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Effective Action Detection Using Temporal Context and Posterior Probability of Length

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In this paper, we focus on human action detection for untrim-med long videos. We propose an effective action detection system aiming at solving two difficulties in existing works. Firstly, we propose to take into account the temporal context information in model learning to tackle with the problem of high-quality proposal generation. Secondly, we propose to utilize the posterior probability of proposal length to adjust the selection criterion of action proposals. This can effectively encourage the proposals with reasonable lengths and suppress the high-classification-score proposals with unreasonable lengths. We test our method on the THUMOS14 Dataset and the experiment results show that our action detection system improve the performance by about 4% compared with the state-of-art methods.

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This work was supported in part by the 973 Program under Grant 2014CB347600; in part by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grants 61672285.

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Liu, X., Song, Y., Tang, J. (2018). Effective Action Detection Using Temporal Context and Posterior Probability of Length. In: Schoeffmann, K., et al. MultiMedia Modeling. MMM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10705. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73600-6_10

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