Title
Guess where? Actor-supervision for spatiotemporal action localization.
Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of spatiotemporal localization of actions in videos. Compared to leading approaches, which all learn to localize based on carefully annotated boxes on training video frames, we adhere to a solution only requiring video class labels. We introduce an actor-supervised architecture that exploits the inherent compositionality of actions in terms of actor transformations, to localize actions. We make two contributions. First, we propose actor proposals derived from a detector for human and non-human actors intended for images, which are linked over time by Siamese similarity matching to account for actor deformations. Second, we propose an actor-based attention mechanism enabling localization from action class labels and actor proposals. It exploits a new actor pooling operation and is end-to-end trainable. Experiments on four action datasets show actor supervision is state-of-the-art for action localization from video class labels and is even competitive to some box-supervised alternatives.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.cviu.2019.102886
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Keywords
Field
DocType
Actor-supervision,Spatiotemporal action localization,Action understanding,Video analysis,Weakly-supervised
Principle of compositionality,Architecture,Pooling,Exploit,Artificial intelligence,Similarity matching,Machine learning,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
192
1
1077-3142
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
33
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Victor Escorcia1885.44
Cuong D. Dao2302.03
Mihir Jain341616.37
Bernard Ghanem4148781.44
Cees G.M. Snoek54068239.71