Unifying Specialized Visual Encoders for Video Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01426v1
• Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:59:45 GMT
• Title: Unifying Specialized Visual Encoders for Video Language Models
• Authors: Jihoon Chung, Tyler Zhu, Max Gonzalez Saez-Diez, Juan Carlos Niebles, Honglu Zhou, Olga Russakovsky,
• Abstract summary: Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) rely on a single vision encoder for all of their visual processing. Our method, MERV, Multi-Encoder Representation of Videos, instead leverages multiple frozen visual encoders to create a unified representation of a video. MERV is up to 3.7% better in accuracy than Video-LLaVA across the standard suite video understanding benchmarks.
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• Abstract: The recent advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has ushered sophisticated reasoning capabilities into the realm of video through Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs). However, VideoLLMs currently rely on a single vision encoder for all of their visual processing, which limits the amount and type of visual information that can be conveyed to the LLM. Our method, MERV, Multi-Encoder Representation of Videos, instead leverages multiple frozen visual encoders to create a unified representation of a video, providing the VideoLLM with a comprehensive set of specialized visual knowledge. Spatio-temporally aligning the features from each encoder allows us to tackle a wider range of open-ended and multiple-choice video understanding questions and outperform prior state-of-the-art works. MERV is up to 3.7% better in accuracy than Video-LLaVA across the standard suite video understanding benchmarks, while also having a better Video-ChatGPT score. We also improve upon SeViLA, the previous best on zero-shot Perception Test accuracy, by 2.2%. MERV introduces minimal extra parameters and trains faster than equivalent single-encoder methods while parallelizing the visual processing. Finally, we provide qualitative evidence that MERV successfully captures domain knowledge from each of its encoders. Our results offer promising directions in utilizing multiple vision encoders for comprehensive video understanding.

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