Look, Remember and Reason: Grounded Reasoning in Videos with Language Models

Apratim Bhattacharyya, Sunny Panchal, Reza Pourreza, Mingu Lee, Pulkit Madan, Roland Memisevic

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Keywords: Grounding, Reasoning, Language Models

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TL;DR: We show the effectiveness of off-the-shelf language models for reasoning on videos, when grounded using surrogate tasks.

Abstract:

Multi-modal language models (LM) have recently shown promising performance
in high-level reasoning tasks on videos. However, existing methods still fall short in tasks like causal or compositional spatiotemporal reasoning over actions, in which model predictions need to be grounded in fine-grained low-level details, such as object motions and object interactions.
In this work, we propose training an LM end-to-end on low-level surrogate tasks, including object detection, re-identification, and tracking, to endow the model with the required low-level visual capabilities. We show that a two-stream video encoder with spatiotemporal attention is effective at capturing the required static and motion-based cues in the video. By leveraging the LM's ability to perform the low-level surrogate tasks, we can cast reasoning in videos as the three-step process of *Look, Remember, Reason*, wherein visual information is extracted using low-level visual skills step-by-step and then integrated to arrive at a final answer. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework on diverse visual reasoning tasks from the ACRE, CATER, Something-Else and STAR datasets. Our approach is trainable end-to-end and surpasses state-of-the-art task-specific methods across these tasks by a large margin.

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Primary Area: representation learning for computer vision, audio, language, and other modalities

Submission Number: 3946