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Automated Analysis of Chemistry Experiment Videos: New Challenges for Video Understanding

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Compared to static declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge is challenging to assess effectively in education due to its nature of dynamic and complex. However, it serves as a crucial source for essential abilities of students. Can artificial intelligence assist in evaluating procedural knowledge? To explore this question, we focus on the scenario of middle-school chemistry experiments and attempt to use video understanding technology to aid teachers in assessing procedural knowledge of chemistry experiments. Nevertheless, our preliminary findings reveal that chemistry experiment videos differ from typical instructional videos used in research, presenting unique characteristics and complexities. Thus, we pose a new challenge, offering novel research questions for the field of video understanding and a new perspective for leveraging artificial intelligence in modern education.

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.62377029 and the Natural Science Research of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China under Grant No.22KJB520021, No.22KJB520020.

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Zheng, Z., Wang, B., Wang, Z., Chen, Y., Zhou, J., Kong, L. (2024). Automated Analysis of Chemistry Experiment Videos: New Challenges for Video Understanding. In: Hong, W., Kanaparan, G. (eds) Computer Science and Education. Computer Science and Technology. ICCSE 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2023. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0730-0_18

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