arXiv AI

Where is the multimodal goal post? On the Ability of Foundation Models to Recognize Highlights in Videos

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

MultiVENT-Raw: A Benchmark for Retrieval and Reasoning over Raw Videos

MultiVENT‑Raw is a new multilingual benchmark comprising nearly 120,000 raw videos—continuous footage from cell phones, hand‑held cameras, or CCTV—totaling over 5,300 hours. The dataset includes 130 events and 222 event‑centric queries, along with human‑annotated relevance judgments and extracted key facts for relevant videos. It supports two tasks: retrieving videos relevant to a query event and generating a coherent report summarizing event‑related videos for a target user, with baseline models showing these tasks remain challenging.

By Reno Kriz, David Etter, Alexander Martin, Cameron Carpenter, Debashish Chakraborty, Hannah Recknor, Reihaneh Iranmanesh, Matthew Maciejewski, Kenton Murray, Eugene Yang, Benjamin Van Durme, Aaron Steven White, Andrew Yates, William Walden
arXiv AI
4d ago

Natural Language Generation from Visual Events: State-of-the-Art and Key Open Questions

The paper reviews recent work on natural language generation from visual events, emphasizing that tasks involving sequences of images or video frames are fundamentally about modeling complex relationships between evolving visual events and the language used to describe them. It surveys five related tasks, examines common modeling and evaluation methods, and highlights shared challenges across these tasks. The authors then outline key open questions and suggest future research directions to address these challenges.

By Aditya K Surikuchi, Raquel Fern\'andez, Sandro Pezzelle
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Seeing Time: Benchmarking Chronological Reasoning and Shortcut Biases in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 05702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly enhanced their ability to interpret complex visual semantics, yet their capacity for chronological reasoning remains under-explored.

By Haoyu Zhou, Qing Qing, Caichong Li, Qixin Zhang, Yongcheng Jing, Ziqi Xu, Juncheng Hu, Xikun Zhang, Renqiang Luo
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 17

Can MiniMax-H3 Reason About the Physical World? An Evaluation of Omni-Modal Generative Model

arXiv:2609.18323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Omni-Modal Generative Models (Omni-Models) have advanced content generation toward unified modeling of text, images, video, and audio. MiniMax-H...

By Haoyu Zhao, Zihao Zhao, Tianyu Deng, Ziqin Xu, Zihao Zhang, Xudong Wang, Jinxiang Guo, Chen Gao, Ziyi Ye, Yeying Jin, Jiaxi Gu, Zuxuan Wu, Shuicheng Yan
arXiv AI
Oct 7

Real-Time Generation of Game Video Commentary with Multimodal LLMs: Pause-Aware Decoding Approaches

arXiv:2603.02655v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-time video commentary generation provides textual descriptions of ongoing events in videos. It supports accessibility and engagement in...

By Anum Afzal, Yuki Saito, Hiroya Takamura, Katsuhito Sudoh, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Graham Neubig, Florian Matthes, Tatsuya Ishigaki
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 4

Seeing Time: Benchmarking Chronological Reasoning and Shortcut Biases in Vision-Language Models

Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly enhanced their ability to interpret complex visual semantics, yet their capacity for chronological reasoning remains under-explored. In this paper, we introduce a novel benchmark specifically designed to evaluate how VLMs perceive and reason about chronological information within and across images.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

Video-HolmesV2: Can MLLMs Reason with Spatio-Temporal Audio-Visual Evidence in Long Videos?

Video-HolmesV2 is a new benchmark that tests multimodal large language models on their ability to reason with spatio‑temporal audio‑visual evidence in long videos. It requires models to justify answers with precise evidence, uses a multi‑model cross‑verification pipeline and a spatio‑temporal evidence‑aware metric, and introduces an audio‑text guided token compression framework to reduce long‑context noise. In evaluations, even strong proprietary models score below 60% while the proposed approach outperforms comparable open‑source omni‑models.

By Zhaoyang Wei, Zipeng Wang, Yushe Cao, Chenhui Qiang, Shuaibing Cheng, Xuesong Yang, Sen Nie, Bowen Jiang, Wenchao Ding, Yanchao Hao, Zheng Wei, Xuehui Yu, Zhenjun Han
arXiv AI
Jun 8

Watch, Remember, Reason: Human-View Video Understanding with MLLMs

arXiv:2606. 07433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video understanding is being rapidly transformed by multimodal large language models (MLLMs), as research moves from short clips to long, multimodal, and knowledge-intensive video scenarios.

By Jiahao Meng, Yue Tan, Qi Xu, Kuan Gao, Weisong Liu, Yanwei Li, Jason Li, Lingdong Kong, Haochen Wang, Qianyu Zhou, Jiangning Zhang, Guangliang Cheng, Yunhai Tong, Lu Qi, Minghsuan Yang