What is General Video Recognition?

We’ve seen AI generate text, then generate images and most recently even generate short videos, even though they still need some improvement.

The results are incredible when you think that no one is actually involved in the creation process of these pieces and it only has to be trained once to then be used by thousands of people like stable diffusion is.

Still, do these models really understand what they are doing? Do they know what the picture or video they just produced really represents?

What does such a model understand when it sees such a picture or, even more complex, a video? Learn more in the video... (there is RTX GPU giveaway information in the video too!)

References

►Read the full article:
https://www.louisbouchard.ai/general-video-recognition/
►Ni, B., Peng, H., Chen, M., Zhang, S., Meng, G., Fu, J., Xiang, S. and
Ling, H., 2022. Expanding Language-Image Pretrained Models for General
Video Recognition. arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.02816.
►Code: https://github.com/microsoft/VideoX/tree/master/X-CLIP
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Video Transcript

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we've seen ai generate text then

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generate images and most recently even

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generate short videos even though they

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still need work the results are

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incredible especially when you think

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that no one is actually involved in the

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creation process of these pieces and it

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only has to be trained at once to then

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be used by thousands of people like

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stable diffusion is still do these

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modals really understand what they are

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doing do they know what the picture or

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video they just produced really

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represents what does such a model

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understand when it sees such a picture

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or even more complex a video let's focus

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on the more challenging of the two and

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dive into how an ai understands videos

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through a task called general video

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recognition where the goal is for a

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model to take videos as inputs and use

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text to describe what's happening in the

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general video recognition

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is one of the most challenging tasks in

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understanding videos yet it may be the

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best measure of a model's ability to get

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what's happening it's also the basis

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behind many applications relying on a

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good understanding of videos like sports

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analysis or autonomous driving but what

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makes this task so complex well there

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are two things we need to understand

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what is shown meaning each frame or each

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image of a particular video second we

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need to be able to say what we

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understand in a way humans understand

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which means using words fortunately for

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us the second challenge has been tackled

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numerous times by the language community

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and we can take over their work more

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precisely we can take what people from

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the language image field have done with

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models like clip or even stable

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diffusion where you have a text encoder

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and an image encoder that learns to

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encode both types of inputs into the

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same kind of representation this way you

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can compare a similar scene to a similar

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text prompt by training the architecture

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with millions of image captions example

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pairs having both text and images

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encoded in a similar space is powerful

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because it takes much less space to

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perform computations and it allows us to

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compare text to images easily meaning

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that the model still doesn't understand

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an image or even a simple sentence but

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it can at least understand if both are

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similar or not we are still far from

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intelligence but that's pretty useful

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and good enough for most cases now comes

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with the biggest challenge here videos

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and for that we'll use the approach from

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berlin me and colleagues in their recent

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paper expanding language image

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pre-trained modals for general video

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recognition videos are much more complex

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than images due to the temporal

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information meaning the multiple frames

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and the fact that each frame is linked

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to the next and the previous one with

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coherent movement and actions the model

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needs to see what happened before during

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and after each frame to have a proper

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understanding of the scene it's just

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like on youtube you cannot really skip 5

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seconds forward in short videos as you

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will miss valuable information in this

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case they take each frame and send them

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into the same image encoder we just

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discussed using a vision transformer

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based architecture to process them into

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a condensed space using attention if you

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are not familiar with vision

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transformers or the attention mechanism

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i will invite you to watch the video i

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made introducing them once you have your

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representation for each frame you can

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use a similar attention-based process to

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have each frame communicate together and

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allow your model to exchange information

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between frames and create a final

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representation for the video this

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information exchange between frames

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using attention will act as some sort of

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memory for your model to understand the

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video as a whole rather than a couple of

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random images together finally we use

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another attention module to merge the

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text encodings of the frames we had with

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our condensed video representation

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and voila this is one way an ai

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understands a video of course this was

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just an overview of this great paper by

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microsoft research serving as an

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