TrUMAn: Trope Understanding in Movies and Animations
Journal
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings
Pages
4594-4603
Date Issued
2021
Author(s)
Abstract
Understanding and comprehending video content is crucial for many real-world applications such as search and recommendation systems. While recent progress of deep learning has boosted performance on various tasks using visual cues, deep cognition to reason intentions, motivation, or causality remains challenging. Existing datasets that aim to examine video reasoning capability focus on visual signals such as actions, objects, relations, or could be answered utilizing text bias. Observing this, we propose a novel task, along with a new dataset: Trope Understanding in Movies and Animations (TrUMAn), with 2423 videos associated with 132 tropes, intending to evaluate and develop learning systems beyond visual signals. Tropes are frequently used storytelling devices for creative works. By coping with the trope understanding task and enabling the deep cognition skills of machines, data mining applications and algorithms could be taken to the next level. To tackle the challenging TrUMAn dataset, we present a Trope Understanding and Storytelling (TrUSt) with a new Conceptual Storyteller module, which guides the video encoder by performing video storytelling on a latent space. Experimental results demonstrate that state-of-the-art learning systems on existing tasks reach only 12.01% of accuracy with raw input signals. Also, even in the oracle case with human-annotated descriptions, BERT contextual embedding achieves at most 28% of accuracy. Our proposed TrUSt boosts the model performance and reaches 13.94% performance. We also provide detailed analysis to pave the way for future research. TrUMAn is publicly available at:https://www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/project/trope. ? 2021 ACM.
Subjects
dataset
multi-modal learning
trope
trope understanding
Data mining
Dataset
Multi-modal learning
Performance
Real-world
Recent progress
Trope
Trope understanding
Video contents
Visual cues
Visual signals
Deep learning
Other Subjects
Data mining; Dataset; Multi-modal learning; Performance; Real-world; Recent progress; Trope; Trope understanding; Video contents; Visual cues; Visual signals; Deep learning
Type
conference paper