SlowFast Networks for Video Recognition

Christoph Feichtenhofer, Haoqi Fan, Jitendra Malik, Kaiming He; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019, pp. 6202-6211

Abstract


We present SlowFast networks for video recognition. Our model involves (i) a Slow pathway, operating at low frame rate, to capture spatial semantics, and (ii) a Fast pathway, operating at high frame rate, to capture motion at fine temporal resolution. The Fast pathway can be made very lightweight by reducing its channel capacity, yet can learn useful temporal information for video recognition. Our models achieve strong performance for both action classification and detection in video, and large improvements are pin-pointed as contributions by our SlowFast concept. We report state-of-the-art accuracy on major video recognition benchmarks, Kinetics, Charades and AVA. Code has been made available at: https://github.com/facebookresearch/SlowFast.

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@InProceedings{Feichtenhofer_2019_ICCV,
author = {Feichtenhofer, Christoph and Fan, Haoqi and Malik, Jitendra and He, Kaiming},
title = {SlowFast Networks for Video Recognition},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
month = {October},
year = {2019}
}