A storyboard is a roadmap for video creation which consists of shot-by-shot images to visualize key plots in a text synopsis. Creating video storyboards however remains challenging which not only requires association between high-level texts and images, but also demands for long-term reasoning to make transitions smooth across shots. In this paper, we propose a new task called Text synopsis to Video Storyboard (TeViS) which aims to retrieve an ordered sequence of images to visualize the text synopsis. We construct a MovieNet-TeViS benchmark based on the public MovieNet dataset. It contains 10K text synopses each paired with keyframes that are manually selected from corresponding movies by considering both relevance and cinematic coherence. We also present an encoder-decoder baseline for the task. The model uses a pretrained vision-and-language model to improve high-level text-image matching. To improve coherence in long-term shots, we further propose to pre-train the decoder on large-scale movie frames without text. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed model significantly outperforms other models to create text-relevant and coherent storyboards. Nevertheless, there is still a large gap compared to human performance suggesting room for promising future work.

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。

视频文本检索一直是多模式研究中的至关重要和基本任务。大型多模式对比预训练的发展，视频文本检索的开发已大大促进，这主要侧重于粗粒或细粒对比。然而，在先前的研究中很少探索过跨粒度的对比，这是粗粒表示和细粒度表示之间的对比。与细粒度或粗粒的对比相比，交叉粒度对比度计算了粗粒粒度特征与每个细粒特征之间的相关性，并且能够过滤出不必要的细颗粒特征，这些特征由粗粒度的特征引导相似性计算，从而提高了检索的准确性。为此，本文提出了一种新型的多透明对比模型，即X-CLIP，用于视频文本检索。但是，另一个挑战在于相似性聚集问题，该问题旨在将细粒度和跨粒度相似性矩阵与实例级别的相似性汇总。为了应对这一挑战，我们提出了对相似性矩阵（AOSM）模块的关注，以使模型重点放在基本帧和单词之间的对比度上，从而降低了不必要的帧和单词对检索结果的影响。 X-CLIP具有多透明的对比度和提议的AOSM模块，在五个广泛使用的视频文本检索数据集上取得了出色的性能，包括MSR-VTT（49.3 R@1），MSVD（50.4 R@1），LSMDC（26.11）（26.1 r@1），didemo（47.8 r@1）和ActivityNet（46.2 r@1）。它的表现优于先前的最先前， +6.3％， +6.6％， +11.1％， +6.7％， +3.8％的相对改善对这些基准测试，这表明了多透明的对比度和AOSM的优势。

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.

它仍然是一个管道梦想，电话和AR眼镜的AI助手可以帮助我们的日常生活来解决我们的问题，如“如何调整这款手表日期？”和“如何设置加热持续时间？（指向烤箱的同时）”。传统任务中使用的查询（即视频问题应答，视频检索，时刻定位）通常是有关的，并基于纯文本。相比之下，我们提出了一项名为Cometdancy的问题驱动视频段检索（AQVSR）的新任务。我们每个问题都是一个图像框文本查询，专注于我们日常生活中的物品，并期望从教学视频转录程序段的语料库中检索相关的答案段。为了支持对此AQVSR任务的研究，我们构建一个名为AssionSR的新数据集。我们设计新颖的准则来创造高质量样本。此数据集包含有关1K视频片段的1.4K多模态问题，来自各种日用物品的教学视频。为了解决AQVSR，我们开发了一个称为双重多模式编码器（DME）的简单但有效的模型，显着优于几种基线方法，同时仍然有大型未来改善空间。此外，我们提供了详细的消融分析。我们的代码和数据可以在https://github.com/stanlei52/aqvsr中获得。

We introduce LaViLa, a new approach to learning video-language representations by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs). We repurpose pre-trained LLMs to be conditioned on visual input, and finetune them to create automatic video narrators. Our auto-generated narrations offer a number of advantages, including dense coverage of long videos, better temporal synchronization of the visual information and text, and much higher diversity of text. The video-text embedding learned contrastively with these additional auto-generated narrations outperforms the previous state-of-the-art on multiple first-person and third-person video tasks, both in zero-shot and finetuned setups. Most notably, LaViLa obtains an absolute gain of 10.1% on EGTEA classification and 5.9% Epic-Kitchens-100 multi-instance retrieval benchmarks. Furthermore, LaViLa trained with only half the narrations from the Ego4D dataset outperforms baseline models trained on the full set, and shows positive scaling behavior on increasing pre-training data and model size.

Large-scale cross-modal pre-training paradigms have recently shown ubiquitous success on a wide range of downstream tasks, e.g., zero-shot classification, retrieval and image captioning. However, their successes highly rely on the scale and quality of web-crawled data that naturally contain incomplete and noisy information (e.g., wrong or irrelevant content). Existing works either design manual rules to clean data or generate pseudo-targets as auxiliary signals for reducing noise impact, which do not explicitly tackle both the incorrect and incomplete challenges simultaneously. In this paper, to automatically mitigate the impact of noise by solely mining over existing data, we propose a principled Noise-robust Language-Image Pre-training framework (NLIP) to stabilize pre-training via two schemes: noise-harmonization and noise-completion. First, in noise-harmonization scheme, NLIP estimates the noise probability of each pair according to the memorization effect of cross-modal transformers, then adopts noise-adaptive regularization to harmonize the cross-modal alignments with varying degrees. Second, in noise-completion scheme, to enrich the missing object information of text, NLIP injects a concept-conditioned cross-modal decoder to obtain semantic-consistent synthetic captions to complete noisy ones, which uses the retrieved visual concepts (i.e., objects' names) for the corresponding image to guide captioning generation. By collaboratively optimizing noise-harmonization and noise-completion schemes, our NLIP can alleviate the common noise effects during image-text pre-training in a more efficient way. Extensive experiments show the significant performance improvements of our NLIP using only 26M data over existing pre-trained models (e.g., CLIP, FILIP and BLIP) on 12 zero-shot classification datasets, MSCOCO image captioning and zero-shot image-text retrieval tasks.

预先训练的图像文本模型（如剪辑）已经证明了从大规模的Web收集的图像文本数据中学到的视觉表示的强大力量。鉴于学习良好的视觉特征，一些现有的作品将图像表示转移到视频域并取得良好的结果。但是，如何利用图像语言预训练的模型（例如，剪辑）进行视频培训（后培训）仍在探索。在本文中，我们研究了两个问题：1）阻碍后期剪辑的因素是什么因素，以进一步提高视频语言任务的性能？ 2）如何减轻这些因素的影响？通过一系列比较实验和分析，我们发现语言源之间的数据量表和域间隙具有很大的影响。由这些动机，我们提出了一种配备了视频代理机制的Omnisource跨模式学习方法，即剪辑，即剪辑VIP。广泛的结果表明，我们的方法可以提高视频检索的剪辑的性能。我们的模型还可以在包括MSR-VTT，DIDEMO，LSMDC和ActivityNet在内的各种数据集上实现SOTA结果。我们在https://github.com/microsoft/xpretrain/tree/main/main/main/clip-vip上发布了代码和预训练的剪辑模型。

最近，通过引入大规模的数据集和强大的变压器网络，视频预培训表明尤其是检索的巨大成功。然而，现有的视频语言变压器模型没有明确细粒度的语义对齐。在这项工作中，我们呈现了对象感知的变换器，以对象为中心的方法，该对象方法扩展了视频语言变压器来合并对象表示。关键的想法是利用边界框和对象标签来指导培训过程。我们在四个广泛使用的基准测试中评估了我们的三个标准子任务的模型。我们还提供了深入的分析和详细消融关于所提出的方法。我们在考虑的所有任务和数据集中表现出清晰的性能，展示将对象表示的模型中的型号集成到视频架构中。代码将以\ URL {https://github.com/fingerrec/oa -transformer}释放。

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。

寻找特定任务说明的YouTube用户可能会花费很长时间浏览内容，以寻找与他们需求相匹配的正确视频。创建视觉摘要（视频的删节版本）为观众提供了快速概述，并大大减少了搜索时间。在这项工作中，我们专注于总结教学视频，这​​是视频摘要的探索领域。与通用视频相比，可以将教学视频解析为语义上有意义的细分，这些细分与所示任务的重要步骤相对应。现有的视频摘要数据集依靠手动框架级注释，使其主观且大小有限。为了克服这一点，我们首先通过利用两个关键假设来自动为教学视频语料库生成伪摘要：（i）相关步骤可能会出现在相同任务（任务相关性）的多个视频中，并且（ii）它们更重要。可能由示威者口头描述（跨模式显着）。我们提出了一个教学视频摘要网络，该网络结合了上下文感知的时间视频编码器和段评分变压器。使用伪摘要作为弱监督，我们的网络为仅给出视频和转录语音的教学视频构建了视觉摘要。为了评估我们的模型，我们通过刮擦包含视频演示的Wikihow文章和步骤的视觉描绘，从而收集了高质量的测试集，即Wikihow摘要，从而使我们能够获得地面真实性摘要。我们的表现优于几个基线和这个新基准的最先进的视频摘要模型。

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.

人工智能（AI）的基本目标是模仿人类的核心认知活动。尽管在AI研究中取得了巨大的成功，但大多数现有方法仅具有单认知能力。为了克服这一局限性并迈出了朝着人工通用智能（AGI）迈出的坚实一步，我们开发了一个通过庞大的多模式数据进行预训练的基础模型，可以快速适应各种下游认知任务。为了实现这一目标，我们建议通过从Internet上拖延的语义相关数据进行自我监督的学习来预先培训我们的基础模型，并表明可以在各种下游任务上获得有希望的结果。特别是，使用开发的模型解剖工具，我们证明了我们的基础模型现在拥有强大的想象力。我们认为，我们的工作从我们的“弱或狭窄AI”的常见实践到“强或广泛的AI”迈出了转变的迈向AGI。

Books are a rich source of both fine-grained information, how a character, an object or a scene looks like, as well as high-level semantics, what someone is thinking, feeling and how these states evolve through a story. This paper aims to align books to their movie releases in order to provide rich descriptive explanations for visual content that go semantically far beyond the captions available in current datasets.To align movies and books we exploit a neural sentence embedding that is trained in an unsupervised way from a large corpus of books, as well as a video-text neural embedding for computing similarities between movie clips and sentences in the book. We propose a context-aware CNN to combine information from multiple sources. We demonstrate good quantitative performance for movie/book alignment and show several qualitative examples that showcase the diversity of tasks our model can be used for.

Video representation learning has been successful in video-text pre-training for zero-shot transfer, where each sentence is trained to be close to the paired video clips in a common feature space. For long videos, given a paragraph of description where the sentences describe different segments of the video, by matching all sentence-clip pairs, the paragraph and the full video are aligned implicitly. However, such unit-level similarity measure may ignore the global temporal context over a long time span, which inevitably limits the generalization ability. In this paper, we propose a contrastive learning framework TempCLR to compare the full video and the paragraph explicitly. As the video/paragraph is formulated as a sequence of clips/sentences, under the constraint of their temporal order, we use dynamic time warping to compute the minimum cumulative cost over sentence-clip pairs as the sequence-level distance. To explore the temporal dynamics, we break the consistency of temporal order by shuffling the video clips or sentences according to the temporal granularity. In this way, we obtain the representations for clips/sentences, which perceive the temporal information and thus facilitate the sequence alignment. In addition to pre-training on the video and paragraph, our approach can also generalize on the matching between different video instances. We evaluate our approach on video retrieval, action step localization, and few-shot action recognition, and achieve consistent performance gain over all three tasks. Detailed ablation studies are provided to justify the approach design.

Figure 1: Our MovieQA dataset contains 14,944 questions about 408 movies. It contains multiple sources of information: plots, subtitles, video clips, scripts, and DVS transcriptions. In this figure we show example QAs from The Matrix and localize them in the timeline.

当今，分会一代成为在线视频的实用技术。本章断点使用户能够快速找到所需的零件并获得总结注释。但是，没有公共方法和数据集用于此任务。为了促进该方向的研究，我们介绍了一个名为Chapter-gen的新数据集，该数据集由大约10K用户生成的视频和带注释的章节信息组成。我们的数据收集过程是快速，可扩展的，不需要任何其他手动注释。在此数据集之外，我们设计了一个有效的基线，专门针对视频章节生成任务。捕获视频的两个方面，包括视觉动态和叙述文本。它分别将本地和全球视频功能分别用于本地化和标题生成。为了有效地解析长时间的视频，Skip滑动窗口机构旨在定位潜在的章节。并且开发了交叉注意的多模式融合模块，以汇总标题生成的本地功能。我们的实验表明，所提出的框架比现有方法取得了优越的结果，这表明即使在微调后也无法直接传输类似任务的方法设计。代码和数据集可在https://github.com/czt117/mvcg上找到。

密集的视频字幕（DVC）旨在生成多句子描述，以阐明视频中的多个事件，这是具有挑战性，需要的视觉一致性，疑惑一致性和语言多样性。现有方法主要生成各个视频段的标题，缺乏适应全局视觉上下文和快速发展的视觉内容和文本描述之间的渐进对齐，这导致冗余和拼接描述。在本文中，我们介绍了信息流的概念，以模拟跨视频序列和标题的渐进信息。通过设计跨模型信息流对准机制，捕获和对齐的视觉和文本信息流，其在事件/主题演化上以更丰富的上下文和动态赋予标题处理。基于跨模型信息流对准模块，我们进一步提出了DVCFlow框架，它由全球本地视觉编码器组成，用于捕获每个视频段的全局功能和本地特征，以及用于产生标题的预先培训的标题生成器。对流行的ActivityNet标题和Youcookii数据集的广泛实验表明，我们的方法显着优于竞争基础，并根据主题和客观测试产生更多人类文本。

AI的创作（例如诗歌或歌词产生）吸引了行业和学术社区的越来越多的关注，在过去的几年中，许多有前途的模型提出了许多有前途的模型。现有方法通常基于单个和独立的视觉或文本信息估算输出。但是，实际上，人类通常会根据自己的经验进行创作，这可能涉及不同的方式并依次相关。为了模拟这种人类能力，在本文中，我们根据人类的经验来定义和解决一个新颖的AI创建问题。更具体地说，我们研究了如何基于顺序多模式信息生成文本。与以前的作品相比，此任务要困难得多，因为设计的模型必须很好地理解和适应不同模式之间的语义，并以顺序的方式有效地将其转化为输出。为了减轻这些困难，我们首先设计了配备有多模式注意力网络的多通道序列到序列体系结构。为了获得更有效的优化，我们然后提出了针对顺序输入量身定制的课程负抽样策略。为了基准这个问题并证明我们的模型的有效性，我们手动标记了一个新的多模式体验数据集。使用该数据集，我们通过将模型与一系列代表性基线进行比较，进行了广泛的实验，我们可以基于自动和以人为中心的指标来证明模型的显着改进。代码和数据可在：\ url {https://github.com/aman-4-real/mmtg}中获得。

Text-Video Retrieval plays an important role in multi-modal understanding and has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Most existing methods focus on constructing contrastive pairs between whole videos and complete caption sentences, while overlooking fine-grained cross-modal relationships, e.g., clip-phrase or frame-word. In this paper, we propose a novel method, named Hierarchical Cross-Modal Interaction (HCMI), to explore multi-level cross-modal relationships among video-sentence, clip-phrase, and frame-word for text-video retrieval. Considering intrinsic semantic frame relations, HCMI performs self-attention to explore frame-level correlations and adaptively cluster correlated frames into clip-level and video-level representations. In this way, HCMI constructs multi-level video representations for frame-clip-video granularities to capture fine-grained video content, and multi-level text representations at word-phrase-sentence granularities for the text modality. With multi-level representations for video and text, hierarchical contrastive learning is designed to explore fine-grained cross-modal relationships, i.e., frame-word, clip-phrase, and video-sentence, which enables HCMI to achieve a comprehensive semantic comparison between video and text modalities. Further boosted by adaptive label denoising and marginal sample enhancement, HCMI achieves new state-of-the-art results on various benchmarks, e.g., Rank@1 of 55.0%, 58.2%, 29.7%, 52.1%, and 57.3% on MSR-VTT, MSVD, LSMDC, DiDemo, and ActivityNet, respectively.