AI RESEARCH
VC-Inspector: Advancing Reference-free Evaluation of Video Captions with Factual Analysis
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2509.16538v3 Announce Type: replace-cross We propose VC-Inspector, a lightweight, open-source large multimodal model (LMM) for reference-free evaluation of video captions, with a focus on factual accuracy. Unlike existing metrics that suffer from limited context handling, weak factuality assessment, or reliance on