Temporal Recurrent Networks for Online Action Detection

Abstract

Most work on temporal action detection is formulated as an offline problem, in which the start and end times of actions are determined after the entire video is fully observed. However, important real-time applications including surveillance and driver assistance systems require identifying actions as soon as each video frame arrives, based only on current and historical observations. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, the Temporal Recurrent Network (TRN), to model greater temporal context of each frame by simultaneously performing online action detection and anticipation of the immediate future. At each moment in time, our approach makes use of both accumulated historical evidence and predicted future information to better recognize the action that is currently occurring, and integrates both of these into a unified end-to-end architecture. We evaluate our approach on two popular online action detection datasets, HDD and TVSeries, as well as another widely used dataset, THUMOS14. The results show that TRN significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 27, 2019
Accession Number
AD1153049

Entities

People

  • David J. Crandall
  • Larry S. Davis
  • Mingfei Gao
  • Mingze Xu
  • Yi-ting Chen

Organizations

  • Indiana University
  • University of Maryland

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  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

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  • Anomaly Detection
  • Brain
  • Causal Reasoning
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Flow
  • Image Recognition
  • Images
  • Neural Networks
  • Neurosciences
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Reasoning
  • Recognition
  • Video
  • Video Frames

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  • Computer science

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  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
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