2021 EMNLP EMNLP 2021

WhyAct: Identifying Action Reasons in Lifestyle Vlogs

Abstract

AbstractWe aim to automatically identify human action reasons in online videos. We focus on the widespread genre of lifestyle vlogs, in which people perform actions while verbally describing them. We introduce and make publicly available the WhyAct dataset, consisting of 1,077 visual actions manually annotated with their reasons. We describe a multimodal model that leverages visual and textual information to automatically infer the reasons corresponding to an action presented in the video.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision and Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — multimodal model
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio