This repository contains the implementation of the following paper and its related serial works in progress. We evaluate video generative models!

VBench: Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Video Generative Models
Ziqi Huang^∗, Yinan He^∗, Jiashuo Yu^∗, Fan Zhang^∗, Chenyang Si, Yuming Jiang, Yuanhan Zhang, Tianxing Wu, Qingyang Jin, Nattapol Chanpaisit, Yaohui Wang, Xinyuan Chen, Limin Wang, Dahua Lin⁺, Yu Qiao⁺, Ziwei Liu⁺
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024

VBench++: Comprehensive and Versatile Benchmark Suite for Video Generative Models
Ziqi Huang^∗, Fan Zhang^∗, Xiaojie Xu, Yinan He, Jiashuo Yu, Ziyue Dong, Qianli Ma, Nattapol Chanpaisit, Chenyang Si, Yuming Jiang, Yaohui Wang, Xinyuan Chen, Ying-Cong Chen, Limin Wang, Dahua Lin⁺, Yu Qiao⁺, Ziwei Liu⁺

• Updates
• Overview
• Evaluation Results
• Video Generation Models Info
• Installation
• Usage
• Prompt Suite
• Sampled Videos
• Evaluation Method Suite
• Citation and Acknowledgement

• [11/2024] VBench++ released:

• [09/2024] VBench-Long Leaderboard available: Our VBench-Long leaderboard now has 10 long video generation models. VBench leaderboard now has 40 text-to-video (both long and short) models. All video generative models are encouraged to participate!

• [09/2024] PyPI Updates: PyPI package is updated to version 0.1.4: bug fixes and multi-gpu inference.

• [08/2024] Longer and More Descriptive Prompts: Available Here! We follow CogVideoX's prompt optimization technique to enhance VBench prompts using GPT-4o, making them longer and more descriptive without altering their original meaning.

• [08/2024] VBench Leaderboard update: Our leaderboard has 28 T2V models, 12 I2V models so far. All video generative models are encouraged to participate!

• [06/2024] 🔥 VBench-Long 🔥 is ready to use for evaluating longer Sora-like videos!

• [06/2024] Model Info Documentation: Information on video generative models in our VBench Leaderboard is documented HERE.

• [05/2024] PyPI Update: PyPI package vbench is updated to version 0.1.2. This includes changes in the preprocessing for high-resolution images/videos for imaging_quality, support for evaluating customized videos, and minor bug fixes.

• [04/2024] We release all the videos we sampled and used for VBench evaluation. See details here.

• [03/2024] 🔥 VBench-Trustworthiness 🔥 We now support evaluating the trustworthiness (e.g., culture, fairness, bias, safety) of video generative models.

• [03/2024] 🔥 VBench-I2V 🔥 We now support evaluating Image-to-Video (I2V) models. We also provide Image Suite.

• [03/2024] We support evaluating customized videos! See here for instructions.

• [01/2024] PyPI package is released! . Simply pip install vbench.

• [12/2023] 🔥 VBench 🔥 Evaluation code released for 16 Text-to-Video (T2V) evaluation dimensions.

  • ['subject_consistency', 'background_consistency', 'temporal_flickering', 'motion_smoothness', 'dynamic_degree', 'aesthetic_quality', 'imaging_quality', 'object_class', 'multiple_objects', 'human_action', 'color', 'spatial_relationship', 'scene', 'temporal_style', 'appearance_style', 'overall_consistency']

• [11/2023] Prompt Suites released. (See prompt lists here)

We propose VBench, a comprehensive benchmark suite for video generative models. We design a comprehensive and hierarchical Evaluation Dimension Suite to decompose "video generation quality" into multiple well-defined dimensions to facilitate fine-grained and objective evaluation. For each dimension and each content category, we carefully design a Prompt Suite as test cases, and sample Generated Videos from a set of video generation models. For each evaluation dimension, we specifically design an Evaluation Method Suite, which uses carefully crafted method or designated pipeline for automatic objective evaluation. We also conduct Human Preference Annotation for the generated videos for each dimension, and show that VBench evaluation results are well aligned with human perceptions. VBench can provide valuable insights from multiple perspectives. VBench++ supports a wide range of video generation tasks, including text-to-video and image-to-video, with an adaptive Image Suite for fair evaluation across different settings. It evaluates not only technical quality but also the trustworthiness of generative models, offering a comprehensive view of model performance. We continually incorporate more video generative models into VBench to inform the community about the evolving landscape of video generation.

See our leaderboard for the most updated ranking and numerical results (with models like Gen-3, Kling, Pika).

We visualize VBench evaluation results of various publicly available video generation models, as well as Gen-2 and Pika, across 16 VBench dimensions. We normalize the results per dimension for clearer comparisons.

See numeric values at our Leaderboard 🥇🥈🥉

How to join VBench Leaderboard? See the 3 options below:

See model info for video generation models we used for evaluation.

pip install vbench

To evaluate some video generation ability aspects, you need to install detectron2 via:

pip install detectron2@git+https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2.git

If there is an error during detectron2 installation, see here.

Download VBench_full_info.json to your running directory to read the benchmark prompt suites.

git clone https://github.com/Vchitect/VBench.git
pip install -r VBench/requirements.txt
pip install VBench

If there is an error during detectron2 installation, see here.

Use VBench to evaluate videos, and video generative models.

• A Side Note: VBench is designed for evaluating different models on a standard benchmark. Therefore, by default, we enforce evaluation on the standard VBench prompt lists to ensure fair comparisons among different video generation models. That's also why we give warnings when a required video is not found. This is done via defining the set of prompts in VBench_full_info.json. However, we understand that many users would like to use VBench to evaluate their own videos, or videos generated from prompts that does not belong to the VBench Prompt Suite, so we also added the function of Evaluating Your Own Videos. Simply set mode=custom_input, and you can evaluate your own videos.

We support evaluating any video. Simply provide the path to the video file, or the path to the folder that contains your videos. There is no requirement on the videos' names.

• Note: We support customized videos / prompts for the following dimensions: 'subject_consistency', 'background_consistency', 'motion_smoothness', 'dynamic_degree', 'aesthetic_quality', 'imaging_quality'

To evaluate videos with customized input prompt, run our script with --mode=custom_input:

python evaluate.py \
    --dimension $DIMENSION \
    --videos_path /path/to/folder_or_video/ \
    --mode=custom_input

alternatively you can use our command:

vbench evaluate \
    --dimension $DIMENSION \
    --videos_path /path/to/folder_or_video/ \
    --mode=custom_input

To evaluate using multiple gpus, we can use the following commands:

torchrun --nproc_per_node=${GPUS} --standalone evaluate.py ...args...

or

vbench evaluate --ngpus=${GPUS} ...args...

vbench evaluate --videos_path $VIDEO_PATH --dimension $DIMENSION

For example:

vbench evaluate --videos_path "sampled_videos/lavie/human_action" --dimension "human_action"

from vbench import VBench
my_VBench = VBench(device, <path/to/VBench_full_info.json>, <path/to/save/dir>)
my_VBench.evaluate(
    videos_path = <video_path>,
    name = <name>,
    dimension_list = [<dimension>, <dimension>, ...],
)

For example:

from vbench import VBench
my_VBench = VBench(device, "vbench/VBench_full_info.json", "evaluation_results")
my_VBench.evaluate(
    videos_path = "sampled_videos/lavie/human_action",
    name = "lavie_human_action",
    dimension_list = ["human_action"],
)

vbench evaluate \
    --videos_path $VIDEO_PATH \
    --dimension $DIMENSION \
    --mode=vbench_category \
    --category=$CATEGORY

or

python evaluate.py \
    --dimension $DIMENSION \
    --videos_path /path/to/folder_or_video/ \
    --mode=vbench_category

We have provided scripts to download VideoCrafter-1.0 samples, and the corresponding evaluation scripts.

# download sampled videos
sh scripts/download_videocrafter1.sh

# evaluate VideoCrafter-1.0
sh scripts/evaluate_videocrafter1.sh

We have provided scripts for calculating the Final Score, Quality Score, and Semantic Score in the Leaderboard. You can run them locally to obtain the final scores or as a final check before submitting to the Leaderboard.

# Pack the evaluation results into a zip file.
cd evaluation_results
zip -r ../evaluation_results.zip .

# [Optional] get the final score of your submission file.
python scripts/cal_final_score.py --zip_file {path_to_evaluation_results.zip} --model_name {your_model_name}

You can submit the json file to HuggingFace

[Optional] Please download the pre-trained weights according to the guidance in the model_path.txt file for each model in the pretrained folder to ~/.cache/vbench.

We provide prompt lists are at prompts/.

Check out details of prompt suites, and instructions for how to sample videos for evaluation.

To facilitate future research and to ensure full transparency, we release all the videos we sampled and used for VBench evaluation. You can download them on Google Drive.

See detailed explanations of the sampled videos here.

We also provide detailed setting for the models under evaluation here.

To perform evaluation on one dimension, run this:

python evaluate.py --videos_path $VIDEOS_PATH --dimension $DIMENSION

• The complete list of dimensions:

  ['subject_consistency', 'background_consistency', 'temporal_flickering', 'motion_smoothness', 'dynamic_degree', 'aesthetic_quality', 'imaging_quality', 'object_class', 'multiple_objects', 'human_action', 'color', 'spatial_relationship', 'scene', 'temporal_style', 'appearance_style', 'overall_consistency']
  

Alternatively, you can evaluate multiple models and multiple dimensions using this script:

bash evaluate.sh

• The default sampled video paths:

  vbench_videos/{model}/{dimension}/{prompt}-{index}.mp4/gif
  

To filter static videos in the temporal flickering dimension, run this:

# This only filter out static videos whose prompt matches the prompt in the temporal_flickering.
python static_filter.py --videos_path $VIDEOS_PATH

You can adjust the filtering scope by:

# 1. Change the filtering scope to consider all files inside videos_path for filtering.
python static_filter.py --videos_path $VIDEOS_PATH --filter_scope all

# 2. Specify the path to a JSON file ($filename) to consider only videos whose prompts match those listed in $filename.
python static_filter.py --videos_path $VIDEOS_PATH --filter_scope $filename

If you find our repo useful for your research, please consider citing our paper:

 @InProceedings{huang2023vbench,
     title={{VBench}: Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Video Generative Models},
     author={Huang, Ziqi and He, Yinan and Yu, Jiashuo and Zhang, Fan and Si, Chenyang and Jiang, Yuming and Zhang, Yuanhan and Wu, Tianxing and Jin, Qingyang and Chanpaisit, Nattapol and Wang, Yaohui and Chen, Xinyuan and Wang, Limin and Lin, Dahua and Qiao, Yu and Liu, Ziwei},
     booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
     year={2024}
 }

 @article{huang2024vbench++,
     title={VBench++: Comprehensive and Versatile Benchmark Suite for Video Generative Models},
     author={Huang, Ziqi and Zhang, Fan and Xu, Xiaojie and He, Yinan and Yu, Jiashuo and Dong, Ziyue and Ma, Qianli and Chanpaisit, Nattapol and Si, Chenyang and Jiang, Yuming and Wang, Yaohui and Chen, Xinyuan and Chen, Ying-Cong and Wang, Limin and Lin, Dahua and Qiao, Yu and Liu, Ziwei},
     journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.13503},
     year={2024}
 }

Order is based on the time joining the project:

Ziqi Huang, Yinan He, Jiashuo Yu, Fan Zhang, Nattapol Chanpaisit, Xiaojie Xu, Qianli Ma, Ziyue Dong.

This project wouldn't be possible without the following open-sourced repositories: AMT, UMT, RAM, CLIP, RAFT, GRiT, IQA-PyTorch, ViCLIP, and LAION Aesthetic Predictor.

We are putting together Awesome-Evaluation-of-Visual-Generation, which collects works for evaluating visual generation.