Temporal Tessellation: A Unified Approach for Video Analysis

Dotan Kaufman, Gil Levi, Tal Hassner, Lior Wolf

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Abstract

We present a general approach to video understanding, inspired by semantic transfer techniques that have been successfully used for 2D image analysis. Our method considers a video to be a 1D sequence of clips, each one associated with its own semantics. The nature of these semantics - natural language captions or other labels - depends on the task at hand. A test video is processed by forming correspondences between its clips and the clips of reference videos with known semantics, following which, reference semantics can be transferred to the test video. We describe two matching methods, both designed to ensure that (a) reference clips appear similar to test clips and (b), taken together, the semantics of the selected reference clips is consistent and maintains temporal coherence. We use our method for video captioning on the LSMDC'16 benchmark, video summarization on the SumMe and TV-Sum benchmarks, Temporal Action Detection on the Thumos2014 benchmark, and sound prediction on the Greatest Hits benchmark. Our method not only surpasses the state of the art, in four out of five benchmarks, but importantly, it is the only single method we know of that was successfully applied to such a diverse range of tasks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages94-104
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781538610329
DOIs
StatePublished - 22 Dec 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2017 - Venice, Italy
Duration: 22 Oct 201729 Oct 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
Volume2017-October
ISSN (Print)1550-5499

Conference

Conference16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2017
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVenice
Period22/10/1729/10/17

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