MS-DETR: Natural Language Video Localization with Sampling Moment-Moment Interaction

Wang Jing, Aixin Sun, Hao Zhang, Xiaoli Li


Abstract
Given a text query, the task of Natural Language Video Localization (NLVL) is to localize a temporal moment in an untrimmed video that semantically matches the query. In this paper, we adopt a proposal-based solution that generates proposals (i.e. candidate moments) and then select the best matching proposal. On top of modeling the cross-modal interaction between candidate moments and the query, our proposed Moment Sampling DETR (MS-DETR) enables efficient moment-moment relation modeling. The core idea is to sample a subset of moments guided by the learnable templates with an adopted DETR framework. To achieve this, we design a multi-scale visual-linguistic encoder, and an anchor-guided moment decoder paired with a set of learnable templates. Experimental results on three public datasets demonstrate the superior performance of MS-DETR.
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2023.acl-long.77
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Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1387–1400
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.77
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.77
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Wang Jing, Aixin Sun, Hao Zhang, and Xiaoli Li. 2023. MS-DETR: Natural Language Video Localization with Sampling Moment-Moment Interaction. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1387–1400, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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MS-DETR: Natural Language Video Localization with Sampling Moment-Moment Interaction (Jing et al., ACL 2023)
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