arXiv Computer Vision

VTR-Bench: A Systematic Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Video Generation

VTR-Bench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate how well video generation models render text within scenes. It includes 300 prompts across five real-world scenarios such as advertisements and scientific videos, and uses an automated pipeline with human alignment to assess text fidelity and scene/motion requirements. Experiments on 11 state‑of‑the‑art models show that even the best performer has a word error rate of 0.250, underscoring widespread challenges in visual text rendering.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

WanPE: Towards Cinematic Prompt Enhancement for Modern Text-to-Video Generation

WanPE is a 397‑B parameter prompt‑enhancement model that learns director‑level cinematic planning from 1.05 M real‑world videos. It generates shot‑level cinematic plans through video‑grounded reverse construction and uses Semantic‑Consistency GRPO (SC‑GRPO) to maintain user intent across shots and time. In evaluations, WanPE improves human preference over raw prompts by up to 50.86 points for 30‑second videos and outperforms commercial offerings for shorter durations.

By Yubo Zhu, Yawen Shao, Ziyun Dai, Zixun Fang, Kai Zhu, Siyang Sun, Haolan Xue, Chuxin Wang, Tingyu Weng, Jingming Luo, Chen Shi, Lianghua Huang, Yufeng Ai, Yuzheng Wang, Wenyuan Zhang, Yu Shang, Yuxiang Bao, Zoubin Bi, Jie Xiao, Jinbo Xing, Jiaxing Zhao, Chongyang Zhong, Hengjian Chen, Chenwei Xie, Akide Liu, Zhehan Kan, Yu Liu, Wei Zhai, Sheng Zhong, Wei Tong
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

VGA-BenchV2: An Expanded Unified Benchmark and Multi-Model Framework for Evaluating Video Aesthetics and Generation Quality

VGA‑BenchV2 is an expanded, human‑aligned benchmark and optimization framework that jointly evaluates video generation quality and aesthetic value. It builds on the original VGA‑Bench taxonomy, adding 52 sub‑dimensions and 1,016 curated prompts to generate over 60,000 videos from 12 mainstream models. The benchmark significantly enlarges human supervision with 36,000 task‑level annotations and introduces a hybrid evaluator (VAQA‑Net, VTag‑Net, VGQA‑Net) that aligns well with human judgments and can be used as a reward model for reinforcement‑learning fine‑tuning.

By Longteng Jiang, DanDan Zheng, Qianqian Qiao, Heng Huang, Huaye Wang, Yihang Bo, Bao Peng, Jingdong Chen, Jun Zhou, Xin Jin
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

Not Another Text Benchmark: Putting the "Visual" Back in Visual Question Answering for Large Video Models

The paper introduces three new vision‑centric evaluation benchmarks—temporal frame retrieval, video future prediction, and causal memory distortion—to assess visual question answering in large video models. Unlike traditional benchmarks that rely on text-based multiple choice questions, these tasks require models to reason directly from visual inputs. The authors find that current state‑of‑the‑art models struggle with visual queries, highlighting a gap in visual understanding that future research should address.

By Rwiddhi Chakraborty (Oliver), Yinong (Oliver), Wang, Cheng Zhang, Fan Bai, Zhuoran You, Michael Kampffmeyer, Yong Jae Lee, Fernando De la Torre, Robert Jenssen
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

ClearText-Video: A Large-Scale Text-Centric Video Dataset Bridging Video Restoration and Scene-Text Enhancement

ClearText-Video (CTVid) is a large-scale, scene-text-aware benchmark that examines text-centric video understanding under varying quality conditions. It comprises 4,639 real-world egocentric videos, over 550,000 frames, 1.6 million human-verified scene-text annotations, and more than 220,000 spatial/temporal question–answer pairs in Chinese and English. For each high-quality video, CTVid provides matched degraded- and restored-quality variants, enabling studies of Text-Centric Video Restoration and Multi-Quality VideoQA, and revealing that visual enhancement does not always improve textual fidelity or downstream reasoning.

By Jinlong Li, Jiaming Ding, Dingfu Lu, Malcolm Hsiu, Chuang Ke, Kangning Yang, Bochen Guan, Lan Fu, Jie Cai, Huiming Sun, Zibo Meng
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

VinciCoder: Unifying Multimodal Code Generation via Coarse-to-fine Visual Reinforcement Learning

VinciCoder is a unified framework for multimodal code generation that addresses the limitations of single-task models by training on a large-scale curated corpus of 1.3 M direct generation pairs and 300 k visual‑refinement tasks. It introduces a coarse‑to‑fine Visual Reinforcement Learning (ViRL) approach that uses visual similarity across multi‑scale patches to provide an implementation‑agnostic reward, improving alignment between rendered outputs and input visuals. Experiments on diverse benchmarks show VinciCoder outperforms existing methods, and ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of ViRL.

By Xuanle Zhao, Deyang Jiang, Zhixiong Zeng, Lei Chen, Haoyue Yang, Haibo Qiu, Jing Huang, Yufeng Zhong, Liming Zheng, Yilin Cao, Lin Ma