Action Recognition using Visual Attention


Shikhar Sharma, Ryan Kiros, Ruslan Salakhutdinov


Abstract

We propose a soft attention based model for the task of action recognition in videos. We use multi-layered Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) units which are deep both spatially and temporally. Our model learns to focus selectively on parts of the video frames and classifies videos after taking a few glimpses. The model essentially learns which parts in the frames are relevant for the task at hand and attaches higher importance to them. We evaluate the model on UCF-11 (YouTube Action), HMDB-51 and Hollywood2 datasets and analyze how the model focuses its attention depending on the scene and the action being performed.

BibTeX

                        @inproceedings{sharma2016actrecICLR,
  title     = {Action Recognition using Visual Attention},
  author    = {Sharma, Shikhar and
               Kiros, Ryan and
               Salakhutdinov, Ruslan},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop},
  month     = {May},
  year      = {2016},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04119}
}

                    

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