Challenge: Video Large Language Models (VLMs) have been praised for their performance in coarse-grained video understanding but still face ineffective temporal grounding and inadequate timestamp representations.
Approach: They propose a novel Video-LLM that senses and reasoned over specific video moments with fine-grained temporal precision.
Outcome: The proposed model surpasses existing models in fine-grained video understanding tasks and exhibits strong potential as a general video understanding assistant.

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