Action detection with two-stream enhanced detector

• Published in: The Visual computer Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 1193 - 1204
• Main Authors: Zhang, Min, Hu, Haiyang, Li, Zhongjin, Chen, Jie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.03.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Accuracy; Artificial Intelligence; Classification; Computer Graphics; Computer Science; Efficiency; Feature maps; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Localization; Motion detectors; Neural networks; Optical flow (image analysis); Original Article; Proposals; Tubes; Video; Action detection; Anchor cuboid; Spatiotemporal localization; Object detection
• ISSN: 0178-2789; 1432-2315
• DOI: 10.1007/s00371-021-02397-8

Action understanding in videos is a challenging task that has attracted widespread attention in recent years. Most current methods localize bounding box of actors at frame level, and then track or link these detections to form action tubes across frames. These methods often focus on utilizing temporal context in videos while neglecting the importance of the detector itself. In this paper, we present a two-stream enhanced framework to deal with the problem of action detection. Specifically, we devise an appearance and motion detectors in two-stream manner to detect actions, which take k consecutive RGB frames and optical flow images as input respectively. To improve the feature presentation capabilities, anchor refinement sub-module with feature alignment is introduced into the two-stream architecture to generate flexible anchor cuboids. Meanwhile, hierarchical fusion strategy is utilized to concatenate intermediate feature maps for capturing fast moving subjects. Moreover, layer normalization with skip connection is adopted to reduce the internal co-variate shift between network layers, which makes the training process simple and effective. Compared to state-of-the-art methods, the proposed approach yields impressive performance gain on three prevailing datasets: UCF-Sports, UCF-101 and J-HMDB, which confirm the effectiveness of our enhanced detector for action detection.