LET-US: Long Event-Text Understanding of Scenes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07401v1
• Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2025 16:02:41 GMT
• Title: LET-US: Long Event-Text Understanding of Scenes
• Authors: Rui Chen, Xingyu Chen, Shaoan Wang, Shihan Kong, Junzhi Yu,
• Abstract summary: Event cameras output event streams as sparse, asynchronous data with microsecond-level temporal resolution.<n>We introduce LET-US, a framework for long event-stream--text comprehension.<n>We use an adaptive compression mechanism to reduce the volume of input events while preserving critical visual details.
• Score: 23.376693904132786
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Event cameras output event streams as sparse, asynchronous data with microsecond-level temporal resolution, enabling visual perception with low latency and a high dynamic range. While existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved significant success in understanding and analyzing RGB video content, they either fail to interpret event streams effectively or remain constrained to very short sequences. In this paper, we introduce LET-US, a framework for long event-stream--text comprehension that employs an adaptive compression mechanism to reduce the volume of input events while preserving critical visual details. LET-US thus establishes a new frontier in cross-modal inferential understanding over extended event sequences. To bridge the substantial modality gap between event streams and textual representations, we adopt a two-stage optimization paradigm that progressively equips our model with the capacity to interpret event-based scenes. To handle the voluminous temporal information inherent in long event streams, we leverage text-guided cross-modal queries for feature reduction, augmented by hierarchical clustering and similarity computation to distill the most representative event features. Moreover, we curate and construct a large-scale event-text aligned dataset to train our model, achieving tighter alignment of event features within the LLM embedding space. We also develop a comprehensive benchmark covering a diverse set of tasks -- reasoning, captioning, classification, temporal localization and moment retrieval. Experimental results demonstrate that LET-US outperforms prior state-of-the-art MLLMs in both descriptive accuracy and semantic comprehension on long-duration event streams. All datasets, codes, and models will be publicly available.

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