Low-Rank HOCA: Efficient High-Order Cross-Modal Attention for Video Captioning (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on video captioning focus on the association relationships between multiple modalities. |
| Approach: | They propose a video captioning model with high-order cross-modal attention (HOCA) they propose low-rank HOCA which adopts tensor decomposition to reduce the space requirement . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model captures cross-modal interaction of different modalities and reduces space requirement. |
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