5 papers
SALI: Shot-Aware Late Interaction for Cross-Shot Relation Matching in Text-to-Video Retrieval using Film-Grammar Knowledge
Toya Oyama, Rainer Lienhart, Shin'ichi Satoh
Text-to-video retrieval usually represents a video clip by a single embedding. This embedding often loses important relations between people. E.g., an interaction "Anna confronts M…
Beyond Frame Selection: Rethinking Long-Video Understanding with MLLMs
Ziling Huang, Shin'ichi Satoh, Yuki M. Asano
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made strong progress in video understanding, yet long videos remain difficult: the visual token budget grows with video length, so tem…
Temporal Tree of Thought: Reasoning-Guided Visual Cue Search for Long-Video Understanding
Ziling Huang, Shin'ichi Satoh
Long-video understanding remains challenging for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) due to limited context length. Uniform sampling may miss crucial moments, while agent-base…
DiverXplorer: Stock Image Exploration via Diversity Adjustment for Graphic Design
Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos, Sichao Song, Naoto Ohsaka +2
Graphic designers explore large stock image collections during open-ended or early-stage design tasks, yet common tools emphasize relevance and similarity, limiting designers' abil…
ReSeDis: A Dataset for Referring-based Object Search across Large-Scale Image Collections
Ziling Huang, Yidan Zhang, Shin'ichi Satoh
Large-scale visual search engines are expected to solve a dual problem at once: (i) locate every image that truly contains the object described by a sentence and (ii) identify the…