Multimodal Long Video Modeling Based on Temporal Dynamic Context
Authors: name: Haoran Hao; name: Jiaming Han; name: Yiyuan Zhang; name: Xiangyu Yue
Published: 2025-04-14 17:34:06

Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to significant
breakthroughs in video understanding. However, existing models still struggle
with long video processing due to the context length constraint of LLMs and the
vast amount of information within the video. Although some recent methods are
designed for long video understanding, they often lose crucial information
during token compression and struggle with additional modality like audio. In
this work, we propose a dynamic long video encoding method utilizing the
temporal relationship between frames, named Temporal Dynamic Context (TDC).
Firstly, we segment the video into semantically consistent scenes based on
inter-frame similarities, then encode each frame into tokens using visual-audio
encoders. Secondly, we propose a novel temporal context compressor to reduce
the number of tokens within each segment. Specifically, we employ a query-based
Transformer to aggregate video, audio, and instruction text tokens into a
limited set of temporal context tokens. Finally, we feed the static frame
tokens and the temporal context tokens into the LLM for video understanding.
Furthermore, to handle extremely long videos, we propose a training-free
chain-of-thought strategy that progressively extracts answers from multiple
video segments. These intermediate answers serve as part of the reasoning
process and contribute to the final answer. We conduct extensive experiments on
general video understanding and audio-video understanding benchmarks, where our
method demonstrates strong performance. The code and models are available at
https://github.com/Hoar012/TDC-Video.