Related papers: AdaMML: Adaptive Multi-Modal Learning for Efficient Video Recognition

AdaMML: Adaptive Multi-Modal Learning for Efficient Video Recognition

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05165v2
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 17:49:10 GMT
Title: AdaMML: Adaptive Multi-Modal Learning for Efficient Video Recognition
Authors: Rameswar Panda, Chun-Fu Chen, Quanfu Fan, Ximeng Sun, Kate Saenko, Aude Oliva, Rogerio Feris
Abstract summary: We propose an adaptive multi-modal learning framework, called AdaMML, that selects on-the-fly the optimal modalities for each segment conditioned on the input for efficient video recognition. We show that our proposed approach yields 35%-55% reduction in computation when compared to the traditional baseline.
Score: 61.51188561808917
License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Abstract: Multi-modal learning, which focuses on utilizing various modalities to improve the performance of a model, is widely used in video recognition. While traditional multi-modal learning offers excellent recognition results, its computational expense limits its impact for many real-world applications. In this paper, we propose an adaptive multi-modal learning framework, called AdaMML, that selects on-the-fly the optimal modalities for each segment conditioned on the input for efficient video recognition. Specifically, given a video segment, a multi-modal policy network is used to decide what modalities should be used for processing by the recognition model, with the goal of improving both accuracy and efficiency. We efficiently train the policy network jointly with the recognition model using standard back-propagation. Extensive experiments on four challenging diverse datasets demonstrate that our proposed adaptive approach yields 35%-55% reduction in computation when compared to the traditional baseline that simply uses all the modalities irrespective of the input, while also achieving consistent improvements in accuracy over the state-of-the-art methods.