---
configs:
- config_name: light
  data_files: /light_yes.xlsx
  features:
  - name: question
    dtype: string
  - name: candidates
    dtype: string
  - name: answer
    dtype: string
  - name: video
    dtype: string

language:
- en
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---
# MVBench

## Dataset Description

- **Repository:** [MVBench](https://github.com/OpenGVLab/Ask-Anything/blob/main/video_chat2/mvbench.ipynb)
- **Paper:** [2311.17005](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17005)
- **Point of Contact:** mailto:[kunchang li](likunchang@pjlab.org.cn)

![images](./assert/generation.png)

We introduce a novel static-to-dynamic method for defining temporal-related tasks. By converting static tasks into dynamic ones, we facilitate systematic generation of video tasks necessitating a wide range of temporal abilities, from perception to cognition. Guided by task definitions, we then **automatically transform public video annotations into multiple-choice QA** for task evaluation. This unique paradigm enables efficient creation of MVBench with minimal manual intervention while ensuring evaluation fairness through ground-truth video annotations and avoiding biased LLM scoring. The **20** temporal task examples are as follows.

![images](./assert/task_example.png)

## Evaluation

An evaluation example is provided in [mvbench.ipynb](https://github.com/OpenGVLab/Ask-Anything/blob/main/video_chat2/mvbench.ipynb). Please follow the pipeline to prepare the evaluation code for various MLLMs.

- **Preprocess**: We preserve the raw video (high resolution, long duration, etc.) along with corresponding annotations (start, end, subtitles, etc.) for future exploration; hence, the decoding of some raw videos like Perception Test may be slow.
- **Prompt**: We explore effective system prompts to encourage better temporal reasoning in MLLM, as well as efficient answer prompts for option extraction.

## Leadrboard

While an [Online leaderboard]() is under construction, the current standings are as follows:

![images](./assert/leaderboard.png)