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Cognitive science has shown that humans perceive videos in terms of events separated by the state changes of dominant subjects. State changes trigger new events and are one of the most useful among the large amount of redundant information perceived. However, previous research focuses on the overall understanding of segments without evaluating the fine-grained status changes inside. In this paper, we introduce a new dataset called Kinetic-GEB+. The dataset consists of over 170k boundaries associated with captions describing status changes in the generic events in 12K videos. Upon this new dataset, we propose three tasks supporting the development of a more fine-grained, robust, and human-like understanding of videos through status changes. We evaluate many representative baselines in our dataset, where we also design a new TPD (Temporal-based Pairwise Difference) Modeling method for visual difference and achieve significant performance improvements. Besides, the results show there are still formidable challenges for current methods in the utilization of different granularities, representation of visual difference, and the accurate localization of status changes. Further analysis shows that our dataset can drive developing more powerful methods to understand status changes and thus improve video level comprehension. The dataset is available at https://github.com/Yuxuan-W/GEB-Plus.
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This project is supported by the National Research Foundation, Singapore under its NRFF Award NRF-NRFF13-2021-0008, and Mike Zheng Shou’s Start-Up Grant from NUS. The computational work for this article was partially performed on resources of the National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore.
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Wang, Y., Gao, D., Yu, L., Lei, W., Feiszli, M., Shou, M.Z. (2022). GEB+: A Benchmark for Generic Event Boundary Captioning, Grounding and Retrieval. In: Avidan, S., Brostow, G., Cissé, M., Farinella, G.M., Hassner, T. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2022. ECCV 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13695. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19833-5_41
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