HowToCaption: Prompting LLMs to Transform Video Annotations at Scale

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04900v2
• Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2024 11:40:03 GMT
• Title: HowToCaption: Prompting LLMs to Transform Video Annotations at Scale
• Authors: Nina Shvetsova, Anna Kukleva, Xudong Hong, Christian Rupprecht, Bernt Schiele, Hilde Kuehne,
• Abstract summary: We propose to leverage the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to obtain high-quality video descriptions aligned with videos at scale. We introduce a prompting method that is able to take into account a longer text of subtitles, allowing us to capture the contextual information beyond one single sentence. We apply our method to the subtitles of the HowTo100M dataset, creating a new large-scale dataset, HowToCaption.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Instructional videos are a common source for learning text-video or even multimodal representations by leveraging subtitles extracted with automatic speech recognition systems (ASR) from the audio signal in the videos. However, in contrast to human-annotated captions, both speech and subtitles naturally differ from the visual content of the videos and thus provide only noisy supervision. As a result, large-scale annotation-free web video training data remains sub-optimal for training text-video models. In this work, we propose to leverage the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to obtain high-quality video descriptions aligned with videos at scale. Specifically, we prompt an LLM to create plausible video captions based on ASR subtitles of instructional videos. To this end, we introduce a prompting method that is able to take into account a longer text of subtitles, allowing us to capture the contextual information beyond one single sentence. We further prompt the LLM to generate timestamps for each produced caption based on the timestamps of the subtitles and finally align the generated captions to the video temporally. In this way, we obtain human-style video captions at scale without human supervision. We apply our method to the subtitles of the HowTo100M dataset, creating a new large-scale dataset, HowToCaption. Our evaluation shows that the resulting captions not only significantly improve the performance over many different benchmark datasets for zero-shot text-video retrieval and video captioning, but also lead to a disentangling of textual narration from the audio, boosting the performance in text-video-audio tasks.

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