Title
ActionFormer: Localizing Moments of Actions with Transformers.
Abstract
Self-attention based Transformer models have demonstrated impressive results for image classification and object detection, and more recently for video understanding. Inspired by this success, we investigate the application of Transformer networks for temporal action localization in videos. To this end, we present ActionFormer—a simple yet powerful model to identify actions in time and recognize their categories in a single shot, without using action proposals or relying on pre-defined anchor windows. ActionFormer combines a multiscale feature representation with local self-attention, and uses a light-weighted decoder to classify every moment in time and estimate the corresponding action boundaries. We show that this orchestrated design results in major improvements upon prior works. Without bells and whistles, ActionFormer achieves 71.0% mAP at tIoU = 0.5 on THUMOS14, outperforming the best prior model by 14.1 absolute percentage points. Further, ActionFormer demonstrates strong results on ActivityNet 1.3 (36.6% average mAP) and EPIC-Kitchens 100 (+13.5% average mAP over prior works). Our code is available at https://github.com/happyharrycn/actionformer_release.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/978-3-031-19772-7_29
European Conference on Computer Vision
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Temporal action localization,Action recognition,Egocentric vision,Vision transformers,Video understanding
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chen-Lin Zhang1665.57
Jianxin Wu23276154.17
Yin Li379735.85