VideoTree: Adaptive Tree-based Video Representation for LLM Reasoning on Long Videos

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Main Authors: Wang, Ziyang, Yu, Shoubin, Stengel-Eskin, Elias, Yoon, Jaehong, Cheng, Feng, Bertasius, Gedas, Bansal, Mohit
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author Wang, Ziyang
Yu, Shoubin
Stengel-Eskin, Elias
Yoon, Jaehong
Cheng, Feng
Bertasius, Gedas
Bansal, Mohit
author_facet Wang, Ziyang
Yu, Shoubin
Stengel-Eskin, Elias
Yoon, Jaehong
Cheng, Feng
Bertasius, Gedas
Bansal, Mohit
contents Long-form video understanding is complicated by the high redundancy of video data and the abundance of query-irrelevant information. To tackle these challenges, we propose VideoTree, a training-free framework which builds a query-adaptive and hierarchical video representation for LLM reasoning over long-form videos. First, VideoTree extracts query-relevant information from the input video through an iterative process, progressively refining the selection of keyframes based on their relevance to the query. Furthermore, VideoTree leverages the inherent hierarchical structure of long video data, which is often overlooked by existing LLM-based methods. Specifically, we incorporate multi-granularity information into a tree-based representation, allowing VideoTree to extract query-relevant details from long videos in a coarse-to-fine manner. This enables the model to effectively handle a wide range of video queries with varying levels of detail. Finally, VideoTree aggregates the hierarchical query-relevant information within the tree structure and feeds it into an LLM reasoning model to answer the query. Our experiments show that our method improves both reasoning accuracy and efficiency. Specifically, VideoTree outperforms existing training-free approaches on EgoSchema and NExT-QA with less inference time, achieving 61.1% and 75.6% accuracy on the test set without additional video-specific training. Moreover, on the long split of Video-MME (average 44 minutes), VideoTree achieves better performance than GPT-4V and many other MLLMs that were extensively trained on video data.
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spellingShingle VideoTree: Adaptive Tree-based Video Representation for LLM Reasoning on Long Videos
Wang, Ziyang
Yu, Shoubin
Stengel-Eskin, Elias
Yoon, Jaehong
Cheng, Feng
Bertasius, Gedas
Bansal, Mohit
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Long-form video understanding is complicated by the high redundancy of video data and the abundance of query-irrelevant information. To tackle these challenges, we propose VideoTree, a training-free framework which builds a query-adaptive and hierarchical video representation for LLM reasoning over long-form videos. First, VideoTree extracts query-relevant information from the input video through an iterative process, progressively refining the selection of keyframes based on their relevance to the query. Furthermore, VideoTree leverages the inherent hierarchical structure of long video data, which is often overlooked by existing LLM-based methods. Specifically, we incorporate multi-granularity information into a tree-based representation, allowing VideoTree to extract query-relevant details from long videos in a coarse-to-fine manner. This enables the model to effectively handle a wide range of video queries with varying levels of detail. Finally, VideoTree aggregates the hierarchical query-relevant information within the tree structure and feeds it into an LLM reasoning model to answer the query. Our experiments show that our method improves both reasoning accuracy and efficiency. Specifically, VideoTree outperforms existing training-free approaches on EgoSchema and NExT-QA with less inference time, achieving 61.1% and 75.6% accuracy on the test set without additional video-specific training. Moreover, on the long split of Video-MME (average 44 minutes), VideoTree achieves better performance than GPT-4V and many other MLLMs that were extensively trained on video data.
title VideoTree: Adaptive Tree-based Video Representation for LLM Reasoning on Long Videos
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19209