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Zero-Shot Video Grounding for Automatic Video Understanding in Sustainable Smart Cities

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  • Ping Wang

    (Fujitsu Research & Development Center Co., Ltd., Beijing 100022, China)

  • Li Sun

    (Fujitsu Research & Development Center Co., Ltd., Beijing 100022, China)

  • Liuan Wang

    (Fujitsu Research & Development Center Co., Ltd., Beijing 100022, China)

  • Jun Sun

    (Fujitsu Research & Development Center Co., Ltd., Beijing 100022, China)

Abstract

Automatic video understanding is a crucial piece of technology which promotes urban sustainability. Video grounding is a fundamental component of video understanding that has been evolving quickly in recent years, but its use is restricted due to the high labeling costs and typical performance limitations imposed by the pre-defined training dataset. In this paper, a novel atom-based zero-shot video grounding (AZVG) method is proposed to retrieve the segments in the video that correspond to a given input sentence. Although it is training-free, the performance of AZVG is competitive to the weakly supervised methods and better than unsupervised SOTA methods on the Charades-STA dataset. The method can support flexible queries as well as different video content. It can play an important role in a wider range of urban living applications.

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  • Ping Wang & Li Sun & Liuan Wang & Jun Sun, 2022. "Zero-Shot Video Grounding for Automatic Video Understanding in Sustainable Smart Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(1), pages 1-22, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2022:i:1:p:153-:d:1011338
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