Title
To Create What You Tell: Generating Videos from Captions
Abstract
We are creating multimedia contents everyday and everywhere. While automatic content generation has played a fundamental challenge to multimedia community for decades, recent advances of deep learning have made this problem feasible. For example, the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is a rewarding approach to synthesize images. Nevertheless, it is not trivial when capitalizing on GANs to generate videos. The difficulty originates from the intrinsic structure where a video is a sequence of visually coherent and semantically dependent frames. This motivates us to explore semantic and temporal coherence in designing GANs to generate videos. In this paper, we present a novel Temporal GANs conditioning on Captions, namely TGANs-C, in which the input to the generator network is a concatenation of a latent noise vector and caption embedding, and then is transformed into a frame sequence with 3D spatio-temporal convolutions. Unlike the naive discriminator which only judges pairs as fake or real, our discriminator additionally notes whether the video matches the correct caption. In particular, the discriminator network consists of three discriminators: video discriminator classifying realistic videos from generated ones and optimizes video-caption matching, frame discriminator discriminating between real and fake frames and aligning frames with the conditioning caption, and motion discriminator emphasizing the philosophy that the adjacent frames in the generated videos should be smoothly connected as in real ones. We qualitatively demonstrate the capability of our TGANs-C to generate plausible videos conditioning on the given captions on two synthetic datasets (SBMG and TBMG) and one real-world dataset (MSVD). Moreover, quantitative experiments on MSVD are performed to validate our proposal via Generative Adversarial Metric and human study.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3123266.3127905
MM '17: ACM Multimedia Conference Mountain View California USA October, 2017
Keywords
Field
DocType
Video Generation, Video Captioning, GANs, CNNs
Computer vision,Embedding,Discriminator,Convolution,Computer science,Coherence (physics),Artificial intelligence,Concatenation,Generative grammar,Deep learning,Frame sequence
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
abs/1804.08264
978-1-4503-4906-2
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.57
19
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yingwei Pan135723.66
Zhaofan Qiu211710.06
Ting Yao384252.62
Houqiang Li42090172.30
Tao Mei54702288.54