Abstract
Recognizing actions in videos is not a trivial task because video is an information-intensive media and includes multiple modalities. Moreover, on each modality, an action may only appear at some spatial regions, or only part of the temporal video segments may contain the action. A valid question is how to locate the attended spatial areas and selective video segments for action recognition. In this paper, we devise a general attention neural cell, called AttCell , that estimates the attention probability not only at each spatial location but also for each video segment in a temporal sequence. With AttCell , a unified Spatio-Temporal Attention Networks (STAN) is proposed in the context of multiple modalities. Specifically, STAN extracts the feature map of one convolutional layer as the local descriptors on each modality and pools the extracted descriptors with the spatial attention measured by AttCell as a representation of each segment. Then, we concatenate the representation on each modality to seek a consensus on the temporal attention, a priori , to holistically fuse the combined representation of video segments to the video representation for recognition. Our model differs from conventional deep networks, which focus on the attention mechanism, because our temporal attention provides a principled and global guidance across different modalities and video segments. Extensive experiments are conducted on four public datasets; UCF101, CCV, THUMOS14, and Sports-1M; our STAN consistently achieves superior results over several state-of-the-art techniques. More remarkably, we validate and demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposal when capitalizing on the different number of modalities.
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