MVBench: A Comprehensive Multi-modal Video Understanding Benchmark
Authors: Kunchang Li, Yali Wang, Yinan He, Yizhuo Li, Yi Wang, Yi Liu, Zun Wang, Jilan Xu, Guo Chen, Ping Luo, Limin Wang, Yu Qiao

With the rapid development of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) a number of diagnostic benchmarks have recently emerged to evaluate the comprehension capabilities of these models. However most benchmarks predominantly assess spatial understanding in the static image tasks while overlooking temporal understanding in the dynamic video tasks. To alleviate this issue we introduce a comprehensive Multi-modal Video understanding Benchmark namely MVBench which covers 20 challenging video tasks that cannot be effectively solved with a single frame. Specifically we first introduce a novel static-to-dynamic method to define these temporal-related tasks. By transforming various static tasks into dynamic ones we enable the systematic generation of video tasks that require a broad spectrum of temporal skills ranging from perception to cognition. Then guided by the task definition we automatically convert public video annotations into multiple-choice QA to evaluate each task. On one hand such a distinct paradigm allows us to build MVBench efficiently without much manual intervention. On the other hand it guarantees evaluation fairness with ground-truth video annotations avoiding the biased scoring of LLMs. Moreover we further develop a robust video MLLM baseline i.e. VideoChat2 by progressive multi-modal training with diverse instruction-tuning data. The extensive results on our MVBench reveal that the existing MLLMs are far from satisfactory in temporal understanding while our VideoChat2 largely surpasses these leading models by over 15% on MVBench.