Activitynet-qa: A dataset for understanding complex web videos via question answering

Z Yu, D Xu, J Yu, T Yu, Z Zhao, Y Zhuang… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2019 - aaai.org
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019aaai.org
Recent developments in modeling language and vision have been successfully applied to
image question answering. It is both crucial and natural to extend this research direction to
the video domain for video question answering (VideoQA). Compared to the image domain
where large scale and fully annotated benchmark datasets exists, VideoQA datasets are
limited to small scale and are automatically generated, etc. These limitations restrict their
applicability in practice. Here we introduce ActivityNet-QA, a fully annotated and large scale …
Abstract
Recent developments in modeling language and vision have been successfully applied to image question answering. It is both crucial and natural to extend this research direction to the video domain for video question answering (VideoQA). Compared to the image domain where large scale and fully annotated benchmark datasets exists, VideoQA datasets are limited to small scale and are automatically generated, etc. These limitations restrict their applicability in practice. Here we introduce ActivityNet-QA, a fully annotated and large scale VideoQA dataset. The dataset consists of 58,000 QA pairs on 5,800 complex web videos derived from the popular ActivityNet dataset. We present a statistical analysis of our ActivityNet-QA dataset and conduct extensive experiments on it by comparing existing VideoQA baselines. Moreover, we explore various video representation strategies to improve VideoQA performance, especially for long videos.
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