Despite recent progress in long-form video understanding, current benchmarks mostly focus on short clips or hour-scale videos. This leaves a major gap in evaluating ultra-long video understanding, where videos often last tens of hours. To bridge this gap, we introduce DramaVQA, a large-scale benchmark built upon long-form TV dramas. Containing approximately 20K question-answering (QA) pairs, the scale of DramaVQA exceeds previous long-video datasets, such as Video-MME and LVBench, by an order of magnitude. Our benchmark has two main features that make it stand out from existing datasets. First, we establish a scalable, LLM-assisted annotation pipeline that uses multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to generate complex questions, followed by strict human checking to ensure high data quality. Second, DramaVQA introduces a multi-level time structure; queries are designed across different video lengths, with the hardest questions requiring overall understanding across the entire drama. Extensive evaluations show that state-of-the-art MLLMs face major challenges when tested on these very long videos, highlighting the need for agentic AI algorithms capable of managing long-term memory. The project is available at https://github.com/xinyuehuo/DramaVQA
Yanchao Bi, Pengfei Chen, Yulong Yan, Qian Zhang, Biao Wang, Leida Li
With the popularization of livestreaming applications, automatic camera tuning has become indispensable for ordinary users to enjoy high Quality of Experience (QoE). However, the existing Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods face two challenges in camera tuning. First, they struggle to identify subtle quality difference between images, which is common in camera tuning. Second, the ability to explain fine-grained differences and to provide suggestions for camera tuning are even more lacking. To address these challenges, we first construct FGLive-Comments, an instruction tuning dataset with rich annotations of both preferences for fine-grained image pairs and quality reasoning from global and local visual evidence, which supports selective adjustment recommendations of camera parameters. Based on FGLive-Comments, we develop Q-CamTuning, a multimodal large language model for livestreaming camera tuning. Its progressive perception-evidence-guidance framework learns quality-aware visual representations, enhances fine-grained reasoning with global-local evidence, and maps quality issues to camera-parameter adjustment directions. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that Q-CamTuning outperforms existing IQA models in both quality scoring and fine-grained image pair ranking. User study also validates its ability to recommend camera tuning suggestions.