Graph Convolutional Networks for Temporal Action Localization

Runhao Zeng, Wenbing Huang, Mingkui Tan, Yu Rong, Peilin Zhao, Junzhou Huang, Chuang Gan; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019, pp. 7094-7103

Abstract


Most state-of-the-art action localization systems process each action proposal individually, without explicitly exploiting their relations during learning. However, the relations between proposals actually play an important role in action localization, since a meaningful action always consists of multiple proposals in a video. In this paper, we propose to exploit the proposal-proposal relations using GraphConvolutional Networks (GCNs). First, we construct an action proposal graph, where each proposal is represented as a node and their relations between two proposals as an edge. Here, we use two types of relations, one for capturing the context information for each proposal and the other one for characterizing the correlations between distinct actions. Then we apply the GCNs over the graph to model the relations among different proposals and learn powerful representations for the action classification and localization. Experimental results show that our approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art on THUMOS14(49.1% versus 42.8%). Moreover, augmentation experiments on ActivityNet also verify the efficacy of modeling action proposal relationships.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Zeng_2019_ICCV,
author = {Zeng, Runhao and Huang, Wenbing and Tan, Mingkui and Rong, Yu and Zhao, Peilin and Huang, Junzhou and Gan, Chuang},
title = {Graph Convolutional Networks for Temporal Action Localization},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
month = {October},
year = {2019}
}