Query-aware Long Video Localization and Relation Discrimination for Deep Video Understanding

The surge in video and social media content underscores the need for a deeper understanding of multimedia data. Most of the existing mature video understanding techniques perform well with short formats and content that requires only shallow understanding, but do not perform well with long format videos that require deep understanding and reasoning. Deep Video Understanding (DVU) Challenge aims to push the boundaries of multimodal extraction, fusion, and analytics to address the problem of holistically analyzing long videos and extract useful knowledge to solve different types of queries. This paper introduces a query-aware method for long video localization and relation discrimination, leveraging an image-language pretrained model. This model adeptly selects frames pertinent to queries, obviating the need for a complete movie-level knowledge graph. Our approach achieved first and fourth positions for two groups of movie-level queries. Sufficient experiments and final rankings demonstrate its effectiveness and robustness.