Video Difference Captioning: Exploring Similarities and Differences in Dynamic Scenes This article addresses the core question: What is the Video Difference Captioning task, and how does it enhance our understanding of video editing and multimodal model capabilities? Video Difference Captioning (ViDiC) is a task where models generate natural language descriptions that precisely capture both static visual elements and temporal dynamics between two video clips, ensuring coherence and factual accuracy. It extends image difference captioning into the video realm, emphasizing motion, event progression, and stylistic shifts. Introduction: The Importance of Understanding Video Differences This section answers the core question: Why is …
Video-R4: Teaching Machines to Pause, Zoom and Re-read Text-Rich Videos “Why do most video-QA models hallucinate small, fleeting text? Because they never get a second look. Video-R4 fixes this by adding an explicit ‘visual rumination’ loop—select, zoom, re-encode, repeat—boosting M4-ViteVQA accuracy from 26 % to 64 % without extra data or a larger backbone.” What problem is this article solving? How to reliably answer questions that depend on tiny, transient text in the wild—news tickers, lecture slides, UI walk-throughs—when single-pass models routinely overlook or mis-read it. The single-pass ceiling: five pain-points in one shot Fixed frame budget → text appears …