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Fast Learning of Temporal Action Proposal via Dense Boundary Generator

11 Nov 2019arXiv:1911.04127archive 2025-07-28

Chuming Lin, Jian Li, Yabiao Wang, Ying Tai, Donghao Luo, Zhipeng Cui, Chengjie Wang, Jilin Li, Feiyue Huang, Rongrong Ji

Generating temporal action proposals remains a very challenging problem, where the main issue lies in predicting precise temporal proposal boundaries and reliable action confidence in long and untrimmed real-world videos. In this paper, we propose an efficient and unified framework to generate temporal action proposals named Dense Boundary Generator (DBG), which draws inspiration from boundary-sensitive methods and implements boundary classification and action completeness regression for densely distributed proposals. In particular, the DBG consists of two modules: Temporal boundary classification (TBC) and Action-aware completeness regression (ACR). The TBC aims to provide two temporal boundary confidence maps by low-level two-stream features, while the ACR is designed to generate an action completeness score map by high-level action-aware features. Moreover, we introduce a dual stream BaseNet (DSB) to encode RGB and optical flow information, which helps to capture discriminative boundary and actionness features. Extensive experiments on popular benchmarks ActivityNet-1.3 and THUMOS14 demonstrate the superiority of DBG over the state-of-the-art proposal generator (e.g., MGG and BMN). Our code will be made available upon publication.

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General ClassificationOptical Flow EstimationTemporal Action Localizationregression

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Temporal Action Localization FineAction DBG (i3d feature) mAP 6.75 #9 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Action Localization FineAction DBG (i3d feature) mAP IOU@0.5 10.65 #9 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Action Localization FineAction DBG (i3d feature) mAP IOU@0.75 6.43 #9 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Action Localization FineAction DBG (i3d feature) mAP IOU@0.95 2.50 #9 of 9 Archive leaderboard report

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