Vision-Language Models Learn Super Images for Efficient Partially Relevant Video Retrieval

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Main Authors: Nishimura, Taichi, Nakada, Shota, Kondo, Masayoshi
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Published: 2023
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author Nishimura, Taichi
Nakada, Shota
Kondo, Masayoshi
author_facet Nishimura, Taichi
Nakada, Shota
Kondo, Masayoshi
contents In this paper, we propose an efficient and high-performance method for partially relevant video retrieval, which aims to retrieve long videos that contain at least one moment relevant to the input text query. The challenge lies in encoding dense frames using visual backbones. This requires models to handle the increased frames, resulting in significant computation costs for long videos. To mitigate the costs, previous studies use lightweight visual backbones, yielding sub-optimal retrieval performance due to their limited capabilities. However, it is undesirable to simply replace the backbones with high-performance large vision-and-language models (VLMs) due to their low efficiency. To address this dilemma, instead of dense frames, we focus on super images, which are created by rearranging the video frames in an $N \times N$ grid layout. This reduces the number of visual encodings to $\frac{1}{N^2}$ and mitigates the low efficiency of large VLMs. Based on this idea, we make two contributions. First, we explore whether VLMs generalize to super images in a zero-shot setting. To this end, we propose a method called query-attentive super image retrieval (QASIR), which attends to partial moments relevant to the input query. The zero-shot QASIR yields two discoveries: (1) it enables VLMs to generalize to super images and (2) the grid size $N$, image resolution, and VLM size are key trade-off parameters between performance and computation costs. Second, we introduce fine-tuning and hybrid QASIR that combines high- and low-efficiency models to strike a balance between performance and computation costs. This reveals two findings: (1) the fine-tuning QASIR enhances VLMs to learn super images effectively, and (2) the hybrid QASIR minimizes the performance drop of large VLMs while reducing the computation costs.
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spellingShingle Vision-Language Models Learn Super Images for Efficient Partially Relevant Video Retrieval
Nishimura, Taichi
Nakada, Shota
Kondo, Masayoshi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
In this paper, we propose an efficient and high-performance method for partially relevant video retrieval, which aims to retrieve long videos that contain at least one moment relevant to the input text query. The challenge lies in encoding dense frames using visual backbones. This requires models to handle the increased frames, resulting in significant computation costs for long videos. To mitigate the costs, previous studies use lightweight visual backbones, yielding sub-optimal retrieval performance due to their limited capabilities. However, it is undesirable to simply replace the backbones with high-performance large vision-and-language models (VLMs) due to their low efficiency. To address this dilemma, instead of dense frames, we focus on super images, which are created by rearranging the video frames in an $N \times N$ grid layout. This reduces the number of visual encodings to $\frac{1}{N^2}$ and mitigates the low efficiency of large VLMs. Based on this idea, we make two contributions. First, we explore whether VLMs generalize to super images in a zero-shot setting. To this end, we propose a method called query-attentive super image retrieval (QASIR), which attends to partial moments relevant to the input query. The zero-shot QASIR yields two discoveries: (1) it enables VLMs to generalize to super images and (2) the grid size $N$, image resolution, and VLM size are key trade-off parameters between performance and computation costs. Second, we introduce fine-tuning and hybrid QASIR that combines high- and low-efficiency models to strike a balance between performance and computation costs. This reveals two findings: (1) the fine-tuning QASIR enhances VLMs to learn super images effectively, and (2) the hybrid QASIR minimizes the performance drop of large VLMs while reducing the computation costs.
title Vision-Language Models Learn Super Images for Efficient Partially Relevant Video Retrieval
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00414