Anticipating Next Active Objects for Egocentric Videos

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06358v5
• Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 05:10:50 GMT
• Title: Anticipating Next Active Objects for Egocentric Videos
• Authors: Sanket Thakur, Cigdem Beyan, Pietro Morerio, Vittorio Murino, Alessio Del Bue,
• Abstract summary: This paper addresses the problem of anticipating the next-active-object location in the future, for a given egocentric video clip. We propose a transformer-based self-attention framework to identify and locate the next-active-object in an egocentric clip.
• Score: 29.473527958651317
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of anticipating the next-active-object location in the future, for a given egocentric video clip where the contact might happen, before any action takes place. The problem is considerably hard, as we aim at estimating the position of such objects in a scenario where the observed clip and the action segment are separated by the so-called ``time to contact'' (TTC) segment. Many methods have been proposed to anticipate the action of a person based on previous hand movements and interactions with the surroundings. However, there have been no attempts to investigate the next possible interactable object, and its future location with respect to the first-person's motion and the field-of-view drift during the TTC window. We define this as the task of Anticipating the Next ACTive Object (ANACTO). To this end, we propose a transformer-based self-attention framework to identify and locate the next-active-object in an egocentric clip. We benchmark our method on three datasets: EpicKitchens-100, EGTEA+ and Ego4D. We also provide annotations for the first two datasets. Our approach performs best compared to relevant baseline methods. We also conduct ablation studies to understand the effectiveness of the proposed and baseline methods on varying conditions. Code and ANACTO task annotations will be made available upon paper acceptance.

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