StreamPro: From Reactive Perception to Proactive Decision-Making in Streaming Video

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Main Authors: Li, Ao, Xiao, Zihan, Yue, Zihao, Xu, Boshen, Yao, Linli, Li, Jiaze, Fu, Pei, Ju, Jianzhong, Luan, Jian, Jin, Qin
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author Li, Ao
Xiao, Zihan
Yue, Zihao
Xu, Boshen
Yao, Linli
Li, Jiaze
Fu, Pei
Ju, Jianzhong
Luan, Jian
Jin, Qin
author_facet Li, Ao
Xiao, Zihan
Yue, Zihao
Xu, Boshen
Yao, Linli
Li, Jiaze
Fu, Pei
Ju, Jianzhong
Luan, Jian
Jin, Qin
contents Proactive streaming video understanding requires models to continuously process video streams and decide when to respond, rather than merely what to respond. This naturally introduces a decision-making problem under partial observations, where models must balance early prediction against sufficient evidence. However, existing benchmarks largely follow a "see-then-answer" paradigm, where responses are triggered only after explicit evidence appears, effectively reducing proactive reasoning to delayed perception. As a result, they fail to evaluate a model's ability to make timely and reliable decisions under incomplete observations. Moreover, training proactive models is inherently challenging due to the extreme imbalance between silence and response signals in streaming trajectories, as well as the need to jointly optimize response correctness and timing. To address these challenges, we introduce StreamPro-Bench, a new benchmark that evaluates streaming models from three complementary perspectives: Perception Understanding, Temporal Reasoning, and Proactive Agency, where the last measures a model's ability to make early yet reliable decisions under partial observations. We further propose StreamPro, a two-stage training framework for proactive learning. First, we introduce CB-Stream Loss to mitigate the severe supervision imbalance during supervised fine-tuning (SFT). Then, we apply Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) with a multi-grained reward design that involves both turn-level and trajectory-level rewards. Experiments show that StreamPro significantly improves proactive performance. On StreamPro-Bench, it achieves 41.5, substantially outperforming the previous best (10.4), while also maintaining strong performance on real-time streaming benchmarks, achieving 78.9 on StreamingBench-RTVU.
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spellingShingle StreamPro: From Reactive Perception to Proactive Decision-Making in Streaming Video
Li, Ao
Xiao, Zihan
Yue, Zihao
Xu, Boshen
Yao, Linli
Li, Jiaze
Fu, Pei
Ju, Jianzhong
Luan, Jian
Jin, Qin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Proactive streaming video understanding requires models to continuously process video streams and decide when to respond, rather than merely what to respond. This naturally introduces a decision-making problem under partial observations, where models must balance early prediction against sufficient evidence. However, existing benchmarks largely follow a "see-then-answer" paradigm, where responses are triggered only after explicit evidence appears, effectively reducing proactive reasoning to delayed perception. As a result, they fail to evaluate a model's ability to make timely and reliable decisions under incomplete observations. Moreover, training proactive models is inherently challenging due to the extreme imbalance between silence and response signals in streaming trajectories, as well as the need to jointly optimize response correctness and timing. To address these challenges, we introduce StreamPro-Bench, a new benchmark that evaluates streaming models from three complementary perspectives: Perception Understanding, Temporal Reasoning, and Proactive Agency, where the last measures a model's ability to make early yet reliable decisions under partial observations. We further propose StreamPro, a two-stage training framework for proactive learning. First, we introduce CB-Stream Loss to mitigate the severe supervision imbalance during supervised fine-tuning (SFT). Then, we apply Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) with a multi-grained reward design that involves both turn-level and trajectory-level rewards. Experiments show that StreamPro significantly improves proactive performance. On StreamPro-Bench, it achieves 41.5, substantially outperforming the previous best (10.4), while also maintaining strong performance on real-time streaming benchmarks, achieving 78.9 on StreamingBench-RTVU.
title StreamPro: From Reactive Perception to Proactive Decision-Making in Streaming Video
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16381