Do You Remember? Dense Video Captioning with Cross-Modal Memory Retrieval

11 Apr 2024  ·  Minkuk Kim, Hyeon Bae Kim, Jinyoung Moon, Jinwoo Choi, Seong Tae Kim ·

There has been significant attention to the research on dense video captioning, which aims to automatically localize and caption all events within untrimmed video. Several studies introduce methods by designing dense video captioning as a multitasking problem of event localization and event captioning to consider inter-task relations. However, addressing both tasks using only visual input is challenging due to the lack of semantic content. In this study, we address this by proposing a novel framework inspired by the cognitive information processing of humans. Our model utilizes external memory to incorporate prior knowledge. The memory retrieval method is proposed with cross-modal video-to-text matching. To effectively incorporate retrieved text features, the versatile encoder and the decoder with visual and textual cross-attention modules are designed. Comparative experiments have been conducted to show the effectiveness of the proposed method on ActivityNet Captions and YouCook2 datasets. Experimental results show promising performance of our model without extensive pretraining from a large video dataset.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Dense Video Captioning ActivityNet Captions CM² METEOR 8.55 # 8
CIDEr 33.01 # 2
SODA 6.18 # 2
BLEU4 2.38 # 1
F1 55.21 # 1
Recall 53.71 # 1
Precision 56.81 # 1
Dense Video Captioning YouCook2 CM² METEOR 6.08 # 3
CIDEr 31.66 # 3
BLEU4 1.63 # 1
SODA 5.34 # 3
F1 28.43 # 1
Recall 24.76 # 1
Precision 33.38 # 1

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