Can You Count to Nine? A Human Evaluation Benchmark for Counting Limits in Modern Text-to-Video Models
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| author | Guo, Xuyang Huang, Zekai Huo, Jiayan Liang, Yingyu Shi, Zhenmei Song, Zhao Zhang, Jiahao |
| author_facet | Guo, Xuyang Huang, Zekai Huo, Jiayan Liang, Yingyu Shi, Zhenmei Song, Zhao Zhang, Jiahao |
| contents | Generative models have driven significant progress in a variety of AI tasks, including text-to-video generation, where models like Video LDM and Stable Video Diffusion can produce realistic, movie-level videos from textual instructions. Despite these advances, current text-to-video models still face fundamental challenges in reliably following human commands, particularly in adhering to simple numerical constraints. In this work, we present T2VCountBench, a specialized benchmark aiming at evaluating the counting capability of SOTA text-to-video models as of 2025. Our benchmark employs rigorous human evaluations to measure the number of generated objects and covers a diverse range of generators, covering both open-source and commercial models. Extensive experiments reveal that all existing models struggle with basic numerical tasks, almost always failing to generate videos with an object count of 9 or fewer. Furthermore, our comprehensive ablation studies explore how factors like video style, temporal dynamics, and multilingual inputs may influence counting performance. We also explore prompt refinement techniques and demonstrate that decomposing the task into smaller subtasks does not easily alleviate these limitations. Our findings highlight important challenges in current text-to-video generation and provide insights for future research aimed at improving adherence to basic numerical constraints. |
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| spellingShingle | Can You Count to Nine? A Human Evaluation Benchmark for Counting Limits in Modern Text-to-Video Models Guo, Xuyang Huang, Zekai Huo, Jiayan Liang, Yingyu Shi, Zhenmei Song, Zhao Zhang, Jiahao Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Generative models have driven significant progress in a variety of AI tasks, including text-to-video generation, where models like Video LDM and Stable Video Diffusion can produce realistic, movie-level videos from textual instructions. Despite these advances, current text-to-video models still face fundamental challenges in reliably following human commands, particularly in adhering to simple numerical constraints. In this work, we present T2VCountBench, a specialized benchmark aiming at evaluating the counting capability of SOTA text-to-video models as of 2025. Our benchmark employs rigorous human evaluations to measure the number of generated objects and covers a diverse range of generators, covering both open-source and commercial models. Extensive experiments reveal that all existing models struggle with basic numerical tasks, almost always failing to generate videos with an object count of 9 or fewer. Furthermore, our comprehensive ablation studies explore how factors like video style, temporal dynamics, and multilingual inputs may influence counting performance. We also explore prompt refinement techniques and demonstrate that decomposing the task into smaller subtasks does not easily alleviate these limitations. Our findings highlight important challenges in current text-to-video generation and provide insights for future research aimed at improving adherence to basic numerical constraints. |
| title | Can You Count to Nine? A Human Evaluation Benchmark for Counting Limits in Modern Text-to-Video Models |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04051 |