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Multimodal Pretraining for Dense Video Captioning

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arxiv 2011.11760 v1 pith:DVN6ABE3 submitted 2020-11-10 cs.CV cs.CLcs.LG

Multimodal Pretraining for Dense Video Captioning

classification cs.CV cs.CLcs.LG
keywords videosvideoannotationscaptioningdenseinstructionalmodelsmultimodal
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Learning specific hands-on skills such as cooking, car maintenance, and home repairs increasingly happens via instructional videos. The user experience with such videos is known to be improved by meta-information such as time-stamped annotations for the main steps involved. Generating such annotations automatically is challenging, and we describe here two relevant contributions. First, we construct and release a new dense video captioning dataset, Video Timeline Tags (ViTT), featuring a variety of instructional videos together with time-stamped annotations. Second, we explore several multimodal sequence-to-sequence pretraining strategies that leverage large unsupervised datasets of videos and caption-like texts. We pretrain and subsequently finetune dense video captioning models using both YouCook2 and ViTT. We show that such models generalize well and are robust over a wide variety of instructional videos.

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