Progressive Teacher-Student Learning for Early Action Prediction

Xionghui Wang, Jian-Fang Hu, Jian-Huang Lai, Jianguo Zhang, Wei-Shi Zheng; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019, pp. 3556-3565

Abstract


The goal of early action prediction is to recognize actions from partially observed videos with incomplete action executions, which is quite different from action recognition. Predicting early actions is very challenging since the partially observed videos do not contain enough action information for recognition. In this paper, we aim at improving early action prediction by proposing a novel teacher-student learning framework. Our framework involves a teacher model for recognizing actions from full videos, a student model for predicting early actions from partial videos, and a teacher-student learning block for distilling progressive knowledge from teacher to student, crossing different tasks. Extensive experiments on three public action datasets show that the proposed progressive teacher-student learning framework can consistently improve performance of early action prediction model. We have also reported the state-of-the-art performances for early action prediction on all of these sets.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Wang_2019_CVPR,
author = {Wang, Xionghui and Hu, Jian-Fang and Lai, Jian-Huang and Zhang, Jianguo and Zheng, Wei-Shi},
title = {Progressive Teacher-Student Learning for Early Action Prediction},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2019}
}