Artificial Intelligence · 18.08.2026, 12:55 UTC
Tracking the Truth: Object-Centric Spatio-Temporal Monitoring for Video Large Language Models
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | arXiv cs.AI ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 18.08.2026 UTC |
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arXiv:2605.08974v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced video understanding, they remain highly prone to hallucinations in dynamic scenes. We argue this stems from a failure in spatio-temporal monitoring, the ability to persistently track object identities, states, and relations over time. Existing benchmarks obscure this deficit by relying on single final-answer evaluations for queries that can often be resolved via local visual cues or statistical priors. To rigorously diagnose this, we introduce STEMO-Bench (Spatio-TEmporal MOnitoring), a benchmark of human-verified object-centric facts that evaluates intermediate reasoning by decomposing queries into sub-questions, distinguishing genuine temporal understanding from coincidental correctness. To address failure modes exposed by STEMO, we propose STEMO-Track, a novel object-centric framework that explicitly constructs and reasons over structured object trajectories via chunk-wise state extraction and temporal aggregation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our object-centric framework significantly reduces hallucinated answers and improves spatio-temporal reasoning consistency over state-of-the-art MLLMs.