Summary of Lvbench: An Extreme Long Video Understanding Benchmark, by Weihan Wang et al.
LVBench: An Extreme Long Video Understanding Benchmark
by Weihan Wang, Zehai He, Wenyi Hong, Yean Cheng, Xiaohan Zhang, Ji Qi, Xiaotao Gu, Shiyu Huang, Bin Xu, Yuxiao Dong, Ming Ding, Jie Tang
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers introduce LVBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate the capabilities of multimodal language models in understanding long videos. The current state-of-the-art models are limited to short video comprehension and struggle with tasks that require extended comprehension, such as embodied intelligence, movie reviews, and live sports commentary. To bridge this gap, LVBench features a diverse set of tasks aimed at long video comprehension and information extraction, using publicly sourced videos. The authors demonstrate the challenges faced by current models in understanding long videos through extensive evaluations. They aim to stimulate the development of more advanced models capable of tackling complex long video comprehension tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Long videos are hard for AI to understand because they’re too long! Right now, most AI models can only handle short videos, like those on social media. But what about longer videos, like movies or sports games? Those require a lot more understanding and memory. The researchers created LVBench to test how well AI models do with these longer videos. They took public videos and made tasks that challenge the models to remember things from earlier in the video. Sadly, current AI models don’t do very well on this benchmark. The authors hope their work will inspire better AI models that can truly understand long videos. |
