Current movie captioning architectures are not capable of mentioning characters with their proper name, replacing them with a generic "someone" tag. The lack of movie description datasets with characters' visual annotations surely plays a relevant role in this shortage. Recently, we proposed to extend the M-VAD dataset by introducing such information. In this paper, we present an improved version of the dataset, namely M-VAD Names, and its semi-automatic annotation procedure. The resulting dataset contains 63k visual tracks and 34k textual mentions, all associated with character identities. To showcase the features of the dataset and quantify the complexity of the naming task, we investigate multimodal architectures to replace the "someone" tags with proper character names in existing video captions. The evaluation is further extended by testing this application on videos outside of the M-VAD Names dataset.

M-VAD Names: a Dataset for Video Captioning with Naming / Pini, Stefano; Cornia, Marcella; Bolelli, Federico; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita. - In: MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS. - ISSN 1573-7721. - 78:10(2019), pp. 14007-14027. [10.1007/s11042-018-7040-z]

M-VAD Names: a Dataset for Video Captioning with Naming

PINI, STEFANO;Cornia, Marcella;Bolelli Federico;Baraldi Lorenzo;Cucchiara, Rita
2019

Abstract

Current movie captioning architectures are not capable of mentioning characters with their proper name, replacing them with a generic "someone" tag. The lack of movie description datasets with characters' visual annotations surely plays a relevant role in this shortage. Recently, we proposed to extend the M-VAD dataset by introducing such information. In this paper, we present an improved version of the dataset, namely M-VAD Names, and its semi-automatic annotation procedure. The resulting dataset contains 63k visual tracks and 34k textual mentions, all associated with character identities. To showcase the features of the dataset and quantify the complexity of the naming task, we investigate multimodal architectures to replace the "someone" tags with proper character names in existing video captions. The evaluation is further extended by testing this application on videos outside of the M-VAD Names dataset.
2019
20-dic-2018
78
10
14007
14027
M-VAD Names: a Dataset for Video Captioning with Naming / Pini, Stefano; Cornia, Marcella; Bolelli, Federico; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita. - In: MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS. - ISSN 1573-7721. - 78:10(2019), pp. 14007-14027. [10.1007/s11042-018-7040-z]
Pini, Stefano; Cornia, Marcella; Bolelli, Federico; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita
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