The Identity-conditioned Queries task is introduced, in which models are required to jointly associate and interpret an input video and a reference image of a person, and leverage this conditioning to address identity grounding, behavior understanding, and temporal reasoning, among other challenges.
Abstract
Real-world video reasoning often involves multimodal, multi-source inputs, whereas existing video reasoning tasks typically assume a simplified video-text setting, limiting identity matching and person-centric reasoning. To bridge this gap, we introduce the Identity-conditioned Queries (ICQ) task, in which models are required to jointly associate and interpret an input video and a reference image of a person, and leverage this conditioning to address identity grounding, behavior understanding, and temporal reasoning, among other challenges. Building on ICQ, we present ISYV (I Seek You in Videos), a systematic solution comprising three components: (1) ISYV-Bench, a challenging evaluation benchmark with 1,377 real-world complex videos and 1,377 question-answer pairs, organized into six difficulty levels spanning capabilities from identity recognition to causal reasoning; (2) ISYV-75K, a large-scale training set of 75K high-quality samples constructed via automated annotation, multi-stage verification, and manual review; and (3) ISYV-Framework, containing an ICQ-oriented model and training strategy for learning to exploit informative video shots without additional shot-level annotations. Extensive experiments show that both mainstream closed-source and open-source MLLMs struggle on ISYV-Bench, especially in cross-domain identity matching and long-horizon tracking. ISYV-Model outperforms strong baselines and in some aspects approaches closed-source performance. Overall, ISYV provides a unified task definition, scalable datasets/benchmarks, and modeling insights for person-centric video reasoning.
Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment the target objects specified in human instructions. Previous approaches typically rely on explicit human instructions that contain target categories or salient appearance descriptions. These approaches tend to fail when the instructions require temporal video understanding and complex relational reasoning. In this work, we present RViSeg, a reasoning-centric video object segmentation model that leverages the reasoning capability of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLM) to handle complex queries. The primary challenge lies in enabling MLLM to perform efficient pixel-level video perception. To tackle this challenge, we introduce a novel Spatial Token Merge (STM) module that consolidates lengthy video tokens into compact region-level clusters, while preserving essential spatial details. This structured representation enables MLLM to infer user intention by interleaving spatial and temporal visual information. Furthermore, we propose a Query-based Target Retrieval (QTR) module that utilizes learnable tokens as the target identity for mask prediction. By propagating these instance-specific tokens both intra-clip and inter-clip, our RViSeg effectively encodes object motion, ensuring spatio-temporal consistency in segmentation results. To facilitate training and evaluation, we construct InstructVideo, a single- and multiple-object reasoning video segmentation benchmark. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed components.
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The Visually-Guided Disambiguation Aggregation Aggregation (VGD-Agg) framework is proposed, a framework based on a dual-branch fast-slow architecture that enhances discriminability via two learnable tokens and achieves state-of-the-art results on the proposed benchmarks.
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OpenCoF, a framework comprising the OpenCoF-17K dataset, a reasoning video dataset spanning 11 task families, and Wan-CoF, a fine-tuned video model for studying whether diverse temporal supervision improves CoF behavior are introduced, suggesting that stronger video reasoning requires both broad temporal supervision and explicit mechanisms for organizing intermediate reasoning state.
Across seven benchmarks, TimeLens2-2B outperforms all size-matched baselines on every benchmark, while the 4B and 8B variants achieve state-of-the-art performance, surpassing open-source models with up to 397B parameters.
Training Multimodal Large Language Models for audio-visual social understanding is a crucial step toward embodied social intelligence. Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has become the dominant approach, with HumanOmniV2 and its IntentBench benchmark as a prominent reference point. In this context, we report three findings. First, IntentBench is highly noisy: $\sim$7% of questions are broken and $\sim$23% are trivially answerable without the video input. We remove the affected questions and release Intentbench-Prime. Second, current reasoning approaches are expensive and surprisingly ineffective. A simple Vanilla SFT baseline matches or outperforms existing reasoning methods across three benchmarks at a fraction of the cost, establishing it as an essential baseline for evaluating novel fine-tuning techniques. Third, our analysis reveals that substantial priors can be learned solely from the text modality and that using a textual caption instead of the video yields performance on par with Vanilla SFT. These surprising findings reveal the limitations of current MLLMs when it comes to social understanding. IntentBench-Prime, Vanilla SFT model, and code are publicly available.
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