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VEGAS: Human-Aligned Video Caption Evaluation via Gaze

Vision-language models excel at video captioning, yet typically generate descriptions that fail to capture individual viewers' attention. We propose VEGAS (Video caption Evaluation via GAze Score), a training-free metric that leverages test-time gaze to sample personalized, attention-aligned text. It is a cross-modal, information-theoretic metric that quantifies how well a candidate caption matches a viewer's focus. To evaluate VEGAS, we curate a dataset of egocentric activities and…