  Existing popular video captioning benchmarks and models deal with generic
captions devoid of specific person, place or organization named entities. In
contrast, news videos present a challenging setting where the caption requires
such named entities for meaningful summarization. As such, we propose the task
of summarizing news video directly to entity-aware captions. We also release a
large-scale dataset, VIEWS (VIdeo NEWS), to support research on this task.
Further, we propose a method that augments visual information from videos with
context retrieved from external world knowledge to generate entity-aware
captions. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on three video
captioning models. We also show that our approach generalizes to existing news
image captions dataset. With all the extensive experiments and insights, we
believe we establish a solid basis for future research on this challenging
task.
