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Title: Weakly Supervised Gaussian Contrastive Grounding with Large Multimodal Models for Video Question Answering
(Submitted on 19 Jan 2024 (v1), last revised 26 Apr 2024 (this version, v3))
Abstract: Video Question Answering (VideoQA) aims to answer natural language questions based on the information observed in videos. Despite the recent success of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) in image-language understanding and reasoning, they deal with VideoQA insufficiently, by simply taking uniformly sampled frames as visual inputs, which ignores question-relevant visual clues. Moreover, there are no human annotations for question-critical timestamps in existing VideoQA datasets. In light of this, we propose a novel weakly supervised framework to enforce the LMMs to reason out the answers with question-critical moments as visual inputs. Specifically, we first fuse the question and answer pairs as event descriptions to find multiple keyframes as target moments and pseudo-labels, with the visual-language alignment capability of the CLIP models. With these pseudo-labeled keyframes as additionally weak supervision, we devise a lightweight Gaussian-based Contrastive Grounding (GCG) module. GCG learns multiple Gaussian functions to characterize the temporal structure of the video, and sample question-critical frames as positive moments to be the visual inputs of LMMs. Extensive experiments on several benchmarks verify the effectiveness of our framework, and we achieve substantial improvements compared to previous state-of-the-art methods.
Submission history
From: Haibo Wang [view email][v1] Fri, 19 Jan 2024 14:21:46 GMT (1671kb,D)
[v2] Sun, 28 Jan 2024 08:17:03 GMT (1673kb,D)
[v3] Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:38:10 GMT (1946kb,D)
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