Abstract

Advertisement videos (ads) play an integral part in the domain of Internet e-commerce, as they amplify the reach of particular products to a broad audience or can serve as a medium to raise awareness about specific issues through concise narrative structures. The narrative structures of advertisements involve several elements like reasoning about the broad content (topic and the underlying message) and examining fine-grained details involving the transition of perceived tone due to the sequence of events and interaction among characters. In this work, to facilitate the understanding of advertisements along the three dimensions of topic categorization, perceived tone transition, and social message detection, we introduce a multimodal multilingual benchmark called MM-AU comprised of 8.4 K videos (147hrs) curated from multiple web-based sources. We explore multiple zero-shot reasoning baselines through the …

Date

October 26, 2023

Authors

Digbalay Bose, Rajat Hebbar, Tiantian Feng, Krishna Somandepalli, Anfeng Xu, Shrikanth Narayanan

Book

Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Pages

86-95