arXiv · 2610.38241
MEV: A Multi-Event Video Dataset for Long-Take Generation
Abstract
Current datasets for text-to-video generation are largely limited to short clips depicting a single event or coarse-grained captions. As a result, they provide limited supervision for modeling long-take temporal dependencies, often leading to temporally inconsistent generations when describing multiple events. In this paper, we introduce MEV, a multi-event video dataset designed for long-take video generation. MEV provides high-quality real-world videos where subjects can perform a sequence of distinct, non-overlapping events, featuring precise temporal boundaries and fine-grained procedural annotations. This event-centric discretization reduces confounding factors and enables models to support temporally localized conditioning and build long-take videos from atomic event units. Furthermore, we introduce a comprehensive annotation pipeline that segments videos into temporally grounded events, and generates structured captions at both the global level and the event level. In addition, under an event-centric evaluation protocol, we conduct multi-event generation experiments by fine-tuning on MEV with temporally grounded event conditioning, leading to improved long-take event transitions and more coherent content. We believe this work provides a publicly available resource for multi-event fine-tuning and event-centric evaluation, together with practical insights into learning from temporally structured video-text data.
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Peiyuan Zhu, Shaoan Xie, Yifan Shen, Wen Tian, Zijian Li, Guangyi Chen, Kun Zhang. 2026-10-28. MEV: A Multi-Event Video Dataset for Long-Take Generation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38241
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