SLVMEval: Synthetic Meta Evaluation Benchmark for Text-to-Long Video Generation
Organizations: Tohoku University · LY Corporation
Abstract
This paper proposes the synthetic long-video meta-evaluation (SLVMEval), a benchmark for meta-evaluating text-to-video (T2V) evaluation systems. The proposed SLVMEval benchmark focuses on assessing these systems on videos of up to 10,486 s (approximately 3 h). The benchmark targets a fundamental requirement, namely, whether the systems can accurately assess video quality in settings that are easy for humans to assess. We adopt a pairwise comparison-based meta-evaluation framework. Building on dense video-captioning datasets, we synthetically degrade source videos to create controlled "high-quality versus low-quality" pairs across 10 distinct aspects. Then, we employ crowdsourcing to filter and retain only those pairs in which the degradation is clearly perceptible, thereby establishing an effective final testbed. Using this testbed, we assess the reliability of existing evaluation systems in ranking these pairs. Experimental results demonstrate that human evaluators can identify the better long video with 84.7%-96.8% accuracy, and in nine of the 10 aspects, the accuracy of these systems falls short of human assessment, revealing weaknesses in text-to-long-video evaluation.
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| Human Annotation | Aspects | Videos | Unique Prompts | Max Duration (sec) | Avg. Prompt Length (chars) | |
| UVE-Bench [ 28 ] | 15 | 1,045 | 293 | 6.1 | 73.68 | |
| VBench [ 15 ] | 16 | 21,110 | 968 | 3.3 | 41.32 | |
| VBench Long [ 16 ] | 16 | N/A | 944 | N/A | 41.00 | |
| SLVMEval ( ours ) | 10 | 3,932 | 1,461 | 10,486.0 | 57,883.52 |
| Video Quality | Video-Text Consistency | |||||||||
| Aesthetics | Technical Quality | Appearance Style | Background Consistency | Object Integrity | Color | Dynamics Degree | Comprehen- siveness | Spatial Relationship | Temporal Flow | |
| Video-based | ||||||||||
| GPT-5 | 90.1 2.5 | 85.8 4.2 | 88.9 2.5 | 98.9 0.8 | 72.0 6.2 | 84.3 3.5 | 35.3 3.6 | 51.3 4.5 | 59.7 4.4 | 50.3 4.1 |
| GPT-5-mini | 84.0 3.0 | 48.1 6.1 | 78.0 3.2 | 95.2 1.6 | 66.5 6.5 | 69.4 4.5 | 31.5 3.5 | 45.7 4.5 | 51.1 4.5 | 43.7 4.1 |
| Qwen3 | 55.7 4.1 | 51.9 6.1 | 55.3 3.9 | 49.7 3.7 | 38.5 6.7 | 48.8 4.9 | 50.0 3.8 | 52.6 4.5 | 51.7 4.5 | 50.2 4.1 |
| Text-based | ||||||||||
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Appendix
| Aspect | Initial Samples | Excluded ( ) | Excluded ( ) | Final Samples | Retention Rate (%) |
| Aesthetics | 446 | 92 | 72 | 282 | 63.3 |
| Technical Quality | 446 | 243 | 72 | 131 | 29.4 |
| Appearance Style | 446 | 112 | 22 | 312 | 70.0 |
| Background Consistency | 446 | 75 | 17 | 354 | 79.4 |
| Temporal Flow | 444 | 115 | 44 | 285 | 64.2 |
| Comprehensiveness | 430 | 83 | 112 | 235 | 54.7 |
| Aspect | Japanese Instruction | English Instruction |
| Aesthetics | 「美的品質」とは,各フレームが構図・調和・写真的品質を含む総合的な視覚的魅力を有しているかどうかを表し,「シーン説明」との色合いに矛盾があったり,動画の見た目の好ましさが劣っている場合は品質が低いとみなします. | “Aesthetics” indicates whether each frame possesses overall visual appeal, including composition, harmony, and photographic quality. Quality is considered low if there is a tonal contradiction with the “scene description” or if the visual appeal of the video is inferior. |
| Technical Quality | 「技術的品質」とは,技術的な映像のミス(例:ぼけ・ブレ,ノイズ,低画質,輪郭歪み)がないかどうかを表し,技術的な映像ミスが存在する場合は品質が低いとみなします. | “Technical Quality” indicates whether the video is free from technical artifacts (e.g., blur/shake, noise, low resolution, contour distortion). Quality is considered low if such technical video errors exist. |
| Appearance Style | 「スタイル」とは,「シーン説明」で指定された外観スタイル(例:油絵風,漫画風,水彩画風,スケッチ風など)が動画内で適切に再現されているかどうかを表し,指定されたスタイルと異なる表現にとなっている場合は品質が低いとみなします. | “Appearance Style” indicates whether the visual style specified in the “scene description” (e.g., oil painting, cartoon, watercolor, sketch) is appropriately reproduced in the video. Quality is considered low if the representation differs from the specified style. |
| Background Consistency | 「背景の一貫性」とは,フレーム間で背景が視覚的に安定かつ一貫して保たれているかどうかを表し,連続フレームで背景が一貫していない動画は品質が低いとみなします. | “Background Consistency” indicates whether the background remains visually stable and consistent across frames. Quality is considered low if the background is inconsistent across consecutive frames. |
| Object Integrity | 「物体の完全性」とは,「シーン説明」の文章で言及されている物体が不足なく動画に写っているかどうかを表し,「シーン説明」に記載された物体が動画に写っていない場合は品質が低いとみなします. | “Object Integrity” indicates whether the objects mentioned in the “scene description” are present in the video without omission. Quality is considered low if objects described in the “scene description” do not appear in the video. |
| Color | 「色」とは,各フレーム内における色が「シーン説明」で指定された色(例:物体の色など)と一致しているかどうかを表し,指定された色と異なる場合は品質が低いとみなします. | “Color” indicates whether the colors within frames match those specified in the “scene description” (e.g., object colors). Quality is considered low if the colors differ from the specifications. |
| Video Quality | Video-Text Consistency | |||||||||
| Aesthetics | Technical Quality | Appearance Style | Background Consistency | Object Integrity | Color | Dynamics Degree | Comprehen- siveness | Spatial Relationship | Temporal Flow | |
| IgnMax | 48.9 5.8 | 76.2 7.3 | 62.8 5.4 | 70.9 4.7 | 71.0 8.9 | 66.2 6.5 | 55.3 5.3 | 51.1 6.4 | 60.2 6.2 | 56.1 5.8 |
| EachTrunc | 54.3 5.8 | 72.3 7.7 | 66.0 5.3 | 76.6 4.4 | 75.0 8.5 | 68.1 6.4 | 55.0 5.3 | 60.4 6.3 | 56.4 6.3 | 54.4 5.8 |
| aspect | dimension | description |
| Aesthetics | aesthetics | This viewpoint indicates whether each frame of the video exhibits overall visual appeal, including composition, harmony, and photographic quality. |
| Technical Quality | technical_quality | This viewpoint indicates whether each frame is free from technical artifacts (e.g., blur, noise, compression artifacts, over- or under-exposure). |
| Appearance Style | appearance_style | This viewpoint indicates whether the required appearance style in the text prompt (e.g., oil painting style, black-and-white style, watercolor style, cyberpunk style) is appropriately represented. |
| Background Consistency | background_consistency | This viewpoint indicates whether the background remains visually stable and consistent across frames. |
| Object Integrity | object_removal | This viewpoint indicates whether a specific object (e.g., dog, car) mentioned in the text prompt is correctly generated. |
| Color | color | This viewpoint indicates whether the colors specified in the text prompt (for instance, the color of an object) are correctly reproduced. |
| Video Quality | Video-Text Consistency | |||||||||
| Aesthetics | Technical Quality | Appearance Style | Background Consistency | Object Integrity | Color | Dynamics Degree | Comprehen- siveness | Spatial Relationship | Temporal Flow | |
| Video-based | ||||||||||
| GPT-5 | -0.6806 | -0.4930 | -0.1150 | 0.0487 | 0.0541 | -0.1198 | 0.1446 | -0.2200 | -0.1216 | -0.4927 |
| GPT-5-mini | -0.5422 | -0.3558 | -0.2473 | -0.2874 | -0.2409 | -0.3055 | -0.0402 | -0.2239 | -0.1750 | -0.3623 |
| Qwen3 | -0.1368 | -0.0572 | -0.0636 | -0.2014 | 0.3848 | -0.0683 | 0.1418 | 0.0200 | -0.2934 | 0.1239 |
| Text-based | ||||||||||
| Video Quality | Video-Text Consistency | |||||||||
| Aesthetics | Technical Quality | Appearance Style | Background Consistency | Object Integrity | Color | Dynamics Degree | Comprehen- siveness | Spatial Relationship | Temporal Flow | |
| Video-based | ||||||||||
| GPT-5 | ||||||||||
| GPT-5-mini | ||||||||||
| Qwen3 | ||||||||||
| Text-based | ||||||||||
| CPU resource | GPU resource | |
| CPU Model | 2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H (Sapphire Rapids) | 2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H (Sapphire Rapids) |
| GPU Model | None | 4 x NVIDIA H100 (HBM2e) |
| System Memory (per node) | 512 GiB (DDR5) | 1 TiB (DDR5) |
| GPU Memory (per node) | N/A | 94 GiB per GPU |
| Operating System | Rocky Linux | Rocky Linux |
| Our aspect | VideoScore aspect |
| Aesthetics | visual quality |
| Technical Quality | visual quality |
| Appearance Style | visual quality |
| Background Consistency | factual consistency |
| Object Integrity | text-to-video alignment |
| Color | visual quality |
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