{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/multi-agent-reinforcement-learning-based","title":"Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Based Frame Sampling for Effective Untrimmed Video Recognition","arxiv_id":"1907.13369","date":"2019-07-31","proceeding":"ICCV 2019 10","authors":["Wenhao Wu","Dongliang He","Xiao Tan","Shifeng Chen","Shilei Wen"],"abstract":"Video Recognition has drawn great research interest and great progress has been made. A suitable frame sampling strategy can improve the accuracy and efficiency of recognition. However, mainstream solutions generally adopt hand-crafted frame sampling strategies for recognition. It could degrade the performance, especially in untrimmed videos, due to the variation of frame-level saliency. To this end, we concentrate on improving untrimmed video classification via developing a learning-based frame sampling strategy. We intuitively formulate the frame sampling procedure as multiple parallel Markov decision processes, each of which aims at picking out a frame/clip by gradually adjusting an initial sampling. Then we propose to solve the problems with multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Our MARL framework is composed of a novel RNN-based context-aware observation network which jointly models context information among nearby agents and historical states of a specific agent, a policy network which generates the probability distribution over a predefined action space at each step and a classification network for reward calculation as well as final recognition. Extensive experimental results show that our MARL-based scheme remarkably outperforms hand-crafted strategies with various 2D and 3D baseline methods. Our single RGB model achieves a comparable performance of ActivityNet v1.3 champion submission with multi-modal multi-model fusion and new state-of-the-art results on YouTube Birds and YouTube Cars.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.13369v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.13369v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"action-recognition-in-videos","task_name":"Action Recognition"},{"task_slug":"classification","task_name":"General Classification"},{"task_slug":"multi-agent-reinforcement-learning","task_name":"Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning"},{"task_slug":"reinforcement-learning","task_name":"Reinforcement Learning"},{"task_slug":"reinforcement-learning-1","task_name":"Reinforcement Learning (RL)"},{"task_slug":"video-classification","task_name":"Video Classification"},{"task_slug":"video-recognition","task_name":"Video Recognition"},{"task_slug":"reinforcement-learning-2","task_name":"reinforcement-learning"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/action-recognition-in-videos-on-activitynet","task":"Action Recognition","dataset":"ActivityNet","model":"MARL (w/ SEResNeXt-152)","rank_in_archive_order":7,"of":16,"metrics":{"mAP":"90.05"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1907.13369","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}