CAKE: Real-time Action Detection via Motion Distillation and Background-aware Contrastive Learning

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Auteurs principaux: Hoang, Hieu, Tran, Dung Trung, Nguyen, Hong, Nguyen, Nam-Phong
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author Hoang, Hieu
Tran, Dung Trung
Nguyen, Hong
Nguyen, Nam-Phong
author_facet Hoang, Hieu
Tran, Dung Trung
Nguyen, Hong
Nguyen, Nam-Phong
contents Online Action Detection (OAD) systems face two primary challenges: high computational cost and insufficient modeling of discriminative temporal dynamics against background motion. Adding optical flow could provides strong motion cues but it incurs significant computational overhead. We propose CAKE, a OAD Flow-based distillation framework to transfer motion knowledge into RGB models. We propose Dynamic Motion Adapter (DMA) to suppress static background noise and emphasize pixel changes, effectively approximating optical flow without explicit computation. The framework also integrates a Floating Contrastive Learning strategy to distinguish informative motion dynamics from temporal background. Various experiments conducted on the TVSeries, THUMOS'14, Kinetics-400 datasets show effectiveness of our model. CAKE achieves a standout mAP compared with SOTA while using the same backbone. Our model operates at over 72 FPS on a single CPU, making it highly suitable for resource-constrained systems.
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spellingShingle CAKE: Real-time Action Detection via Motion Distillation and Background-aware Contrastive Learning
Hoang, Hieu
Tran, Dung Trung
Nguyen, Hong
Nguyen, Nam-Phong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Online Action Detection (OAD) systems face two primary challenges: high computational cost and insufficient modeling of discriminative temporal dynamics against background motion. Adding optical flow could provides strong motion cues but it incurs significant computational overhead. We propose CAKE, a OAD Flow-based distillation framework to transfer motion knowledge into RGB models. We propose Dynamic Motion Adapter (DMA) to suppress static background noise and emphasize pixel changes, effectively approximating optical flow without explicit computation. The framework also integrates a Floating Contrastive Learning strategy to distinguish informative motion dynamics from temporal background. Various experiments conducted on the TVSeries, THUMOS'14, Kinetics-400 datasets show effectiveness of our model. CAKE achieves a standout mAP compared with SOTA while using the same backbone. Our model operates at over 72 FPS on a single CPU, making it highly suitable for resource-constrained systems.
title CAKE: Real-time Action Detection via Motion Distillation and Background-aware Contrastive Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23988