# SELF-VS: Self-supervised Encoding Learning For Video Summarization

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15993 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.15993/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 31 of its 45 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 28 Mar 2023.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Despite its wide range of applications, video summarization is still held back by the scarcity of extensive datasets, largely due to the labor-intensive and costly nature of frame-level annotations. As a result, existing video summarization methods are prone to overfitting. To mitigate this challenge, we propose a novel self-supervised video representation learning method using knowledge distillation to pre-train a transformer encoder. Our method matches its semantic video representation, which is constructed with respect to frame importance scores, to a representation derived from a CNN trained on video classification. Empirical evaluations on correlation-based metrics, such as Kendall's τ and Spearman's ρ demonstrate the superiority of our approach compared to existing state-of-the-art methods in assigning relative scores to the input frames.
