Seeing the Scene Matters: Revealing Forgetting in Video Understanding Models with a Scene-Aware Long-Video Benchmark
Long video understanding (LVU) remains a core challenge in multimodal learning. Although recent vision-language models (VLMs) have made notable progress, existing benchmarks mainly focus on either fine-grained perception or coarse summarization, offering limited insight into temporal understanding over long contexts. In this work, we define a scene as a coherent segment of a video in which both visual and semantic contexts remain consistent, aligning with human perception. This leads us to a key question: can current VLMs reason effectively over long, scene-level contexts? To answer this, we introduce a new benchmark, SceneBench, designed to provide scene-level challenges. Our evaluation reveals a sharp drop in accuracy when VLMs attempt to answer scene-level questions, indicating significant forgetting of long-range context. To further validate these findings, we propose Scene Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Scene-RAG), which constructs a dynamic scene memory by retrieving and integrating relevant context across scenes. This Scene-RAG improves VLM performance by +2.50%, confirming that current models still struggle with long-context retention. We hope SceneBench will encourage future research toward VLMs with more robust, human-like video comprehension.
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