Encoding and Controlling Global Semantics for Long-form Video Question Answering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19723v1
• Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 06:10:10 GMT
• Title: Encoding and Controlling Global Semantics for Long-form Video Question Answering
• Authors: Thong Thanh Nguyen, Zhiyuan Hu, Xiaobao Wu, Cong-Duy T Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, Anh Tuan Luu,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a state space layer (SSL) into multi-modal Transformer to efficiently integrate global semantics of the video. Our SSL includes a gating unit to enable controllability over the flow of global semantics into visual representations. To rigorously evaluate long-form videoQA capacity, we construct two new benchmarks Ego-QA and MAD-QA featuring videos of considerably long length.
• Score: 40.129800076300434
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Seeking answers effectively for long videos is essential to build video question answering (videoQA) systems. Previous methods adaptively select frames and regions from long videos to save computations. However, this fails to reason over the whole sequence of video, leading to sub-optimal performance. To address this problem, we introduce a state space layer (SSL) into multi-modal Transformer to efficiently integrate global semantics of the video, which mitigates the video information loss caused by frame and region selection modules. Our SSL includes a gating unit to enable controllability over the flow of global semantics into visual representations. To further enhance the controllability, we introduce a cross-modal compositional congruence (C^3) objective to encourage global semantics aligned with the question. To rigorously evaluate long-form videoQA capacity, we construct two new benchmarks Ego-QA and MAD-QA featuring videos of considerably long length, i.e. 17.5 minutes and 1.9 hours, respectively. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our framework on these new as well as existing datasets.

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