不训练模型,用语义聚类自动理解视频内容结构。
Xiaoice: Training-Free Video Understanding via Self-Supervised Spatio-Temporal Clustering of Semantic Features
- 用预训练视觉语言模型提取语义特征,再做时空聚类。
- 无需标注数据,能识别视频中的事件片段与主题场景。
- 适合需要快速分析视频结构的零样本应用
大规模视觉语言模型在静态图像上表现出强大的零样本推理能力,但在视频领域尚未充分实现。传统视频理解模型依赖大量特定任务的标注数据进行端到端训练,成本高且难以扩展。本文提出一种无需训练的视频理解新框架,通过结合预训练视觉语言模型的丰富语义先验与经典机器学习算法,将视频理解重构为高维语义特征空间中的自监督时空聚类问题。首先利用冻结的预训练视觉编码器将视频流转化为语义特征轨迹;随后采用核时间分割(KTS)技术将连续特征流划分为离散、语义一致的事件片段;最后通过无监督密度聚类识别视频中反复出现的宏观场景与主题。从每个聚类中选取代表性关键帧,并借助VLM的生成能力生成文本描述,从而自动生成结构化、多模态的视频摘要。该方法提供了一条高效、可解释且模型无关的零样本视频内容结构化分析路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The remarkable zero-shot reasoning capabilities of large-scale Visual Language Models (VLMs) on static images have yet to be fully translated to the video domain. Conventional video understanding models often rely on extensive, task-specific training on annotated datasets, a process that is both costly and limited in scalability. This paper introduces a novel, training-free framework for video understanding that circumvents end-to-end training by synergistically combining the rich semantic priors of pre-trained VLMs with classic machine learning algorithms for pattern discovery. Our core idea is to reframe video understanding as a self-supervised spatio-temporal clustering problem within a high-dimensional semantic feature space. The proposed pipeline first transforms a video stream into a semantic feature trajectory using the frozen visual encoder of a pre-trained VLM. Subsequently, we employ Kernel Temporal Segmentation (KTS), a robust machine learning technique, to partition the continuous feature stream into discrete, semantically coherent event segments. These segments are then subjected to unsupervised density-based clustering to identify recurring macroscopic scenes and themes throughout the video. By selecting representative keyframes from each discovered cluster and leveraging the VLM's generative capabilities for textual description, our framework automatically produces a structured, multi-modal summary of the video content. This approach provides an effective, interpretable, and model-agnostic pathway for zero-shot, automated structural analysis of video content.
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