PerceptionComp: A Video Benchmark for Complex Perception-Centric Reasoning

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Main Authors: Li, Shaoxuan, Zhao, Zhixuan, Deng, Hanze, Ma, Zirun, Tian, Shulin, Liu, Zuyan, Hu, Yushi, Wu, Haoning, Dong, Yuhao, Liu, Benlin, Liu, Ziwei, Krishna, Ranjay
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author Li, Shaoxuan
Zhao, Zhixuan
Deng, Hanze
Ma, Zirun
Tian, Shulin
Liu, Zuyan
Hu, Yushi
Wu, Haoning
Dong, Yuhao
Liu, Benlin
Liu, Ziwei
Krishna, Ranjay
author_facet Li, Shaoxuan
Zhao, Zhixuan
Deng, Hanze
Ma, Zirun
Tian, Shulin
Liu, Zuyan
Hu, Yushi
Wu, Haoning
Dong, Yuhao
Liu, Benlin
Liu, Ziwei
Krishna, Ranjay
contents We introduce PerceptionComp, a manually annotated benchmark for complex, long-horizon, perception-centric video reasoning. PerceptionComp is designed so that no single moment is sufficient: answering each question requires multiple temporally separated pieces of visual evidence and compositional constraints under conjunctive and sequential logic, spanning perceptual subtasks such as objects, attributes, relations, locations, actions, and events, and requiring skills including semantic recognition, visual correspondence, temporal reasoning, and spatial reasoning. The benchmark contains 1,114 highly complex questions on 279 videos from diverse domains including city walk tours, indoor villa tours, video games, and extreme outdoor sports, with 100% manual annotation. Human studies show that PerceptionComp requires substantial test-time thinking and repeated perception steps: participants take much longer than on prior benchmarks, and accuracy drops to near chance (18.97%) when rewatching is disallowed. State-of-the-art MLLMs also perform substantially worse on PerceptionComp than on existing benchmarks: the best model in our evaluation, Gemini-3-Flash, reaches only 45.96% accuracy in the five-choice setting, while open-source models remain below 40%. These results suggest that perception-centric long-horizon video reasoning remains a major bottleneck, and we hope PerceptionComp will help drive progress in perceptual reasoning.
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spellingShingle PerceptionComp: A Video Benchmark for Complex Perception-Centric Reasoning
Li, Shaoxuan
Zhao, Zhixuan
Deng, Hanze
Ma, Zirun
Tian, Shulin
Liu, Zuyan
Hu, Yushi
Wu, Haoning
Dong, Yuhao
Liu, Benlin
Liu, Ziwei
Krishna, Ranjay
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
We introduce PerceptionComp, a manually annotated benchmark for complex, long-horizon, perception-centric video reasoning. PerceptionComp is designed so that no single moment is sufficient: answering each question requires multiple temporally separated pieces of visual evidence and compositional constraints under conjunctive and sequential logic, spanning perceptual subtasks such as objects, attributes, relations, locations, actions, and events, and requiring skills including semantic recognition, visual correspondence, temporal reasoning, and spatial reasoning. The benchmark contains 1,114 highly complex questions on 279 videos from diverse domains including city walk tours, indoor villa tours, video games, and extreme outdoor sports, with 100% manual annotation. Human studies show that PerceptionComp requires substantial test-time thinking and repeated perception steps: participants take much longer than on prior benchmarks, and accuracy drops to near chance (18.97%) when rewatching is disallowed. State-of-the-art MLLMs also perform substantially worse on PerceptionComp than on existing benchmarks: the best model in our evaluation, Gemini-3-Flash, reaches only 45.96% accuracy in the five-choice setting, while open-source models remain below 40%. These results suggest that perception-centric long-horizon video reasoning remains a major bottleneck, and we hope PerceptionComp will help drive progress in perceptual reasoning.
title PerceptionComp: A Video Benchmark for Complex Perception-Centric Reasoning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26653