Spatio-Temporal Action Graph Networks

Roei Herzig, Elad Levi, Huijuan Xu, Hang Gao, Eli Brosh, Xiaolong Wang, Amir Globerson, Trevor Darrell; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019, pp. 0-0

Abstract


Events defined by the interaction of objects in a scene are often of critical importance; yet important events may have insufficient labeled examples to train a conventional deep model to generalize to future object appearance. Activity recognition models that represent object interactions explicitly have the potential to learn in a more efficient manner than those that represent scenes with global descriptors. We propose a novel inter-object graph representation for activity recognition based on a disentangled graph embedding with direct observation of edge appearance. In contrast to prior efforts, our approach uses explicit appearance for high order relations derived from object-object interaction, formed over regions that are the union of the spatial extent of the constituent objects. We employ a novel factored embedding of the graph structure, disentangling a representation hierarchy formed over spatial dimensions from that found over temporal variation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our model on the Charades activity recognition benchmark, as well as a new dataset of driving activities focusing on multi-object interactions with near-collision events. Our model offers significantly improved performance compared to baseline approaches without object-graph representations, or with previous graph-based models.

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@InProceedings{Herzig_2019_ICCV,
author = {Herzig, Roei and Levi, Elad and Xu, Huijuan and Gao, Hang and Brosh, Eli and Wang, Xiaolong and Globerson, Amir and Darrell, Trevor},
title = {Spatio-Temporal Action Graph Networks},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops},
month = {Oct},
year = {2019}
}