This lecture overviews Video Captioning that has many applications in video description, search and retrieval. It covers the following topics in detail: Video captioning definitions and datasets. Evaluation Metrics (SVO, BLEU, ROUGE, CIDER, METEOR, F-SCORE). Video Captioning Methods: Template-based Captioning, Joint Embedding, Encoder-Decoder Mechanisms (Attention Mechanism, Hierarchical Neural Encoder, Paragraph Description, Dense Captioning, Video Captioning by Adversarial LSTMs).
