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Unsupervised Video Summarization via Attention-Driven Adversarial Learning

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MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2020)

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This paper presents a new video summarization approach that integrates an attention mechanism to identify the significant parts of the video, and is trained unsupervisingly via generative adversarial learning. Starting from the SUM-GAN model, we first develop an improved version of it (called SUM-GAN-sl) that has a significantly reduced number of learned parameters, performs incremental training of the model’s components, and applies a stepwise label-based strategy for updating the adversarial part. Subsequently, we introduce an attention mechanism to SUM-GAN-sl in two ways: (i) by integrating an attention layer within the variational auto-encoder (VAE) of the architecture (SUM-GAN-VAAE), and (ii) by replacing the VAE with a deterministic attention auto-encoder (SUM-GAN-AAE). Experimental evaluation on two datasets (SumMe and TVSum) documents the contribution of the attention auto-encoder to faster and more stable training of the model, resulting in a significant performance improvement with respect to the original model and demonstrating the competitiveness of the proposed SUM-GAN-AAE against the state of the art (Software publicly available at: https://github.com/e-apostolidis/SUM-GAN-AAE).

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    Importance scores were defined based on a uniform distribution of probabilities and the experiment was repeated 100 times.

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This work was supported by the EUs Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement H2020-780656 ReTV. The work of Ioannis Patras has been supported by EPSRC under grant No. EP/R026424/1.

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    Evlampios Apostolidis, Eleni Adamantidou, Alexandros I. Metsai & Vasileios Mezaris

  2. School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Evlampios Apostolidis & Ioannis Patras

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Apostolidis, E., Adamantidou, E., Metsai, A.I., Mezaris, V., Patras, I. (2020). Unsupervised Video Summarization via Attention-Driven Adversarial Learning. In: Ro, Y., et al. MultiMedia Modeling. MMM 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11961. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37731-1_40

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