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OadTR: Online Action Detection with Transformers

21 Jun 2021ICCV 2021 10arXiv:2106.11149archive 2025-07-28

Xiang Wang, Shiwei Zhang, Zhiwu Qing, Yuanjie Shao, Zhengrong Zuo, Changxin Gao, Nong Sang

Most recent approaches for online action detection tend to apply Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to capture long-range temporal structure. However, RNN suffers from non-parallelism and gradient vanishing, hence it is hard to be optimized. In this paper, we propose a new encoder-decoder framework based on Transformers, named OadTR, to tackle these problems. The encoder attached with a task token aims to capture the relationships and global interactions between historical observations. The decoder extracts auxiliary information by aggregating anticipated future clip representations. Therefore, OadTR can recognize current actions by encoding historical information and predicting future context simultaneously. We extensively evaluate the proposed OadTR on three challenging datasets: HDD, TVSeries, and THUMOS14. The experimental results show that OadTR achieves higher training and inference speeds than current RNN based approaches, and significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of both mAP and mcAP. Code is available at https://github.com/wangxiang1230/OadTR.

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Action DetectionDecoderOnline Action Detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Online Action Detection THUMOS'14 OadTR mAP 65.2 #8 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Online Action Detection TVSeries OadTR mCAP 87.2 #10 of 13 Archive leaderboard report

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