MomentSeeker: A Task-Oriented Benchmark For Long-Video Moment Retrieval

TL;DR

MomentSeeker introduces a comprehensive benchmark for long-video moment retrieval, featuring diverse, lengthy videos and multiple query types, to advance research in accurate and efficient long-video understanding.

Contribution

It provides a new, diverse, and challenging benchmark for long-video moment retrieval, enabling evaluation of various approaches across multiple real-world scenarios and query modalities.

Findings

Current models struggle with accuracy and efficiency on long videos.

Latest MLLMs show limited improvements in long-video retrieval.

Benchmark facilitates future research in long-video understanding.

Abstract

Accurately locating key moments within long videos is crucial for solving long video understanding (LVU) tasks. However, existing benchmarks are either severely limited in terms of video length and task diversity, or they focus solely on the end-to-end LVU performance, making them inappropriate for evaluating whether key moments can be accurately accessed. To address this challenge, we propose MomentSeeker, a novel benchmark for long-video moment retrieval (LMVR), distinguished by the following features. First, it is created based on long and diverse videos, averaging over 1200 seconds in duration and collected from various domains, e.g., movie, anomaly, egocentric, and sports. Second, it covers a variety of real-world scenarios in three levels: global-level, event-level, object-level, covering common tasks like action recognition, object localization, and causal reasoning, etc. Third, it incorporates rich forms of queries, including text-only queries, image-conditioned queries, and video-conditioned queries. On top of MomentSeeker, we conduct comprehensive experiments for both generation-based approaches (directly using MLLMs) and retrieval-based approaches (leveraging video retrievers). Our results reveal the significant challenges in long-video moment retrieval in terms of accuracy and efficiency, despite improvements from the latest long-video MLLMs and task-specific fine-tuning. We have publicly released MomentSeeker(https://yhy-2000.github.io/MomentSeeker/) to facilitate future research in this area.