Forecasting Action through Contact Representations from First Person Video

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00649v1
• Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 05:52:57 GMT
• Title: Forecasting Action through Contact Representations from First Person Video
• Authors: Eadom Dessalene, Chinmaya Devaraj, Michael Maynord, Cornelia Fermuller, and Yiannis Aloimonos
• Abstract summary: We introduce representations and models centered on contact, which we then use in action prediction and anticipation. Using these annotations we train a module producing novel low-level representations of anticipated near future action. On top of the Anticipation Module we apply Ego-OMG, a framework for action anticipation and prediction.
• Score: 7.10140895422075
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Human actions involving hand manipulations are structured according to the making and breaking of hand-object contact, and human visual understanding of action is reliant on anticipation of contact as is demonstrated by pioneering work in cognitive science. Taking inspiration from this, we introduce representations and models centered on contact, which we then use in action prediction and anticipation. We annotate a subset of the EPIC Kitchens dataset to include time-to-contact between hands and objects, as well as segmentations of hands and objects. Using these annotations we train the Anticipation Module, a module producing Contact Anticipation Maps and Next Active Object Segmentations - novel low-level representations providing temporal and spatial characteristics of anticipated near future action. On top of the Anticipation Module we apply Egocentric Object Manipulation Graphs (Ego-OMG), a framework for action anticipation and prediction. Ego-OMG models longer term temporal semantic relations through the use of a graph modeling transitions between contact delineated action states. Use of the Anticipation Module within Ego-OMG produces state-of-the-art results, achieving 1st and 2nd place on the unseen and seen test sets, respectively, of the EPIC Kitchens Action Anticipation Challenge, and achieving state-of-the-art results on the tasks of action anticipation and action prediction over EPIC Kitchens. We perform ablation studies over characteristics of the Anticipation Module to evaluate their utility.

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