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Multi-scale Motion-Aware Module for Video Action Recognition

19 Feb 2023ECCV Workshops 2023 2archive 2025-07-28

Huai-Wei Peng, Yu-Chee Tseng

Due to the lengthy computing time for optical flow, recent works have proposed to use the correlation operation as an alternative approach to extracting motion features. Although using correlation operations shows significant improvement with negligible FLOPs, it introduces much more latency per FLOP than convolution operations and increases noticeable latency as a larger searching patch is applied. Nonetheless, shrinking the searching patch in correlation operation is doomed to degrade its performance owing to the inability to capture larger displacements. In this paper, we propose an effective and low-latency Multi-Scale Motion-Aware (MSMA) module. It uses smaller searching patches at different scales for efficiently extracting motion features from large displacements. It can be installed into and generalizes well on different CNN backbones. When installed into TSM ResNet-50, the MSMA module introduces ≈ 17.6% more latency on NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU, yet, it achieves state-of-the-art performance on SomethingSomething V1 & V2 and Diving-48.

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Action RecognitionOptical Flow EstimationTemporal Action Localization

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Action Recognition Something-Something V1 MSMA (8+16frames) Top 1 Accuracy 57.9 #12 of 74 Archive leaderboard report
Action Recognition Something-Something V2 MSMA (8+16frames) Top-1 Accuracy 68.2 #53 of 123 Archive leaderboard report

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Convolution

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