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LaT: Latent Translation with Cycle-Consistency for Video-Text Retrieval
Jinbin Bai, Chunhui Liu, Feiyue Ni, Haofan Wang, Mengying Hu, Xiaofeng Guo, Lele Cheng
Video-text retrieval is a class of cross-modal representation learning problems, where the goal is to select the video which corresponds to the text query between a given text query and a pool of candidate videos. The contrastive paradigm of vision-language pretraining has shown promising success with large-scale datasets and unified transformer architecture, and demonstrated the power of a joint latent space. Despite this, the intrinsic divergence between the visual domain and textual domain is still far from being eliminated, and projecting different modalities into a joint latent space might result in the distorting of the information inside the single modality. To overcome the above issue, we present a novel mechanism for learning the translation relationship from a source modality space 𝒮 to a target modality space 𝒯 without the need for a joint latent space, which bridges the gap between visual and textual domains. Furthermore, to keep cycle consistency between translations, we adopt a cycle loss involving both forward translations from 𝒮 to the predicted target space 𝒯′, and backward translations from 𝒯′ back to 𝒮. Extensive experiments conducted on MSR-VTT, MSVD, and DiDeMo datasets demonstrate the superiority and effectiveness of our LaT approach compared with vanilla state-of-the-art methods.
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