README.md

---
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
pretty_name: AVE-Compass
task_categories:
- video-to-video
- text-to-video
language:
- en
tags:
- video-editing
- audio-video
- multimodal
- benchmark
- videofolder
configs:
- config_name: default
  default: true
  data_files:
  - split: test
    path:
    - videos/*.mp4
    - videos/metadata.jsonl
---

# AVE-Compass


**AVE-Compass** is a benchmark for evaluating instruction-based audio-video editing abilities. It targets realistic editing requests where visual and audio streams are tightly coupled, such as changing a visible event together with its sound, preserving background ambience during visual edits, or editing speech while maintaining audio-visual consistency.

This dataset release contains the source videos, edit instruction JSON files, and checklist JSON files used by AVE-Compass.


## Benchmark Overview

AVE-Compass contains:

- **145** curated source videos.
- **196** human-verified audio-video editing instructions.
- **2,688** fine-grained checklist items for diagnostic evaluation.
- **28** fine-grained editing operation types.

The benchmark covers four major editing branches:

- **Joint audio-visual editing**: edits that require coordinated changes across video and audio.
- **Speech editing**: edits involving spoken content, speaker identity, or speech-related audio-video consistency.
- **Video-only editing**: visual edits where the audio stream should be preserved.
- **Audio-only editing**: audio edits where the visual stream should be preserved.

## What AVE-Compass Evaluates

AVE-Compass evaluates edited audio-video outputs along complementary dimensions:

- **Editing Intent**: the primary metric, measuring whether the output both follows the instruction and preserves non-target content.
- **Instruction Following**: whether the requested edit is correctly executed.
- **Fidelity Preserving**: whether non-target visual and audio content remains faithful to the source.
- **Realism**: whether the edited audio-video result is natural, coherent, and free of obvious artifacts.

The paper also reports automated metrics for cross-modal, visual, and audio quality, including AV Sync, Lip Sync, Video Aesthetic, Subject Consistency, Motion Smoothness, Audio Aesthetic, and Speech Quality.


## Dataset Files

```text
AVE-Compass/
  videos/
    *.mp4              # 145 source videos
    metadata.jsonl     # 196 Dataset Viewer rows
  edit_instructions/  # 196 edit instruction JSON files
  checklists/         # 196 checklist JSON files
```

The Dataset Viewer uses `videos/metadata.jsonl` to display each source video together with its edit instruction and `instruction_index`.

## Edit Instruction JSON Format

Each file in `edit_instructions/` corresponds to one edit instruction:

```json
{
  "video": "example.mp4",
  "task": "example",
  "instruction_index": 1,
  "total_instructions_for_video": 1,
  "instruction": {
    "category_label": "joint",
    "category": "J1",
    "operation": "J1.1 New Source Insertion",
    "prompt_en": "Add ...",
    "audio_label": {
      "audio_op": "add",
      "sound_type": "event_sfx",
      "edit_aspect": "content"
    },
    "difficulty": {
      "d1_object_localization": "hard",
      "d1_reason": "...",
      "d2_audio_complexity": "complex",
      "d3_cross_modal_linkage": "explicit",
      "d3_reason": "..."
    }
  }
}
```

Important fields:

- `video`: source video filename.
- `instruction_index`: 1-based index of the edit instruction for the source video.
- `prompt_en`: English edit instruction.
- `category_label`: one of `joint`, `speech`, `video_only`, or `audio_only`.
- `audio_label`: structured annotation of the audio-side edit target.
- `difficulty`: difficulty annotations for object localization, audio complexity, and cross-modal linkage.

## Checklist JSON Format

Each file in `checklists/` corresponds to the edit instruction with the same `video` and `instruction_index`. Checklist files contain atomic Yes/No questions for evaluating instruction following and fidelity preservation.

Typical fields include:

- `video`: source video filename.
- `instruction_index`: 1-based edit instruction index for the source video.
- `edit_prompt`: the edit instruction.
- `edit_category`: editing branch.
- `questions`: modality-tagged diagnostic questions.

Each checklist question includes:

- `question_id`
- `dimension`
- `subdimension`
- `modality_tag`
- `question`

## Data Construction

AVE-Compass was constructed through a human-in-the-loop pipeline. Candidate edit instructions were generated from structured source-video descriptions using modality-aware LLM generators. A critic model filtered out unnatural, infeasible, or ambiguous instructions, and human annotators verified naturalness, executability, and target specificity. The verified instructions were then converted into fine-grained checklist items, followed by human deduplication and refinement.

## Usage Notes

- Pair each edit instruction with the source video indicated by its `video` field.
- Pair each checklist with the edit instruction sharing the same `video` and `instruction_index`.

## Download

```bash
hf download avecompass/avecompass-release --repo-type dataset --local-dir input
```

The dataset can also be loaded through the Hugging Face Dataset Viewer configuration:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("avecompass/avecompass-release", split="test")
```

## License

This release uses the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license (`cc-by-nc-4.0`).

## Anonymous Review

This repository provides an anonymous dataset release for peer review. Author information, identifying project and paper links, citations, and project website presentation assets are omitted. Source videos, edit instructions, checklists, and Dataset Viewer metadata are preserved without modification.