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TFCNet: Temporal Fully Connected Networks for Static Unbiased Temporal Reasoning
Shiwen Zhang
Temporal Reasoning is one important functionality for vision intelligence. In computer vision research community, temporal reasoning is usually studied in the form of video classification, for which many state-of-the-art Neural Network structures and dataset benchmarks are proposed in recent years, especially 3D CNNs and Kinetics. However, some recent works found that current video classification benchmarks contain strong biases towards static features, thus cannot accurately reflect the temporal modeling ability. New video classification benchmarks aiming to eliminate static biases are proposed, with experiments on these new benchmarks showing that the current clip-based 3D CNNs are outperformed by RNN structures and recent video transformers. In this paper, we find that 3D CNNs and their efficient depthwise variants, when video-level sampling strategy is used, are actually able to beat RNNs and recent vision transformers by significant margins on static-unbiased temporal reasoning benchmarks. Further, we propose Temporal Fully Connected Block (TFC Block), an efficient and effective component, which approximates fully connected layers along temporal dimension to obtain video-level receptive field, enhancing the spatiotemporal reasoning ability. With TFC blocks inserted into Video-level 3D CNNs (V3D), our proposed TFCNets establish new state-of-the-art results on synthetic temporal reasoning benchmark, CATER, and real world static-unbiased dataset, Diving48, surpassing all previous methods.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action Recognition | Diving-48 | TFCNet | Accuracy | 88.3 | #5 of 18 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Video Object Tracking | CATER | TFCNet | L1 | 0.47 | #2 of 7 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Video Object Tracking | CATER | TFCNet | Top 1 Accuracy | 79.7 | #2 of 7 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Video Object Tracking | CATER | TFCNet | Top 5 Accuracy | 95.5 | #2 of 7 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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