TextVidBench: A Benchmark for Long Video Scene Text Understanding

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Main Authors: Zhong, Yangyang, Qi, Ji, Yao, Yuan, Luo, Pengxin, Yan, Yunfeng, Qi, Donglian, Liu, Zhiyuan, Chua, Tat-Seng
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author Zhong, Yangyang
Qi, Ji
Yao, Yuan
Luo, Pengxin
Yan, Yunfeng
Qi, Donglian
Liu, Zhiyuan
Chua, Tat-Seng
author_facet Zhong, Yangyang
Qi, Ji
Yao, Yuan
Luo, Pengxin
Yan, Yunfeng
Qi, Donglian
Liu, Zhiyuan
Chua, Tat-Seng
contents Despite recent progress on the short-video Text-Visual Question Answering (ViteVQA) task - largely driven by benchmarks such as M4-ViteVQA - existing datasets still suffer from limited video duration and narrow evaluation scopes, making it difficult to adequately assess the growing capabilities of powerful multimodal large language models (MLLMs). To address these limitations, we introduce TextVidBench, the first benchmark specifically designed for long-video text question answering (>3 minutes). TextVidBench makes three key contributions: 1) Cross-domain long-video coverage: Spanning 9 categories (e.g., news, sports, gaming), with an average video length of 2306 seconds, enabling more realistic evaluation of long-video understanding. 2) A three-stage evaluation framework: "Text Needle-in-Haystack -> Temporal Grounding -> Text Dynamics Captioning". 3) High-quality fine-grained annotations: Containing over 5,000 question-answer pairs with detailed semantic labeling. Furthermore, we propose an efficient paradigm for improving large models through: (i) introducing the IT-Rope mechanism and temporal prompt engineering to enhance temporal perception, (ii) adopting non-uniform positional encoding to better handle long video sequences, and (iii) applying lightweight fine-tuning on video-text data. Extensive experiments on multiple public datasets as well as TextVidBench demonstrate that our new benchmark presents significant challenges to existing models, while our proposed method offers valuable insights into improving long-video scene text understanding capabilities.
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spellingShingle TextVidBench: A Benchmark for Long Video Scene Text Understanding
Zhong, Yangyang
Qi, Ji
Yao, Yuan
Luo, Pengxin
Yan, Yunfeng
Qi, Donglian
Liu, Zhiyuan
Chua, Tat-Seng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Despite recent progress on the short-video Text-Visual Question Answering (ViteVQA) task - largely driven by benchmarks such as M4-ViteVQA - existing datasets still suffer from limited video duration and narrow evaluation scopes, making it difficult to adequately assess the growing capabilities of powerful multimodal large language models (MLLMs). To address these limitations, we introduce TextVidBench, the first benchmark specifically designed for long-video text question answering (>3 minutes). TextVidBench makes three key contributions: 1) Cross-domain long-video coverage: Spanning 9 categories (e.g., news, sports, gaming), with an average video length of 2306 seconds, enabling more realistic evaluation of long-video understanding. 2) A three-stage evaluation framework: "Text Needle-in-Haystack -> Temporal Grounding -> Text Dynamics Captioning". 3) High-quality fine-grained annotations: Containing over 5,000 question-answer pairs with detailed semantic labeling. Furthermore, we propose an efficient paradigm for improving large models through: (i) introducing the IT-Rope mechanism and temporal prompt engineering to enhance temporal perception, (ii) adopting non-uniform positional encoding to better handle long video sequences, and (iii) applying lightweight fine-tuning on video-text data. Extensive experiments on multiple public datasets as well as TextVidBench demonstrate that our new benchmark presents significant challenges to existing models, while our proposed method offers valuable insights into improving long-video scene text understanding capabilities.
title TextVidBench: A Benchmark for Long Video Scene Text Understanding
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04983