HENASY: Learning to Assemble Scene-Entities for Egocentric Video-Language Model

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Main Authors: Vo, Khoa, Phan, Thinh, Yamazaki, Kashu, Tran, Minh, Le, Ngan
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author Vo, Khoa
Phan, Thinh
Yamazaki, Kashu
Tran, Minh
Le, Ngan
author_facet Vo, Khoa
Phan, Thinh
Yamazaki, Kashu
Tran, Minh
Le, Ngan
contents Current video-language models (VLMs) rely extensively on instance-level alignment between video and language modalities, which presents two major limitations: (1) visual reasoning disobeys the natural perception that humans do in first-person perspective, leading to a lack of reasoning interpretation; and (2) learning is limited in capturing inherent fine-grained relationships between two modalities. In this paper, we take an inspiration from human perception and explore a compositional approach for egocentric video representation. We introduce HENASY (Hierarchical ENtities ASsemblY), which includes a spatiotemporal token grouping mechanism to explicitly assemble dynamically evolving scene entities through time and model their relationship for video representation. By leveraging compositional structure understanding, HENASY possesses strong interpretability via visual grounding with free-form text queries. We further explore a suite of multi-grained contrastive losses to facilitate entity-centric understandings. This comprises three alignment types: video-narration, noun-entity, verb-entities alignments. Our method demonstrates strong interpretability in both quantitative and qualitative experiments; while maintaining competitive performances on five downstream tasks via zero-shot transfer or as video/text representation, including video/text retrieval, action recognition, multi-choice query, natural language query, and moments query.
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spellingShingle HENASY: Learning to Assemble Scene-Entities for Egocentric Video-Language Model
Vo, Khoa
Phan, Thinh
Yamazaki, Kashu
Tran, Minh
Le, Ngan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Current video-language models (VLMs) rely extensively on instance-level alignment between video and language modalities, which presents two major limitations: (1) visual reasoning disobeys the natural perception that humans do in first-person perspective, leading to a lack of reasoning interpretation; and (2) learning is limited in capturing inherent fine-grained relationships between two modalities. In this paper, we take an inspiration from human perception and explore a compositional approach for egocentric video representation. We introduce HENASY (Hierarchical ENtities ASsemblY), which includes a spatiotemporal token grouping mechanism to explicitly assemble dynamically evolving scene entities through time and model their relationship for video representation. By leveraging compositional structure understanding, HENASY possesses strong interpretability via visual grounding with free-form text queries. We further explore a suite of multi-grained contrastive losses to facilitate entity-centric understandings. This comprises three alignment types: video-narration, noun-entity, verb-entities alignments. Our method demonstrates strong interpretability in both quantitative and qualitative experiments; while maintaining competitive performances on five downstream tasks via zero-shot transfer or as video/text representation, including video/text retrieval, action recognition, multi-choice query, natural language query, and moments query.
title HENASY: Learning to Assemble Scene-Entities for Egocentric Video-Language Model
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00307