Unified Coarse-to-Fine Alignment for Video-Text Retrieval

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10091v1
• Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 19:04:37 GMT
• Title: Unified Coarse-to-Fine Alignment for Video-Text Retrieval
• Authors: Ziyang Wang, Yi-Lin Sung, Feng Cheng, Gedas Bertasius, Mohit Bansal
• Abstract summary: We propose a Unified Coarse-to-fine Alignment model, dubbed UCoFiA. Our model captures the cross-modal similarity information at different granularity levels. We apply the Sinkhorn-Knopp algorithm to normalize the similarities of each level before summing them.
• Score: 71.85966033484597
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The canonical approach to video-text retrieval leverages a coarse-grained or fine-grained alignment between visual and textual information. However, retrieving the correct video according to the text query is often challenging as it requires the ability to reason about both high-level (scene) and low-level (object) visual clues and how they relate to the text query. To this end, we propose a Unified Coarse-to-fine Alignment model, dubbed UCoFiA. Specifically, our model captures the cross-modal similarity information at different granularity levels. To alleviate the effect of irrelevant visual clues, we also apply an Interactive Similarity Aggregation module (ISA) to consider the importance of different visual features while aggregating the cross-modal similarity to obtain a similarity score for each granularity. Finally, we apply the Sinkhorn-Knopp algorithm to normalize the similarities of each level before summing them, alleviating over- and under-representation issues at different levels. By jointly considering the crossmodal similarity of different granularity, UCoFiA allows the effective unification of multi-grained alignments. Empirically, UCoFiA outperforms previous state-of-the-art CLIP-based methods on multiple video-text retrieval benchmarks, achieving 2.4%, 1.4% and 1.3% improvements in text-to-video retrieval R@1 on MSR-VTT, Activity-Net, and DiDeMo, respectively. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/Ziyang412/UCoFiA.

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