Challenge: Existing models for video QA rely on complex architectures, expensive pipelines or closed models like GPTs.
Approach: They propose a single instruction-aware open vision-language model to tackle videoQA using frame descriptions.
Outcome: The proposed framework achieves higher performance than current state-of-the-art models on videoQA benchmarks.

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Challenge: Recent advances in video question answering have led to a surge in popularity . despite the popularity, VideoQA remains one of the greatest challenges .
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