FiLA-Video: Spatio-Temporal Compression for Fine-Grained Long Video Understanding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20384v1
• Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 03:09:46 GMT
• Title: FiLA-Video: Spatio-Temporal Compression for Fine-Grained Long Video Understanding
• Authors: Yanan Guo, Wenhui Dong, Jun Song, Shiding Zhu, Xuan Zhang, Hanqing Yang, Yingbo Wang, Yang Du, Xianing Chen, Bo Zheng,
• Abstract summary: complexity of video data and contextual processing limitations still hinder long-video comprehension.<n>We propose FiLA-Video, a novel framework that integrates multiple frames into a single representation.<n>FiLA-Video achieves superior efficiency and accuracy in long-video comprehension compared to existing methods.
• Score: 17.71123451197036
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advancements in video understanding within visual large language models (VLLMs) have led to notable progress. However, the complexity of video data and contextual processing limitations still hinder long-video comprehension. A common approach is video feature compression to reduce token input to large language models, yet many methods either fail to prioritize essential features, leading to redundant inter-frame information, or introduce computationally expensive modules.To address these issues, we propose FiLA(Fine-grained Vision Language Model)-Video, a novel framework that leverages a lightweight dynamic-weight multi-frame fusion strategy, which adaptively integrates multiple frames into a single representation while preserving key video information and reducing computational costs. To enhance frame selection for fusion, we introduce a keyframe selection strategy, effectively identifying informative frames from a larger pool for improved summarization. Additionally, we present a simple yet effective long-video training data generation strategy, boosting model performance without extensive manual annotation. Experimental results demonstrate that FiLA-Video achieves superior efficiency and accuracy in long-video comprehension compared to existing methods.

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