Cross-Modal Action Recognition in Egocentric Video Using Mamba: Integrating RGB and Hand Skeleton Streams via CLS Token Fusion Strategies

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Auteurs principaux: Gorostegui, Juan Ignacio Bustos, Buemi, Maria Elena
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author Gorostegui, Juan Ignacio Bustos
Buemi, Maria Elena
author_facet Gorostegui, Juan Ignacio Bustos
Buemi, Maria Elena
contents Egocentric action recognition is a challenging task due to erratic camera motion, frequent hand occlusion, and the difficulty of maintaining consistent visual representations over time. In this work, we propose a cross-modal architecture that combines RGB video and temporal hand skeleton data within a unified Mamba-based framework, exploiting the linear time complexity of State Space Models (SSMs). Our architecture consists of three components: a VideoMamba module for visual feature extraction, a skeleton encoder built on a stack of Mamba blocks, and a fusion module that integrates both modalities into a single representation. A central contribution of this work is the design and evaluation of four Class (CLS) token mixing strategies for multimodal fusion: Naive, Average, Weighted and Context-based. These strategies differ in how the pretrained unimodal CLS tokens, which role is to act as information sinks concentrating learned representations, are leveraged to initialize the mixed CLS token used for final classification. We evaluate all strategies on the H2O dataset. Experimental results show that the Average strategy achieves the best performance, yielding gains of over 10% Top-1 accuracy in the Tiny configuration and 2% in the Small configuration over the VideoMamba baseline.
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spellingShingle Cross-Modal Action Recognition in Egocentric Video Using Mamba: Integrating RGB and Hand Skeleton Streams via CLS Token Fusion Strategies
Gorostegui, Juan Ignacio Bustos
Buemi, Maria Elena
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Egocentric action recognition is a challenging task due to erratic camera motion, frequent hand occlusion, and the difficulty of maintaining consistent visual representations over time. In this work, we propose a cross-modal architecture that combines RGB video and temporal hand skeleton data within a unified Mamba-based framework, exploiting the linear time complexity of State Space Models (SSMs). Our architecture consists of three components: a VideoMamba module for visual feature extraction, a skeleton encoder built on a stack of Mamba blocks, and a fusion module that integrates both modalities into a single representation. A central contribution of this work is the design and evaluation of four Class (CLS) token mixing strategies for multimodal fusion: Naive, Average, Weighted and Context-based. These strategies differ in how the pretrained unimodal CLS tokens, which role is to act as information sinks concentrating learned representations, are leveraged to initialize the mixed CLS token used for final classification. We evaluate all strategies on the H2O dataset. Experimental results show that the Average strategy achieves the best performance, yielding gains of over 10% Top-1 accuracy in the Tiny configuration and 2% in the Small configuration over the VideoMamba baseline.
title Cross-Modal Action Recognition in Egocentric Video Using Mamba: Integrating RGB and Hand Skeleton Streams via CLS Token Fusion Strategies
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24302