LLaFEA: Frame-Event Complementary Fusion for Fine-Grained Spatiotemporal Understanding in LMMs

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Main Authors: Zhou, Hanyu, Lee, Gim Hee
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author Zhou, Hanyu
Lee, Gim Hee
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Lee, Gim Hee
contents Large multimodal models (LMMs) excel in scene understanding but struggle with fine-grained spatiotemporal reasoning due to weak alignment between linguistic and visual representations. Existing methods map textual positions and durations into the visual space encoded from frame-based videos, but suffer from temporal sparsity that limits language-vision temporal coordination. To address this issue, we introduce LLaFEA (Large Language and Frame-Event Assistant) to leverage event cameras for temporally dense perception and frame-event fusion. Our approach employs a cross-attention mechanism to integrate complementary spatial and temporal features, followed by self-attention matching for global spatio-temporal associations. We further embed textual position and duration tokens into the fused visual space to enhance fine-grained alignment. This unified framework ensures robust spatio-temporal coordinate alignment, enabling LMMs to interpret scenes at any position and any time. In addition, we construct a dataset of real-world frames-events with coordinate instructions and conduct extensive experiments to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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spellingShingle LLaFEA: Frame-Event Complementary Fusion for Fine-Grained Spatiotemporal Understanding in LMMs
Zhou, Hanyu
Lee, Gim Hee
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Large multimodal models (LMMs) excel in scene understanding but struggle with fine-grained spatiotemporal reasoning due to weak alignment between linguistic and visual representations. Existing methods map textual positions and durations into the visual space encoded from frame-based videos, but suffer from temporal sparsity that limits language-vision temporal coordination. To address this issue, we introduce LLaFEA (Large Language and Frame-Event Assistant) to leverage event cameras for temporally dense perception and frame-event fusion. Our approach employs a cross-attention mechanism to integrate complementary spatial and temporal features, followed by self-attention matching for global spatio-temporal associations. We further embed textual position and duration tokens into the fused visual space to enhance fine-grained alignment. This unified framework ensures robust spatio-temporal coordinate alignment, enabling LMMs to interpret scenes at any position and any time. In addition, we construct a dataset of real-world frames-events with coordinate instructions and conduct extensive experiments to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
title LLaFEA: Frame-Event Complementary Fusion for Fine-Grained Spatiotemporal Understanding in LMMs
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06934