MultiVENT-Raw: A Benchmark for Retrieval and Reasoning over Raw Videos
Online information is increasingly consumed in video format. Much of this comes in the form of *raw video*: continuous footage taken on a cell phone, with a hand-held camera, or via CCTV, which is then directly uploaded to social media platforms and content sharing services. Whereas professional or even amateur-edited footage tends to feature scripted speech, chyrons, graphics, and metadata that help contextualize its subject matter, raw video typically contains none of these things, making it a much more challenging medium for information retrieval and machine understanding. To facilitate progress in this domain, we release MultiVENT-Raw, a multilingual collection of nearly 120,000 prima...
| Authors | Reno Kriz, David Etter, Alexander Martin et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 23 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 23 September 2026 |
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