Does Video Summarization Require Videos? Quantifying the Effectiveness of Language in Video Summarization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09405v1
• Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:08:49 GMT
• Title: Does Video Summarization Require Videos? Quantifying the Effectiveness of Language in Video Summarization
• Authors: Yoonsoo Nam, Adam Lehavi, Daniel Yang, Digbalay Bose, Swabha Swayamdipta, Shrikanth Narayanan
• Abstract summary: Video summarization remains a huge challenge in computer vision due to the size of the input videos to be summarized. We propose an efficient, language-only video summarizer that achieves competitive accuracy with high data efficiency.
• Score: 37.09662541127891
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Video summarization remains a huge challenge in computer vision due to the size of the input videos to be summarized. We propose an efficient, language-only video summarizer that achieves competitive accuracy with high data efficiency. Using only textual captions obtained via a zero-shot approach, we train a language transformer model and forego image representations. This method allows us to perform filtration amongst the representative text vectors and condense the sequence. With our approach, we gain explainability with natural language that comes easily for human interpretation and textual summaries of the videos. An ablation study that focuses on modality and data compression shows that leveraging text modality only effectively reduces input data processing while retaining comparable results.

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