RVG-Bench: A Benchmark for Reasoning-Driven Audio-Visual Temporal Grounding

Overview & Synopsis

Existing temporal video grounding (TVG) benchmarks primarily focus on localizing target video segments according to descriptive text queries of the visual content. However, real-world queries are more diverse and often require the model to first understand the user's intent before localization, such as finding visual evidence, identifying the cause of an event, or recalling a remembered moment, yet such queries remain largely overlooked. To mitigate this gap, we introduce RVG-Bench, a benchmark for reasoning-driven audio-visual temporal grounding, where every query is constructed such that the target segment can only be identified through reasoning about the query's underlying intent. We carefully construct the benchmark and rigorously verify its data quality to ensure models truly comprehend the audio-visual content. RVG-Bench comprises 1,255 videos and 1,890 query-interval pairs across eight reasoning types. We evaluate 22 models and find that the strongest, Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, achieves only 49.6 mIoU. Through a series of controlled analyses, including oracle-grounding probes and test-time scaling experiments, we systematically examine where and why current models struggle, providing insights for future model development.