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Centre Stage: Centricity-based Audio-Visual Temporal Action Detection

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023-11-29 v1

Abstract

Previous one-stage action detection approaches have modelled temporal dependencies using only the visual modality. In this paper, we explore different strategies to incorporate the audio modality, using multi-scale cross-attention to fuse the two modalities. We also demonstrate the correlation between the distance from the timestep to the action centre and the accuracy of the predicted boundaries. Thus, we propose a novel network head to estimate the closeness of timesteps to the action centre, which we call the centricity score. This leads to increased confidence for proposals that exhibit more precise boundaries. Our method can be integrated with other one-stage anchor-free architectures and we demonstrate this on three recent baselines on the EPIC-Kitchens-100 action detection benchmark where we achieve state-of-the-art performance. Detailed ablation studies showcase the benefits of fusing audio and our proposed centricity scores. Code and models for our proposed method are publicly available at https://github.com/hanielwang/Audio-Visual-TAD.git

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2311.16446,
  title  = {Centre Stage: Centricity-based Audio-Visual Temporal Action Detection},
  author = {Hanyuan Wang and Majid Mirmehdi and Dima Damen and Toby Perrett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.16446},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Accepted to VUA workshop at BMVC 2023

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