Object-Centric Representation Learning for Video Question Answering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05166v2
• Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 07:36:07 GMT
• Title: Object-Centric Representation Learning for Video Question Answering
• Authors: Long Hoang Dang, Thao Minh Le, Vuong Le, Truyen Tran
• Abstract summary: Video answering (Video QA) presents a powerful testbed for human-like intelligent behaviors. The task demands new capabilities to integrate processing, language understanding, binding abstract concepts to concrete visual artifacts. We propose a new query-guided representation framework to turn a video into a relational graph of objects.
• Score: 27.979053252431306
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Video question answering (Video QA) presents a powerful testbed for human-like intelligent behaviors. The task demands new capabilities to integrate video processing, language understanding, binding abstract linguistic concepts to concrete visual artifacts, and deliberative reasoning over spacetime. Neural networks offer a promising approach to reach this potential through learning from examples rather than handcrafting features and rules. However, neural networks are predominantly feature-based - they map data to unstructured vectorial representation and thus can fall into the trap of exploiting shortcuts through surface statistics instead of true systematic reasoning seen in symbolic systems. To tackle this issue, we advocate for object-centric representation as a basis for constructing spatio-temporal structures from videos, essentially bridging the semantic gap between low-level pattern recognition and high-level symbolic algebra. To this end, we propose a new query-guided representation framework to turn a video into an evolving relational graph of objects, whose features and interactions are dynamically and conditionally inferred. The object lives are then summarized into resumes, lending naturally for deliberative relational reasoning that produces an answer to the query. The framework is evaluated on major Video QA datasets, demonstrating clear benefits of the object-centric approach to video reasoning.

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