C2F-TCN : A Framework for Semi- and Fully-Supervised Temporal Action Segmentation

Temporal action segmentation tags action labels for every frame in an input untrimmed video containing multiple actions in a sequence. For the task of temporal action segmentation, we propose an encoder-decoder style architecture named C2F-TCN featuring a "coarse-to-fine" ensemble of decoder outputs. The C2F-TCN framework is enhanced with a novel model agnostic temporal feature augmentation strategy formed by the computationally inexpensive strategy of the stochastic max-pooling of segments. It produces more accurate and well-calibrated supervised results on three benchmark action segmentation datasets. We show that the architecture is flexible for both supervised and representation learning. In line with this, we present a novel unsupervised way to learn frame-wise representation from C2F-TCN. Our unsupervised learning approach hinges on the clustering capabilities of the input features and the formation of multi-resolution features from the decoder's implicit structure. Further, we provide first semi-supervised temporal action segmentation results by merging representation learning with conventional supervised learning. Our semi-supervised learning scheme, called "Iterative-Contrastive-Classify (ICC)", progressively improves in performance with more labeled data. The ICC semi-supervised learning in C2F-TCN, with 40% labeled videos, performs similar to fully supervised counterparts.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:45

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IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence - 45(2023), 10 vom: 08. Okt., Seite 11484-11501

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Singhania, Dipika [VerfasserIn]
Rahaman, Rahul [VerfasserIn]
Yao, Angela [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 06.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3284080

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM35791421X