Span-based Localizing Network for Natural Language Video Localization

Hao Zhang, Aixin Sun, Wei Jing, Joey Tianyi Zhou

Abstract
Given an untrimmed video and a text query, natural language video localization (NLVL) is to locate a matching span from the video that semantically corresponds to the query. Existing solutions formulate NLVL either as a ranking task and apply multimodal matching architecture, or as a regression task to directly regress the target video span. In this work, we address NLVL task with a span-based QA approach by treating the input video as text passage. We propose a video span localizing network (VSLNet), on top of the standard span-based QA framework, to address NLVL. The proposed VSLNet tackles the differences between NLVL and span-based QA through a simple and yet effective query-guided highlighting (QGH) strategy. The QGH guides VSLNet to search for matching video span within a highlighted region. Through extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets, we show that the proposed VSLNet outperforms the state-of-the-art methods; and adopting span-based QA framework is a promising direction to solve NLVL.
Anthology ID:
2020.acl-main.585
Volume:
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
Venue:
ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
6543–6554
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.585
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.585
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Cite (ACL):
Hao Zhang, Aixin Sun, Wei Jing, and Joey Tianyi Zhou. 2020. Span-based Localizing Network for Natural Language Video Localization. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 6543–6554, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Span-based Localizing Network for Natural Language Video Localization (Zhang et al., ACL 2020)
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https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2020.acl-main.585.pdf
Video:
 http://slideslive.com/38929045
Code
 IsaacChanghau/VSLNet
Data
ActivityNet, Charades, Charades-STA
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