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VideoMultiAgents: A Multi-Agent Framework for Video Question Answering

25 Apr 2025arXiv:2504.20091archive 2025-07-28

Noriyuki Kugo, Xiang Li, Zixin Li, Ashish Gupta, Arpandeep Khatua, Nidhish Jain, Chaitanya Patel, Yuta Kyuragi, Yasunori Ishii, Masamoto Tanabiki, Kazuki Kozuka, Ehsan Adeli

Video Question Answering (VQA) inherently relies on multimodal reasoning, integrating visual, temporal, and linguistic cues to achieve a deeper understanding of video content. However, many existing methods rely on feeding frame-level captions into a single model, making it difficult to adequately capture temporal and interactive contexts. To address this limitation, we introduce VideoMultiAgents, a framework that integrates specialized agents for vision, scene graph analysis, and text processing. It enhances video understanding leveraging complementary multimodal reasoning from independently operating agents. Our approach is also supplemented with a question-guided caption generation, which produces captions that highlight objects, actions, and temporal transitions directly relevant to a given query, thus improving the answer accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on Intent-QA (79.0%, +6.2% over previous SOTA), EgoSchema subset (75.4%, +3.4%), and NExT-QA (79.6%, +0.4%). The source code is available at https://github.com/PanasonicConnect/VideoMultiAgents.

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Caption GenerationMultimodal ReasoningQuestion AnsweringVideo Question AnsweringVideo UnderstandingVisual Question Answering (VQA)Zero-Shot Video Question Answer

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Zero-Shot Video Question Answer NExT-QA VideoMultiAgent (GPT-4o) Accuracy 79.6 #1 of 27 Archive leaderboard report

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