ResNetVLLM -- Multi-modal Vision LLM for the Video Understanding Task (2504.14432v1)

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce ResNetVLLM (ResNet Vision LLM), a novel cross-modal framework for zero-shot video understanding that integrates a ResNet-based visual encoder with a LLM (LLM. ResNetVLLM addresses the challenges associated with zero-shot video models by avoiding reliance on pre-trained video understanding models and instead employing a non-pretrained ResNet to extract visual features. This design ensures the model learns visual and semantic representations within a unified architecture, enhancing its ability to generate accurate and contextually relevant textual descriptions from video inputs. Our experimental results demonstrate that ResNetVLLM achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot video understanding (ZSVU) on several benchmarks, including MSRVTT-QA, MSVD-QA, TGIF-QA FrameQA, and ActivityNet-QA.