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SAGE: Semantic-guided framework with decoupled optimization for open-vocabulary video visual relationship detection.
Shiqi Wang1, Weiying Xue1, Shuyi Hu1
1School of Future Technology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 511442, China.
Summary
This study introduces a novel framework (SAGE) for open-vocabulary video visual relationship detection, improving accuracy by decoupling semantic reasoning and classifier adaptation. The method enhances detection of unseen relationships in videos.
Area of Science:
- Computer Vision
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
Background:
- Open-vocabulary video visual relationship detection (VidVRD) aims to identify relationships between objects in videos beyond predefined categories.
- Current methods struggle with the visual-semantic gap and instability in dynamic video data, often adapting static image-text models.
- Low-level visual features and instance-level noise (blur, occlusion) hinder accurate detection of subtle spatio-temporal interactions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop a robust framework for open-vocabulary VidVRD that addresses limitations of existing approaches.
- To improve the detection of unseen relationships between seen and unseen objects in videos.
- To mitigate semantic ambiguity and noise sensitivity inherent in video data.
Main Methods:
- Proposed a Semantic-Guided Framework with Decoupled Optimization (SAGE) to separate semantic reasoning from classifier adaptation.
- Introduced a Multimodal LLM-based Semantic Teacher to extract structured descriptions, bridging the spatio-temporal gap via cross-attention.
- Developed a Decoupled Class-Aware Prompting strategy using a Textual Knowledge Embedding network to create adaptive prompts, reducing noise sensitivity.
Main Results:
- The SAGE framework achieved state-of-the-art performance on VidVRD and VidOR datasets.
- Demonstrated significant improvements in detecting novel relationship categories.
- Effectively reduced semantic drift and classification inconsistency caused by visual noise.
Conclusions:
- The proposed SAGE framework offers a significant advancement in open-vocabulary video visual relationship detection.
- Decoupling semantic reasoning and employing class-aware prompting effectively handles the complexities of video data.
- The method shows strong generalization capabilities, particularly for identifying novel and challenging visual relationships.
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