MovieQA: Understanding Stories in Movies through Question-Answering

• Main Authors: Tapaswi, Makarand (Author), Zhu, Yukun (Author), Stiefelhagen, Rainer (Author), Torralba, Antonio (Contributor), Urtasun, Raquel (Author), Fidler, Sanja (Author)
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-02-26T21:43:32Z.
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 We introduce the MovieQA dataset which aims to evaluate automatic story comprehension from both video and text. The dataset consists of 14,944 questions about 408 movies with high semantic diversity. The questions range from simpler "Who" did "What" to "Whom", to "Why" and "How" certain events occurred. Each question comes with a set of five possible answers, a correct one and four deceiving answers provided by human annotators. Our dataset is unique in that it contains multiple sources of information - video clips, plots, subtitles, scripts, and DVS. We analyze our data through various statistics and methods. We further extend existing QA techniques to show that question-answering with such open-ended semantics is hard. We make this data set public along with an evaluation benchmark to encourage inspiring work in this challenging domain. Keywords: Motion pictures, Visualization, Semantics, Voltage control, Cognition, Natural languages, Computer vision