MoReVQA: Exploring Modular Reasoning Models for Video Question Answering

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Autori principali: Min, Juhong, Buch, Shyamal, Nagrani, Arsha, Cho, Minsu, Schmid, Cordelia
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Min, Juhong
Buch, Shyamal
Nagrani, Arsha
Cho, Minsu
Schmid, Cordelia
author_facet Min, Juhong
Buch, Shyamal
Nagrani, Arsha
Cho, Minsu
Schmid, Cordelia
contents This paper addresses the task of video question answering (videoQA) via a decomposed multi-stage, modular reasoning framework. Previous modular methods have shown promise with a single planning stage ungrounded in visual content. However, through a simple and effective baseline, we find that such systems can lead to brittle behavior in practice for challenging videoQA settings. Thus, unlike traditional single-stage planning methods, we propose a multi-stage system consisting of an event parser, a grounding stage, and a final reasoning stage in conjunction with an external memory. All stages are training-free, and performed using few-shot prompting of large models, creating interpretable intermediate outputs at each stage. By decomposing the underlying planning and task complexity, our method, MoReVQA, improves over prior work on standard videoQA benchmarks (NExT-QA, iVQA, EgoSchema, ActivityNet-QA) with state-of-the-art results, and extensions to related tasks (grounded videoQA, paragraph captioning).
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spellingShingle MoReVQA: Exploring Modular Reasoning Models for Video Question Answering
Min, Juhong
Buch, Shyamal
Nagrani, Arsha
Cho, Minsu
Schmid, Cordelia
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
This paper addresses the task of video question answering (videoQA) via a decomposed multi-stage, modular reasoning framework. Previous modular methods have shown promise with a single planning stage ungrounded in visual content. However, through a simple and effective baseline, we find that such systems can lead to brittle behavior in practice for challenging videoQA settings. Thus, unlike traditional single-stage planning methods, we propose a multi-stage system consisting of an event parser, a grounding stage, and a final reasoning stage in conjunction with an external memory. All stages are training-free, and performed using few-shot prompting of large models, creating interpretable intermediate outputs at each stage. By decomposing the underlying planning and task complexity, our method, MoReVQA, improves over prior work on standard videoQA benchmarks (NExT-QA, iVQA, EgoSchema, ActivityNet-QA) with state-of-the-art results, and extensions to related tasks (grounded videoQA, paragraph captioning).
title MoReVQA: Exploring Modular Reasoning Models for Video Question Answering
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06511