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Causal Discovery in Video Reasoning
2 papers with code · 1 benchmark · 2 datasets archive 2025-07-28
Video causal reasoning aims to achieve a high-level understanding of video content from a causal perspective. However, current video reasoning tasks are limited in scope, primarily executed in a question-answering paradigm and focusing on short videos containing only a single event and simple causal relationships, lacking comprehensive and structured causality analysis for videos with multiple events. To fill this gap, a new task and dataset, MECD is introduced. It aims to uncover the causal relationships between events distributed chronologically across long videos. Given visual segments and textual descriptions of events, MECD requires identifying the causal associations between these events to derive a comprehensive, structured event-level video causal diagram explaining why and how the final result event occurred.
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| Dataset | Best model (first row in archive order) | Paper | Code | Syntology | Compare |
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| MECD (1 row) | VGCM | MECD: Unlocking Multi-Event Causal Discovery in Video Reasoning | code | Syntology ran 8 of 8 samples · 0 unverified | Compare |
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26 Sep 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 8 of 8 samples · 0 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)Video causal reasoning aims to achieve a high-level understanding of video content from a causal perspective.
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1 Apr 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)To address this gap, we capitalize on the unique properties of cartoons and construct CausalChaos!, a novel, challenging causal Why-QA dataset built upon the iconic "Tom and Jerry" cartoon series.
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