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ARXIV:2604.16272 · VIDEO EDITING & VFX · SUBMITTED 20 APR · 20:22 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2604.16272VIDEO EDITING & VFXSUBMITTED 20 APR · 20:22 UTCFRESHNESS STALEXiangbo Gao · Sicong Jiang · Bangya Liu · Xinghao Chen · Minglai Yang · Siyuan Yang · +10 at arXiv
VEFX-Bench benchmarks and evaluates video editing systems on their ability to follow instructions, render quality, and preserve content.
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VEFX-Bench benchmarks and evaluates video editing systems on their ability to follow instructions, render quality, and preserve content. Yet the field still lacks both a large-scale human-annotated dataset with complete editing examples and a…
As AI-assisted video creation becomes increasingly practical, instruction-guided video editing has become essential for refining generated or captured footage to meet professional requirements. Yet the field still lacks both a large-scale human-annotated dataset with…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 9.0/10 on the public viability pass. Experiments show that VEFX-Reward aligns more strongly with human judgments than generic VLM judges and prior reward models on both standard IQA/VQA metrics and…
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VEFX-Bench benchmarks and evaluates video editing systems on their ability to follow instructions, render quality, and preserve content.
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10.48550/arXiv.2604.16272VEFX-Bench benchmarks and evaluates video editing systems on their ability to follow instructions, render quality, and preserve content.
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As AI-assisted video creation becomes increasingly practical, instruction-guided video editing has become essential for refining generated or captured footage to meet professional requirements. Yet the field still lacks both a large-scale human-annotated dataset with complete editing examples and a standardized evaluator for comparing editing systems. Existing resources are limited by small scale, missing edited outputs, or the absence of human quality labels, while current evaluation often relies on expensive manual inspection or generic vision-language model judges that are not specialized for editing quality. We introduce VEFX-Dataset, a human-annotated dataset containing 5,049 video editing examples across 9 major editing categories and 32 subcategories, each labeled along three decoupled dimensions: Instruction Following, Rendering Quality, and Edit Exclusivity. Building on VEFX-Dataset, we propose VEFX-Reward, a reward model designed specifically for video editing quality assessment. VEFX-Reward jointly processes the source video, the editing instruction, and the edited video, and predicts per-dimension quality scores via ordinal regression. We further release VEFX-Bench, a benchmark of 300 curated video-prompt pairs for standardized comparison of editing systems. Experiments show that VEFX-Reward aligns more strongly with human judgments than generic VLM judges and prior reward models on both standard IQA/VQA metrics and group-wise preference evaluation. Using VEFX-Reward as an evaluator, we benchmark representative commercial and open-source video editing systems, revealing a persistent gap between visual plausibility, instruction following, and edit locality in current models.
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VEFX-Bench benchmarks and evaluates video editing systems on their ability to follow instructions, render quality, and preserve content. Yet the field still lacks both a large-scale human-annotated dataset with complete editing examples and a standardized evaluator for comparing...
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As AI-assisted video creation becomes increasingly practical, instruction-guided video editing has become essential for refining generated or captured footage to meet professional requirements. Yet the field still lacks both a large-scale human-annotated dataset with complete ed...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 9.0/10 on the public viability pass. Experiments show that VEFX-Reward aligns more strongly with human judgments than generic VLM judges and prior reward models on both standard IQA/VQA metrics and group-wise preference evaluation. Code avai...
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Video Editing & VFX moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 9.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
We further release VEFX-Bench, a benchmark of 300 curated video-prompt pairs for standardized comparison of editing systems.
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Using VEFX-Reward as an evaluator, we benchmark representative commercial and open-source video editing systems, revealing a persistent gap between visual plausibility, instruction following, and edit locality in current models.
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Existing resources are limited by small scale, missing edited outputs, or the absence of human quality labels
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It could replace costly manual QA processes and improve the consistency of automated benchmarks within video editing software suites.
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each labeled along three decoupled dimensions: Instruction Following, Rendering Quality, and Edit Exclusivity.
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VEFX-Dataset, a human-annotated dataset containing 5,049 video editing examples across 9 major editing categories and 32 subcategories
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We introduce VEFX-Dataset, a human-annotated dataset containing 5,049 video editing examples across 9 major editing categories and 32 subcategories
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VEFX-Reward jointly processes the source video, the editing instruction, and the edited video, and predicts per-dimension quality scores via ordinal regression.
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Experiments show that VEFX-Reward aligns more strongly with human judgments than generic VLM judges and prior reward models on both standard IQA/VQA metrics and group-wise preference evaluation.
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We further release VEFX-Bench, a benchmark of 300 curated video-prompt pairs for standardized comparison of editing systems.
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Using VEFX-Reward as an evaluator, we benchmark representative commercial and open-source video editing systems, revealing a persistent gap between visual plausibility, instruction following, and edit locality in current models.
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Existing resources are limited by small scale, missing edited outputs, or the absence of human quality labels
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VEFX-Bench benchmarks and evaluates video editing systems on their ability to follow instructions, render quality, and preserve content.
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