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Weakly-Supervised Dense Action Anticipation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021-11-16 v1

Abstract

Dense anticipation aims to forecast future actions and their durations for long horizons. Existing approaches rely on fully-labelled data, i.e. sequences labelled with all future actions and their durations. We present a (semi-) weakly supervised method using only a small number of fully-labelled sequences and predominantly sequences in which only the (one) upcoming action is labelled. To this end, we propose a framework that generates pseudo-labels for future actions and their durations and adaptively refines them through a refinement module. Given only the upcoming action label as input, these pseudo-labels guide action/duration prediction for the future. We further design an attention mechanism to predict context-aware durations. Experiments on the Breakfast and 50Salads benchmarks verify our method's effectiveness; we are competitive even when compared to fully supervised state-of-the-art models. We will make our code available at: https://github.com/zhanghaotong1/WSLVideoDenseAnticipation.

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@article{arxiv.2111.07593,
  title  = {Weakly-Supervised Dense Action Anticipation},
  author = {Haotong Zhang and Fuhai Chen and Angela Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.07593},
  year   = {2021}
}

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BMVC 2021

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