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Hauptverfasser: Imam, Mohamed Fazli, Lyu, Chenyang, Aji, Alham Fikri
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Imam, Mohamed Fazli
Lyu, Chenyang
Aji, Alham Fikri
author_facet Imam, Mohamed Fazli
Lyu, Chenyang
Aji, Alham Fikri
contents Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved significant advancements in tasks like Visual Question Answering (VQA) by leveraging foundational Large Language Models (LLMs). However, their abilities in specific areas such as visual temporal understanding, which is crucial for comprehending real-world dynamics, remain underexplored. To address this, we propose a challenging evaluation benchmark named TemporalVQA, consisting of two parts: 1) Temporal Order Understanding and 2) Time-lapse Estimation. The first part requires MLLMs to determine the sequence of events by analyzing temporally consecutive video frames. The second part presents image pairs with varying time differences, framed as multiple-choice questions, asking MLLMs to estimate the time-lapse between images with options ranging from seconds to years. Our evaluations of advanced MLLMs, including models like GPT-4o and Gemini-1.5-Pro, reveal significant challenges: GPT-4o achieved only 49.1% average consistent accuracy in temporal order task and 70% in time-lapse estimation, with open-source models performing even poorly. These findings underscore the limitations of current MLLMs in visual temporal understanding and reasoning, highlighting the need for further improvements for their temporal capability. Our dataset can be found at https://huggingface.co/datasets/fazliimam/temporal-vqa.
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spellingShingle Can Multimodal LLMs do Visual Temporal Understanding and Reasoning? The answer is No!
Imam, Mohamed Fazli
Lyu, Chenyang
Aji, Alham Fikri
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved significant advancements in tasks like Visual Question Answering (VQA) by leveraging foundational Large Language Models (LLMs). However, their abilities in specific areas such as visual temporal understanding, which is crucial for comprehending real-world dynamics, remain underexplored. To address this, we propose a challenging evaluation benchmark named TemporalVQA, consisting of two parts: 1) Temporal Order Understanding and 2) Time-lapse Estimation. The first part requires MLLMs to determine the sequence of events by analyzing temporally consecutive video frames. The second part presents image pairs with varying time differences, framed as multiple-choice questions, asking MLLMs to estimate the time-lapse between images with options ranging from seconds to years. Our evaluations of advanced MLLMs, including models like GPT-4o and Gemini-1.5-Pro, reveal significant challenges: GPT-4o achieved only 49.1% average consistent accuracy in temporal order task and 70% in time-lapse estimation, with open-source models performing even poorly. These findings underscore the limitations of current MLLMs in visual temporal understanding and reasoning, highlighting the need for further improvements for their temporal capability. Our dataset can be found at https://huggingface.co/datasets/fazliimam/temporal-vqa.
title Can Multimodal LLMs do Visual Temporal Understanding and Reasoning? The answer is No!
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10674