On the Efficacy of Text-Based Input Modalities for Action Anticipation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12972v3
• Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:11:29 GMT
• Title: On the Efficacy of Text-Based Input Modalities for Action Anticipation
• Authors: Apoorva Beedu, Harish Haresamudram, Karan Samel, Irfan Essa,
• Abstract summary: We propose a video transformer architecture that learns from multi-modal features and text descriptions of actions and objects. We show that our model outperforms previous methods on the EpicKitchens datasets.
• Score: 15.567996062093089
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Anticipating future actions is a highly challenging task due to the diversity and scale of potential future actions; yet, information from different modalities help narrow down plausible action choices. Each modality can provide diverse and often complementary context for the model to learn from. While previous multi-modal methods leverage information from modalities such as video and audio, we primarily explore how text descriptions of actions and objects can also lead to more accurate action anticipation by providing additional contextual cues, e.g., about the environment and its contents. We propose a Multi-modal Contrastive Anticipative Transformer (M-CAT), a video transformer architecture that jointly learns from multi-modal features and text descriptions of actions and objects. We train our model in two stages, where the model first learns to align video clips with descriptions of future actions, and is subsequently fine-tuned to predict future actions. Compared to existing methods, M-CAT has the advantage of learning additional context from two types of text inputs: rich descriptions of future actions during pre-training, and, text descriptions for detected objects and actions during modality feature fusion. Through extensive experimental evaluation, we demonstrate that our model outperforms previous methods on the EpicKitchens datasets, and show that using simple text descriptions of actions and objects aid in more effective action anticipation. In addition, we examine the impact of object and action information obtained via text, and perform extensive ablations.

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