ExCL: Extractive Clip Localization Using Natural Language Descriptions

Soham Ghosh, Anuva Agarwal, Zarana Parekh, Alexander Hauptmann

Abstract
The task of retrieving clips within videos based on a given natural language query requires cross-modal reasoning over multiple frames. Prior approaches such as sliding window classifiers are inefficient, while text-clip similarity driven ranking-based approaches such as segment proposal networks are far more complicated. In order to select the most relevant video clip corresponding to the given text description, we propose a novel extractive approach that predicts the start and end frames by leveraging cross-modal interactions between the text and video - this removes the need to retrieve and re-rank multiple proposal segments. Using recurrent networks we encode the two modalities into a joint representation which is then used in different variants of start-end frame predictor networks. Through extensive experimentation and ablative analysis, we demonstrate that our simple and elegant approach significantly outperforms state of the art on two datasets and has comparable performance on a third.
Anthology ID:
N19-1198
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)
Month:
June
Year:
2019
Address:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Editors:
Jill Burstein, Christy Doran, Thamar Solorio
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NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1984–1990
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N19-1198
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N19-1198
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Cite (ACL):
Soham Ghosh, Anuva Agarwal, Zarana Parekh, and Alexander Hauptmann. 2019. ExCL: Extractive Clip Localization Using Natural Language Descriptions. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 1984–1990, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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ExCL: Extractive Clip Localization Using Natural Language Descriptions (Ghosh et al., NAACL 2019)
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ActivityNet, ActivityNet Captions, Charades, Charades-STA
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