@inproceedings{
huang2024soap,
title={{SOAP}: Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Relation and Motion Information Capturing for Few-Shot Action Recognition},
author={Wenbo Huang and Jinghui Zhang and Xuwei Qian and Zhen Wu and Meng Wang and Lei Zhang},
booktitle={ACM Multimedia 2024},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=ZDeczo36KR}
}
High frame-rate (HFR) videos of action recognition improve fine-grained expression while reducing the spatio-temporal relation and motion information density. Thus, large amounts of video samples are continuously required for traditional data-driven training. However, samples are not always sufficient in real-world scenarios promotes few-shot action recognition (FSAR) research. We observe that most recent FSAR works build spatio-temporal relation of video samples via temporal alignment after spatial feature extraction, cutting apart spatial and temporal features within samples. They also capture motion information via narrow perspectives between adjacent frames without considering density, leading to insufficient motion information capturing. Therefore, we propose a novel plug-and-play architecture for FSAR called $\underline{\textbf{S}}$patio-temp$\underline{\textbf{O}}$ral fr$\underline{\textbf{A}}$me tu$\underline{\textbf{P}}$le enhancer ($\textbf{SOAP}$) in this paper. The model we designed with such architecture refers to SOAP-Net. Temporal connections between different feature channels and spatio-temporal relation of features are considered instead of simple feature extraction. Comprehensive motion information is also captured, using frame tuples with multiple frames containing more motion information than adjacent frames. Combining frame tuples of frame counts further provides a broader perspective. SOAP-Net achieves new state-of-the-art performance across well-known benchmarks such as SthSthV2, Kinetics, UCF101, and HMDB51. Extensive empirical evaluations underscore the competitiveness, pluggability, generalization, and robustness of SOAP. The code will be released.
SOAP: Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Relation and Motion Information Capturing for Few-Shot Action Recognition
Wenbo Huang Jinghui Zhang Xuwei Qian Zhen Wu Meng Wang Lei Zhang