Lighthouse: A User-Friendly Library for Reproducible Video Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection
This provides a unified codebase for researchers and developers in video analysis, though it is incremental as it consolidates existing methods.
The authors tackled the lack of reproducible and user-friendly tools for video moment retrieval and highlight detection by developing Lighthouse, a library that implements six models, three features, and five datasets, and it generally reproduces reported scores from reference papers.
We propose Lighthouse, a user-friendly library for reproducible video moment retrieval and highlight detection (MR-HD). Although researchers proposed various MR-HD approaches, the research community holds two main issues. The first is a lack of comprehensive and reproducible experiments across various methods, datasets, and video-text features. This is because no unified training and evaluation codebase covers multiple settings. The second is user-unfriendly design. Because previous works use different libraries, researchers set up individual environments. In addition, most works release only the training codes, requiring users to implement the whole inference process of MR-HD. Lighthouse addresses these issues by implementing a unified reproducible codebase that includes six models, three features, and five datasets. In addition, it provides an inference API and web demo to make these methods easily accessible for researchers and developers. Our experiments demonstrate that Lighthouse generally reproduces the reported scores in the reference papers. The code is available at https://github.com/line/lighthouse.