Weakly Supervised Action Localization by Sparse Temporal Pooling Network
Weakly Supervised Action Localization by Sparse Temporal Pooling Network
Phuc Nguyen* Ting Liu* Gautam Prasad Bohyung Han

Abstract
We propose a weakly supervised temporal action localization algorithm on untrimmed videos using convolutional neural networks. Our algorithm learns from video-level class labels and predicts temporal intervals of human actions with no requirement of temporal localization annotations. We design our network to identify a sparse subset of key segments associated with target actions in a video using an attention module and fuse the key segments through adaptive temporal pooling. Our loss function is comprised of two terms that minimize the video-level action classification error and enforce the sparsity of the segment selection. At inference time, we extract and score temporal proposals using temporal class activations and class-agnostic attentions to estimate the time intervals that correspond to target actions. The proposed algorithm attains state-of-the-art results on the THUMOS14 dataset and outstanding performance on ActivityNet1.3 even with its weak supervision.
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| Benchmark | Methodology | Metrics |
|---|---|---|
| weakly-supervised-action-localization-on | STPN | [email protected]:0.7: 27.0 [email protected]: 16.9 |
| weakly-supervised-action-localization-on-1 | STPN | [email protected]: 29.3 |
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