SnAG: Scalable and Accurate Video Grounding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02257v2
• Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 17:02:31 GMT
• Title: SnAG: Scalable and Accurate Video Grounding
• Authors: Fangzhou Mu, Sicheng Mo, Yin Li,
• Abstract summary: Temporal grounding of text descriptions in videos is a central problem in vision-language learning and video understanding. We study the effect of cross-modal fusion on the scalability of video grounding models. We present SnAG, a simple baseline for scalable and accurate video grounding.
• Score: 10.578025234151596
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Temporal grounding of text descriptions in videos is a central problem in vision-language learning and video understanding. Existing methods often prioritize accuracy over scalability -- they have been optimized for grounding only a few text queries within short videos, and fail to scale up to long videos with hundreds of queries. In this paper, we study the effect of cross-modal fusion on the scalability of video grounding models. Our analysis establishes late fusion as a more cost-effective fusion scheme for long-form videos with many text queries. Moreover, it leads us to a novel, video-centric sampling scheme for efficient training. Based on these findings, we present SnAG, a simple baseline for scalable and accurate video grounding. Without bells and whistles, SnAG is 43% more accurate and 1.5x faster than CONE, a state of the art for long-form video grounding on the challenging MAD dataset, while achieving highly competitive results on short videos.

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