Bridging VideoQA and Video-Guided Agentic Tasks via Generalized Keyframe Extraction

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This paper introduces VG-GUIBench, a benchmark to evaluate MLLM-based GUI agents' ability to follow video tutorials, and proposes TASKER, a keyframe extraction method that improves performance on VideoQA and video-guided agentic tasks.

Video understanding is a fundamental capability for multimodal intelligence, and recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on Video Question Answering (VideoQA) benchmarks. However, existing benchmarks primarily evaluate whether models can perceive shallow visual cues, while rarely examining whether MLLMs can learn deeper knowledge or procedural skills from video tutorials and generalize them to downstream long-horizon agentic tasks. To address this gap, we introduce VG-GUIBench (Video-Guided GUI Benchmark), a new benchmark designed to evaluate whether MLLM-based GUI agents can follow video tutorials to complete corresponding GUI interactive tasks. Furthermore, we observe that the performance of models on both VideoQA and video-guided agentic tasks critically depends on effective keyframe extraction. Based on this observation, we propose TASKER (Task-driven And Scene-aware Keyframe searchER), a keyframe extraction algorithm that jointly considers task relevance and scene dynamics to identify informative frames. Experimental results demonstrate that TASKER achieves significant performance improvements on both VideoQA and video-guided agentic task benchmarks, outperforming the best baseline by 2.0% on the EgoSchema fullset and 1.8% on the NExT-QA dataset, respectively. These results further highlight the potential of generalized keyframe extraction methods for video understanding tasks. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/VG-GUI-TASKER/VG-GUI-TASKER.
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Abstract

A new benchmark evaluates multimodal large language models’ ability to understand video content and perform GUI tasks, while a novel keyframe extraction method improves performance on both video question answering and video-guided agentic tasks.

Video understanding is a fundamental capability for multimodal intelligence, and recentMultimodal Large Language Models(MLLMs) have achieved remarkable performance onVideo Question Answering(VideoQA) benchmarks. However, existing benchmarks primarily evaluate whether models can perceive shallow visual cues, while rarely examining whether MLLMs can learn deeper knowledge or procedural skills fromvideo tutorialsand generalize them to downstream long-horizon agentic tasks. To address this gap, we introduce VG-GUIBench (Video-Guided GUI Benchmark), a new benchmark designed to evaluate whether MLLM-basedGUI agentscan followvideo tutorialsto complete corresponding GUI interactive tasks. Furthermore, we observe that the performance of models on both VideoQA and video-guided agentic tasks critically depends on effectivekeyframe extraction. Based on this observation, we propose TASKER (Task-driven And Scene-aware Keyframe searchER), akeyframe extractionalgorithm that jointly considerstask relevanceandscene dynamicsto identify informative frames. Experimental results demonstrate that TASKER achieves significant performance improvements on both VideoQA and video-guided agentic task benchmarks, outperforming the best baseline by 2.0% on the EgoSchema fullset and 1.8% on the NExT-QA dataset, respectively. These results further highlight the potential of generalizedkeyframe extractionmethods for video understanding tasks. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/VG-GUI-TASKER/VG-GUI-TASKER.

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