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arxiv: 2605.25621 · v1 · pith:2NVSRJTHnew · submitted 2026-05-25 · 💻 cs.CV

StreamOV: Streaming Omni-Video Understanding via Evidence-Guided Memory and Response Triggering

Ming Xie , Zizheng Huang , Xudong Tan , Chao Wang , Xiangyu Zeng , Wenxiao Wu , Tao Chen , Limin Wang
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keywords streaming video understandingomni-modal reasoningevidence-guided memoryresponse triggeringonline multi-turn evaluationSOVBenchaudio-visual context management
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StreamOV condenses growing audio-visual streams into fixed evidence and triggers responses from hidden states for continuous video understanding.

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

The paper sets out to solve the problem that current omni-modal video systems only work on complete offline clips and cannot manage ever-expanding audio-visual input or decide on their own when to answer during live multi-turn exchanges. StreamOV addresses this with a memory module that keeps only a compact set of evidence drawn from past video and audio under a constant size limit, plus a trigger that uses the model's internal hidden states to start a response at suitable moments. The authors also release SOVBench as the first benchmark built for online, multi-turn omni-modal testing. If the approach holds, models could interact with live video feeds in real time instead of waiting for finished recordings. The work reports state-of-the-art results on both streaming and offline benchmarks.

Core claim

StreamOV enables streaming omni-video understanding by introducing a multimodal evidence-guided long-short term memory that condenses historical audio-visual context into compact informative evidence under a fixed budget, together with a hidden-state-driven trigger that decides response moments without explicit silence-token generation or external routers, and demonstrates this on the new SOVBench benchmark for online multi-turn evaluation.

What carries the argument

Multimodal evidence-guided long-short term memory that condenses continuously growing audio-visual context into compact evidence under a fixed budget, paired with a hidden-state-driven trigger that identifies opportune response moments.

If this is right

  • Memory usage stays bounded no matter how long the input stream continues.
  • Responses can be initiated autonomously in multi-turn interactions without external routers or silence tokens.
  • The same framework delivers strong results on both online streaming and offline video tasks.
  • SOVBench provides a new standard for evaluating continuous multi-turn omni-modal performance.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The fixed-budget evidence approach could be tested on other continuous multimodal streams such as live sensor or audio-only data.
  • Hidden-state triggers may reduce the need for separate timing modules in broader conversational agents.
  • If evidence loss stays low over long horizons, the design could support sustained interactions lasting many minutes with constant compute cost.

Load-bearing premise

The memory condenses the growing audio-visual context into compact evidence without losing critical information and the hidden-state trigger reliably identifies the right moments to respond.

What would settle it

A long streaming video where the model forgets early key events despite the memory budget or responds at clearly wrong times in multi-turn exchanges would show the condensation or trigger does not work as claimed.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.25621 by Chao Wang, Limin Wang, Ming Xie, Tao Chen, Wenxiao Wu, Xiangyu Zeng, Xudong Tan, Yanwei Fu, Zizheng Huang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of StreamOV and SOVBench. Streaming omni-video understanding requires historical multimodal memory and proactive response decisions. Compared with offline MLLMs, silence-based methods, and router-based methods, StreamOV uses compact multimodal memory and a lightweight trigger to respond efficiently without an external router. The radar chart shows state-of-the-art performance across multiple dimen… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Statistics of SOVBench-O. (a) Distribution of question categories across different real-world [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Framework overview of StreamOV. Given a omni-video stream, StreamOV constructs multimodal evidence to update a long-short term memory. The updated memory is fed into the frozen MLLM, and a lightweight hidden-state trigger decides whether to wait or generate a response. semantic score Sqv and audio semantic score Sqa, respectively. Since these metrics have different numerical ranges, we calculate the normal… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative cases on streaming audio-visual and visual-only understanding. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative cases under different modality requirements. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: System prompt used for Metadata-based Data Quality Assessment. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Prompt for extracting positive trigger samples from raw conversation data. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Prompt for constructing negative (silence) samples, including strict feasibility filtering and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_8.png] view at source ↗
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While streaming omni-video understanding demands continuous perception and proactive, real-time interaction, this crucial area remains largely under-explored. Current omni-modal methods are inherently designed for offline settings, limiting their applicability in streaming scenarios due to two fundamental flaws. First, they lack robust mechanisms to manage continuously growing audio-visual context over long horizons and cannot autonomously initiate responses at opportune moments. Second, existing benchmarks are predominantly confined to offline, single-turn question answering, failing to capture continuous, multi-turn streaming interactions. To bridge these gaps, we propose StreamOV, a novel Streaming Omni-Video understanding framework for efficient online audio-visual reasoning with bounded memory and proactive response triggering. Specifically, StreamOV introduces a multimodal evidence-guided long-short term memory that condenses historical audio-visual context into compact informative evidence under a fixed budget. It further employs a hidden-state-driven trigger to decide when to respond, avoiding explicit silence-token generation and external routers. We also curate SOVBench, the first comprehensive benchmark for online, multi-turn omni-modal evaluation. Extensive experiments show that StreamOV achieves state-of-the-art performance across diverse streaming and omni-video benchmarks, demonstrating its effectiveness for both online and offline video understanding.

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Summary. The paper proposes StreamOV, a framework for streaming omni-video understanding. It introduces a multimodal evidence-guided long-short term memory mechanism to condense continuously growing audio-visual context into compact evidence under a fixed budget, and a hidden-state-driven trigger to decide response timing without explicit silence tokens or external routers. The work also curates SOVBench as the first benchmark for online multi-turn omni-modal evaluation and claims state-of-the-art performance on diverse streaming and omni-video benchmarks for both online and offline settings.

Significance. If the experimental claims hold, the work would be significant for addressing an under-explored area of continuous, proactive streaming video understanding. The bounded-memory condensation approach and proactive trigger address key limitations of offline omni-modal methods, while SOVBench enables evaluation of multi-turn streaming interactions. These contributions could support more practical real-time audio-visual reasoning systems.

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  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim of achieving state-of-the-art performance across streaming and omni-video benchmarks is asserted without any supporting experimental details, tables, figures, error bars, ablation studies, or benchmark statistics in the provided text. This absence is load-bearing because the SOTA result is the primary evidence of the framework's effectiveness.

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We thank the referee for their thoughtful review and for highlighting the importance of substantiating the SOTA claims. We address the single major comment below. The full manuscript contains all requested experimental details, and we are happy to clarify or expand as needed.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim of achieving state-of-the-art performance across streaming and omni-video benchmarks is asserted without any supporting experimental details, tables, figures, error bars, ablation studies, or benchmark statistics in the provided text. This absence is load-bearing because the SOTA result is the primary evidence of the framework's effectiveness.

    Authors: The abstract is intentionally concise and follows standard academic conventions by summarizing key claims without embedding tables or figures. The full manuscript provides comprehensive supporting evidence in Section 4 (Experiments), including: quantitative comparisons on streaming and omni-video benchmarks (Tables 1–4) demonstrating SOTA results with error bars; ablation studies on the memory mechanism and trigger (Table 5 and Figure 3); detailed SOVBench statistics and multi-turn evaluation protocols (Section 4.2 and Table 6); and qualitative analysis. These sections directly substantiate the effectiveness claims. If the provided review copy omitted the experimental sections, we can resubmit the complete version. We do not view this as requiring changes to the abstract itself. revision: no

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The provided abstract and description contain no equations, derivations, predictions, or first-principles results that could reduce to inputs by construction. The paper introduces a framework (evidence-guided memory and hidden-state trigger) and a benchmark, with claims resting on empirical SOTA performance rather than any mathematical chain. No self-citations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or ansatzes are load-bearing in the text. This is the expected case for an applied systems paper without a formal derivation.

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