Introducing Gating and Context into Temporal Action Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04205v1
• Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 11:52:42 GMT
• Title: Introducing Gating and Context into Temporal Action Detection
• Authors: Aglind Reka, Diana Laura Borza, Dominick Reilly, Michal Balazia, Francois Bremond,
• Abstract summary: Temporal Action Detection (TAD) remains challenging due to action overlaps and variable action durations. Recent findings suggest that TAD performance is dependent on the structural design of transformers rather than on the self-attention mechanism. We propose a refined feature extraction process through lightweight, yet effective operations.
• Score: 0.8987776881291144
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Temporal Action Detection (TAD), the task of localizing and classifying actions in untrimmed video, remains challenging due to action overlaps and variable action durations. Recent findings suggest that TAD performance is dependent on the structural design of transformers rather than on the self-attention mechanism. Building on this insight, we propose a refined feature extraction process through lightweight, yet effective operations. First, we employ a local branch that employs parallel convolutions with varying window sizes to capture both fine-grained and coarse-grained temporal features. This branch incorporates a gating mechanism to select the most relevant features. Second, we introduce a context branch that uses boundary frames as key-value pairs to analyze their relationship with the central frame through cross-attention. The proposed method captures temporal dependencies and improves contextual understanding. Evaluations of the gating mechanism and context branch on challenging datasets (THUMOS14 and EPIC-KITCHEN 100) show a consistent improvement over the baseline and existing methods.

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