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CLIP Meets Video Captioners: Attribute-Aware Representation Learning Promotes Accurate Captioning

2021-11-30 06:37:44
Bang Yang, Yuexian Zou

Abstract

For video captioning, "pre-training and fine-tuning" has become a de facto paradigm, where ImageNet Pre-training (INP) is usually used to help encode the video content, and a task-oriented network is fine-tuned from scratch to cope with caption generation. Comparing INP with the recently proposed CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training), this paper investigates the potential deficiencies of INP for video captioning and explores the key to generating accurate descriptions. Specifically, our empirical study on INP vs. CLIP shows that INP makes video caption models tricky to capture attributes' semantics and sensitive to irrelevant background information. By contrast, CLIP's significant boost in caption quality highlights the importance of attribute-aware representation learning. We are thus motivated to introduce Dual Attribute Prediction, an auxiliary task requiring a video caption model to learn the correspondence between video content and attributes and the co-occurrence relations between attributes. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our approach enables better learning of attribute-aware representations, bringing consistent improvements on models with different architectures and decoding algorithms.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15162

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.15162.pdf


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