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# H2VU-Benchmark: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Hierarchical Holistic Video Understanding
## 👀 H²VU-Benchmark Overview
H²VU-Benchmark is designed to comprehensively assess the capabilities of video understanding models, particularly in real-world scenarios. It addresses limitations of existing benchmarks by focusing on **extended video durations, advanced task complexity, and diversified real-world data.**
## Key Features
* **Three-Tier Hierarchical Competency Classification:** (L-1 to L-3) with **10,183 evaluation tasks** covering a broad spectrum of diverse data.
* **Two Main Categories:**
* **Offline General Video:** Employs common perception and reasoning tasks, along with novel tasks focusing on **countercommonsense comprehension** and **trajectory tracking.** (27 evaluation task types)
* **Online Streaming Video:** Utilizes standard perception and reasoning tasks. (20 evaluation task types)
## Key Differentiators from Existing Benchmarks
Our work distinguishes itself through three key features:
* **Extended Video Duration:**
* Encompasses a diverse range from a **few seconds to 1.5 hours**, significantly expanding the temporal scope.
* Evaluates models' ability to capture **short-term dynamics** and model **long-term dependencies.**
* **Advanced Task Complexity:**
* Builds on traditional perceptual and reasoning tasks with the introduction of two new modules:
* **Counterfactual Reasoning:** Assesses vision-oriented understanding through tasks that defy common sense (e.g., implausible causal relationships).
* **Trajectory State Tracking:** Evaluates the ability to track and predict the states and trajectories of targets in complex dynamic scenes.
* **Diversified Real-World Data:**
* Incorporates **first-person streaming video data** to better simulate real-world streaming data processing needs.
* Explores multimodal models' performance in understanding first-person streaming video, crucial for AI agents functioning as real-world assistants or autonomous agents.