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Appearance-and-Relation Networks for Video Classification

24 Nov 2017CVPR 2018 6arXiv:1711.09125archive 2025-07-28

Limin Wang, Wei Li, Wen Li, Luc van Gool

Spatiotemporal feature learning in videos is a fundamental problem in computer vision. This paper presents a new architecture, termed as Appearance-and-Relation Network (ARTNet), to learn video representation in an end-to-end manner. ARTNets are constructed by stacking multiple generic building blocks, called as SMART, whose goal is to simultaneously model appearance and relation from RGB input in a separate and explicit manner. Specifically, SMART blocks decouple the spatiotemporal learning module into an appearance branch for spatial modeling and a relation branch for temporal modeling. The appearance branch is implemented based on the linear combination of pixels or filter responses in each frame, while the relation branch is designed based on the multiplicative interactions between pixels or filter responses across multiple frames. We perform experiments on three action recognition benchmarks: Kinetics, UCF101, and HMDB51, demonstrating that SMART blocks obtain an evident improvement over 3D convolutions for spatiotemporal feature learning. Under the same training setting, ARTNets achieve superior performance on these three datasets to the existing state-of-the-art methods.

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Action ClassificationAction RecognitionClassificationGeneral ClassificationRelation NetworkTemporal Action LocalizationVideo Classification

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Action Classification Kinetics-400 ARTNet Acc@1 72.4 #173 of 207 Archive leaderboard report
Action Classification Kinetics-400 ARTNet Acc@5 90.4 #173 of 207 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition HMDB-51 ARTNet w/ TSN Average accuracy of 3 splits 70.9 #53 of 77 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition UCF101 ARTNet w/ TSN 3-fold Accuracy 94.3 #55 of 91 Archive leaderboard report

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