Task Graph Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Procedural Activity Understanding in Egocentric Videos

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Main Authors: Seminara, Luigi, Farinella, Giovanni Maria, Furnari, Antonino
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author Seminara, Luigi
Farinella, Giovanni Maria
Furnari, Antonino
author_facet Seminara, Luigi
Farinella, Giovanni Maria
Furnari, Antonino
contents We introduce a gradient-based approach for learning task graphs from procedural activities, improving over hand-crafted methods. Our method directly optimizes edge weights via maximum likelihood, enabling integration into neural architectures. We validate our approach on CaptainCook4D, EgoPER, and EgoProceL, achieving +14.5%, +10.2%, and +13.6% F1-score improvements. Our feature-based approach for predicting task graphs from textual/video embeddings demonstrates emerging video understanding abilities. We also achieved top performance on the procedure understanding benchmark on Ego-Exo4D and significantly improved online mistake detection (+19.8% on Assembly101-O, +6.4% on EPIC-Tent-O). Code: https://github.com/fpv-iplab/Differentiable-Task-Graph-Learning.
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spellingShingle Task Graph Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Procedural Activity Understanding in Egocentric Videos
Seminara, Luigi
Farinella, Giovanni Maria
Furnari, Antonino
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We introduce a gradient-based approach for learning task graphs from procedural activities, improving over hand-crafted methods. Our method directly optimizes edge weights via maximum likelihood, enabling integration into neural architectures. We validate our approach on CaptainCook4D, EgoPER, and EgoProceL, achieving +14.5%, +10.2%, and +13.6% F1-score improvements. Our feature-based approach for predicting task graphs from textual/video embeddings demonstrates emerging video understanding abilities. We also achieved top performance on the procedure understanding benchmark on Ego-Exo4D and significantly improved online mistake detection (+19.8% on Assembly101-O, +6.4% on EPIC-Tent-O). Code: https://github.com/fpv-iplab/Differentiable-Task-Graph-Learning.
title Task Graph Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Procedural Activity Understanding in Egocentric Videos
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17753