Watch, Listen, and Describe: Globally and Locally Aligned Cross-Modal Attentions for Video Captioning (N18-2)
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| Challenge: | Existing multi-modal fusion methods have shown encouraging results in video understanding, but how to selectively fuse the multi-dimensional representations at different levels of details remains unexplored. |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchically aligned cross-modal attention framework to fuse audio and visual cues at different levels of detail. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the previous best systems on the video captioning task. |
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