Action-slot: Visual Action-centric Representations for Multi-label Atomic Activity Recognition in Traffic Scenes

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Main Authors: Kung, Chi-Hsi, Lu, Shu-Wei, Tsai, Yi-Hsuan, Chen, Yi-Ting
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author Kung, Chi-Hsi
Lu, Shu-Wei
Tsai, Yi-Hsuan
Chen, Yi-Ting
author_facet Kung, Chi-Hsi
Lu, Shu-Wei
Tsai, Yi-Hsuan
Chen, Yi-Ting
contents In this paper, we study multi-label atomic activity recognition. Despite the notable progress in action recognition, it is still challenging to recognize atomic activities due to a deficiency in a holistic understanding of both multiple road users' motions and their contextual information. In this paper, we introduce Action-slot, a slot attention-based approach that learns visual action-centric representations, capturing both motion and contextual information. Our key idea is to design action slots that are capable of paying attention to regions where atomic activities occur, without the need for explicit perception guidance. To further enhance slot attention, we introduce a background slot that competes with action slots, aiding the training process in avoiding unnecessary focus on background regions devoid of activities. Yet, the imbalanced class distribution in the existing dataset hampers the assessment of rare activities. To address the limitation, we collect a synthetic dataset called TACO, which is four times larger than OATS and features a balanced distribution of atomic activities. To validate the effectiveness of our method, we conduct comprehensive experiments and ablation studies against various action recognition baselines. We also show that the performance of multi-label atomic activity recognition on real-world datasets can be improved by pretraining representations on TACO. We will release our source code and dataset. See the videos of visualization on the project page: https://hcis-lab.github.io/Action-slot/
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spellingShingle Action-slot: Visual Action-centric Representations for Multi-label Atomic Activity Recognition in Traffic Scenes
Kung, Chi-Hsi
Lu, Shu-Wei
Tsai, Yi-Hsuan
Chen, Yi-Ting
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
In this paper, we study multi-label atomic activity recognition. Despite the notable progress in action recognition, it is still challenging to recognize atomic activities due to a deficiency in a holistic understanding of both multiple road users' motions and their contextual information. In this paper, we introduce Action-slot, a slot attention-based approach that learns visual action-centric representations, capturing both motion and contextual information. Our key idea is to design action slots that are capable of paying attention to regions where atomic activities occur, without the need for explicit perception guidance. To further enhance slot attention, we introduce a background slot that competes with action slots, aiding the training process in avoiding unnecessary focus on background regions devoid of activities. Yet, the imbalanced class distribution in the existing dataset hampers the assessment of rare activities. To address the limitation, we collect a synthetic dataset called TACO, which is four times larger than OATS and features a balanced distribution of atomic activities. To validate the effectiveness of our method, we conduct comprehensive experiments and ablation studies against various action recognition baselines. We also show that the performance of multi-label atomic activity recognition on real-world datasets can be improved by pretraining representations on TACO. We will release our source code and dataset. See the videos of visualization on the project page: https://hcis-lab.github.io/Action-slot/
title Action-slot: Visual Action-centric Representations for Multi-label Atomic Activity Recognition in Traffic Scenes
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17948