Title
Progressive Attention on Multi-Level Dense Difference Maps for Generic Event Boundary Detection
Abstract
Generic event boundary detection (GEBD) is an important yet challenging task in video understanding, which aims at detecting the moments where humans naturally perceive event boundaries. The main challenge of this task is perceiving various temporal variations of diverse event boundaries. To this end, this paper presents an effective and end-to-end learnable framework (DDM-Net). To tackle the diversity and complicated semantics of event boundaries, we make three notable improvements. First, we construct a feature bank to store multi-level features of space and time, prepared for difference calculation at multiple scales. Second, to alleviate inadequate temporal modeling of pre-vious methods, we present dense difference maps (DDM) to comprehensively characterize the motion pattern. Finally, we exploit progressive attention on multi-level DDM to jointly aggregate appearance and motion clues. As a result, DDM-Net respectively achieves a significant boost of 14% and 8% on Kinetics-GEBD and TAPOS benchmark, and outperforms the top-1 winner solution of LOVEU Challenge@CVPR 2021 without bells and whistles. The state-of-the-art result demonstrates the effectiveness of richer motion representation and more sophisticated aggregation, in handling the diversity of GEBD. The code is made available at https://github.com/MCG-NJU/DDM.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.00335
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Video analysis and understanding, Action and event recognition
Conference
2022
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiaqi Tang100.34
Zhaoyang Liu200.68
Chen Qian37925.58
Wenyan Wu4197.34
LiMin Wang581648.41