VideoRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Video Corpus
Authors: name: Soyeong Jeong; name: Kangsan Kim; name: Jinheon Baek; name: Sung Ju Hwang
Published: 2025-01-10 11:17:15

Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a powerful strategy to address the
issue of generating factually incorrect outputs in foundation models by
retrieving external knowledge relevant to queries and incorporating it into
their generation process. However, existing RAG approaches have primarily
focused on textual information, with some recent advancements beginning to
consider images, and they largely overlook videos, a rich source of multimodal
knowledge capable of representing events, processes, and contextual details
more effectively than any other modality. While a few recent studies explore
the integration of videos in the response generation process, they either
predefine query-associated videos without retrieving them according to queries,
or convert videos into the textual descriptions without harnessing their
multimodal richness. To tackle these, we introduce VideoRAG, a novel framework
that not only dynamically retrieves relevant videos based on their relevance
with queries but also utilizes both visual and textual information of videos in
the output generation. Further, to operationalize this, our method revolves
around the recent advance of Large Video Language Models (LVLMs), which enable
the direct processing of video content to represent it for retrieval and
seamless integration of the retrieved videos jointly with queries. We
experimentally validate the effectiveness of VideoRAG, showcasing that it is
superior to relevant baselines.