大规模未标记数据集的预培训显示了计算机视觉和自然语言处理领域的令人印象深刻的性能改进。鉴于大规模教学视频数据集的出现，预训练视频编码器的常见策略是使用随附的语音作为弱监管。但是，由于演讲用于监督预培训，视频编码器从未见过，这不会学会处理该模态。我们解决了当前预训练方法的这种缺点，这未能利用口语语言中的丰富的线索。我们的提议是使用所有可用的视频模型作为监督，即外观，声音和转录语音预先列车。我们在输入中掩盖了整个模态并使用其他两个模态预测它。这鼓励每个码头与其他方式合作，我们的视频编码器学会处理外观和音频以及语音。我们展示了我们在How2R，YouScook2和浓缩电影数据集上视频检索的“模态屏蔽”预培训方法的卓越性能。

The canonical approach to video-and-language learning (e.g., video question answering) dictates a neural model to learn from offline-extracted dense video features from vision models and text features from language models. These feature extractors are trained independently and usually on tasks different from the target domains, rendering these fixed features sub-optimal for downstream tasks. Moreover, due to the high computational overload of dense video features, it is often difficult (or infeasible) to plug feature extractors directly into existing approaches for easy finetuning. To provide a remedy to this dilemma, we propose a generic framework CLIPBERT that enables affordable endto-end learning for video-and-language tasks, by employing sparse sampling, where only a single or a few sparsely sampled short clips from a video are used at each training step. Experiments on text-to-video retrieval and video question answering on six datasets demonstrate that CLIP-BERT outperforms (or is on par with) existing methods that exploit full-length videos, suggesting that end-to-end learning with just a few sparsely sampled clips is often more accurate than using densely extracted offline features from full-length videos, proving the proverbial less-is-more principle. Videos in the datasets are from considerably different domains and lengths, ranging from 3-second genericdomain GIF videos to 180-second YouTube human activity videos, showing the generalization ability of our approach. Comprehensive ablation studies and thorough analyses are provided to dissect what factors lead to this success. Our code is publicly available. 1 * Equal contribution.

视频语言（VIDL）建模的巨大挑战在于从图像/视频理解模型和下游Vidl数据中提取的固定视频表示之间的断开。最近的研究试图通过端到端培训来减轻这种断开连接。为了使其进行计算可行，先前的作品倾向于“想象”视频输入，即，将一些稀疏的采样帧馈送到2D CNN中，然后是简单的均值汇集或连接以获得整体视频表示。虽然实现了有希望的结果，但这种简单的方法可能会失去对于执行下游VIDL任务至关重要的时间信息。在这项工作中，我们呈现紫罗兰色，全新的视频语言变压器，采用视频变压器，明确地模拟视频输入的时间动态。此外，与以前的研究不同，发现视频输入上的预训练任务（例如，屏蔽帧建模）不是非常有效的，我们设计了一个新的预训练任务，屏蔽了视觉令牌建模（MVM），以获得更好的视频建模。具体地，原始视频帧修补程序将“令牌化”转换为离散的视觉令牌，目标是基于蒙面的贴片恢复原始的视觉令牌。综合分析展示了通过视频变压器和MVM显式时间建模的有效性。因此，紫罗兰在5个视频问题的回答任务和4个文本到视频检索任务中实现了新的最先进的性能。

Learning text-video embeddings usually requires a dataset of video clips with manually provided captions. However, such datasets are expensive and time consuming to create and therefore difficult to obtain on a large scale. In this work, we propose instead to learn such embeddings from video data with readily available natural language annotations in the form of automatically transcribed narrations. The contributions of this work are three-fold. First, we introduce HowTo100M: a large-scale dataset of 136 million video clips sourced from 1.22M narrated instructional web videos depicting humans performing and describing over 23k different visual tasks. Our data collection procedure is fast, scalable and does not require any additional manual annotation. Second, we demonstrate that a text-video embedding trained on this data leads to state-ofthe-art results for text-to-video retrieval and action localization on instructional video datasets such as YouCook2 or CrossTask. Finally, we show that this embedding transfers well to other domains: fine-tuning on generic Youtube videos (MSR-VTT dataset) and movies (LSMDC dataset) outperforms models trained on these datasets alone. Our dataset, code and models are publicly available [1]. * Equal contribution.

我们介绍了一种视听方法，用于远程文本到视频检索。与以前专为简短视频检索设计的方法（例如，持续时间为5-15秒）不同，我们的方法旨在检索捕获复杂人类动作的长时间视频。仅标准视频方法的一个挑战是与从这样的长视频中处理数百个密集提取的帧相关的大量计算成本。为了解决这个问题，我们建议用紧凑的音频提示替换视频的部分，这些线索简洁地汇总了动态音频事件，并且处理便宜。我们的方法称为Eclipse（带有声音编码的有效剪辑），通过添加一个统一的视听变压器块，将流行的剪辑模型调整为视听视频设置，该块从视频和音频流中捕获互补的提示。除了比仅长期视频的方法快2.92倍和2.34倍的内存效率外，我们的方法还可以在几个不同的远程视频数据集上，例如ActivityNet，QVHighighlights，Youcoook2，Youcoook2，Youcook2，Youcook2，Youcook2，Youcook2，Youcook2，Youcook2， Didemo和Charades。

来自视频数据的多模态学习最近看过，因为它允许在没有人为注释的情况下培训语义有意义的嵌入，从而使得零射击检索和分类等任务。在这项工作中，我们提出了一种多模态，模态无政府主义融合变压器方法，它学会在多个模态之间交换信息，例如视频，音频和文本，并将它们集成到加入的多模态表示中，以获取聚合的嵌入多模态时间信息。我们建议培训系统的组合丢失，单个模态以及成对的方式，明确地留出任何附加组件，如位置或模态编码。在测试时间时，产生的模型可以处理和融合任意数量的输入模态。此外，变压器的隐式属性允许处理不同长度的输入。为了评估所提出的方法，我们在大规模HOWASET上培训模型，并评估四个具有挑战性的基准数据集上产生的嵌入空间获得最先进的视频检索和零射击视频动作定位。

Video-language pre-training is crucial for learning powerful multi-modal representation. However, it typically requires a massive amount of computation. In this paper, we develop SMAUG, an efficient pre-training framework for video-language models. The foundation component in SMAUG is masked autoencoders. Different from prior works which only mask textual inputs, our masking strategy considers both visual and textual modalities, providing a better cross-modal alignment and saving more pre-training costs. On top of that, we introduce a space-time token sparsification module, which leverages context information to further select only "important" spatial regions and temporal frames for pre-training. Coupling all these designs allows our method to enjoy both competitive performances on text-to-video retrieval and video question answering tasks, and much less pre-training costs by 1.9X or more. For example, our SMAUG only needs about 50 NVIDIA A6000 GPU hours for pre-training to attain competitive performances on these two video-language tasks across six popular benchmarks.

音乐信息检索的音频表示通常通过以特定于任务的方式通过监督学习来学习。虽然有效地产生最先进的结果，但该方案对于模型可以具有并且需要广泛的注释数据集的应用范围缺乏灵活性。在这项工作中，我们构成了是否可以利用弱对齐文本作为唯一用于学习通用音频音频表示的监督信号的问题。为了解决这个问题，我们设计了通过一组代理任务优化的音乐和语言预训练（Mulap）的多模式架构。弱监管以嘈杂的自然语言描述形式传达轨道的整体音乐纪念。在预训练之后，我们将模型的音频骨干转换为一组音乐音频分类和回归任务。我们通过比较通过不同培训策略产生的相同音频骨干声音产生的音频表示的性能并表明我们的预训练方法始终如一地实现所有任务和数据集所考虑的可比分数，因此证明了我们的方法。我们的实验还证实，Mulap有效利用音频标题对，以学习与文献中的音频和跨模型自我监督方法具有竞争力的表示。

The remarkable success of deep learning in various domains relies on the availability of large-scale annotated datasets. However, obtaining annotations is expensive and requires great effort, which is especially challenging for videos. Moreover, the use of human-generated annotations leads to models with biased learning and poor domain generalization and robustness. As an alternative, self-supervised learning provides a way for representation learning which does not require annotations and has shown promise in both image and video domains. Different from the image domain, learning video representations are more challenging due to the temporal dimension, bringing in motion and other environmental dynamics. This also provides opportunities for video-exclusive ideas that advance self-supervised learning in the video and multimodal domain. In this survey, we provide a review of existing approaches on self-supervised learning focusing on the video domain. We summarize these methods into four different categories based on their learning objectives: 1) pretext tasks, 2) generative learning, 3) contrastive learning, and 4) cross-modal agreement. We further introduce the commonly used datasets, downstream evaluation tasks, insights into the limitations of existing works, and the potential future directions in this area.

视听自动语音识别（AV-ASR）是ASR的扩展，它通常来自扬声器嘴的动作。与仅关注唇部运动的作品不同，我们研究了整个视觉框架（视觉动作，对象，背景等）的贡献。这对于不一定可见的说话者不一定可见的视频特别有用。为了解决这项任务，我们提出了一个新的序列到序列视听ASR变压器（Avatar），该序列是从频谱图和全帧RGB端到端训练的。为了防止音频流主导训练，我们提出了不同的单词掩盖策略，从而鼓励我们的模型注意视觉流。我们证明了视觉模态对2 AV-ASR基准测试的贡献，尤其是在模拟噪声的情况下，并表明我们的模型以很大的边距优于所有其他先前的工作。最后，我们还为AV-ASR创建了一个名为Visspeech的新的现实世界测试床，该床在挑战性的音频条件下展示了视觉模态的贡献。

Self-supervised learning has become increasingly important to leverage the abundance of unlabeled data available on platforms like YouTube. Whereas most existing approaches learn low-level representations, we propose a joint visual-linguistic model to learn high-level features without any explicit supervision. In particular, inspired by its recent success in language modeling, we build upon the BERT model to learn bidirectional joint distributions over sequences of visual and linguistic tokens, derived from vector quantization of video data and off-the-shelf speech recognition outputs, respectively. We use VideoBERT in numerous tasks, including action classification and video captioning. We show that it can be applied directly to openvocabulary classification, and confirm that large amounts of training data and cross-modal information are critical to performance. Furthermore, we outperform the state-of-theart on video captioning, and quantitative results verify that the model learns high-level semantic features.

在这项工作中，我们介绍了无文本视觉语言变压器（TVLT），其中均匀的变压器块使用最小的模态设计进行视觉和语言表示的原始视觉和音频输入，并且不使用特定于文本的模块，例如作为令牌化或自动语音识别（ASR）。 TVLT通过重建连续视频帧和音频谱图（蒙版自动编码）和对比度建模以使视频和音频对比度建模进行训练。 TVLT在各种多模式任务上的性能与其基于文本的对应物相当，例如视觉询问，图像检索，视频检索和多模式情感分析，具有28倍的推理速度和仅1/3参数。我们的发现表明，从低级视觉和音频信号中学习紧凑，有效的视觉语言表示的可能性，而无需假设文本的先前存在。我们的代码和检查点可在以下网址找到：https：//github.com/zinengtang/tvlt

我们研究了联合视频和语言（VL）预培训，以实现跨模型学习和益处丰富的下游VL任务。现有的作品要么提取低质量的视频特征或学习有限的文本嵌入，但忽略了高分辨率视频和多样化的语义可以显着提高跨模型学习。在本文中，我们提出了一种新的高分辨率和多样化的视频 - 语言预训练模型（HD-VILA），用于许多可视任务。特别是，我们收集具有两个不同属性的大型数据集：1）第一个高分辨率数据集包括371.5k小时的720p视频，2）最多样化的数据集涵盖15个流行的YouTube类别。为了启用VL预培训，我们通过学习丰富的时空特征的混合变压器联合优化HD-VILA模型，以及多峰变压器，用于强制学习视频功能与多样化文本的交互。我们的预训练模式实现了新的最先进的导致10 VL了解任务和2个新颖的文本到视觉生成任务。例如，我们以零拍摄MSR-VTT文本到视频检索任务的相对增加38.5％R @ 1的相对增长，高分辨率数据集LSMDC为53.6％。学习的VL嵌入也有效地在文本到视觉操纵和超分辨率任务中产生视觉上令人愉悦和语义相关结果。

我们使用无卷积的变压器架构提出了一种从未标记数据学习多式式表示的框架。具体而言，我们的视频音频文本变压器（Vatt）将原始信号作为输入提取，提取丰富的多式化表示，以使各种下游任务受益。我们使用多模式对比损失从头划线训练Vatt端到端，并通过视频动作识别，音频事件分类，图像分类和文本到视频检索的下游任务评估其性能。此外，我们通过共享三种方式之间的重量来研究模型 - 无话的单骨架变压器。我们表明，无卷积VATT优于下游任务中的最先进的Convnet架构。特别是，Vatt的视觉变压器在动力学-400上实现82.1％的高精度82.1％，在动力学-600，72.7％的动力学-700上的72.7％，以及时间的时间，新的记录，在避免受监督的预训练时，新的记录。通过从头划伤训练相同的变压器，转移到图像分类导致图像分类导致78.7％的ImageNet精度为64.7％，尽管视频和图像之间的域间差距，我们的模型概括了我们的模型。 Vatt的音雅音频变压器还通过在没有任何监督的预训练的情况下在Audioset上实现39.4％的地图来设置基于波形的音频事件识别的新记录。 Vatt的源代码是公开的。

Video-language pre-training has advanced the performance of various downstream video-language tasks. However, most previous methods directly inherit or adapt typical image-language pre-training paradigms to video-language pre-training, thus not fully exploiting the unique characteristic of video, i.e., temporal. In this paper, we propose a Hierarchical Temporal-Aware video-language pre-training framework, HiTeA, with two novel pre-training tasks for modeling cross-modal alignment between moments and texts as well as the temporal relations of video-text pairs. Specifically, we propose a cross-modal moment exploration task to explore moments in videos, which results in detailed video moment representation. Besides, the inherent temporal relations are captured by aligning video-text pairs as a whole in different time resolutions with multi-modal temporal relation exploration task. Furthermore, we introduce the shuffling test to evaluate the temporal reliance of datasets and video-language pre-training models. We achieve state-of-the-art results on 15 well-established video-language understanding and generation tasks, especially on temporal-oriented datasets (e.g., SSv2-Template and SSv2-Label) with 8.6% and 11.1% improvement respectively. HiTeA also demonstrates strong generalization ability when directly transferred to downstream tasks in a zero-shot manner. Models and demo will be available on ModelScope.

Timeyou have a little pressure you are cutting the wood readjusting the table saw I am using a roller sure you applied glue Figure 1: We describe an efficient approach to learn visual representations from misaligned and noisy narrations (bottom) automatically extracted from instructional videos (top). Our video representations are learnt from scratch without relying on any manually annotated visual dataset yet outperform all self-supervised and many fully-supervised methods on several video recognition benchmarks.

We present Masked Audio-Video Learners (MAViL) to train audio-visual representations. Our approach learns with three complementary forms of self-supervision: (1) reconstruction of masked audio and video input data, (2) intra- and inter-modal contrastive learning with masking, and (3) self-training by reconstructing joint audio-video contextualized features learned from the first two objectives. Pre-training with MAViL not only enables the model to perform well in audio-visual classification and retrieval tasks but also improves representations of each modality in isolation, without using information from the other modality for fine-tuning or inference. Empirically, MAViL sets a new state-of-the-art on AudioSet (53.1 mAP) and VGGSound (67.1% accuracy). For the first time, a self-supervised audio-visual model outperforms ones that use external supervision on these benchmarks. Code will be available soon.

Most existing text-video retrieval methods focus on cross-modal matching between the visual content of offline videos and textual query sentences. However, in real scenarios, online videos are frequently accompanied by relevant text information such as titles, tags, and even subtitles, which can be utilized to match textual queries. This inspires us to generate associated captions from offline videos to help with existing text-video retrieval methods. To do so, we propose to use the zero-shot video captioner with knowledge of pre-trained web-scale models (e.g., CLIP and GPT-2) to generate captions for offline videos without any training. Given the captions, one question naturally arises: what can auxiliary captions do for text-video retrieval? In this paper, we present a novel framework Cap4Video, which makes use of captions from three aspects: i) Input data: The video and captions can form new video-caption pairs as data augmentation for training. ii) Feature interaction: We perform feature interaction between video and caption to yield enhanced video representations. iii) Output score: The Query-Caption matching branch can be complementary to the original Query-Video matching branch for text-video retrieval. We conduct thorough ablation studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. Without any post-processing, our Cap4Video achieves state-of-the-art performance on MSR-VTT (51.4%), VATEX (66.6%), MSVD (51.8%), and DiDeMo (52.0%).

近年来，统一的视觉语言框架已经大大提高，其中大多数采用编码器架构将图像文本任务统一为序列到序列的生成。但是，现有的视频语言（VIDL）模型仍需要在每个任务的模型体系结构和培训目标中进行特定于任务的设计。在这项工作中，我们探索了一个统一的VIDL框架薰衣草，其中蒙版语言建模（MLM）用作所有前训练和下游任务的常见接口。这样的统一导致了简化的模型体系结构，在多模式编码器之上，只需要一个轻巧的MLM头，而不是具有更多参数的解码器。令人惊讶的是，实验结果表明，这个统一的框架在14个VIDL基准测试中实现了竞争性能，涵盖了视频问答，文本到视频检索和视频字幕。广泛的分析进一步证明了薰衣草比现有VIDL方法的优势：（i）在多任务列出时仅使用一组参数值支持所有下游任务； （ii）对各种下游任务的几乎没有概括； （iii）在视频问题回答任务上启用零射门评估。代码可从https://github.com/microsoft/lavender获得。

In this paper, we introduce ActBERT for self-supervised learning of joint video-text representations from unlabeled data. First, we leverage global action information to catalyze mutual interactions between linguistic texts and local regional objects. It uncovers global and local visual clues from paired video sequences and text descriptions for detailed visual and text relation modeling. Second, we introduce a TaNgled Transformer block (TNT) to encode three sources of information, i.e., global actions, local regional objects, and linguistic descriptions. Global-local correspondences are discovered via judicious clues extraction from contextual information. It enforces the joint video-text representation to be aware of fine-grained objects as well as global human intention. We validate the generalization capability of ActBERT on downstream video-and-language tasks, i.e., text-video clip retrieval, video captioning, video question answering, action segmentation, and action step localization. ActBERT significantly outperforms the stateof-the-art, demonstrating its superiority in video-text representation learning.actbct * This work was done when Linchao Zhu visited Baidu Research. Yi Yang is the corresponding author.