M3L: Language-based Video Editing via Multi-Modal Multi-Level Transformers

Abstract

Video editing tools are widely used nowadays for digital design. Although the demand for these tools is high, the prior knowledge required makes it difficult for novices to get started. Systems that could follow natural language instructions to perform automatic editing would significantly improve accessibility. This paper introduces the language-based video editing (LBVE) task, which allows the model to edit, guided by text instruction, a source video into a target video. LBVE contains two features: 1) the scenario of the source video is preserved instead of generating a completely different video; 2) the semantic is presented differently in the target video, and all changes are controlled by the given instruction. We propose a Multi-Modal Multi-Level Transformer (M3L) to carry out LBVE. M3L dynamically learns the correspondence between video perception and language semantic at different levels, which benefits both the video understanding and video frame synthesis. We build three new datasets for evaluation, including two diagnostic and one from natural videos with human-labeled text. Extensive experimental results show that M3L is effective for video editing and that LBVE can lead to a new field toward vision-and-language research.

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Authors
Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Eric Wang, Scott Grafton, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang
Date
Type
Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentation
Journal
Proceedings of Thirty-Third IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
City
New Orleans
State
Louisiana
Country
United States