Most existing cross-modal language-to-video retrieval (VR) research focuses on single-modal input from video, i.e., visual representation, while the text is omnipresent in human environments and frequently critical to understand video. To study how to retrieve video with both modal inputs, i.e., visual and text semantic representations, we first introduce a large-scale and cross-modal Video Retrieval dataset with text reading comprehension, TextVR, which contains 42.2k sentence queries for 10.5k videos of 8 scenario domains, i.e., Street View (indoor), Street View (outdoor), Games, Sports, Driving, Activity, TV Show, and Cooking. The proposed TextVR requires one unified cross-modal model to recognize and comprehend texts, relate them to the visual context, and decide what text semantic information is vital for the video retrieval task. Besides, we present a detailed analysis of TextVR compared to the existing datasets and design a novel multimodal video retrieval baseline for the text-based video retrieval task. The dataset analysis and extensive experiments show that our TextVR benchmark provides many new technical challenges and insights from previous datasets for the video-and-language community. The project website and GitHub repo can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/loveucvpr23/guest-track and https://github.com/callsys/TextVR, respectively.

提出了一种新的跨模态视频检索数据集TextVR，它包含了八个场景领域的10.5k个视频和42.2k个查询语句，并介绍了一种统一的跨模态模型，有效地将文本和视觉语义信息融合来实现视频检索任务。该数据集和我们提出的跨模态检索方法为视频和语言研究领域提供了许多新的技术挑战和洞见。

一个带有阅读理解的大型跨模态视频检索数据集