Pano-AVQA: Grounded Audio-Visual Question Answering on 360^∘ Videos [article]

Heeseung Yun, Youngjae Yu, Wonsuk Yang, Kangil Lee, Gunhee Kim
2021 arXiv   pre-print
360^∘ videos convey holistic views for the surroundings of a scene. It provides audio-visual cues beyond pre-determined normal field of views and displays distinctive spatial relations on a sphere. However, previous benchmark tasks for panoramic videos are still limited to evaluate the semantic understanding of audio-visual relationships or spherical spatial property in surroundings. We propose a novel benchmark named Pano-AVQA as a large-scale grounded audio-visual question answering dataset
more » ... panoramic videos. Using 5.4K 360^∘ video clips harvested online, we collect two types of novel question-answer pairs with bounding-box grounding: spherical spatial relation QAs and audio-visual relation QAs. We train several transformer-based models from Pano-AVQA, where the results suggest that our proposed spherical spatial embeddings and multimodal training objectives fairly contribute to a better semantic understanding of the panoramic surroundings on the dataset.
arXiv:2110.05122v1 fatcat:adni6hekonabpb76ypbizfi6cu