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VideoLSTM Convolves, Attends and Flows for Action Recognition

6 Jul 2016arXiv:1607.01794archive 2025-07-28

Zhenyang Li, Efstratios Gavves, Mihir Jain, Cees G. M. Snoek

We present a new architecture for end-to-end sequence learning of actions in video, we call VideoLSTM. Rather than adapting the video to the peculiarities of established recurrent or convolutional architectures, we adapt the architecture to fit the requirements of the video medium. Starting from the soft-Attention LSTM, VideoLSTM makes three novel contributions. First, video has a spatial layout. To exploit the spatial correlation we hardwire convolutions in the soft-Attention LSTM architecture. Second, motion not only informs us about the action content, but also guides better the attention towards the relevant spatio-temporal locations. We introduce motion-based attention. And finally, we demonstrate how the attention from VideoLSTM can be used for action localization by relying on just the action class label. Experiments and comparisons on challenging datasets for action classification and localization support our claims.

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Action ClassificationAction LocalizationAction RecognitionGeneral ClassificationTemporal Action Localization

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