VidLA: Video-Language Alignment at Scale

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Autori principali: Rizve, Mamshad Nayeem, Fei, Fan, Unnikrishnan, Jayakrishnan, Tran, Son, Yao, Benjamin Z., Zeng, Belinda, Shah, Mubarak, Chilimbi, Trishul
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author Rizve, Mamshad Nayeem
Fei, Fan
Unnikrishnan, Jayakrishnan
Tran, Son
Yao, Benjamin Z.
Zeng, Belinda
Shah, Mubarak
Chilimbi, Trishul
author_facet Rizve, Mamshad Nayeem
Fei, Fan
Unnikrishnan, Jayakrishnan
Tran, Son
Yao, Benjamin Z.
Zeng, Belinda
Shah, Mubarak
Chilimbi, Trishul
contents In this paper, we propose VidLA, an approach for video-language alignment at scale. There are two major limitations of previous video-language alignment approaches. First, they do not capture both short-range and long-range temporal dependencies and typically employ complex hierarchical deep network architectures that are hard to integrate with existing pretrained image-text foundation models. To effectively address this limitation, we instead keep the network architecture simple and use a set of data tokens that operate at different temporal resolutions in a hierarchical manner, accounting for the temporally hierarchical nature of videos. By employing a simple two-tower architecture, we are able to initialize our video-language model with pretrained image-text foundation models, thereby boosting the final performance. Second, existing video-language alignment works struggle due to the lack of semantically aligned large-scale training data. To overcome it, we leverage recent LLMs to curate the largest video-language dataset to date with better visual grounding. Furthermore, unlike existing video-text datasets which only contain short clips, our dataset is enriched with video clips of varying durations to aid our temporally hierarchical data tokens in extracting better representations at varying temporal scales. Overall, empirical results show that our proposed approach surpasses state-of-the-art methods on multiple retrieval benchmarks, especially on longer videos, and performs competitively on classification benchmarks.
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Rizve, Mamshad Nayeem
Fei, Fan
Unnikrishnan, Jayakrishnan
Tran, Son
Yao, Benjamin Z.
Zeng, Belinda
Shah, Mubarak
Chilimbi, Trishul
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
In this paper, we propose VidLA, an approach for video-language alignment at scale. There are two major limitations of previous video-language alignment approaches. First, they do not capture both short-range and long-range temporal dependencies and typically employ complex hierarchical deep network architectures that are hard to integrate with existing pretrained image-text foundation models. To effectively address this limitation, we instead keep the network architecture simple and use a set of data tokens that operate at different temporal resolutions in a hierarchical manner, accounting for the temporally hierarchical nature of videos. By employing a simple two-tower architecture, we are able to initialize our video-language model with pretrained image-text foundation models, thereby boosting the final performance. Second, existing video-language alignment works struggle due to the lack of semantically aligned large-scale training data. To overcome it, we leverage recent LLMs to curate the largest video-language dataset to date with better visual grounding. Furthermore, unlike existing video-text datasets which only contain short clips, our dataset is enriched with video clips of varying durations to aid our temporally hierarchical data tokens in extracting better representations at varying temporal scales. Overall, empirical results show that our proposed approach surpasses state-of-the-art methods on multiple retrieval benchmarks, especially on longer videos, and performs competitively on classification benchmarks.
title VidLA: Video-Language Alignment at Scale
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14870