O2NA: An Object-Oriented Non-Autoregressive Approach for Controllable Video Captioning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02359v1
• Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2021 04:17:20 GMT
• Title: O2NA: An Object-Oriented Non-Autoregressive Approach for Controllable Video Captioning
• Authors: Fenglin Liu, Xuancheng Ren, Xian Wu, Bang Yang, Shen Ge, Xu Sun
• Abstract summary: We propose an Object-Oriented Non-Autoregressive approach (O2NA) for video captioning. O2NA performs caption generation in three steps: 1) identify the focused objects and predict their locations in the target caption; 2) generate the related attribute words and relation words of these focused objects to form a draft caption; and 3) combine video information to refine the draft caption to a fluent final caption. Experiments on two benchmark datasets, MSR-VTT and MSVD, demonstrate the effectiveness of O2NA.
• Score: 41.14313691818424
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Video captioning combines video understanding and language generation. Different from image captioning that describes a static image with details of almost every object, video captioning usually considers a sequence of frames and biases towards focused objects, e.g., the objects that stay in focus regardless of the changing background. Therefore, detecting and properly accommodating focused objects is critical in video captioning. To enforce the description of focused objects and achieve controllable video captioning, we propose an Object-Oriented Non-Autoregressive approach (O2NA), which performs caption generation in three steps: 1) identify the focused objects and predict their locations in the target caption; 2) generate the related attribute words and relation words of these focused objects to form a draft caption; and 3) combine video information to refine the draft caption to a fluent final caption. Since the focused objects are generated and located ahead of other words, it is difficult to apply the word-by-word autoregressive generation process; instead, we adopt a non-autoregressive approach. The experiments on two benchmark datasets, i.e., MSR-VTT and MSVD, demonstrate the effectiveness of O2NA, which achieves results competitive with the state-of-the-arts but with both higher diversity and higher inference speed.

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