An End-to-end 3D Convolutional Neural Network for Action Detection and Segmentation in Videos

Rui Hou; Chen Chen; Mubarak Shah

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An End-to-end 3D Convolutional Neural Network for Action Detection and Segmentation in Videos

Rui Hou·Chen Chen·Mubarak Shah

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In this paper, we propose an end-to-end 3D CNN for action detection and segmentation in videos. The proposed architecture is a unified deep network that is able to recognize and localize action based on 3D convolution features. A video is first divided into equal length clips and next for each clip a set of tube proposals are generated based on 3D CNN features. Finally, the tube proposals of different clips are linked together and spatio-temporal action detection is performed using these linked video proposals. This top-down action detection approach explicitly relies on a set of good tube proposals to perform well and training the bounding box regression usually requires a large number of annotated samples. To remedy this, we further extend the 3D CNN to an encoder-decoder structure and formulate the localization problem as action segmentation. The foreground regions (i.e. action regions) for each frame are segmented first then the segmented foreground maps are used to generate the bounding boxes. This bottom-up approach effectively avoids tube proposal generation by leveraging the pixel-wise annotations of segmentation. The segmentation framework also can be readily applied to a general problem of video object segmentation. Extensive experiments on several video datasets demonstrate the superior performance of our approach for action detection and video object segmentation compared to the state-of-the-arts.

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Rui Hou, Chen Chen, Mubarak Shah. 2017-11-30. An End-to-end 3D Convolutional Neural Network for Action Detection and Segmentation in Videos. https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01111

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