arXiv Computer Vision

VISTA: Dense Multi-Label Classroom Coding with Vision-Language Models

The paper introduces VISTA, a baseline for dense multi‑label classroom coding that leverages the COPUS protocol as a video benchmark. VISTA applies MiniCPM‑V‑4.5 over sliding windows, refines predictions with an MLP head, and aggregates results onto a 2‑minute COPUS grid, achieving 80.1% macro accuracy on held‑out chemistry lectures. The authors also identify systematic failure modes and provide benchmark tooling and code on GitHub.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

Video-IFBench: Evaluating Instruction Following of Multimodal LLMs in Video Understanding Scenarios

Video-IFBench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate how well multimodal large language models (MLLMs) follow user-specified instructions in video understanding tasks. It introduces an instruction taxonomy with four templates—single-task, multi-task, selection, and nested—covering 32 task types and 39 constraint categories that span semantic and format requirements. The benchmark was built using a semi-automatic pipeline that combines MLLMs, programmatic processing, and human verification, producing 1.5K samples, and a large-scale evaluation of over 20 recent MLLMs shows that instruction following remains difficult, especially for complex constraints and conditional structures.

By Hongbo Liu, Peixian Chen, Sihan Liu, Peiyuan Zhang, Kai Zou, Dian Zheng, Xiaoxing Hu, Yuhao Dong, Mengdan Zhang, Yunhang Shen, Haoyu Cao, Wei Liu, Weibo Gu, Xing Sun, Shengjie Zhao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 20

Zero-Shot Vision-Language Models for Classroom Engagement Recognition: A Benchmark Study of Prompt Sensitivity and Cross-Dataset Generalization

Automated classroom engagement recognition holds substantial promise for scalable learning analytics, yet the suitability of modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for this task under zero-shot conditions remains largely unexplored. We present a systematic benchmark that evaluates five widely-used VLMs: CLIP, BLIP-VQA, GPT-4o, LLaVA-1.

arXiv AI
Aug 14

EgoMonth: A Month-Level Egocentric Video Benchmark for Long-Term Spatiotemporal Memory

arXiv:2608. 13113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have led to substantial progress in video understanding, accompanied by a growing number of long video benchmarks.

By Weitao Chen, Hu Jiaxin, Xie Tianyidan, Yang Li, Yuyi Qian, Banghao Xu, Ziheng Tang, Shenyi Wang, Mingyue Yu, Duo Li, Jiacheng Shi, Gao Wang, Zhan Xu, Zhicheng Qiu, Xuanfu Li, Jian Yang, Lanjun Wang, Zili Yi
arXiv AI
2d ago

SONIC-O1: A Real-World Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models on Audio-Video Understanding

SONIC‑O1 is a new benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal large language models on audio‑video understanding. It contains 60 hours of 231 clips across 13 real‑world conversational domains, with 4,958 human‑verified annotations and demographic metadata. The benchmark tests open‑ended summarization, multiple‑choice question answering, and temporally grounded reasoning, revealing performance gaps between model families and across demographic groups.

By Ahmed Y. Radwan, Christos Emmanouilidis, Hina Tabassum, Deval Pandya, Shaina Raza
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

Stress Tests REVEAL Fragile Temporal and Visual Grounding in Video-Language Models

The paper introduces REVEAL, a diagnostic benchmark that stresses Video‑Language Models (VidLMs) on five controlled probes—camera‑motion sensitivity, cross‑frame integration, video sycophancy, language‑only shortcuts, and temporal expectation bias—to assess how well these models encode and use visual evidence. Experiments on 12 VidLMs reveal systematic failures: some visual signals are never reliably encoded, while others are overridden by model priors, leading to performance below chance on several probes that humans solve with high accuracy. Mechanistic probes further pinpoint where and why visual evidence is lost, demonstrating that under assertive prompts a model’s output becomes nearly invariant to real versus random video input, rendering visual evidence causally inert.

By Sethuraman T V, Savya Khosla, Aditi Tiwari, Vidya Ganesh, Rakshana Jayaprakash, Aditya Jain, Vignesh Srinivasakumar, Onkar Kishor Susladkar, Srinidhi Sunkara, Aditya Shanmugham, Rakesh Vaideeswaran, Abbaas Alif Mohamed Nishar, Simon Jenni, Rohan Maheshwari, Derek Hoiem
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

MVEB: Massive Video Embedding Benchmark

arXiv:2606. 14958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the Massive Video Embedding Benchmark (MVEB), a 23-task benchmark for video embeddings spanning classification, zero-shot classification, clustering, pair classification, retrieval, and video-centric question answering.

By Adnan El Assadi, Roman Solomatin, Isaac Chung, Chenghao Xiao, Deep Shah, Manan Dey, Shriya Sudhakar, Zacharie Bugaud, Wissam Siblini, Ayush Sunil Munot, Yashwanth Devavarapu, Rakshitha Ireddi, Michelle Yang, M\'arton Kardos, Niklas Muennighoff, Kenneth Enevoldsen
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 24

PRISM-VLM: A Multi-Axis Discriminative Benchmark for Compact Vision-Language Models

PRISM‑VLM is a new benchmark for compact vision‑language models that evaluates each item across seven axes—task quality, behavioral robustness, and capability bottlenecks—rather than collapsing performance into a single accuracy score. It aggregates these axes into a single PScore while also providing per‑axis profiles, revealing differences that single‑axis benchmarks miss, such as sycophancy. The benchmark draws on items from fifteen public datasets and will be released with its full pipeline, prompts, and annotations.

By Sanghee Park, Kee-Eung Kim
arXiv AI
Aug 26

OmniJudge or OmniBias? Diagnosing Multimodal Judges through Balanced, Decoupled Lenses

The paper introduces D3-Omni, a balanced and decoupled benchmark designed to diagnose fine‑grained multimodal understanding in OmniJudges that evaluate text‑to‑image, text‑to‑video, and text‑to‑speech generation. D3-Omni covers 53 orthogonal binary dimensions across 10,671 samples, using fixed positive seeds and controlled prompt rewriting to generate negatives, thereby ensuring each error can be attributed to a single capability. The benchmark’s dual‑balanced, decoupled, and dynamic design achieves near 1:1 per‑dimension parity and a uniform total‑score distribution, revealing that strong OmniJudges often miss modality‑related failures and treat distinct attributes as a single decision, masking systematic blind spots.

By Guangzheng Hu, Ziyue Jiang, Weixu Qiao, Lixin Zhang, Jianye Kang, Yuru Wu, Rong Bao, Niantong Li, Wei Wang, Ziyi Cheng, Xinfa Zhu, HangRui Hu, Ting He, Bing Zhao, Lin Qu, Hu Wei, Jin Xu