EgoViT: Pyramid Video Transformer for Egocentric Action Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08920v1
• Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:33:50 GMT
• Title: EgoViT: Pyramid Video Transformer for Egocentric Action Recognition
• Authors: Chenbin Pan, Zhiqi Zhang, Senem Velipasalar, Yi Xu
• Abstract summary: Capturing interaction of hands with objects is important to autonomously detect human actions from egocentric videos. We present a pyramid video transformer with a dynamic class token generator for egocentric action recognition.
• Score: 18.05706639179499
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Capturing interaction of hands with objects is important to autonomously detect human actions from egocentric videos. In this work, we present a pyramid video transformer with a dynamic class token generator for egocentric action recognition. Different from previous video transformers, which use the same static embedding as the class token for diverse inputs, we propose a dynamic class token generator that produces a class token for each input video by analyzing the hand-object interaction and the related motion information. The dynamic class token can diffuse such information to the entire model by communicating with other informative tokens in the subsequent transformer layers. With the dynamic class token, dissimilarity between videos can be more prominent, which helps the model distinguish various inputs. In addition, traditional video transformers explore temporal features globally, which requires large amounts of computation. However, egocentric videos often have a large amount of background scene transition, which causes discontinuities across distant frames. In this case, blindly reducing the temporal sampling rate will risk losing crucial information. Hence, we also propose a pyramid architecture to hierarchically process the video from short-term high rate to long-term low rate. With the proposed architecture, we significantly reduce the computational cost as well as the memory requirement without sacrificing from the model performance. We perform comparisons with different baseline video transformers on the EPIC-KITCHENS-100 and EGTEA Gaze+ datasets. Both quantitative and qualitative results show that the proposed model can efficiently improve the performance for egocentric action recognition.

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