VTI-CoT: Visual-Textual Interleaved Chain of Thought for Video Reasoning

Video reasoning aims to understand complex temporal events and causal relationships within videos. Recently, Chain-of-Thought (CoT) has been introduced to this field to enhance reasoning accuracy. However, existing CoT-based video reasoning methods primarily rely on text-only information for logical deduction, overlooking critical visual information during the inference process. Inspired by the human cognitive mechanism of reviewing visual segments during inference, we propose VTI-CoT, a Visual-Textual Interleaved CoT framework. VTI-CoT integrates textual reasoning steps with corresponding visual frames. Given the scarcity of visual-textual interleaved CoT in existing datasets, we develop an automated annotation pipeline to construct high-quality multimodal CoT data. Further, reasoning over long-form videos entails increasingly long CoT token sequences, which severely hinders training convergence and efficiency. To address this, we employ Optical Character Recognition (OCR)-based compression techniques to compress CoT supervision signals into a single canvas. Experimental results demonstrate that VTI-CoT achieves state-of-the-art performance among models of the same parameter scale while significantly improving training efficiency.

BriNet: Towards Bridging the Intra-class and Inter-class Gaps in One-Shot Segmentation

Few-shot segmentation focuses on the generalization of models to segment unseen object instances with limited training samples. Although tremendous improvements have been achieved, existing methods are still constrained by two factors. (1) The information interaction between query and support images is not adequate, leaving intra-class gap. (2) The object categories at the training and inference stages have no overlap, leaving the inter-class gap. Thus, we propose a framework, BriNet, to bridge these gaps. First, more information interactions are encouraged between the extracted features of the query and support images, i.e., using an Information Exchange Module to emphasize the common objects. Furthermore, to precisely localize the query objects, we design a multi-path fine-grained strategy which is able to make better use of the support feature representations. Second, a new online refinement strategy is proposed to help the trained model adapt to unseen classes, achieved by switching the roles of the query and the support images at the inference stage. The effectiveness of our framework is demonstrated by experimental results, which outperforms other competitive methods and leads to a new state-of-the-art on both PASCAL VOC and MSCOCO dataset.