2026Rama AlHamidi, Aseel Mohamed, Rasul Khanbayov +3Agentic Video GenerationVideo Question Answering

  16. From Accuracy to Visual Dependence: Auditing and Filtering Modality Collapse in Traffic VideoQA

    Jun 29, 2026Sena Korkut, María Alejandra Bravo Sarmiento, Sanghwan Kim +1Video Question AnsweringVisual Evidence

  17. Bridging VideoQA and Video-Guided Agentic Tasks via Generalized Keyframe Extraction

    Jun 28, 2026Sunqi Fan, Qingle Liu, Runqi Yin +2Agentic Video GenerationVideo Question Answering

  18. Graph it first! Enabling Reasoning on Long-form Egocentric Videos through Scene Graphs

    Jun 24, 2026Agnese Taluzzi, Riccardo Santambrogio, Simone Mentasti +2Video Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

  19. EG-VQA: Benchmarking Verifiable Video Question Answering with Grounded Temporal Evidence

    Jun 23, 2026Linpeng Huang, Weixing Chen, Zexin Chen +2Video Question AnsweringTextvqa

  20. ViTexQA: A Multi-Frame Temporal Perception Dataset for Video Text Question Answering

    Jun 23, 2026Zhentao Guo, Chen Duan, Tongkun Guan +3Video Question Answering

  21. Chains That See, Answers That Don't: A Multi-Aspect Evaluation Recipe for Forced Chain-of-Thought on Video-MME

    Jun 22, 2026Zhichao Fan, Yanhang Li, Zexin ZhuangVideo Question AnsweringChain-of-Thought Reasoning

  22. TimeProVe: Propose, then Verify for Efficient Long Video Temporal Reasoning in Activities of Daily Living

    Jun 18, 2026Arkaprava Sinha, Dominick Reilly, Siddharth Krishnan +2Video Temporal GroundingVideo Question Answering

  23. OmniVideo-100K: A Dataset for Audio-Visual Reasoning through Structured Scripts and Evidence Chains

    Jun 12, 2026Xinyue Cai, Chaoyou Fu, Yi-Fan Zhang +2Audio-Visual ReasoningVideo Question Answering

  24. Counterfactual Reasoning for Fine-Grained Evidence Disentanglement in VideoQA

    Jun 8, 2026Zhou Du, Hamid Krim, Xiao Wu +3Video Question AnsweringCounterfactual Reasoning

  25. CACR:Reinforcing Temporal Answer Grounding in Instructional Video via Candidate-Aware Causal Reasoning

    Jun 7, 2026Muge Qi, Rong Fu, Pengbin Feng +7Video Temporal GroundingTemporal Grounding

  26. StoryVideoQA: Scaling Deep Video Understanding with a Large-Scale, Multi-Genre and Auto-Generated Dataset

    Jun 4, 2026Zhengqian Wu, Zhixian Liu, Aodong Chen +6Video Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

  27. MemoryCard: Topic-Aware Multi-Modal Clue Compression for Long-Video Question Answering

    Jun 4, 2026Qing Yang, Pengcheng Huang, Xinze Li +6Video Question AnsweringSynthetic Data Augmentation

  28. GOPAgen: Motion-Aware and Efficient Agentic Long-Video Understanding with Structural Memory and Hierarchical Reasoning

    Jun 3, 2026Haozhe Chi, Yang Jin, Yadong MuAgentic Video GenerationVideo Question Answering

  29. SLU-2K: A Question-Based Benchmark for Semantic Evaluation of Sign Language Translation

    Jun 2, 2026Zeno Testa, Antonino Furnari, Lorenzo Baraldi +1Sign Language RecognitionMultilingual Benchmark

  30. Question-Aware Evidence Ledgers for Video Relational Reasoning

    Jun 1, 2026Yilin Ou, Mengshi Qi, Huadong MaVideo Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

  31. TLG: Temporal-Logic Grounding for Video Question Answering via Source-Annotation Reconstruction and Category-Targeted Reasoning

    Jun 1, 2026Ali AlaviVideo Temporal GroundingTemporal Grounding

  32. Perception First: A Frontier Native-Video Model with Self-Consistency for Implicit Video Question Answering

    May 31, 2026Ali AlaviVideo Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

  33. Temporal Evidence Routing with Structured Visual Evidence for TimeLogicQA

    May 31, 2026Yuyang Sun, Yongliang Wu, Xingyu Zhu +8Video Question AnsweringVisual Evidence

  34. Adaptive Dense Evidence Refinement for Video Relational Reasoning for VRR-QA Challenge

    May 31, 2026Yuyang Sun, Yongliang Wu, Xingyu Zhu +8Video Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

  35. Disagreement-Based Cross-Model Routing for Implicit Video Question Answering

    May 31, 2026Durga Sandeep SaluruVideo Question AnsweringCvpr

  36. CASTLE2026 Team WDL Technical Report

    May 30, 2026Zhengyang Li, Zhenglin Du, Yi Wen +3Video Question AnsweringEgocentric Video

  37. Reflective Dialogue between Teacher and Solver Agents for Video Question Answering

    May 27, 2026Takuya Murakawa, Toru TamakiVideo Question AnsweringIn-Context Learning

  38. Decomposing Queries into Tool Calls for Long-Video Keyframe Retrieval

    May 22, 2026Michal Shlapentokh-Rothman, Prachi Garg, Yu-Xiong Wang +1Keyframe SelectionVideo Question Answering

  39. MuKV: Multi-Grained KV Cache Compression for Long Streaming Video Question-Answering

    May 21, 2026Junbin Xiao, Jiajun Chen, Tianxiang Sun +2Video Question AnsweringKey-Value Cache Compression

  40. FineBench: Benchmarking and Enhancing Vision-Language Models for Fine-grained Human Activity Understanding

    May 19, 2026Gueter Josmy Faure, Min-Hung Chen, Jia-Fong Yeh +2Fine-Grained Video UnderstandingVideo Question Answering

  41. CRAFT: Critic-Refined Adaptive Key-Frame Targeting for Multimodal Video Question Answering

    May 18, 2026Mahesh Bhosale, Abdul Wasi, Vishvesh Trivedi +3Video Question AnsweringKeyframe Selection

  42. SPATIOROUTE: Dynamic Prompt Routing for Zero-Shot Spatial Reasoning

    May 18, 2026Pawat Chunhachatrachai, Gueter Josmy Faure, Hung-Ting Su +1Video Question AnsweringSpatial Reasoning

  43. SurgLQA: Scalable Long-Horizon Surgical Video Question Answering

    May 18, 2026Diandian Guo, Xikai Yang, Ruiyang Li +2Surgical VideosVideo Question Answering

  44. COPRA: Conditional Parameter Adaptation with Reinforcement Learning for Video Anomaly Detection

    May 14, 2026Darryl Cherian Jacob, Xinyu Liu, Kai Wang +1Video Anomaly UnderstandingVision-Language Model Adaptation

  45. VideoSEAL: Mitigating Evidence Misalignment in Agentic Long Video Understanding by Decoupling Answer Authority

    May 12, 2026Chenhao Qiu, Yechao Zhang, Xin Luo +2Agentic Video GenerationVideo Question Answering

  46. ChronoSC: Task-Oriented Semantic Communication via Temporal-to-Color Encoding

    May 11, 2026Phuc H. Nguyen, Trung T. Nguyen, Quy N. Duong +1Neural Video CodecsVideo Question Answering

  47. VTAgent: Agentic Keyframe Anchoring for Evidence-Aware Video TextVQA

    May 6, 2026Haibin He, Maoyuan Ye, Jing Zhang +2Video Question AnsweringTextvqa

  48. Video Active Perception: Effective Inference-Time Long-Form Video Understanding with Vision-Language Models

    May 3, 2026Martin Q. Ma, Willis Guo, Aditya Agrawal +4Video Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

  49. SF20K Competition 2025: Summary and findings

    May 2, 2026Ridouane Ghermi, Xi Wang, Vicky Kalogeiton +1Video Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

  50. UpstreamQA: A Modular Framework for Explicit Reasoning on Video Question Answering Tasks

    Apr 25, 2026Jason Nguyen, Ameet Rao, Alexander Chang +2Video Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

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

    Mar 24, 2026Hyojin Park, Yi Li, Janghoon Cho +8Video Question AnsweringMultimodal Query

  52. HiMu: Hierarchical Multimodal Frame Selection for Long Video Question Answering

    Mar 19, 2026Dan Ben-Ami, Gabriele Serussi, Kobi Cohen +1Video Question AnsweringMultimodal Query

  53. ChainReaction: Causal Chain-Guided Reasoning for Modular and Explainable Causal-Why Video Question Answering

    Aug 28, 2025Paritosh Parmar, Eric Peh, Basura FernandoVideo Question AnsweringCausal Reasoning

  54. CausalChaos! Dataset for Comprehensive Causal Action Question Answering Over Longer Causal Chains Grounded in Dynamic Visual Scenes

    Apr 1, 2024Paritosh Parmar, Eric Peh, Ruirui Chen +4Video Question AnsweringCausal Reasoning

  55. StreamTTT: Reconciling Real-Time Perception and Long-Term Memory in Streaming VLMs

    Date pendingJoya Chen, Zeyun Zhong, Mike Zheng ShouLarge Vision Language ModelsVideo Question Answering