Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Localization using Multimodal Guidance

Fuente: arXiv
Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Gupta, Akshita, Arora, Aditya, Narayan, Sanath, Khan, Salman, Khan, Fahad Shahbaz, Taylor, Graham W.
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2024
Soggetti:
Accesso online:
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866917701512855552
author Gupta, Akshita
Arora, Aditya
Narayan, Sanath
Khan, Salman
Khan, Fahad Shahbaz
Taylor, Graham W.
author_facet Gupta, Akshita
Arora, Aditya
Narayan, Sanath
Khan, Salman
Khan, Fahad Shahbaz
Taylor, Graham W.
contents Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Localization (OVTAL) enables a model to recognize any desired action category in videos without the need to explicitly curate training data for all categories. However, this flexibility poses significant challenges, as the model must recognize not only the action categories seen during training but also novel categories specified at inference. Unlike standard temporal action localization, where training and test categories are predetermined, OVTAL requires understanding contextual cues that reveal the semantics of novel categories. To address these challenges, we introduce OVFormer, a novel open-vocabulary framework extending ActionFormer with three key contributions. First, we employ task-specific prompts as input to a large language model to obtain rich class-specific descriptions for action categories. Second, we introduce a cross-attention mechanism to learn the alignment between class representations and frame-level video features, facilitating the multimodal guided features. Third, we propose a two-stage training strategy which includes training with a larger vocabulary dataset and finetuning to downstream data to generalize to novel categories. OVFormer extends existing TAL methods to open-vocabulary settings. Comprehensive evaluations on the THUMOS14 and ActivityNet-1.3 benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. Code and pretrained models will be publicly released.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2406_15556
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Localization using Multimodal Guidance
Gupta, Akshita
Arora, Aditya
Narayan, Sanath
Khan, Salman
Khan, Fahad Shahbaz
Taylor, Graham W.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Localization (OVTAL) enables a model to recognize any desired action category in videos without the need to explicitly curate training data for all categories. However, this flexibility poses significant challenges, as the model must recognize not only the action categories seen during training but also novel categories specified at inference. Unlike standard temporal action localization, where training and test categories are predetermined, OVTAL requires understanding contextual cues that reveal the semantics of novel categories. To address these challenges, we introduce OVFormer, a novel open-vocabulary framework extending ActionFormer with three key contributions. First, we employ task-specific prompts as input to a large language model to obtain rich class-specific descriptions for action categories. Second, we introduce a cross-attention mechanism to learn the alignment between class representations and frame-level video features, facilitating the multimodal guided features. Third, we propose a two-stage training strategy which includes training with a larger vocabulary dataset and finetuning to downstream data to generalize to novel categories. OVFormer extends existing TAL methods to open-vocabulary settings. Comprehensive evaluations on the THUMOS14 and ActivityNet-1.3 benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. Code and pretrained models will be publicly released.
title Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Localization using Multimodal Guidance
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15556