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Bridging the Gap: A Unified Video Comprehension Framework for Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection

28 Nov 2023CVPR 2024 1arXiv:2311.16464archive 2025-07-28

Yicheng Xiao, Zhuoyan Luo, Yong liu, Yue Ma, Hengwei Bian, Yatai Ji, Yujiu Yang, Xiu Li

Video Moment Retrieval (MR) and Highlight Detection (HD) have attracted significant attention due to the growing demand for video analysis. Recent approaches treat MR and HD as similar video grounding problems and address them together with transformer-based architecture. However, we observe that the emphasis of MR and HD differs, with one necessitating the perception of local relationships and the other prioritizing the understanding of global contexts. Consequently, the lack of task-specific design will inevitably lead to limitations in associating the intrinsic specialty of two tasks. To tackle the issue, we propose a Unified Video COMprehension framework (UVCOM) to bridge the gap and jointly solve MR and HD effectively. By performing progressive integration on intra and inter-modality across multi-granularity, UVCOM achieves the comprehensive understanding in processing a video. Moreover, we present multi-aspect contrastive learning to consolidate the local relation modeling and global knowledge accumulation via well aligned multi-modal space. Extensive experiments on QVHighlights, Charades-STA, TACoS , YouTube Highlights and TVSum datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and rationality of UVCOM which outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by a remarkable margin.

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Contrastive LearningHighlight DetectionMoment RetrievalNatural Language Moment RetrievalRetrievalTemporal Action LocalizationVideo Grounding

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Highlight Detection TvSum UVCOM (train from scratch) mAP 86.3 #5 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Highlight Detection YouTube Highlights UVCOM mAP 77.4 #2 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Moment Retrieval Charades-STA UVCOM R@1 IoU=0.5 59.25 #14 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Moment Retrieval Charades-STA UVCOM R@1 IoU=0.7 36.64 #14 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Moment Retrieval QVHighlights UVCOM (w/ PT ASR Captions) R@1 IoU=0.5 64.53 #16 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Moment Retrieval QVHighlights UVCOM (w/ PT ASR Captions) R@1 IoU=0.7 48.31 #16 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Moment Retrieval QVHighlights UVCOM (w/ PT ASR Captions) mAP 43.8 #16 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Moment Retrieval QVHighlights UVCOM (w/ PT ASR Captions) mAP@0.5 64.78 #16 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Moment Retrieval QVHighlights UVCOM (w/ PT ASR Captions) mAP@0.75 43.65 #16 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Moment Retrieval QVHighlights UVCOM R@1 IoU=0.5 63.55 #18 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Moment Retrieval QVHighlights UVCOM R@1 IoU=0.7 47.47 #18 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Moment Retrieval QVHighlights UVCOM mAP 43.18 #18 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Moment Retrieval QVHighlights UVCOM mAP@0.5 63.37 #18 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Moment Retrieval QVHighlights UVCOM mAP@0.75 42.67 #18 of 32 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Moment Retrieval TACoS UVCOM R@1,IoU=0.5 36.39 #13 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Moment Retrieval TACoS UVCOM R@1,IoU=0.7 23.32 #13 of 13 Archive leaderboard report

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