English

Induce, Edit, Retrieve: Language Grounded Multimodal Schema for Instructional Video Retrieval

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021-11-18 v1 Computation and Language

Abstract

Schemata are structured representations of complex tasks that can aid artificial intelligence by allowing models to break down complex tasks into intermediate steps. We propose a novel system that induces schemata from web videos and generalizes them to capture unseen tasks with the goal of improving video retrieval performance. Our system proceeds in three major phases: (1) Given a task with related videos, we construct an initial schema for a task using a joint video-text model to match video segments with text representing steps from wikiHow; (2) We generalize schemata to unseen tasks by leveraging language models to edit the text within existing schemata. Through generalization, we can allow our schemata to cover a more extensive range of tasks with a small amount of learning data; (3) We conduct zero-shot instructional video retrieval with the unseen task names as the queries. Our schema-guided approach outperforms existing methods for video retrieval, and we demonstrate that the schemata induced by our system are better than those generated by other models.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.09276,
  title  = {Induce, Edit, Retrieve: Language Grounded Multimodal Schema for Instructional Video Retrieval},
  author = {Yue Yang and Joongwon Kim and Artemis Panagopoulou and Mark Yatskar and Chris Callison-Burch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09276},
  year   = {2021}
}
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