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Cross-modal Representation Learning for Zero-shot Action Recognition

3 May 2022CVPR 2022 1arXiv:2205.01657archive 2025-07-28

Chung-Ching Lin, Kevin Lin, Linjie Li, Lijuan Wang, Zicheng Liu

We present a cross-modal Transformer-based framework, which jointly encodes video data and text labels for zero-shot action recognition (ZSAR). Our model employs a conceptually new pipeline by which visual representations are learned in conjunction with visual-semantic associations in an end-to-end manner. The model design provides a natural mechanism for visual and semantic representations to be learned in a shared knowledge space, whereby it encourages the learned visual embedding to be discriminative and more semantically consistent. In zero-shot inference, we devise a simple semantic transfer scheme that embeds semantic relatedness information between seen and unseen classes to composite unseen visual prototypes. Accordingly, the discriminative features in the visual structure could be preserved and exploited to alleviate the typical zero-shot issues of information loss, semantic gap, and the hubness problem. Under a rigorous zero-shot setting of not pre-training on additional datasets, the experiment results show our model considerably improves upon the state of the arts in ZSAR, reaching encouraging top-1 accuracy on UCF101, HMDB51, and ActivityNet benchmark datasets. Code will be made available.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Zero-Shot Action Recognition ActivityNet ResT Top-1 Accuracy 32.5 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Action Recognition HMDB51 ResT Top-1 Accuracy 41.1 #15 of 29 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Action Recognition UCF101 ResT Top-1 Accuracy 58.7 #16 of 35 Archive leaderboard report

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