PG-Video-LLaVA: Pixel Grounding Large Video-Language Models
Authors: name: Shehan Munasinghe, name: Rusiru Thushara, name: Muhammad Maaz, name: Hanoona Abdul Rasheed, name: Salman Khan, name: Mubarak Shah, name: Fahad Khan

Extending image-based Large Multimodal Models (LMM) to videos is challenging
due to the inherent complexity of video data. The recent approaches extending
image-based LMM to videos either lack the grounding capabilities (e.g.,
VideoChat, Video-ChatGPT, Video-LLaMA) or do not utilize the audio-signals for
better video understanding (e.g., Video-ChatGPT). Addressing these gaps, we
propose Video-LLaVA, the first LMM with pixel-level grounding capability,
integrating audio cues by transcribing them into text to enrich video-context
understanding. Our framework uses an off-the-shelf tracker and a novel
grounding module, enabling it to spatially and temporally localize objects in
videos following user instructions. We evaluate Video-LLaVA using video-based
generative and question-answering benchmarks and introduce new benchmarks
specifically designed to measure prompt-based object grounding performance in
videos. Further, we propose the use of Vicuna over GPT-3.5, as utilized in
Video-ChatGPT, for video-based conversation benchmarking, ensuring
reproducibility of results which is a concern with the proprietary nature of
GPT-3.5. Our framework builds on SoTA image-based LLaVA model and extends its
advantages to the video domain, delivering promising gains on video-based
conversation and grounding tasks. Project Page:
https://github.com/mbzuai-oryx/Video-LLaVA