English

GTM: Gray Temporal Model for Video Recognition

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021-10-22 v1

Abstract

Data input modality plays an important role in video action recognition. Normally, there are three types of input: RGB, flow stream and compressed data. In this paper, we proposed a new input modality: gray stream. Specifically, taken the stacked consecutive 3 gray images as input, which is the same size of RGB, can not only skip the conversion process from video decoding data to RGB, but also improve the spatio-temporal modeling ability at zero computation and zero parameters. Meanwhile, we proposed a 1D Identity Channel-wise Spatio-temporal Convolution(1D-ICSC) which captures the temporal relationship at channel-feature level within a controllable computation budget(by parameters G & R). Finally, we confirm its effectiveness and efficiency on several action recognition benchmarks, such as Kinetics, Something-Something, HMDB-51 and UCF-101, and achieve impressive results.

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@article{arxiv.2110.10348,
  title  = {GTM: Gray Temporal Model for Video Recognition},
  author = {Yanping Zhang and Yongxin Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.10348},
  year   = {2021}
}
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