Original paper v1, submitted 30 October 2026; reviewed and added 3 November. Full-benchmark accuracy and labeled input/training ablations.
What does a question require?
Choose one of four answers using evidence across the viewing sphere and timeline. The 1,000 human-annotated questions use 223 videos and cover appearance, space, action, motion and events.
PanoVideoBench original paper v1 · PanoVideoBench · author annotation dataset
Hold the viewing budget fixed
The default uses the original equirectangular video: uniform sampling at 1 fps, at most 128 frames, 1,280-pixel long edge, model-default temperature and up to 32,768 output tokens including thinking.
Overall and category scores differ
Overall weights every question equally. Category sizes differ; their simple mean is not Overall. The primary results include all distinct overall input/training variants; repeated baseline rows are recorded once.
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Where to obtain the benchmark
The author dataset publishes annotations and video identifiers; obtain source videos separately. Gold answers and diagnostic labels are evaluation annotations, not model inputs.
Table 3 · full comparison
Eleven baselines and the authors’ trained system share the default video input.
| Model | Overall (%) | APP (%) | SPA (%) | ACT (%) | MOT (%) | TEM (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | 53.1 | 65.7 | 49.5 | 52.4 | 40.9 | 36.5 |
| GPT-5.6-sol | 49.6 | 59.9 | 46.0 | 51.9 | 33.5 | 41.9 |
| Gemma-4-31B-it | 47.0 | 58.4 | 48.5 | 44.6 | 34.8 | 27.0 |
| Nemotron Omni 30B-A3B | 46.3 | 59.9 | 46.0 | 41.6 | 31.1 | 35.1 |
| InternVL3.5-8B | 44.9 | 53.8 | 36.1 | 49.4 | 34.1 | 39.2 |
| Qwen3.8-27B | 44.8 | 54.7 | 44.1 | 46.8 | 31.1 | 27.0 |
| Qwen3.5-9B | 43.2 | 55.4 | 36.6 | 42.5 | 35.4 | 27.0 |
| Eagle2.5-8B | 39.6 | 50.5 | 35.6 | 38.6 | 32.3 | 21.6 |
| MiniCPM-V-4.6 | 39.0 | 48.9 | 37.1 | 34.3 | 34.1 | 25.7 |
| GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking | 38.0 | 46.5 | 38.6 | 32.2 | 31.1 | 32.4 |
| PanoWorld-Hstar | 42.9 | 51.7 | 45.0 | 36.5 | 34.1 | 37.8 |
| PanoVideoReasoner | 55.7 | 59.6 | 52.5 | 60.1 | 48.8 | 48.6 |
Only Overall enters the primary series. Category results are subsets.
Table 4a · ERP resolution
All cells are printed percentages. Qwen is Qwen3.8-27B and Gemma is Gemma-4-31B-it; training variants start from Qwen3.5-9B.
| Metric | Qwen 640 | Qwen 1280 | Qwen 1920 | Gemma 640 | Gemma 1280 | Gemma 1920 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 42.3 | 44.8 | 46.2 | 46.0 | 47.0 | 47.2 |
| APP | 46.8 | 54.7 | 56.0 | 57.2 | 58.4 | 58.1 |
| SPA | 44.6 | 44.1 | 48.5 | 47.0 | 48.5 | 48.0 |
| ACT | 45.9 | 46.8 | 48.5 | 42.9 | 44.6 | 45.1 |
| MOT | 31.1 | 31.1 | 32.9 | 34.1 | 34.8 | 32.9 |
| TEM | 29.7 | 27.0 | 18.9 | 29.7 | 27.0 | 35.1 |
ERP is the default projection; 8V is an eight-view mosaic; Ovl adds orientation markers. Unif./Q-g./EP specify uniform, question-guided or evidence-privileged teacher views.
Table 4b · input representation
All cells are printed percentages. Qwen is Qwen3.8-27B and Gemma is Gemma-4-31B-it; training variants start from Qwen3.5-9B.
| Metric | Qwen ERP | Qwen 8V | Qwen Ovl | Gemma ERP | Gemma 8V | Gemma Ovl |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 44.8 | 41.0 | 44.5 | 47.0 | 40.9 | 44.5 |
| APP | 54.7 | 47.7 | 48.6 | 58.4 | 43.7 | 45.6 |
| SPA | 44.1 | 44.6 | 48.0 | 48.5 | 40.6 | 50.5 |
| ACT | 46.8 | 42.5 | 45.1 | 44.6 | 42.1 | 43.3 |
| MOT | 31.1 | 26.8 | 34.1 | 34.8 | 37.8 | 42.1 |
| TEM | 27.0 | 28.4 | 37.8 | 27.0 | 32.4 | 32.4 |
ERP is the default projection; 8V is an eight-view mosaic; Ovl adds orientation markers. Unif./Q-g./EP specify uniform, question-guided or evidence-privileged teacher views.
Table 5a · supervision
All cells are printed percentages. Qwen is Qwen3.8-27B and Gemma is Gemma-4-31B-it; training variants start from Qwen3.5-9B.
| Metric | Base | Answer | CoT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 43.2 | 45.6 | 51.8 |
| APP | 55.4 | 55.0 | 57.2 |
| SPA | 36.6 | 41.1 | 45.0 |
| ACT | 42.5 | 45.5 | 57.1 |
| MOT | 35.4 | 36.0 | 45.1 |
| TEM | 27.0 | 37.8 | 44.6 |
ERP is the default projection; 8V is an eight-view mosaic; Ovl adds orientation markers. Unif./Q-g./EP specify uniform, question-guided or evidence-privileged teacher views.
Table 5b · teacher views
All cells are printed percentages. Qwen is Qwen3.8-27B and Gemma is Gemma-4-31B-it; training variants start from Qwen3.5-9B.
| Metric | CoT | Unif. | Q-g. | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 51.8 | 50.9 | 53.9 | 55.7 |
| APP | 57.2 | 57.8 | 58.4 | 59.6 |
| SPA | 45.0 | 46.5 | 49.0 | 52.5 |
| ACT | 57.1 | 55.4 | 58.8 | 60.1 |
| MOT | 45.1 | 41.5 | 47.0 | 48.8 |
| TEM | 44.6 | 39.2 | 47.3 | 48.6 |
ERP is the default projection; 8V is an eight-view mosaic; Ovl adds orientation markers. Unif./Q-g./EP specify uniform, question-guided or evidence-privileged teacher views.