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Fanheng Kong

4 accepted papers

2025

Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models on Video Captioning via Monte Carlo Tree Search

ACL 2025long

Video captioning can be used to assess the video understanding capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs).However, existing benchmarks and evaluation protocols suffer from crucial issues, such as inadequate or homogeneous creation of key points, exorbitant cost of data creation, and li…

2025

TUNA: Comprehensive Fine-grained Temporal Understanding Evaluation on Dense Dynamic Videos

ACL 2025long

Videos are unique in their integration of temporal elements, including camera, scene, action, and attribute, along with their dynamic relationships over time. However, existing benchmarks for video understanding often treat these properties separately or narrowly focus on specific aspects, overlooki…

2024

STICKERCONV: Generating Multimodal Empathetic Responses from Scratch

ACL 2024long

Stickers, while widely recognized for enhancing empathetic communication in online interactions, remain underexplored in current empathetic dialogue research, notably due to the challenge of a lack of comprehensive datasets. In this paper, we introduce the Agent for STICKERCONV (Agent4SC), which use…

2024

TIGER: A Unified Generative Model Framework for Multimodal Dialogue Response Generation

COLING 2024main

Responding with multimodal content has been recognized as one of the essential functionalities of intelligent conversational agents. However, existing research on multimodal dialogues primarily focuses on two topics: (1) textual response generation that ground the conversation on a given image; and…