Weakly-supervised spatio-temporally grounding natural sentence in video

Z Chen, L Ma, W Luo, KYK Wong - arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.02549, 2019 - arxiv.org
arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.02549, 2019arxiv.org
In this paper, we address a novel task, namely weakly-supervised spatio-temporally
grounding natural sentence in video. Specifically, given a natural sentence and a video, we
localize a spatio-temporal tube in the video that semantically corresponds to the given
sentence, with no reliance on any spatio-temporal annotations during training. First, a set of
spatio-temporal tubes, referred to as instances, are extracted from the video. We then
encode these instances and the sentence using our proposed attentive interactor which can …
In this paper, we address a novel task, namely weakly-supervised spatio-temporally grounding natural sentence in video. Specifically, given a natural sentence and a video, we localize a spatio-temporal tube in the video that semantically corresponds to the given sentence, with no reliance on any spatio-temporal annotations during training. First, a set of spatio-temporal tubes, referred to as instances, are extracted from the video. We then encode these instances and the sentence using our proposed attentive interactor which can exploit their fine-grained relationships to characterize their matching behaviors. Besides a ranking loss, a novel diversity loss is introduced to train the proposed attentive interactor to strengthen the matching behaviors of reliable instance-sentence pairs and penalize the unreliable ones. Moreover, we also contribute a dataset, called VID-sentence, based on the ImageNet video object detection dataset, to serve as a benchmark for our task. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our model over the baseline approaches.
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