VindLU: A Recipe for Effective Video-and-Language Pretraining
The last several years have witnessed remarkable progress in video-and-language (VidL) understanding. However, most modern VidL approaches use complex and specialized model architectures and sophisticated pretraining protocols, making the reproducibility, analysis and comparisons of these frameworks difficult. Hence, instead of proposing yet another new VidL model, this paper conducts a thorough empirical study demystifying the most important factors in the VidL model design. Among the factors that we investigate are (i) the spatiotemporal architecture design, (ii) the multimodal fusion schemes, (iii) the pretraining objectives, (iv) the choice of pretraining data, (v) pretraining and finetuning protocols, and (vi) dataset and model scaling. Our empirical study reveals that the most important design factors include: temporal modeling, video-to-text multimodal fusion, masked modeling objectives, and joint training on images and videos. Using these empirical insights, we then develop a step-by-step recipe, dubbed VindLU, for effective VidL pretraining. Our final model trained using our recipe achieves comparable or better than state-of-the-art results on several VidL tasks without relying on external CLIP pretraining. In particular, on the text-to-video retrieval task, our approach obtains 61.2% on DiDeMo, and 55.0% on ActivityNet, outperforming current SOTA by 7.8% and 6.1% respectively. Furthermore, our model also obtains state-of-the-art video question-answering results on ActivityNet-QA, MSRVTT-QA, MSRVTT-MC and TVQA. Our code and pretrained models are publicly available at: https://github.com/klauscc/VindLU.
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Results from the Paper
Ranked #2 on Video Retrieval on Condensed Movies (using extra training data)
Task | Dataset | Model | Metric Name | Metric Value | Global Rank | Uses Extra Training Data |
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Video Retrieval | ActivityNet | VindLU | text-to-video R@1 | 55.0 | # 10 | ||
text-to-video R@5 | 81.4 | # 7 | |||||
text-to-video R@10 | 89.7 | # 8 | |||||
Video Question Answering | ActivityNet-QA | VindLU | Accuracy | 44.7 | # 19 | ||
Video Retrieval | Condensed Movies | VINDLU | text-to-video R@1 | 18.4 | # 2 | ||
text-to-video R@5 | 36.4 | # 2 | |||||
text-to-video R@10 | 44.3 | # 2 | |||||
Video Retrieval | DiDeMo | VindLU | text-to-video R@1 | 61.2 | # 7 | ||
text-to-video R@5 | 85.8 | # 5 | |||||
text-to-video R@10 | 91.0 | # 5 | |||||
Video Retrieval | MSR-VTT-1kA | VindLU | text-to-video R@1 | 46.5 | # 31 | ||
text-to-video R@5 | 71.5 | # 31 | |||||
text-to-video R@10 | 80.4 | # 35 | |||||
Video Question Answering | MSRVTT-MC | VindLU | Accuracy | 95.5 | # 3 | ||
Video Question Answering | MSRVTT-QA | VindLU | Accuracy | 44.6 | # 10 | ||
Video Retrieval | QuerYD | VINDLU | text-to-video R@1 | 67.8 | # 3 | ||
text-to-video R@10 | 81.8 | # 4 | |||||
text-to-video R@5 | 86.3 | # 2 | |||||
Video Retrieval | SSv2-label retrieval | VindLU | text-to-video R@1 | 53.1 | # 4 | ||
text-to-video R@5 | 81.8 | # 4 | |||||
Video Retrieval | SSv2-template retrieval | VindLU | text-to-video R@1 | 83.3 | # 4 | ||
text-to-video R@5 | 100 | # 1 | |||||
text-to-video R@10 | 100 | # 1 | |||||
Video Question Answering | TVQA | VindLU | Accuracy | 79.0 | # 3 |