Summary of Soap: Enhancing Spatio-temporal Relation and Motion Information Capturing For Few-shot Action Recognition, by Wenbo Huang et al.
SOAP: Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Relation and Motion Information Capturing for Few-Shot Action Recognition
by Wenbo Huang, Jinghui Zhang, Xuwei Qian, Zhen Wu, Meng Wang, Lei Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Spatio-tempOral frAme tuPle enhancer (SOAP) architecture, named SOAP-Net, revolutionizes the field of few-shot action recognition (FSAR). By incorporating temporal connections between feature channels and considering spatio-temporal relations within samples, SOAP-Net effectively captures comprehensive motion information. This novel approach surpasses existing FSAR methods on well-known benchmarks like SthSthV2, Kinetics, UCF101, and HMDB51, achieving state-of-the-art performance. Furthermore, SOAP-Net demonstrates competitiveness, pluggability, generalization, and robustness in extensive empirical evaluations. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Spatio-temporal video analysis is crucial for action recognition. Traditionally, this requires large amounts of video data, which can be limited in real-world scenarios. To address this challenge, researchers have developed few-shot action recognition (FSAR) methods that learn from a small number of examples. A key limitation of existing FSAR approaches is their reliance on simple feature extraction and temporal alignment, which neglects the importance of spatio-temporal relations within video samples. This paper proposes a novel architecture called Spatio-tempOral frAme tuPle enhancer (SOAP), or SOAP-Net for short. By incorporating temporal connections between feature channels and considering spatio-temporal relations within samples, SOAP-Net can effectively capture comprehensive motion information. This innovation leads to state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Feature extraction » Few shot » Generalization
