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arxiv: 2606.24602 · v1 · pith:BAC4VYXInew · submitted 2026-06-23 · 💻 cs.CV

ViTexQA: A Multi-Frame Temporal Perception Dataset for Video Text Question Answering

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keywords video question answeringtemporal reasoningmulti-frame perceptiondataset constructionchain-of-thought annotationmultimodal large language models
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ViTexQA is a video-text QA dataset where every question requires fusing text across multiple frames.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Existing video text QA datasets mostly allow answers from single frames, missing the real demand for integrating text that appears over time. The paper introduces ViTexQA built through a Chain-of-Thought pipeline that adds temporal constraints so every question needs cross-frame text fusion. It also presents FrameThinker, which first does supervised fine-tuning to create frame-aware reasoning chains and then applies reinforcement learning with multi-frame coherence rewards. On this dataset the method raises ROUGE-L scores by 6.3 percent over current baselines.

Core claim

We present ViTexQA, a large-scale video-text QA dataset, and FrameThinker for robust multi-frame temporal reasoning. We build ViTexQA via a quality-controlled Chain-of-Thought annotation pipeline boosted with temporal constraints; all its QA pairs demand cross-frame text fusion to solve, enforcing true temporal reliance. FrameThinker adopts two-stage training for explicit temporal modeling: CoT-Guided Supervised Fine-Tuning generates frame-aware reasoning chains, followed by Temporally-grounded Reinforcement Learning optimized with multi-frame coherence rewards.

What carries the argument

The quality-controlled Chain-of-Thought annotation pipeline with temporal constraints that forces every QA pair to require cross-frame text fusion.

If this is right

  • Video text understanding models must integrate textual cues that are distributed across time rather than present in one image.
  • Two-stage training that first produces frame-aware chains and then optimizes for multi-frame coherence yields measurable gains on temporal tasks.
  • Datasets that enforce cross-frame reliance expose the gap between current MLLM performance and real-world video text demands.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar temporal-constraint pipelines could be applied to other video tasks such as action recognition or event localization to reduce single-frame shortcuts.
  • The performance lift from the RL stage suggests that coherence rewards may transfer to longer videos where text appears even more sparsely.
  • If single-frame shortcuts remain in other datasets, retraining on ViTexQA-style data might improve generalization to uncurated video streams.

Load-bearing premise

The annotation pipeline with temporal constraints actually creates questions that cannot be answered from any single frame.

What would settle it

Human or model tests on isolated frames showing that a substantial share of ViTexQA questions can still be answered without seeing other frames.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.24602 by Chen Duan, Kai Zhou, Pengfei Yan, Tongkun Guan, Zhentao Guo, Zining Wang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Single-frame and multi-frame perception examples. (a) Single-frame percep￾tion, where the answer is derived from textual content within a single frame (such as reading “Waterloo 26” from the red bus.). All compared models answer correctly on such single-frame perception questions. (b) Multi-frame perception, which requires the model to integrate textual, spatial, and temporal cues across multiple frames (s… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Statistical overview of our ViTexQA dataset. (a) Video genre taxonomy with six major categories and their subcategories. (b) Distribution of video durations. (c) Video count distribution across six major categories. (d) Length distributions of ques￾tions (left) and CoT annotations with answers (right) measured in word count. comprehensive evaluation suites that assess model performance from multiple perspe… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Video Dataset Construction pipeline of our proposed ViTexQA. (a) Manual three-round annotation pipeline for real videos. (Round 1) Initial Generation. (Round 2) Quality Scoring. (Round 3) Revision and Return Scoring. (b) Synthetic scrolling text video pipeline. By randomly selecting background images and text corpus, setting random rendering parameters and scrolling methods, it generates 30s∼600s random vi… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Overall pipeline of FrameThinker. In stage 1, video frames sampled via dynamic sampling are fed into multi-frame perception CoT-guided SFT. In stage 2, following the standard GRPO approach, rfmt, rtmp, and rcnt are designed to enable the model to be further optimized for multi-frame perception. To ensure perception quality and temporal coherence, we then connect the temporal evidence to the final answer. T… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The model’s performance on ViTexQA is compared under different resolutions and frame sampling settings. Ablation studies on FrameThinker [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Video demonstrations of various scenarios in the ViTexQA dataset. excluded from the dataset. This threshold ensures that retained videos con￾tain sufficient textual information distributed across frames to support mean￾ingful temporal perception tasks. The OCR-based filtering process involved sampling frames at regular intervals (every 5 seconds) and aggregating de￾tected text instances to estimate overall… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: These videos are specifically designed such that textual information is [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Video demonstration of synthesized “Rolling_text” scenarios from the ViTexQA dataset. transition animations include dissolve, wipe, and slide effects to simulate re￾alistic video editing techniques. The temporal distribution of text ensures that complete semantic units emerge only through observing consecutive frames, directly enforcing the temporal perception requirement central to ViTexQA. Metadata Stati… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Word cloud distribution in ViTexQA dataset. C Details of Annotation This section elaborates on the Quality-Controlled annotationmethodology em￾ployed to construct ViTexQA. C.1 Annotation of Real Video Instances In stark contrast to prevalent practices that rely on initial machine-generated an￾notations followed by human verification, our annotation process was conducted entirely by trained human annotators… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Comprehensive limitations of Initial Generation. Round 2: Quality Scoring. To maintain stringent quality standards, four independent evaluators systematically reviewed all candidate QA pairs generated in Round 1. Each evaluator assesses the QA pairs according to the three-level scoring criteria in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Three-level scoring of Quality Scoring. – Answer Annotation. The complete rolling or sequentially displayed text content synthesized for each video directly served as the answer, ensuring perfect alignment between ground truth and visual content. – Question Standardization. To maintain uniformity and facilitate system￾atic evaluation, all questions for synthetic videos were standardized to: “What is the c… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Modification limitations of Revision and Return Scoring [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: The training curves of our FrameThinker. immediately following colons (:)· · · . Even when using regularization to extract key content, other irrelevant information may still be extracted. To mitigate the interference of such irrelevant content and ensure robust evaluation of models’ actual answer quality, we employ ROUGE-L scores as our primary evaluation metric to assess the output quality across differ… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Representative Examples from ViTexQA [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_13.png] view at source ↗
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Despite remarkable progress in multimodal understanding, current MLLMs still exhibit limitations in video text understanding, particularly when semantics emerge through the integration of temporally distributed textual cues across multiple frames. This perception challenge fundamentally differs from static image text understanding, yet existing datasets fail to capture: the vast majority of questions remain answerable from single frames, inadequately reflecting real-world video text comprehension demands. To address this, we present ViTexQA, a large-scale video-text QA dataset, and FrameThinker for robust multi-frame temporal reasoning. We build ViTexQA via a quality-controlled Chain-of-Thought (CoT) annotation pipeline boosted with temporal constraints; all its QA pairs demand cross-frame text fusion to solve, enforcing true temporal reliance. FrameThinker adopts two-stage training for explicit temporal modeling: CoT-Guided Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) generates frame-aware reasoning chains, followed by Temporally-grounded Reinforcement Learning (RL) optimized with multi-frame coherence rewards. Evaluations show our method outperforms SOTA baselines on ViTexQA, lifting ROUGE-L by 6.3%.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces ViTexQA, a large-scale video-text QA dataset constructed via a quality-controlled CoT annotation pipeline with temporal constraints, claiming that all QA pairs require cross-frame text fusion and cannot be solved from single frames. It also presents FrameThinker, a two-stage model using CoT-Guided SFT followed by Temporally-grounded RL with multi-frame coherence rewards, which outperforms SOTA baselines on ViTexQA with a 6.3% ROUGE-L improvement.

Significance. If the temporal requirement claim holds and is verified, ViTexQA would address a clear gap in existing video QA datasets by enforcing multi-frame reasoning, providing a more realistic benchmark for MLLM temporal perception. The explicit two-stage training approach with coherence rewards offers a concrete method for improving temporal modeling, which could influence future work on video understanding if the gains are reproducible.

major comments (3)
  1. [§3] §3 (Dataset Construction), specifically the CoT pipeline description: the central claim that 'all its QA pairs demand cross-frame text fusion to solve' is load-bearing for both dataset novelty and the reported performance gains, yet no quantitative statistics (e.g., single-frame answerability rates, failure cases of single-frame models, or audit results on temporal constraint enforcement) are provided to verify this property.
  2. [§4] §4 (Experiments), Table reporting baseline comparisons: the 6.3% ROUGE-L lift is presented without error bars, multiple random seeds, or detailed baseline implementation specifics (e.g., exact prompting or fine-tuning protocols for SOTA models), making it difficult to assess whether the gain is robust or attributable to the temporal modeling.
  3. [§3.2] §3.2 (Temporal Constraints): the exact rules for the temporal constraints in the annotation pipeline and their enforcement mechanism are described at a high level without examples of rejected single-frame questions or verification that the resulting QA pairs are indeed unsolvable from any individual frame.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract and §1: the phrasing 'lifting ROUGE-L by 6.3%' should specify the exact baseline model and metric variant for clarity.
  2. Figure 1 or dataset examples: including at least one concrete QA pair with frame annotations would help illustrate the cross-frame requirement.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on ViTexQA and FrameThinker. We address each major comment below and will incorporate revisions to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [§3] §3 (Dataset Construction), specifically the CoT pipeline description: the central claim that 'all its QA pairs demand cross-frame text fusion to solve' is load-bearing for both dataset novelty and the reported performance gains, yet no quantitative statistics (e.g., single-frame answerability rates, failure cases of single-frame models, or audit results on temporal constraint enforcement) are provided to verify this property.

    Authors: We agree that explicit quantitative verification would better substantiate the central claim. The CoT pipeline with temporal constraints was designed to enforce cross-frame fusion, but we did not report single-frame answerability rates or audit statistics. We will add these analyses, including single-frame model failure rates and constraint enforcement results, to the revised §3. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments), Table reporting baseline comparisons: the 6.3% ROUGE-L lift is presented without error bars, multiple random seeds, or detailed baseline implementation specifics (e.g., exact prompting or fine-tuning protocols for SOTA models), making it difficult to assess whether the gain is robust or attributable to the temporal modeling.

    Authors: The 6.3% ROUGE-L improvement reflects our reported experimental setup. To address concerns about robustness, we will include error bars computed over multiple random seeds and expand the baseline implementation details (prompting and fine-tuning protocols) in the revised §4 and appendix. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Temporal Constraints): the exact rules for the temporal constraints in the annotation pipeline and their enforcement mechanism are described at a high level without examples of rejected single-frame questions or verification that the resulting QA pairs are indeed unsolvable from any individual frame.

    Authors: We will revise §3.2 to provide the precise temporal constraint rules, concrete examples of rejected single-frame questions, and the verification steps confirming that QA pairs require multi-frame fusion. revision: yes

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The paper asserts that its CoT annotation pipeline with temporal constraints produces QA pairs requiring cross-frame fusion, and reports a 6.3% ROUGE-L gain for FrameThinker on this dataset. This is a stated design outcome of the construction process rather than any derivation, equation, or prediction that reduces to its own inputs by construction. No self-citations are invoked as load-bearing uniqueness theorems, no parameters are fitted then renamed as predictions, and no ansatzes or renamings of known results appear. The two-stage training (CoT-Guided SFT followed by RL) is described independently of the dataset property. The derivation chain remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

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