DrVideo: Document Retrieval Based Long Video Understanding

Fuente: arXiv
Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Ma, Ziyu, Gou, Chenhui, Shi, Hengcan, Sun, Bin, Li, Shutao, Rezatofighi, Hamid, Cai, Jianfei
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2024
Soggetti:
Accesso online:
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866916493580566528
author Ma, Ziyu
Gou, Chenhui
Shi, Hengcan
Sun, Bin
Li, Shutao
Rezatofighi, Hamid
Cai, Jianfei
author_facet Ma, Ziyu
Gou, Chenhui
Shi, Hengcan
Sun, Bin
Li, Shutao
Rezatofighi, Hamid
Cai, Jianfei
contents Most of the existing methods for video understanding primarily focus on videos only lasting tens of seconds, with limited exploration of techniques for handling long videos. The increased number of frames in long videos poses two main challenges: difficulty in locating key information and performing long-range reasoning. Thus, we propose DrVideo, a document-retrieval-based system designed for long video understanding. Our key idea is to convert the long-video understanding problem into a long-document understanding task so as to effectively leverage the power of large language models. Specifically, DrVideo first transforms a long video into a coarse text-based long document to initially retrieve key frames and then updates the documents with the augmented key frame information. It then employs an agent-based iterative loop to continuously search for missing information and augment the document until sufficient question-related information is gathered for making the final predictions in a chain-of-thought manner. Extensive experiments on long video benchmarks confirm the effectiveness of our method. DrVideo significantly outperforms existing LLM-based state-of-the-art methods on EgoSchema benchmark (3 minutes), MovieChat-1K benchmark (10 minutes), and the long split of Video-MME benchmark (average of 44 minutes).
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2406_12846
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle DrVideo: Document Retrieval Based Long Video Understanding
Ma, Ziyu
Gou, Chenhui
Shi, Hengcan
Sun, Bin
Li, Shutao
Rezatofighi, Hamid
Cai, Jianfei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Most of the existing methods for video understanding primarily focus on videos only lasting tens of seconds, with limited exploration of techniques for handling long videos. The increased number of frames in long videos poses two main challenges: difficulty in locating key information and performing long-range reasoning. Thus, we propose DrVideo, a document-retrieval-based system designed for long video understanding. Our key idea is to convert the long-video understanding problem into a long-document understanding task so as to effectively leverage the power of large language models. Specifically, DrVideo first transforms a long video into a coarse text-based long document to initially retrieve key frames and then updates the documents with the augmented key frame information. It then employs an agent-based iterative loop to continuously search for missing information and augment the document until sufficient question-related information is gathered for making the final predictions in a chain-of-thought manner. Extensive experiments on long video benchmarks confirm the effectiveness of our method. DrVideo significantly outperforms existing LLM-based state-of-the-art methods on EgoSchema benchmark (3 minutes), MovieChat-1K benchmark (10 minutes), and the long split of Video-MME benchmark (average of 44 minutes).
title DrVideo: Document Retrieval Based Long Video Understanding
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12846