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Diffusion Action Segmentation

31 Mar 2023ICCV 2023 1arXiv:2303.17959archive 2025-07-28

Daochang Liu, Qiyue Li, AnhDung Dinh, Tingting Jiang, Mubarak Shah, Chang Xu

Temporal action segmentation is crucial for understanding long-form videos. Previous works on this task commonly adopt an iterative refinement paradigm by using multi-stage models. We propose a novel framework via denoising diffusion models, which nonetheless shares the same inherent spirit of such iterative refinement. In this framework, action predictions are iteratively generated from random noise with input video features as conditions. To enhance the modeling of three striking characteristics of human actions, including the position prior, the boundary ambiguity, and the relational dependency, we devise a unified masking strategy for the conditioning inputs in our framework. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets, i.e., GTEA, 50Salads, and Breakfast, are performed and the proposed method achieves superior or comparable results to state-of-the-art methods, showing the effectiveness of a generative approach for action segmentation.

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Action SegmentationDenoisingSegmentationTemporal Action Segmentation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Action Segmentation 50 Salads DiffAct Acc 88.9 #4 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Action Segmentation 50 Salads DiffAct Edit 85.0 #4 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Action Segmentation 50 Salads DiffAct F1@10% 90.1 #4 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Action Segmentation 50 Salads DiffAct F1@25% 89.2 #4 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Action Segmentation 50 Salads DiffAct F1@50% 83.7 #4 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Action Segmentation Breakfast DiffAct Acc 76.4 #5 of 37 Archive leaderboard report
Action Segmentation Breakfast DiffAct Average F1 73.6 #5 of 37 Archive leaderboard report
Action Segmentation Breakfast DiffAct Edit 78.4 #5 of 37 Archive leaderboard report
Action Segmentation Breakfast DiffAct F1@10% 80.3 #5 of 37 Archive leaderboard report
Action Segmentation Breakfast DiffAct F1@25% 75.9 #5 of 37 Archive leaderboard report
Action Segmentation Breakfast DiffAct F1@50% 64.6 #5 of 37 Archive leaderboard report
Action Segmentation GTEA DiffAct Acc 82.2 #3 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Action Segmentation GTEA DiffAct Edit 89.6 #3 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Action Segmentation GTEA DiffAct F1@10% 92.5 #3 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Action Segmentation GTEA DiffAct F1@25% 91.5 #3 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Action Segmentation GTEA DiffAct F1@50% 84.7 #3 of 28 Archive leaderboard report

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