Summary of Actfusion: a Unified Diffusion Model For Action Segmentation and Anticipation, by Dayoung Gong et al.
ActFusion: a Unified Diffusion Model for Action Segmentation and Anticipation
by Dayoung Gong, Suha Kwak, Minsu Cho
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes ActFusion, a unified diffusion model that jointly tackles temporal action segmentation and long-term action anticipation. By training the model to handle visible and invisible parts of the sequence simultaneously, it effectively learns to segment actions and anticipate future ones. The key innovation is an anticipative masking strategy during training, where late frames are masked as invisible and learnable tokens replace them. This approach allows ActFusion to achieve state-of-the-art performance across benchmarks like 50 Salons, Breakfast, and GTEA, outperforming task-specific models in both tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper develops a new way to analyze videos by combining two important tasks: identifying actions and predicting what will happen next. It uses a single model that can do both jobs well. The model is trained using special tricks, like hiding parts of the video and replacing them with placeholder information. This helps the model learn to predict the future based on past actions. The results show that this approach works better than others for both tasks. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion model
