Temporal localization of actions with actoms

We address the problem of localizing actions, such as opening a door, in hours of challenging video data. We propose a model based on a sequence of atomic action units, termed "actoms," that are semantically meaningful and characteristic for the action. Our actom sequence model (ASM) repre...

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Publié dans:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - 35(2013), 11 vom: 28. Nov., Seite 2782-95
Auteur principal: Gaidon, Adrien (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Harchaoui, Zaid, Schmid, Cordelia
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2013
Accès à la collection:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Sujets:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Résumé:We address the problem of localizing actions, such as opening a door, in hours of challenging video data. We propose a model based on a sequence of atomic action units, termed "actoms," that are semantically meaningful and characteristic for the action. Our actom sequence model (ASM) represents an action as a sequence of histograms of actom-anchored visual features, which can be seen as a temporally structured extension of the bag-of-features. Training requires the annotation of actoms for action examples. At test time, actoms are localized automatically based on a nonparametric model of the distribution of actoms, which also acts as a prior on an action's temporal structure. We present experimental results on two recent benchmarks for action localization "Coffee and Cigarettes" and the "DLSBP" dataset. We also adapt our approach to a classification-by-localization set-up and demonstrate its applicability on the challenging "Hollywood 2" dataset. We show that our ASM method outperforms the current state of the art in temporal action localization, as well as baselines that localize actions with a sliding window method
Description:Date Completed 14.04.2014
Date Revised 20.09.2013
published: Print
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1939-3539
DOI:10.1109/TPAMI.2013.65