arXiv:2510. 14904v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dense Video Object Captioning (DVOC) is the task of jointly detecting, tracking, and captioning object trajectories in a video, requiring the ability to understand spatio-temporal details and describe them in natural language.
By Gabriel Fiastre, Antoine Yang, Cordelia Schmid
Video captioning requires fine-grained spatio-temporal understanding of videos, including spatial perception of where objects are located and temporal perception of when events occur. Existing MLLMs usually generate captions directly from video inputs without exposing the perceptual evidence behind descriptions.
arXiv:2606. 24636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cinematographic captioning aims to describe how a video is filmed using professional film-language concepts such as camera movement, shot size, depth of field, composition, and shooting angle.
By Xinyu Mao, Yuhui Zeng, Xiaokun Liu, Wenyu Qin, Meng Wang, Xin Tao, Pengfei Wan, Xiaohan Xing, Max Meng
arXiv:2606. 29531v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose MotionAtlas, a system for detailed captioning of motion-centric videos, comprising (1) a dedicated human-annotated benchmark, (2) a scalable, high-quality pipeline to construct training samples, and (3) a family of powerful Video-MLLMs.
By Weisong Liu, Haochen Wang, Kuan Gao, Yuhao Wang, Yikang Zhou, Zhongwei Ren, Jacky Mai, Anna Wang, Yanwei Li, Jason Li, Zhaoxiang Zhang
Improving video captioning quality typically demands retraining large vision-language models, an expensive and often impractical requirement. Existing training-free alternatives instead ground captions in detected objects to curb hallucination, but apply only a single, fixed correction pass without prioritizing which objects matter most, leaving semantically significant content omitted.
arXiv:2607. 00684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The classification accuracy of pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) relies on the quality of the text prompts.
By Seokhee Jin, Changhwan Sung, Sunung Mun, Hoyoung Kim, Jungseul Ok