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Poster

Text-Infused Attention and Foreground-Aware Modeling for Zero-Shot Temporal Action Detection

Yearang Lee · Ho-Joong Kim · Seong-Whan Lee

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Thu 12 Dec 4:30 p.m. PST — 7:30 p.m. PST

Abstract:

Zero-Shot Temporal Action Detection (ZSTAD) aims to classify and localize action segments in untrimmed videos for unseen action categories. Most existing ZSTAD methods utilize a foreground-based approach, limiting the integration of text and visual features due to their reliance on pre-extracted proposals. In this paper, we introduce a cross-modal ZSTAD baseline with mutual cross-attention, integrating both text and visual information throughout the detection process. Our simple approach results in superior performance compared to previous methods. Despite this improvement, we further identify a common action bias issue that the cross-modal baseline over-focus on common sub-actions due to a lack of ability to discriminate text-related visual parts. To address this issue, we propose Text-infused attention and Foreground-aware Action Detection (Ti-FAD), which enhances the ability to focus on text-related sub-actions and distinguish relevant action segments from the background. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that Ti-FAD outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on the popular ZSTAD benchmarks by a large margin: 41.2\% (+ 11.0\%) on THUMOS14 and 32.0\% (+ 5.4\%) on ActivityNet v1.3.

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