Rethinking Video-Text Understanding: Retrieval from Counterfactually Augmented Data
<|reference_start|>Rethinking Video-Text Understanding: Retrieval from Counterfactually Augmented Data: Recent video-text foundation models have demonstrated strong performance on a wide variety of downstream video understanding tasks. Can these video-text models genuinely understand the contents of natural videos? Standard video-text evaluations could be misleading as many questions can be inferred merely from the objects and contexts in a single frame or biases inherent in the datasets. In this paper, we aim to better assess the capabilities of current video-text models and understand their limitations. We propose a novel evaluation task for video-text understanding, namely retrieval from counterfactually augmented data (RCAD), and a new Feint6K dataset. To succeed on our new evaluation task, models must derive a comprehensive understanding of the video from cross-frame reasoning. Analyses show that previous video-text foundation models can be easily fooled by counterfactually augmented data and are far behind human-level performance. In order to narrow the gap between video-text models and human performance on RCAD, we identify a key limitation of current contrastive approaches on video-text data and introduce LLM-teacher, a more effective approach to learn action semantics by leveraging knowledge obtained from a pretrained large language model. Experiments and analyses show that our approach successfully learn more discriminative action embeddings and improves results on Feint6K when applied to multiple video-text models. Our Feint6K dataset and project page is available at https://feint6k.github.io.<|reference_end|>
@article{ma2024rethinking,
    title={Rethinking Video-Text Understanding: Retrieval from Counterfactually
  Augmented Data},
    author={Wufei Ma, Kai Li, Zhongshi Jiang, Moustafa Meshry, Qihao Liu, Huiyu
  Wang, Christian H"ane, and Alan Yuille},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.13094},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.13094},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}