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New OmniCompass benchmark evaluates MLLMs on video understanding

Researchers have introduced OmniCompass, a new benchmark designed to holistically evaluate the video understanding capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). The benchmark includes two tracks, OmniCompass-VL for vision-language tasks and OmniCompass-AV for audio-visual tasks, each featuring temporal grounding, spatial grounding, and question answering. Evaluations of 50 MLLMs revealed that while proprietary models generally outperform open-source counterparts, precise spatiotemporal grounding and audio-visual reasoning remain significant challenges for even the leading models. AI

IMPACT This benchmark aims to provide a more comprehensive evaluation of MLLMs' video understanding, highlighting areas for improvement in grounding and audio-visual reasoning.

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New OmniCompass benchmark evaluates MLLMs on video understanding

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    OmniCompass: A Holistic Benchmark for Omni-Modal Video Grounding and Understanding

    OmniCompass is a holistic benchmark for omni-modal video grounding and understanding that evaluates vision-language and audio-visual reasoning through temporal grounding, spatial grounding, and question answering tasks.