“Video-MME: The First-Ever Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark of Multi-Modal LLMs in Video Analysis”, Chaoyou Fu, Yuhan Dai, Yondong Luo, Lei Li, Shuhuai Ren, Renrui Zhang, Zihan Wang, Chenyu Zhou, Yunhang Shen, Mengdan Zhang, Peixian Chen, Yanwei Li, Shaohui Lin, Sirui Zhao, Ke Li, Tong Xu, Xiawu Zheng, Enhong Chen, Rongrong Ji, Xing Sun2024-05-31 (, , )⁠:

In the quest for artificial general intelligence, Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have emerged as a focal point in recent advancements. However, the predominant focus remains on developing their capabilities in static image understanding. The potential of MLLMs in processing sequential visual data is still insufficiently explored, highlighting the absence of a comprehensive, high-quality assessment of their performance.

In this paper, we introduce Video-MME, the first-ever full-spectrum, Multi-Modal Evaluation benchmark of MLLMs in Video analysis. Our work distinguishes from existing benchmarks through 4 key features: (1) Diversity in video types, spanning 6 primary visual domains with 30 subfields to ensure broad scenario generalizability; (2) Duration in temporal dimension, encompassing short/medium/long-term videos, ranging from 11 seconds to 1 hour, for robust contextual dynamics; (3) Breadth in data modalities, integrating multi-modal inputs besides video frames, including subtitles and audios, to unveil the all-round capabilities of MLLMs; (4) Quality in annotations, using rigorous manual labeling by expert annotators to facilitate precise and reliable model assessment.

900 videos (256 hours) are manually selected and annotated by repeatedly viewing all the video content, resulting in 2,700 question-answer pairs. With Video-MME, we extensively evaluate various state-of-the-art MLLMs, including GPT-4 series and Gemini 1.5 Pro, as well as open-source image models like InternVL-Chat-V1.5 and video models like LLaVA-NeXT-Video.

Our experiments reveal that Gemini 1.5 Pro is the best-performing commercial model, outperforming the open-source models.

Our dataset along with these findings underscores the need for further improvements in handling longer sequences and multi-modal data.

Project Page: https://video-mme.github.io/.