3rd Place at CVPR 2026 CASTLE Challenge: Agentic Multi-View Long-Context Video Understanding via Hierarchical Knowledge Graph Retrieval

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01933v1
• Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:01:32 GMT
• Title: 3rd Place at CVPR 2026 CASTLE Challenge: Agentic Multi-View Long-Context Video Understanding via Hierarchical Knowledge Graph Retrieval
• Abstract summary: This paper presents our winning methodology for the CASTLE 2026 Challenge at the CVPR 2026 Workshop.<n>Our team secured third place globally.<n>The underlying dataset consists of over 600 hours synchronized footage captured by 15 ego and exo camera sources.
• Score: 0.8594140167290097
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents our winning methodology for the CASTLE 2026 Challenge at the CVPR 2026 EgoVis Workshop, where our team secured third place globally. The challenge tasks participants with answering highly complex visual, spatiotemporal, and verbal questions, including visual counting, action localization, multi-view tracking and speaker temporal reasoning, within massive, multimodal video streams. The underlying dataset consists of over 600 hours synchronized footage captured by 15 ego and exo camera sources. To tackle the extreme scale and long-context demands of this environment, we introduce a training-free agentic framework optimized for long-form video understanding. Our framework introduces two core architectural components: i) a Video Knowledge Graph that maps static and dynamic entities, their temporal relationships, and intersecting events to enable multi-hop relational reasoning, and ii) an adaptive agentic workflow that resolves complex queries through a hierarchical retrieval and indexing. Empirical results demonstrate that our framework achieves high zero-shot reasoning accuracy on long-context multi-view streams. Our code will be released at https://github.com/RaghadKhaled/CASTLE-Challenge-Framework.

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