Everything Can Be Described in Words: A Simple Unified Multi-Modal Framework with Semantic and Temporal Alignment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09081v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 05:28:24 GMT
• Title: Everything Can Be Described in Words: A Simple Unified Multi-Modal Framework with Semantic and Temporal Alignment
• Authors: Xiaowei Bi, Zheyuan Xu,
• Abstract summary: Long Video Question Answering (LVQA) is challenging due to the need for temporal reasoning and large-scale multimodal data processing.<n>We introduce UMaT, a retrieval-augmented generation framework that efficiently processes extremely long videos.<n>We show that UMaT outperforms existing methods in multimodal integration, long-form video understanding, and sparse information retrieval.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Long Video Question Answering (LVQA) is challenging due to the need for temporal reasoning and large-scale multimodal data processing. Existing methods struggle with retrieving cross-modal information from long videos, especially when relevant details are sparsely distributed. We introduce UMaT (Unified Multi-modal as Text), a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework that efficiently processes extremely long videos while maintaining cross-modal coherence. UMaT converts visual and auditory data into a unified textual representation, ensuring semantic and temporal alignment. Short video clips are analyzed using a vision-language model, while automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcribes dialogue. These text-based representations are structured into temporally aligned segments, with adaptive filtering to remove redundancy and retain salient details. The processed data is embedded into a vector database, enabling precise retrieval of dispersed yet relevant content. Experiments on a benchmark LVQA dataset show that UMaT outperforms existing methods in multimodal integration, long-form video understanding, and sparse information retrieval. Its scalability and interpretability allow it to process videos over an hour long while maintaining semantic and temporal coherence. These findings underscore the importance of structured retrieval and multimodal synchronization for advancing LVQA and long-form AI systems.

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