TOGA: Temporally Grounded Open-Ended Video QA with Weak Supervision

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Autori principali: Gupta, Ayush, Roy, Anirban, Chellappa, Rama, Bastian, Nathaniel D., Velasquez, Alvaro, Jha, Susmit
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author Gupta, Ayush
Roy, Anirban
Chellappa, Rama
Bastian, Nathaniel D.
Velasquez, Alvaro
Jha, Susmit
author_facet Gupta, Ayush
Roy, Anirban
Chellappa, Rama
Bastian, Nathaniel D.
Velasquez, Alvaro
Jha, Susmit
contents We address the problem of video question answering (video QA) with temporal grounding in a weakly supervised setup, without any temporal annotations. Given a video and a question, we generate an open-ended answer grounded with the start and end time. For this task, we propose TOGA: a vision-language model for Temporally Grounded Open-Ended Video QA with Weak Supervision. We instruct-tune TOGA to jointly generate the answer and the temporal grounding. We operate in a weakly supervised setup where the temporal grounding annotations are not available. We generate pseudo labels for temporal grounding and ensure the validity of these labels by imposing a consistency constraint between the question of a grounding response and the response generated by a question referring to the same temporal segment. We notice that jointly generating the answers with the grounding improves performance on question answering as well as grounding. We evaluate TOGA on grounded QA and open-ended QA tasks. For grounded QA, we consider the NExT-GQA benchmark which is designed to evaluate weakly supervised grounded question answering. For open-ended QA, we consider the MSVD-QA and ActivityNet-QA benchmarks. We achieve state-of-the-art performance for both tasks on these benchmarks.
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spellingShingle TOGA: Temporally Grounded Open-Ended Video QA with Weak Supervision
Gupta, Ayush
Roy, Anirban
Chellappa, Rama
Bastian, Nathaniel D.
Velasquez, Alvaro
Jha, Susmit
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
We address the problem of video question answering (video QA) with temporal grounding in a weakly supervised setup, without any temporal annotations. Given a video and a question, we generate an open-ended answer grounded with the start and end time. For this task, we propose TOGA: a vision-language model for Temporally Grounded Open-Ended Video QA with Weak Supervision. We instruct-tune TOGA to jointly generate the answer and the temporal grounding. We operate in a weakly supervised setup where the temporal grounding annotations are not available. We generate pseudo labels for temporal grounding and ensure the validity of these labels by imposing a consistency constraint between the question of a grounding response and the response generated by a question referring to the same temporal segment. We notice that jointly generating the answers with the grounding improves performance on question answering as well as grounding. We evaluate TOGA on grounded QA and open-ended QA tasks. For grounded QA, we consider the NExT-GQA benchmark which is designed to evaluate weakly supervised grounded question answering. For open-ended QA, we consider the MSVD-QA and ActivityNet-QA benchmarks. We achieve state-of-the-art performance for both tasks on these benchmarks.
title TOGA: Temporally Grounded Open-Ended Video QA with Weak Supervision
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09445