VIDiff is a unified foundation model that uses diffusion techniques to perform a broad range of video tasks, including both understanding tasks like language‑guided video object segmentation and generative tasks such as video editing and enhancement. Unlike prior methods that focus on short clips and require time‑consuming tuning, VIDiff can edit and translate videos within seconds based on user instructions and employs an iterative auto‑regressive approach to maintain consistency in long‑form videos. The authors demonstrate convincing generative results across diverse input videos and written instructions, supported by qualitative and quantitative evidence.
By Zhen Xing, Shuyuan Tu, Qi Dai, Zihao Zhang, Hui Zhang, Han Hu, Zuxuan Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang
We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios.
We present LAION-BVD, a large-scale open video dataset for multimodal learning, which contains 1.3B platform-specific video URLs collected from CommonCrawl. From these, we download 80M videos with a t...
Kairos is a new video dataset designed for fine-grained video-language modeling, featuring long-duration videos from ten minutes to half an hour. Each video is annotated with time-resolved labels that capture ongoing actions, entity appearances, attributes, interactions, and evolving contextual cues throughout the timeline. The dataset supports fine-grained evaluation, long-range modeling, reasoning, instruction data construction, representation learning, and video generation.
By Ruibo Ming, Lei Sun, Deheng Zhang, He Zhang, Jialu Li, Jian Wang, Zhendong Li, Mengshun Hu, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van Gool, Jinjin Gu
arXiv:2609.14790v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Detecting video highlights, the most informative or engaging moments in a video, is important for applications such as video summarization and content...
By Michal Byra, Alberto Presta, Grzegorz Stefanski, Krzysztof Arendt
arXiv:2608.24845v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We present LAION-BVD, a large-scale open video dataset for multimodal learning, which contains 1.3B platform-specific video URLs collected from Commo...
By Andreas Hochlehnert, Marianna Nezhurina, Mehdi Cherti, Andrej Radonjic, Thadd\"aus Wiedemer, Christoph Schuhmann, Romain Beaumont, Wieland Brendel, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf, A. Sophia Koepke, Jenia Jitsev, Matthias Bethge
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:2506. 10915v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-video generation has significantly enriched content creation and holds the potential to evolve into powerful world simulators.
By Jiancheng Huang, Gengwei Zhang, Zequn Jie, Siyu Jiao, Yinlong Qian, Ling Chen, Yunchao Wei, Lin Ma
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.
By Yu Huang, Jungang Li, Zhiyuan Wang, Yonghua Hei, Song Dai, Jiayu Yang, Deyuan Liu, Xiang Zheng, Xiaoshuang Shi, Hao Cheng, Kaidi Xu
TAME introduces a Temporal-Aware Mixture-of-Experts framework for Text-Video Retrieval that enhances CLIP-based models by incorporating frame-level structure and temporal relations. It adds sparse Mixture-of-Experts layers with frame-consistent routing, Frame-Temporal tokens for global cross-frame aggregation, and a Cross-Temporal Interaction and Aggregation module to refine sentence-video similarities. Experiments on multiple TVR benchmarks show consistent performance gains, such as a 4.0 R@1 improvement on MSR‑VTT over CLIP4Clip.