2021/11/08 by Hao Zhang, Zhang, Hao, Aixin Sun +4 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human Pose and Action Recognition #Multimodal Machine Learning Applications #Video Analysis and Summarization
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2111.04321
openalex publication_date 2021/11/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The temporal sentence grounding in video (TSGV) task is to locate a temporal moment from an untrimmed video, to match a language query, i.e., a sentence. Without considering bias in moment annotations (e.g., start and end positions in a video), many models tend to capture statistical regularities of the moment annotations, and do not well learn cross-modal reasoning between video and language query. In this paper, we propose two debiasing strategies, data debiasing and model debiasing, to "force" a TSGV model to capture cross-modal interactions. Data debiasing performs data oversampling through video truncation to balance moment temporal distribution in train set. Model debiasing leverages video-only and query-only models to capture the distribution bias, and forces the model to learn cross-modal interactions. Using VSLNet as the base model, we evaluate impact of the two strategies on two datasets that contain out-of-distribution test instances. Results show that both strategies are effective in improving model generalization capability. Equipped with both debiasing strategies, VSLNet achieves best results on both datasets.