MC Leong, H Zhang, HL Tan, L Li, JH Lim. (2022) Combined CNN Transformer Encoder for Enhanced Fine-grained Human Action Recognition. The Ninth Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization.
Abstract:
Fine-grained action recognition is a challenging task
in computer vision. As fine-grained datasets have small
inter-class variations in spatial and temporal space, finegrained action recognition model requires good temporal
reasoning and discrimination of attribute action semantics.
Leveraging on CNN’s ability in capturing high level spatialtemporal feature representations and Transformer’s modeling efficiency in capturing latent semantics and global dependencies, we investigate two frameworks that combine
CNN vision backbone and Transformer Encoder to enhance
fine-grained action recognition: 1) a vision-based encoder
to learn latent temporal semantics, and 2) a multi-modal
video-text cross encoder to exploit additional text input
and learn cross association between visual and text semantics. Our experimental results show that both our Transformer encoder frameworks effectively learn latent temporal semantics and cross-modality association, with improved recognition performance over CNN vision model.
We achieve new state-of-the-art performance on the FineGym benchmark dataset for both proposed architectures.
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Funding Info:
This research / project is supported by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) - AME Programmatic Funding Scheme
Grant Reference no. : A18A2b0046