Appearance-and-Relation Networks for Video Classification

November 24, 2017 · Entered Twilight · 🏛 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Authors Limin Wang, Wei Li, Wen Li, Luc Van Gool arXiv ID 1711.09125 Category cs.CV: Computer Vision Citations 370 Venue 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Repository https://github.com/wanglimin/ARTNet ⭐ 202 Last Checked 1 month ago

Abstract

Spatiotemporal feature learning in videos is a fundamental problem in computer vision. This paper presents a new architecture, termed as Appearance-and-Relation Network (ARTNet), to learn video representation in an end-to-end manner. ARTNets are constructed by stacking multiple generic building blocks, called as SMART, whose goal is to simultaneously model appearance and relation from RGB input in a separate and explicit manner. Specifically, SMART blocks decouple the spatiotemporal learning module into an appearance branch for spatial modeling and a relation branch for temporal modeling. The appearance branch is implemented based on the linear combination of pixels or filter responses in each frame, while the relation branch is designed based on the multiplicative interactions between pixels or filter responses across multiple frames. We perform experiments on three action recognition benchmarks: Kinetics, UCF101, and HMDB51, demonstrating that SMART blocks obtain an evident improvement over 3D convolutions for spatiotemporal feature learning. Under the same training setting, ARTNets achieve superior performance on these three datasets to the existing state-of-the-art methods.