Weihong Lin


2025

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HAIC: Improving Human Action Understanding and Generation with Better Captions for Multi-modal Large Language Models
Xiao Wang | Jingyun Hua | Weihong Lin | Yuanxing Zhang | Fuzheng Zhang | Jianlong Wu | Di Zhang | Liqiang Nie
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Recent Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made great progress in video understanding. However, their performance on videos involving human actions is still limited by the lack of high-quality data. To address this, we introduce a two-stage data annotation pipeline. First, we design strategies to accumulate videos featuring clear human actions from the Internet. Second, videos are annotated in a standardized caption format that uses human attributes to distinguish individuals and chronologically details their actions and interactions. Through this pipeline, we curate two datasets, namely HAICTrain and HAICBench. **HAICTrain** comprises 126K video-caption pairs generated by Gemini-Pro and verified for training purposes. Meanwhile, **HAICBench** includes 412 manually annotated video-caption pairs and 2,000 QA pairs, for a comprehensive evaluation of human action understanding. Experimental results demonstrate that training with HAICTrain not only significantly enhances human understanding abilities across 4 benchmarks, but can also improve text-to-video generation results. Both the HAICTrain and HAICBench will be made open-source to facilitate further research.