Chat-UniVi: Unified Visual Representation Empowers Large Language Models with Image and Video Understanding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08046v3
• Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 15:21:09 GMT
• Title: Chat-UniVi: Unified Visual Representation Empowers Large Language Models with Image and Video Understanding
• Authors: Peng Jin, Ryuichi Takanobu, Wancai Zhang, Xiaochun Cao, Li Yuan,
• Abstract summary: Chat-UniVi is a Unified Vision-language model capable of comprehending and engaging in conversations involving images and videos. We employ a set of dynamic visual tokens to uniformly represent images and videos. We leverage a multi-scale representation, enabling the model to perceive both high-level semantic concepts and low-level visual details.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Large language models have demonstrated impressive universal capabilities across a wide range of open-ended tasks and have extended their utility to encompass multimodal conversations. However, existing methods encounter challenges in effectively handling both image and video understanding, particularly with limited visual tokens. In this work, we introduce Chat-UniVi, a Unified Vision-language model capable of comprehending and engaging in conversations involving images and videos through a unified visual representation. Specifically, we employ a set of dynamic visual tokens to uniformly represent images and videos. This representation framework empowers the model to efficiently utilize a limited number of visual tokens to simultaneously capture the spatial details necessary for images and the comprehensive temporal relationship required for videos. Moreover, we leverage a multi-scale representation, enabling the model to perceive both high-level semantic concepts and low-level visual details. Notably, Chat-UniVi is trained on a mixed dataset containing both images and videos, allowing direct application to tasks involving both mediums without requiring any modifications. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that Chat-UniVi consistently outperforms even existing methods exclusively designed for either images or videos. Code is available at https://github.com/PKU-YuanGroup/Chat-UniVi.

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