auroracap 0.0.3

Source code of AuroraCap

AuroraCap

Video Detailed Captioning is a key task which aims to generate compre- hensive and coherent textual descriptions of video content, benefiting both video understanding and generation.

We propose AuroraCap, a simple video caption baseline based on a large vision-language model. We follow the simplest architecture, similar to LLaVA, without additional parameters for temporal modeling. To address the overhead caused by lengthy video sequences, we implemented a token merging strategy, reducing the num- ber of visual tokens input to the LLM to just 1% of the original amount. Surprisingly, we found that this strategy results in almost no performance drop. AuroraCap shows advancing performance on various video and image captioning benchmarks compared to existing models.

You can use AuroraCap to download our model.