Encoding and Controlling Global Semantics for Long-form Video Question Answering

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Hauptverfasser: Nguyen, Thong Thanh, Hu, Zhiyuan, Wu, Xiaobao, Nguyen, Cong-Duy T, Ng, See-Kiong, Luu, Anh Tuan
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author Nguyen, Thong Thanh
Hu, Zhiyuan
Wu, Xiaobao
Nguyen, Cong-Duy T
Ng, See-Kiong
Luu, Anh Tuan
author_facet Nguyen, Thong Thanh
Hu, Zhiyuan
Wu, Xiaobao
Nguyen, Cong-Duy T
Ng, See-Kiong
Luu, Anh Tuan
contents Seeking answers effectively for long videos is essential to build video question answering (videoQA) systems. Previous methods adaptively select frames and regions from long videos to save computations. However, this fails to reason over the whole sequence of video, leading to sub-optimal performance. To address this problem, we introduce a state space layer (SSL) into multi-modal Transformer to efficiently integrate global semantics of the video, which mitigates the video information loss caused by frame and region selection modules. Our SSL includes a gating unit to enable controllability over the flow of global semantics into visual representations. To further enhance the controllability, we introduce a cross-modal compositional congruence (C^3) objective to encourage global semantics aligned with the question. To rigorously evaluate long-form videoQA capacity, we construct two new benchmarks Ego-QA and MAD-QA featuring videos of considerably long length, i.e. 17.5 minutes and 1.9 hours, respectively. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our framework on these new as well as existing datasets. The code, model, and data have been made available at https://nguyentthong.github.io/Long_form_VideoQA.
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spellingShingle Encoding and Controlling Global Semantics for Long-form Video Question Answering
Nguyen, Thong Thanh
Hu, Zhiyuan
Wu, Xiaobao
Nguyen, Cong-Duy T
Ng, See-Kiong
Luu, Anh Tuan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Seeking answers effectively for long videos is essential to build video question answering (videoQA) systems. Previous methods adaptively select frames and regions from long videos to save computations. However, this fails to reason over the whole sequence of video, leading to sub-optimal performance. To address this problem, we introduce a state space layer (SSL) into multi-modal Transformer to efficiently integrate global semantics of the video, which mitigates the video information loss caused by frame and region selection modules. Our SSL includes a gating unit to enable controllability over the flow of global semantics into visual representations. To further enhance the controllability, we introduce a cross-modal compositional congruence (C^3) objective to encourage global semantics aligned with the question. To rigorously evaluate long-form videoQA capacity, we construct two new benchmarks Ego-QA and MAD-QA featuring videos of considerably long length, i.e. 17.5 minutes and 1.9 hours, respectively. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our framework on these new as well as existing datasets. The code, model, and data have been made available at https://nguyentthong.github.io/Long_form_VideoQA.
title Encoding and Controlling Global Semantics for Long-form Video Question Answering
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19723