DORi: Discovering object relationships for moment localization of a natural language query in a video

Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Basura Fernando, Hongdong Li, Stephen Gould

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    Abstract

    This paper studies the task of temporal moment localization in long untrimmed videos using natural language queries. Given a query sentence, the goal is to determine the start and end of the relevant segment within the video. Our key innovation is to learn a video feature embedding through a language-conditioned message-passing algorithm suitable for temporal moment localization which captures the relationships between humans, objects and activities in the video. These relationships are obtained by a spatial sub-graph that contextualizes the scene representation using detected objects and human features conditioned in the language query. Moreover, a temporal sub-graph captures the activities within the video through time. Our method is evaluated on three standard benchmark datasets, and we also introduce YouCookII as a new benchmark for this task. Experiments show our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on these datasets, confirming the effectiveness of our approach.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - 2021 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2021
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages1078-1087
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Electronic)9780738142661
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jan 2021
    Event2021 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States
    Duration: 5 Jan 20219 Jan 2021

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - 2021 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2021

    Conference

    Conference2021 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2021
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityVirtual, Online
    Period5/01/219/01/21

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