In recent years multi-label, multi-class video action recognition has gained significant popularity. While reasoning over temporally connected atomic actions is mundane for intelligent species, standard artificial neural networks (ANN) still struggle to classify them. In the real world, atomic actions often temporally connect to form more complex composite actions. The challenge lies in recognising composite action of varying durations while other distinct composite or atomic actions occur in the background. Drawing upon the success of relational networks, we propose methods that learn to reason over the semantic concept of objects and actions. We empirically show how ANNs benefit from pretraining, relational inductive biases and unordered set-based latent representations. In this paper we propose deep set conditioned I3D (SCI3D), a two stream relational network that employs latent representation of state and visual representation for reasoning over events and actions. They learn to reason about temporally connected actions in order to identify all of them in the video. The proposed method achieves an improvement of around 1.49% mAP in atomic action recognition and 17.57% mAP in composite action recognition, over a I3D-NL baseline, on the CATER dataset.

Modeling the visual changes that an action brings to a scene is critical for video understanding. Currently, CNNs process one local neighbourhood at a time, thus contextual relationships over longer ranges, while still learnable, are indirect. We present TROI, a plug-and-play module for CNNs to reason between mid-level feature representations that are otherwise separated in space and time. The module relates localized visual entities such as hands and interacting objects and transforms their corresponding regions of interest directly in the feature maps of convolutional layers. With TROI, we achieve state-of-the-art action recognition results on the large-scale datasets Something-Something-V2 and EPIC-Kitchens-100.

To understand the world, we humans constantly need to relate the present to the past, and put events in context. In this paper, we enable existing video models to do the same. We propose a long-term feature bank-supportive information extracted over the entire span of a video-to augment state-of-the-art video models that otherwise would only view short clips of 2-5 seconds. Our experiments demonstrate that augmenting 3D convolutional networks with a long-term feature bank yields state-of-the-art results on three challenging video datasets: AVA, EPIC-Kitchens, and Charades. Code is available online. 1 1 https://github.com/facebookresearch/ video-long-term-feature-banks Input clip (4 seconds) Target frame

人类行动识别是计算机视觉中的重要应用领域。它的主要目的是准确地描述人类的行为及其相互作用，从传感器获得的先前看不见的数据序列中。识别，理解和预测复杂人类行动的能力能够构建许多重要的应用，例如智能监视系统，人力计算机界面，医疗保健，安全和军事应用。近年来，计算机视觉社区特别关注深度学习。本文使用深度学习技术的视频分析概述了当前的动作识别最新识别。我们提出了识别人类行为的最重要的深度学习模型，并分析它们，以提供用于解决人类行动识别问题的深度学习算法的当前进展，以突出其优势和缺点。基于文献中报道的识别精度的定量分析，我们的研究确定了动作识别中最新的深层体系结构，然后为该领域的未来工作提供当前的趋势和开放问题。

Both convolutional and recurrent operations are building blocks that process one local neighborhood at a time. In this paper, we present non-local operations as a generic family of building blocks for capturing long-range dependencies. Inspired by the classical non-local means method [4] in computer vision, our non-local operation computes the response at a position as a weighted sum of the features at all positions. This building block can be plugged into many computer vision architectures. On the task of video classification, even without any bells and whistles, our nonlocal models can compete or outperform current competition winners on both Kinetics and Charades datasets.In static image recognition, our non-local models improve object detection/segmentation and pose estimation on the COCO suite of tasks. Code will be made available.

Temporal modeling is key for action recognition in videos. It normally considers both short-range motions and long-range aggregations. In this paper, we propose a Temporal Excitation and Aggregation (TEA) block, including a motion excitation (ME) module and a multiple temporal aggregation (MTA) module, specifically designed to capture both short-and long-range temporal evolution. In particular, for short-range motion modeling, the ME module calculates the feature-level temporal differences from spatiotemporal features. It then utilizes the differences to excite the motion-sensitive channels of the features. The long-range temporal aggregations in previous works are typically achieved by stacking a large number of local temporal convolutions. Each convolution processes a local temporal window at a time. In contrast, the MTA module proposes to deform the local convolution to a group of subconvolutions, forming a hierarchical residual architecture. Without introducing additional parameters, the features will be processed with a series of sub-convolutions, and each frame could complete multiple temporal aggregations with neighborhoods. The final equivalent receptive field of temporal dimension is accordingly enlarged, which is capable of modeling the long-range temporal relationship over distant frames. The two components of the TEA block are complementary in temporal modeling. Finally, our approach achieves impressive results at low FLOPs on several action recognition benchmarks, such as Kinetics, Something-Something, HMDB51, and UCF101, which confirms its effectiveness and efficiency.

自我关注学习成对相互作用以模型远程依赖性，从而产生了对视频动作识别的巨大改进。在本文中，我们寻求更深入地了解视频中的时间建模的自我关注。我们首先表明通过扁平所有像素通过扁平化的时空信息的缠结建模是次优的，未明确捕获帧之间的时间关系。为此，我们介绍了全球暂时关注（GTA），以脱钩的方式在空间关注之上进行全球时间关注。我们在像素和语义类似地区上应用GTA，以捕获不同水平的空间粒度的时间关系。与计算特定于实例的注意矩阵的传统自我关注不同，GTA直接学习全局注意矩阵，该矩阵旨在编码遍布不同样本的时间结构。我们进一步增强了GTA的跨通道多头方式，以利用通道交互以获得更好的时间建模。对2D和3D网络的广泛实验表明，我们的方法一致地增强了时间建模，并在三个视频动作识别数据集中提供最先进的性能。

最近，视频变压器在视频理解方面取得了巨大成功，超过了CNN性能;然而，现有的视频变换器模型不会明确地模拟对象，尽管对象对于识别操作至关重要。在这项工作中，我们呈现对象区域视频变换器（Orvit），一个\ emph {对象为中心}方法，它与直接包含对象表示的块扩展视频变压器图层。关键的想法是从早期层开始融合以对象形式的表示，并将它们传播到变压器层中，从而影响整个网络的时空表示。我们的orvit块由两个对象级流组成：外观和动态。在外观流中，“对象区域关注”模块在修补程序上应用自我关注和\ emph {对象区域}。以这种方式，Visual对象区域与统一修补程序令牌交互，并通过上下文化对象信息来丰富它们。我们通过单独的“对象 - 动态模块”进一步模型对象动态，捕获轨迹交互，并显示如何集成两个流。我们在四个任务和五个数据集中评估我们的模型：在某事物中的某些问题和几次射击动作识别，以及在AVA上的某些时空动作检测，以及在某种东西上的标准动作识别 - 某种东西 - 东西，潜水48和EPIC-Kitchen100。我们在考虑的所有任务和数据集中展示了强大的性能改进，展示了将对象表示的模型的值集成到变压器体系结构中。对于代码和预用模型，请访问项目页面\ url {https://roeiherz.github.io/orvit/}

有效地对视频中的空间信息进行建模对于动作识别至关重要。为了实现这一目标，最先进的方法通常采用卷积操作员和密集的相互作用模块，例如非本地块。但是，这些方法无法准确地符合视频中的各种事件。一方面，采用的卷积是有固定尺度的，因此在各种尺度的事件中挣扎。另一方面，密集的相互作用建模范式仅在动作 - 欧元零件时实现次优性能，给最终预测带来了其他噪音。在本文中，我们提出了一个统一的动作识别框架，以通过引入以下设计来研究视频内容的动态性质。首先，在提取本地提示时，我们会生成动态尺度的时空内核，以适应各种事件。其次，为了将这些线索准确地汇总为全局视频表示形式，我们建议仅通过变压器在一些选定的前景对象之间进行交互，从而产生稀疏的范式。我们将提出的框架称为事件自适应网络（EAN），因为这两个关键设计都适应输入视频内容。为了利用本地细分市场内的短期运动，我们提出了一种新颖有效的潜在运动代码（LMC）模块，进一步改善了框架的性能。在几个大规模视频数据集上进行了广泛的实验，例如，某种东西，动力学和潜水48，验证了我们的模型是否在低拖鞋上实现了最先进或竞争性的表演。代码可在：https：//github.com/tianyuan168326/ean-pytorch中找到。

Human activity recognition (HAR) using drone-mounted cameras has attracted considerable interest from the computer vision research community in recent years. A robust and efficient HAR system has a pivotal role in fields like video surveillance, crowd behavior analysis, sports analysis, and human-computer interaction. What makes it challenging are the complex poses, understanding different viewpoints, and the environmental scenarios where the action is taking place. To address such complexities, in this paper, we propose a novel Sparse Weighted Temporal Attention (SWTA) module to utilize sparsely sampled video frames for obtaining global weighted temporal attention. The proposed SWTA is comprised of two parts. First, temporal segment network that sparsely samples a given set of frames. Second, weighted temporal attention, which incorporates a fusion of attention maps derived from optical flow, with raw RGB images. This is followed by a basenet network, which comprises a convolutional neural network (CNN) module along with fully connected layers that provide us with activity recognition. The SWTA network can be used as a plug-in module to the existing deep CNN architectures, for optimizing them to learn temporal information by eliminating the need for a separate temporal stream. It has been evaluated on three publicly available benchmark datasets, namely Okutama, MOD20, and Drone-Action. The proposed model has received an accuracy of 72.76%, 92.56%, and 78.86% on the respective datasets thereby surpassing the previous state-of-the-art performances by a margin of 25.26%, 18.56%, and 2.94%, respectively.

建模空间关系对于识别人类行为，尤其是当人类与物体相互作用时，而多个物体随着时间的推移会随着时间的推移而出现多个物体。大多数现有的行动识别模型专注于学习场景的整体视觉线索，而是无视内容的内容细粒度，可以通过学习人对象关系和互动来捕获。在本文中，我们通过利用当地和全球背景的互动来学习人对象关系。因此，我们提出了全球局部相互作用蒸馏网（GLIDN），通过空间和时间通过知识蒸馏来学习人和对象相互作用，以进行细粒度的现场理解。 Glidn将人和对象编码为Graph节点，并通过图注意网络了解本地和全球关系。本地上下文图通过在特定时间步骤中捕获它们的共同发生来了解帧级别的人类和对象之间的关系。全局关系图是基于人类和对象交互的视频级构建的，识别它们在视频序列中的长期关系。更重要的是，我们研究了如何将这些图表的知识如何蒸馏到它们的对应部分，以改善人对象相互作用（Hoi）识别。通过在两个数据集上进行全面的实验，我们评估我们的模型，包括Charades和CAD-120数据集。我们已经实现了比基线和对应方法更好的结果。

由于研究和应用意义，人类行动认可在近年来造成了很多关注。行动识别的大多数现有工程侧重于学习视频的有效空间特征，但忽视了前提，行动和效果之间的强烈因果关系。这种关系对动作识别的准确性来说也是至关重要的。在本文中，我们建议根据前提条件和效果模拟因果关系，以提高行动识别性能。具体地，提出了一种循环推理模型来捕获动作识别的因果关系。为此，我们向大规模动作数据集注释了前提条件和效果。实验结果表明，所提出的循环推理模型可以有效地推理前提和效果，可以提高行动识别性能。

In this paper we discuss several forms of spatiotemporal convolutions for video analysis and study their effects on action recognition. Our motivation stems from the observation that 2D CNNs applied to individual frames of the video have remained solid performers in action recognition. In this work we empirically demonstrate the accuracy advantages of 3D CNNs over 2D CNNs within the framework of residual learning. Furthermore, we show that factorizing the 3D convolutional filters into separate spatial and temporal components yields significantly gains in accuracy. Our empirical study leads to the design of a new spatiotemporal convolutional block "R(2+1)D" which produces CNNs that achieve results comparable or superior to the state-of-theart on Sports-1M, Kinetics, UCF101, and HMDB51.

Temporal relational reasoning, the ability to link meaningful transformations of objects or entities over time, is a fundamental property of intelligent species. In this paper, we introduce an effective and interpretable network module, the Temporal Relation Network (TRN), designed to learn and reason about temporal dependencies between video frames at multiple time scales. We evaluate TRN-equipped networks on activity recognition tasks using three recent video datasets -Something-Something, Jester, and Charades -which fundamentally depend on temporal relational reasoning. Our results demonstrate that the proposed TRN gives convolutional neural networks a remarkable capacity to discover temporal relations in videos. Through only sparsely sampled video frames, TRN-equipped networks can accurately predict human-object interactions in the Something-Something dataset and identify various human gestures on the Jester dataset with very competitive performance. TRN-equipped networks also outperform two-stream networks and 3D convolution networks in recognizing daily activities in the Charades dataset. Further analyses show that the models learn intuitive and interpretable visual common sense knowledge in videos 1 .

直觉可能表明，运动和动态信息是基于视频的动作识别的关键。相比之下，有证据表明，最新的深入学习视频理解架构偏向单帧可用的静态信息。目前，缺少用于隔离视频中动态信息影响的方法和相应的数据集。他们的缺席使得很难理解当代体系结构如何利用动态和静态信息。我们以新颖的外观免费数据集（AFD）做出反应，以进行动作识别。 AFD缺乏与单个帧中的动作识别有关的静态信息。动力学的建模对于解决任务是必要的，因为仅通过考虑时间维度才能明显作用。我们评估了AFD上的11种当代行动识别体系结构及其相关的RGB视频。我们的结果表明，与RGB相比，AFD上所有体系结构的性能均显着下降。我们还对人类进行了免费研究，该研究表明他们在AFD和RGB上的识别准确性非常相似，并且比AFD评估的体系结构要好得多。我们的结果激发了一种新颖的体系结构，在当代设计中，在AFD和RGB上的最佳性能中恢复了光流的明确恢复。

Spatiotemporal and motion features are two complementary and crucial information for video action recognition. Recent state-of-the-art methods adopt a 3D CNN stream to learn spatiotemporal features and another flow stream to learn motion features. In this work, we aim to efficiently encode these two features in a unified 2D framework. To this end, we first propose an STM block, which contains a Channel-wise SpatioTemporal Module (CSTM) to present the spatiotemporal features and a Channel-wise Motion Module (CMM) to efficiently encode motion features. We then replace original residual blocks in the ResNet architecture with STM blcoks to form a simple yet effective STM network by introducing very limited extra computation cost. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed STM network outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on both temporal-related datasets (i.e., Something-Something v1 & v2 and Jester) and scene-related datasets (i.e., Kinetics-400, UCF-101, and HMDB-51) with the help of encoding spatiotemporal and motion features together. * The work was done during an internship at SenseTime.

Deep convolutional networks have achieved great success for visual recognition in still images. However, for action recognition in videos, the advantage over traditional methods is not so evident. This paper aims to discover the principles to design effective ConvNet architectures for action recognition in videos and learn these models given limited training samples. Our first contribution is temporal segment network (TSN), a novel framework for video-based action recognition. which is based on the idea of long-range temporal structure modeling. It combines a sparse temporal sampling strategy and video-level supervision to enable efficient and effective learning using the whole action video. The other contribution is our study on a series of good practices in learning ConvNets on video data with the help of temporal segment network. Our approach obtains the state-the-of-art performance on the datasets of HMDB51 (69.4%) and UCF101 (94.2%). We also visualize the learned ConvNet models, which qualitatively demonstrates the effectiveness of temporal segment network and the proposed good practices. 1

We present SlowFast networks for video recognition. Our model involves (i) a Slow pathway, operating at low frame rate, to capture spatial semantics, and (ii) a Fast pathway, operating at high frame rate, to capture motion at fine temporal resolution. The Fast pathway can be made very lightweight by reducing its channel capacity, yet can learn useful temporal information for video recognition. Our models achieve strong performance for both action classification and detection in video, and large improvements are pin-pointed as contributions by our SlowFast concept. We report state-of-the-art accuracy on major video recognition benchmarks, Kinetics, Charades and AVA. Code has been made available at: https://github.com/ facebookresearch/SlowFast.

In this paper, we develop an efficient multi-scale network to predict action classes in partial videos in an end-to-end manner. Unlike most existing methods with offline feature generation, our method directly takes frames as input and further models motion evolution on two different temporal scales.Therefore, we solve the complexity problems of the two stages of modeling and the problem of insufficient temporal and spatial information of a single scale. Our proposed End-to-End MultiScale Network (E2EMSNet) is composed of two scales which are named segment scale and observed global scale. The segment scale leverages temporal difference over consecutive frames for finer motion patterns by supplying 2D convolutions. For observed global scale, a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) is incorporated to capture motion features of observed frames. Our model provides a simple and efficient modeling framework with a small computational cost. Our E2EMSNet is evaluated on three challenging datasets: BIT, HMDB51, and UCF101. The extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method for action prediction in videos.