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.

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.

高效的时空建模是视频动作识别的重要而挑战性问题。现有的最先进的方法利用相邻的特征差异，以获得短期时间建模的运动线索，简单的卷积。然而，只有一个本地卷积，由于接收领域有限而无法处理各种动作。此外，摄像机运动带来的动作耳鸣还将损害提取的运动功能的质量。在本文中，我们提出了一个时间显着积分（TSI）块，其主要包含突出运动激励（SME）模块和交叉感知时间集成（CTI）模块。具体地，中小企业旨在通过空间级局部 - 全局运动建模突出显示运动敏感区域，其中显着对准和金字塔型运动建模在相邻帧之间连续进行，以捕获由未对准背景引起的噪声较少的运动动态。 CTI旨在分别通过一组单独的1D卷积进行多感知时间建模。同时，不同看法的时间相互作用与注意机制相结合。通过这两个模块，通过引入有限的附加参数，可以有效地编码长短的短期时间关系。在几个流行的基准测试中进行了广泛的实验（即，某种东西 - 某种东西 - 东西 - 400，uCF-101和HMDB-51），这证明了我们所提出的方法的有效性。

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。

The explosive growth in video streaming gives rise to challenges on performing video understanding at high accuracy and low computation cost. Conventional 2D CNNs are computationally cheap but cannot capture temporal relationships; 3D CNN based methods can achieve good performance but are computationally intensive, making it expensive to deploy. In this paper, we propose a generic and effective Temporal Shift Module (TSM) that enjoys both high efficiency and high performance. Specifically, it can achieve the performance of 3D CNN but maintain 2D CNN's complexity. TSM shifts part of the channels along the temporal dimension; thus facilitate information exchanged among neighboring frames. It can be inserted into 2D CNNs to achieve temporal modeling at zero computation and zero parameters. We also extended TSM to online setting, which enables real-time low-latency online video recognition and video object detection. TSM is accurate and efficient: it ranks the first place on the Something-Something leaderboard upon publication; on Jetson Nano and Galaxy Note8, it achieves a low latency of 13ms and 35ms for online video recognition. The code is available at: https://github. com/mit-han-lab/temporal-shift-module.

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.

在视频数据中，来自移动区域的忙碌运动细节在频域中的特定频率带宽内传送。同时，视频数据的其余频率是用具有实质冗余的安静信息编码，这导致现有视频模型中的低处理效率作为输入原始RGB帧。在本文中，我们考虑为处理重要忙碌信息的处理和对安静信息的计算的处理分配。我们设计可训练的运动带通量模块（MBPM），用于将繁忙信息从RAW视频数据中的安静信息分开。通过将MBPM嵌入到两个路径CNN架构中，我们定义了一个繁忙的网络（BQN）。 BQN的效率是通过避免由两个路径处理的特征空间中的冗余来确定：一个在低分辨率的安静特征上运行，而另一个处理繁忙功能。所提出的BQN在某物V1，Kinetics400，UCF101和HMDB51数据集中略高于最近最近的视频处理模型。

时空卷积通常无法学习视频中的运动动态，因此在野外的视频理解需要有效的运动表示。在本文中，我们提出了一种基于时空自相似性（STS）的丰富和强大的运动表示。给定一系列帧，STS表示每个局部区域作为空间和时间的邻居的相似度。通过将外观特征转换为关系值，它使学习者能够更好地识别空间和时间的结构模式。我们利用了整个STS，让我们的模型学会从中提取有效的运动表示。建议的神经块被称为自拍，可以轻松插入神经架构中，并在没有额外监督的情况下训练结束。在空间和时间内具有足够的邻域，它有效地捕获视频中的长期交互和快速运动，导致强大的动作识别。我们的实验分析证明了其对运动建模方法的优越性以及与直接卷积的时空特征的互补性。在标准动作识别基准测试中，某事-V1＆V2，潜水-48和FineGym，该方法实现了最先进的结果。

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

Despite the steady progress in video analysis led by the adoption of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the relative improvement has been less drastic as that in 2D static image classification. Three main challenges exist including spatial (image) feature representation, temporal information representation, and model/computation complexity. It was recently shown by Carreira and Zisserman that 3D CNNs, inflated from 2D networks and pretrained on Ima-geNet, could be a promising way for spatial and temporal representation learning. However, as for model/computation complexity, 3D CNNs are much more expensive than 2D CNNs and prone to overfit. We seek a balance between speed and accuracy by building an effective and efficient video classification system through systematic exploration of critical network design choices. In particular, we show that it is possible to replace many of the 3D convolutions by low-cost 2D convolutions. Rather surprisingly, best result (in both speed and accuracy) is achieved when replacing the 3D convolutions at the bottom of the network, suggesting that temporal representation learning on high-level "semantic" features is more useful. Our conclusion generalizes to datasets with very different properties. When combined with several other cost-effective designs including separable spatial/temporal convolution and feature gating, our system results in an effective video classification system that that produces very competitive results on several action classification benchmarks (Kinetics, Something-something, UCF101 and HMDB), as well as two action detection (localization) benchmarks (JHMDB and UCF101-24).

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.

Recent applications of Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) for human action recognition in videos have proposed different solutions for incorporating the appearance and motion information. We study a number of ways of fusing ConvNet towers both spatially and temporally in order to best take advantage of this spatio-temporal information. We make the following findings: (i) that rather than fusing at the softmax layer, a spatial and temporal network can be fused at a convolution layer without loss of performance, but with a substantial saving in parameters;(ii) that it is better to fuse such networks spatially at the last convolutional layer than earlier, and that additionally fusing at the class prediction layer can boost accuracy; finally (iii) that pooling of abstract convolutional features over spatiotemporal neighbourhoods further boosts performance. Based on these studies we propose a new ConvNet architecture for spatiotemporal fusion of video snippets, and evaluate its performance on standard benchmarks where this architecture achieves stateof-the-art results. Our code and models are available at http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/ vgg/software/two stream action

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.

基于变压器的方法最近在基于2D图像的视力任务上取得了巨大进步。但是，对于基于3D视频的任务，例如动作识别，直接将时空变压器应用于视频数据将带来沉重的计算和记忆负担，因为斑块的数量大大增加以及自我注意计算的二次复杂性。如何对视频数据的3D自我注意力进行有效地建模，这对于变压器来说是一个巨大的挑战。在本文中，我们提出了一种时间贴片移动（TPS）方法，用于在变压器中有效的3D自发明建模，以进行基于视频的动作识别。 TPS在时间尺寸中以特定的镶嵌图模式移动斑块的一部分，从而将香草的空间自我发项操作转换为时空的一部分，几乎没有额外的成本。结果，我们可以使用几乎相同的计算和记忆成本来计算3D自我注意力。 TPS是一个插件模块，可以插入现有的2D变压器模型中，以增强时空特征学习。提出的方法可以通过最先进的V1和V1，潜水-48和Kinetics400实现竞争性能，同时在计算和内存成本方面效率更高。 TPS的源代码可在https://github.com/martinxm/tps上找到。

传统时空网络的建模，计算成本和准确性是视频动作识别中最集中的研究主题。传统的2D卷积具有较低的计算成本，但它无法捕获时间关系;基于3D卷积的卷积神经网络（CNNS）模型可以获得良好的性能，但其计算成本很高，参数的数量很大。在本文中，我们提出了一个即插即用的时空移位模块（STSM），它是一种有效且高性能的通用模块。具体地，在将STSM插入其他网络之后，可以在不增加计算和参数的数量的情况下提高网络的性能。特别是，当网络是2D CNN时，我们的STSM模块允许网络了解高效的时空特征。我们对该拟议模块进行了广泛的评估，进行了许多实验，以研究其在视频动作识别方面的有效性，并在动力学-400和某些东西上实现了最先进的结果 - 某种东西的数据集。

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。

Drone-camera based human activity recognition (HAR) has received significant attention from the computer vision research community in the past few 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 Fusion (SWTF) module to utilize sparsely sampled video frames for obtaining global weighted temporal fusion outcome. The proposed SWTF is divided into two components. First, a temporal segment network that sparsely samples a given set of frames. Second, weighted temporal fusion, that incorporates a fusion of feature maps derived from optical flow, with raw RGB images. This is followed by base-network, which comprises a convolutional neural network module along with fully connected layers that provide us with activity recognition. The SWTF 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 significant margin.

We propose a simple, yet effective approach for spatiotemporal feature learning using deep 3-dimensional convolutional networks (3D ConvNets) trained on a large scale supervised video dataset. Our findings are three-fold: 1) 3D ConvNets are more suitable for spatiotemporal feature learning compared to 2D ConvNets; 2) A homogeneous architecture with small 3 × 3 × 3 convolution kernels in all layers is among the best performing architectures for 3D ConvNets; and 3) Our learned features, namely C3D (Convolutional 3D), with a simple linear classifier outperform state-of-the-art methods on 4 different benchmarks and are comparable with current best methods on the other 2 benchmarks. In addition, the features are compact: achieving 52.8% accuracy on UCF101 dataset with only 10 dimensions and also very efficient to compute due to the fast inference of ConvNets. Finally, they are conceptually very simple and easy to train and use.

表示像素位移的光流量广泛用于许多计算机视觉任务中以提供像素级运动信息。然而，随着卷积神经网络的显着进展，建议最近的最先进的方法直接在特征级别解决问题。由于特征向量的位移不与像素位移不一致，因此常用方法是：将光流向神经网络向前传递到任务数据集上的微调该网络。利用这种方法，他们期望微调网络来产生编码特征级运动信息的张量。在本文中，我们重新思考此事实上的范式并分析了视频对象检测任务中的缺点。为了缓解这些问题，我们提出了一种具有视频对象检测的\ textBF {i} n-network \ textbf {f} eature \ textbf {f} eature \ textbf {f}低估计模块（iff模块）的新型网络（iff-net）。在不借鉴任何其他数据集的预先训练，我们的IFF模块能够直接产生\ textBF {feature flow}，表示特征位移。我们的IFF模块由一个浅模块组成，它与检测分支共享该功能。这种紧凑的设计使我们的IFF-Net能够准确地检测对象，同时保持快速推断速度。此外，我们提出了基于\ Textit {自我监督}的转换剩余损失（TRL），这进一步提高了IFF-Net的性能。我们的IFF-Net优于现有方法，并在Imagenet VID上设置最先进的性能。

The paucity of videos in current action classification datasets (UCF-101 and HMDB-51) has made it difficult to identify good video architectures, as most methods obtain similar performance on existing small-scale benchmarks. This paper re-evaluates state-of-the-art architectures in light of the new Kinetics Human Action Video dataset. Kinetics has two orders of magnitude more data, with 400 human action classes and over 400 clips per class, and is collected from realistic, challenging YouTube videos. We provide an analysis on how current architectures fare on the task of action classification on this dataset and how much performance improves on the smaller benchmark datasets after pre-training on Kinetics.We also introduce a new Two-Stream Inflated 3D Con-vNet (I3D) that is based on 2D ConvNet inflation: filters and pooling kernels of very deep image classification ConvNets are expanded into 3D, making it possible to learn seamless spatio-temporal feature extractors from video while leveraging successful ImageNet architecture designs and even their parameters. We show that, after pre-training on Kinetics, I3D models considerably improve upon the state-of-the-art in action classification, reaching 80.9% on HMDB-51 and 98.0% on UCF-101.