Existing long video retrieval systems are trained and tested in the paragraph-to-video retrieval regime, where every long video is described by a single long paragraph. This neglects the richness and variety of possible valid descriptions of a video, which could be described in moment-by-moment detail, or in a single phrase summary, or anything in between. To provide a more thorough evaluation of the capabilities of long video retrieval systems, we propose a pipeline that leverages state-of-the-art large language models to carefully generate a diverse set of synthetic captions for long videos. We validate this pipeline's fidelity via rigorous human inspection. We then benchmark a representative set of video language models on these synthetic captions using a few long video datasets, showing that they struggle with the transformed data, especially the shortest captions. We also propose a lightweight fine-tuning method, where we use a contrastive loss to learn a hierarchical embedding loss based on the differing levels of information among the various captions. Our method improves performance both on the downstream paragraph-to-video retrieval task (+1.1% R@1 on ActivityNet), as well as for the various long video retrieval metrics we compute using our synthetic data (+3.6% R@1 for short descriptions on ActivityNet). For data access and other details, please refer to our project website at https://mgwillia.github.io/10k-words.

通过对长视频生成多样的合成标题，使用大型语言模型评估长视频检索系统的能力，并提出轻量级微调方法（基于对不同标题中信息层级的差异进行对比损失学习），在下游的段落-视频检索任务以及使用合成数据计算的各种长视频检索度量上均有明显提升。

一段视频胜过万言：利用多样化字幕进行更好的长视频检索的训练和基准测试