Title
Dense Regression Network for Video Grounding
Abstract
We address the problem of video grounding from natural language queries. The key challenge in this task is that one training video might only contain a few annotated starting/ending frames that can be used as positive examples for model training. Most conventional approaches directly train a binary classifier using such imbalance data, thus achieving inferior results. The key idea of this paper is to use the distances between the frame within the ground truth and the starting (ending) frame as dense supervisions to improve the video grounding accuracy. Specifically, we design a novel dense regression network (DRN) to regress the distances from each frame to the starting (ending) frame of the video segment described by the query. We also propose a simple but effective IoU regression head module to explicitly consider the localization quality of the grounding results (i.e., the IoU between the predicted location and the ground truth). Experimental results show that our approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-arts on three datasets (i.e., Charades-STA, ActivityNet-Captions, and TACoS).
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.01030
CVPR
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
3
0.37
References 
Authors
36
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Runhao Zeng1293.51
Haoming Xu2112.65
Wen-bing Huang316718.91
Peihao Chen4292.15
Mingkui Tan550138.31
Chuang Gan625331.92