Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization with Bidirectional Semantic Consistency Constraint

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12616v1
• Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 07:20:33 GMT
• Title: Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization with Bidirectional Semantic Consistency Constraint
• Authors: Guozhang Li, De Cheng, Xinpeng Ding, Nannan Wang, Jie Li, Xinbo Gao
• Abstract summary: Weakly Supervised Temporal Action localization (WTAL) aims to classify and localize temporal boundaries of actions for the video. We propose a simple yet efficient method, named bidirectional semantic consistency constraint (Bi- SCC) to discriminate the positive actions from co-scene actions. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on THUMOS14 and ActivityNet.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) aims to classify and localize temporal boundaries of actions for the video, given only video-level category labels in the training datasets. Due to the lack of boundary information during training, existing approaches formulate WTAL as a classificationproblem, i.e., generating the temporal class activation map (T-CAM) for localization. However, with only classification loss, the model would be sub-optimized, i.e., the action-related scenes are enough to distinguish different class labels. Regarding other actions in the action-related scene ( i.e., the scene same as positive actions) as co-scene actions, this sub-optimized model would misclassify the co-scene actions as positive actions. To address this misclassification, we propose a simple yet efficient method, named bidirectional semantic consistency constraint (Bi-SCC), to discriminate the positive actions from co-scene actions. The proposed Bi-SCC firstly adopts a temporal context augmentation to generate an augmented video that breaks the correlation between positive actions and their co-scene actions in the inter-video; Then, a semantic consistency constraint (SCC) is used to enforce the predictions of the original video and augmented video to be consistent, hence suppressing the co-scene actions. However, we find that this augmented video would destroy the original temporal context. Simply applying the consistency constraint would affect the completeness of localized positive actions. Hence, we boost the SCC in a bidirectional way to suppress co-scene actions while ensuring the integrity of positive actions, by cross-supervising the original and augmented videos. Finally, our proposed Bi-SCC can be applied to current WTAL approaches, and improve their performance. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on THUMOS14 and ActivityNet.

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