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CLIP2Video: Mastering Video-Text Retrieval via Image CLIP

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021-06-22 v1

Abstract

We present CLIP2Video network to transfer the image-language pre-training model to video-text retrieval in an end-to-end manner. Leading approaches in the domain of video-and-language learning try to distill the spatio-temporal video features and multi-modal interaction between videos and languages from a large-scale video-text dataset. Different from them, we leverage pretrained image-language model, simplify it as a two-stage framework with co-learning of image-text and enhancing temporal relations between video frames and video-text respectively, make it able to train on comparatively small datasets. Specifically, based on the spatial semantics captured by Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model, our model involves a Temporal Difference Block to capture motions at fine temporal video frames, and a Temporal Alignment Block to re-align the tokens of video clips and phrases and enhance the multi-modal correlation. We conduct thorough ablation studies, and achieve state-of-the-art performance on major text-to-video and video-to-text retrieval benchmarks, including new records of retrieval accuracy on MSR-VTT, MSVD and VATEX.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2106.11097,
  title  = {CLIP2Video: Mastering Video-Text Retrieval via Image CLIP},
  author = {Han Fang and Pengfei Xiong and Luhui Xu and Yu Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.11097},
  year   = {2021}
}
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