DeepSVU: Towards In-depth Security-oriented Video Understanding via Unified Physical-world Regularized MoE

TL;DR

This paper introduces DeepSVU, a novel security-oriented video understanding task that not only detects threats but also attributes and evaluates their causes, utilizing a unified physical-world regularized MoE approach.

Contribution

It proposes a new DeepSVU task and a UPRM model that effectively models physical-world information for in-depth threat understanding in videos.

Findings

UPRM outperforms existing methods on DeepSVU datasets.

Physical-world information significantly improves threat attribution.

The approach effectively models coarse-to-fine physical-world cues.

Abstract

In the literature, prior research on Security-oriented Video Understanding (SVU) has predominantly focused on detecting and localize the threats (e.g., shootings, robberies) in videos, while largely lacking the effective capability to generate and evaluate the threat causes. Motivated by these gaps, this paper introduces a new chat paradigm SVU task, i.e., In-depth Security-oriented Video Understanding (DeepSVU), which aims to not only identify and locate the threats but also attribute and evaluate the causes threatening segments. Furthermore, this paper reveals two key challenges in the proposed task: 1) how to effectively model the coarse-to-fine physical-world information (e.g., human behavior, object interactions and background context) to boost the DeepSVU task; and 2) how to adaptively trade off these factors. To tackle these challenges, this paper proposes a new Unified Physical-world Regularized MoE (UPRM) approach. Specifically, UPRM incorporates two key components: the Unified Physical-world Enhanced MoE (UPE) Block and the Physical-world Trade-off Regularizer (PTR), to address the above two challenges, respectively. Extensive experiments conduct on our DeepSVU instructions datasets (i.e., UCF-C instructions and CUVA instructions) demonstrate that UPRM outperforms several advanced Video-LLMs as well as non-VLM approaches. Such information.These justify the importance of the coarse-to-fine physical-world information in the DeepSVU task and demonstrate the effectiveness of our UPRM in capturing such information.