VideoFDB - Perception - Semantic Grounding: leaderboard

The semantic grounding rubric of VideoFDB (Mazumdar et al., 2026) rates whether the response content fits the visual and affective event in the clip. 105 held-out test clips of seven nonverbal conversational dynamics, such as pauses, backchannels, laughter and interruptions, are streamed in real time to a full-duplex speech agent that also sees the user, at 1 FPS for most agents, and a gpt-4o judge scores each response from 0 to 5; higher is better.

Metric: gpt-4o judge score (0-5; the 105 held-out test clips of the seven nonverbal conversational dynamics scored for perception (237 clips of 11 dynamics in the full benchmark), streamed in real time; the judge reads the transcribed, time-stamped agent response with the clip annotations; response content against the visual-affective event, on the dynamics this rubric covers; user audio and video streamed, video at 1 FPS (Mini-Omni2: one frame per user speech segment)). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 7 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1MiniCPM-o 4.53.63
2Gemini 2.5 Native Audio3.37
3Gemini 3.1 Flash Live3.16
4gpt-realtime3.02
5gpt-realtime-mini2.9
6VITA-1.52.53#3043
7Mini-Omni21.54

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