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VideoCoCa: Video-Text Modeling with Zero-Shot Transfer from Contrastive Captioners

9 Dec 2022arXiv:2212.04979archive 2025-07-28

Shen Yan, Tao Zhu, ZiRui Wang, Yuan Cao, Mi Zhang, Soham Ghosh, Yonghui Wu, Jiahui Yu

We explore an efficient approach to establish a foundational video-text model. We present VideoCoCa that maximally reuses a pretrained image-text contrastive captioner (CoCa) model and adapt it to video-text tasks with minimal extra training. While previous works adapt image-text models with various cross-frame fusion modules, we find that the generative attentional pooling and contrastive attentional pooling layers in CoCa are instantly adaptable to flattened frame embeddings, yielding state-of-the-art results on zero-shot video classification and zero-shot text-to-video retrieval. Furthermore, we explore lightweight finetuning on top of VideoCoCa, and achieve strong results on video question-answering and video captioning.

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Question AnsweringRetrievalText to Video RetrievalVideo CaptioningVideo ClassificationVideo Question AnsweringVideo RetrievalVideo to Text RetrievalVisual Question Answering (VQA)Zero-Shot Action RecognitionZero-Shot Video Retrieval

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Video Captioning ActivityNet Captions VideoCoCa BLEU4 14.7 #1 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning ActivityNet Captions VideoCoCa CIDEr 39.3 #1 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning ActivityNet Captions VideoCoCa ROUGE-L 35.0 #1 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning MSR-VTT VideoCoCa BLEU-4 53.8 #8 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning MSR-VTT VideoCoCa CIDEr 73.2 #8 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning MSR-VTT VideoCoCa ROUGE-L 68.0 #8 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning VATEX VideoCoCa BLEU-4 39.7 #4 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning VATEX VideoCoCa CIDEr 77.8 #4 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning VATEX VideoCoCa ROUGE-L 54.5 #4 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning YouCook2 VideoCoCa BLEU-4 14.2 #4 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning YouCook2 VideoCoCa CIDEr 1.28 #4 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning YouCook2 VideoCoCa ROUGE-L 37.7 #4 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Video Question Answering ActivityNet-QA VideoCoCa Accuracy 56.1 #3 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Video Question Answering iVQA VideoCoCa Accuracy 39.0 #3 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT VideoCoCa (zero-shot) text-to-video R@1 34.3 #18 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT VideoCoCa (zero-shot) text-to-video R@10 67.0 #18 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT VideoCoCa (zero-shot) text-to-video R@5 57.8 #18 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT VideoCoCa (zero-shot) video-to-text R@1 64.7 #18 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT VideoCoCa (zero-shot) video-to-text R@10 91.4 #18 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT VideoCoCa (zero-shot) video-to-text R@5 85.2 #18 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval YouCook2 VideoCoCa (zero-shot) text-to-video R@1 21.7 #9 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval YouCook2 VideoCoCa (zero-shot) text-to-video R@10 55.2 #9 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval YouCook2 VideoCoCa (zero-shot) text-to-video R@5 43.9 #9 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering (VQA) MSRVTT-QA VideoCoCa Accuracy 0.463 #10 of 34 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering (VQA) MSVD-QA VideoCoCa Accuracy 0.569 #8 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Action Recognition Charades VideoCoCa mAP 25.8 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Action Recognition HMDB51 VideoCoCa Top-1 Accuracy 58.7 #6 of 29 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Action Recognition HMDB51 VideoCoCa Top-5 Accuracy 84.5 #6 of 29 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Action Recognition Kinetics VideoCoCa Top-1 Accuracy 70.1 #6 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Action Recognition Kinetics VideoCoCa Top-5 Accuracy 88.9 #6 of 20 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Action Recognition UCF101 VideoCoCa Top-1 Accuracy 86.6 #4 of 35 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Action Recognition UCF101 VideoCoCa Top-5 accuracy 98.4 #4 of 35 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval ActivityNet VideoCoCa text-to-video R@1 34.5 #9 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval ActivityNet VideoCoCa text-to-video R@10 76.6 #9 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval ActivityNet VideoCoCa text-to-video R@5 63.2 #9 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval ActivityNet VideoCoCa video-to-text R@1 33.0 #9 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval ActivityNet VideoCoCa video-to-text R@10 75.3 #9 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval ActivityNet VideoCoCa video-to-text R@5 61.6 #9 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full VideoCoCa text-to-video R@1 34.3 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full VideoCoCa text-to-video R@10 67.0 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full VideoCoCa text-to-video R@5 57.8 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full VideoCoCa video-to-text R@1 64.7 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full VideoCoCa video-to-text R@10 91.4 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full VideoCoCa video-to-text R@5 85.2 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval VATEX VideoCoCa text-to-video R@1 53.2 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval VATEX VideoCoCa text-to-video R@10 90.1 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval VATEX VideoCoCa text-to-video R@5 83.3 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval VATEX VideoCoCa video-to-text R@1 73.6 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval VATEX VideoCoCa video-to-text R@10 97.2 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval VATEX VideoCoCa video-to-text R@5 93.2 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval YouCook2 VideoCOca text-to-video R@1 20.3 #4 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval YouCook2 VideoCOca text-to-video R@10 53.3 #4 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval YouCook2 VideoCOca text-to-video R@5 43.0 #4 of 9 Archive leaderboard report

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