DisCo: Towards Distinct and Coherent Visual Encapsulation in Video MLLMs

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Autores principales: Zhao, Jiahe, Zheng, Rongkun, Wang, Yi, Wang, Helin, Zhao, Hengshuang
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author Zhao, Jiahe
Zheng, Rongkun
Wang, Yi
Wang, Helin
Zhao, Hengshuang
author_facet Zhao, Jiahe
Zheng, Rongkun
Wang, Yi
Wang, Helin
Zhao, Hengshuang
contents In video Multimodal Large Language Models (video MLLMs), the visual encapsulation process plays a pivotal role in converting video contents into representative tokens for LLM input. While linear projectors are widely employed for encapsulation, they introduce semantic indistinctness and temporal incoherence when applied to videos. Conversely, the structure of resamplers shows promise in tackling these challenges, but an effective solution remains unexplored. Drawing inspiration from resampler structures, we introduce DisCo, a novel visual encapsulation method designed to yield semantically distinct and temporally coherent visual tokens for video MLLMs. DisCo integrates two key components: (1) A Visual Concept Discriminator (VCD) module, assigning unique semantics for visual tokens by associating them in pair with discriminative concepts in the video. (2) A Temporal Focus Calibrator (TFC) module, ensuring consistent temporal focus of visual tokens to video elements across every video frame. Through extensive experiments on multiple video MLLM frameworks, we demonstrate that DisCo remarkably outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods across a variety of video understanding benchmarks, while also achieving higher token efficiency thanks to the reduction of semantic indistinctness. The code: https://github.com/ZJHTerry18/DisCo.
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spellingShingle DisCo: Towards Distinct and Coherent Visual Encapsulation in Video MLLMs
Zhao, Jiahe
Zheng, Rongkun
Wang, Yi
Wang, Helin
Zhao, Hengshuang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In video Multimodal Large Language Models (video MLLMs), the visual encapsulation process plays a pivotal role in converting video contents into representative tokens for LLM input. While linear projectors are widely employed for encapsulation, they introduce semantic indistinctness and temporal incoherence when applied to videos. Conversely, the structure of resamplers shows promise in tackling these challenges, but an effective solution remains unexplored. Drawing inspiration from resampler structures, we introduce DisCo, a novel visual encapsulation method designed to yield semantically distinct and temporally coherent visual tokens for video MLLMs. DisCo integrates two key components: (1) A Visual Concept Discriminator (VCD) module, assigning unique semantics for visual tokens by associating them in pair with discriminative concepts in the video. (2) A Temporal Focus Calibrator (TFC) module, ensuring consistent temporal focus of visual tokens to video elements across every video frame. Through extensive experiments on multiple video MLLM frameworks, we demonstrate that DisCo remarkably outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods across a variety of video understanding benchmarks, while also achieving higher token efficiency thanks to the reduction of semantic indistinctness. The code: https://github.com/ZJHTerry18/DisCo.
title DisCo: Towards Distinct and Coherent Visual Encapsulation in Video MLLMs
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10302