2by2: Weakly-Supervised Learning for Global Action Segmentation

This paper presents a simple yet effective approach for the poorly investigated task of global action segmentation, aiming at grouping frames capturing the same action across videos of different activities. Unlike the case of videos depicting all the same activity, the temporal order of actions is n...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Bueno Benito, Elena Belén, Dimiccoli, Mariella
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Data de publicação:2025
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositório:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/387608
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/387608
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85212935765
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Temporal Action Segmentation
Video Alignment
Weakly-Supervised Learning
Descrição
Resumo:This paper presents a simple yet effective approach for the poorly investigated task of global action segmentation, aiming at grouping frames capturing the same action across videos of different activities. Unlike the case of videos depicting all the same activity, the temporal order of actions is not roughly shared among all videos, making the task even more challenging. We propose to use activity labels to learn, in a weakly-supervised fashion, action representations suitable for global action segmentation. For this purpose, we introduce a triadic learning approach for video pairs, to ensure intra-video action discrimination, as well as inter-video and inter-activity action association. For the backbone architecture, we use a Siamese network based on sparse transformers that takes as input video pairs and determine whether they belong to the same activity. The proposed approach is validated on two challenging benchmark datasets: Breakfast and YouTube Instructions, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.