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Learning to Localize and Align Fine-Grained Actions to Sparse Instructions
Automatic generation of textual video descriptions that are time-aligned with
video content is a long-standing goal in computer vision. The task is
challenging due to the difficulty of bridging the semantic gap between the
visual and natural language domains. This paper addresses the task of
automatically generating an alignment between a set of instructions and a first
person video demonstrating an activity. The sparse descriptions and ambiguity
of written instructions create significant alignment challenges. The key to our
approach is the use of egocentric cues to generate a concise set of action
proposals, which are then matched to recipe steps using object recognition and
computational linguistic techniques. We obtain promising results on both the
Extended GTEA Gaze+ dataset and the Bristol Egocentric Object Interactions
Dataset
Click Carving: Segmenting Objects in Video with Point Clicks
We present a novel form of interactive video object segmentation where a few
clicks by the user helps the system produce a full spatio-temporal segmentation
of the object of interest. Whereas conventional interactive pipelines take the
user's initialization as a starting point, we show the value in the system
taking the lead even in initialization. In particular, for a given video frame,
the system precomputes a ranked list of thousands of possible segmentation
hypotheses (also referred to as object region proposals) using image and motion
cues. Then, the user looks at the top ranked proposals, and clicks on the
object boundary to carve away erroneous ones. This process iterates (typically
2-3 times), and each time the system revises the top ranked proposal set, until
the user is satisfied with a resulting segmentation mask. Finally, the mask is
propagated across the video to produce a spatio-temporal object tube. On three
challenging datasets, we provide extensive comparisons with both existing work
and simpler alternative methods. In all, the proposed Click Carving approach
strikes an excellent balance of accuracy and human effort. It outperforms all
similarly fast methods, and is competitive or better than those requiring 2 to
12 times the effort.Comment: A preliminary version of the material in this document was filed as
University of Texas technical report no. UT AI16-0
Weakly Supervised Action Localization by Sparse Temporal Pooling Network
We propose a weakly supervised temporal action localization algorithm on
untrimmed videos using convolutional neural networks. Our algorithm learns from
video-level class labels and predicts temporal intervals of human actions with
no requirement of temporal localization annotations. We design our network to
identify a sparse subset of key segments associated with target actions in a
video using an attention module and fuse the key segments through adaptive
temporal pooling. Our loss function is comprised of two terms that minimize the
video-level action classification error and enforce the sparsity of the segment
selection. At inference time, we extract and score temporal proposals using
temporal class activations and class-agnostic attentions to estimate the time
intervals that correspond to target actions. The proposed algorithm attains
state-of-the-art results on the THUMOS14 dataset and outstanding performance on
ActivityNet1.3 even with its weak supervision.Comment: Accepted to CVPR 201
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