ETVA: Evaluation of Text-to-Video Alignment via Fine-grained Question Generation and Answering

Precisely evaluating semantic alignment between text prompts and generated videos remains a challenge in Text-to-Video (T2V) Generation. Existing text-to-video alignment metrics like CLIPScore only generate coarse-grained scores without fine-grained alignment details, failing to align with human preference. To address this limitation, we propose ETVA, a novel Evaluation method of Text-to-Video Alignment via fine-grained question generation and answering. First, a multi-agent system parses prompts into semantic scene graphs to generate atomic questions. Then we design a knowledge-augmented multi-stage reasoning framework for question answering, where an auxiliary LLM first retrieves relevant common-sense knowledge (e.g., physical laws), and then video LLM answers the generated questions through a multi-stage reasoning mechanism. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ETVA achieves a Spearman's correlation coefficient of 58.47, showing a much higher correlation with human judgment than existing metrics which attain only 31.0. We also construct a comprehensive benchmark specifically designed for text-to-video alignment evaluation, featuring 2k diverse prompts and 12k atomic questions spanning 10 categories. Through a systematic evaluation of 15 existing text-to-video models, we identify their key capabilities and limitations, paving the way for next-generation T2V generation.

@article{guan2025_2503.16867,
  title={ ETVA: Evaluation of Text-to-Video Alignment via Fine-grained Question Generation and Answering },
  author={ Kaisi Guan and Zhengfeng Lai and Yuchong Sun and Peng Zhang and Wei Liu and Kieran Liu and Meng Cao and Ruihua Song },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.16867},
  year={ 2025 }
}