Two-Stream Consensus Network for Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization

Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (W-TAL) aims to classify and localize all action instances in an untrimmed video under only video-level supervision. However, without frame-level annotations, it is challenging for W-TAL methods to identify false positive action proposals and generate action proposals with precise temporal boundaries. In this paper, we present a Two-Stream Consensus Network (TSCN) to simultaneously address these challenges. The proposed TSCN features an iterative refinement training method, where a frame-level pseudo ground truth is iteratively updated, and used to provide frame-level supervision for improved model training and false positive action proposal elimination. Furthermore, we propose a new attention normalization loss to encourage the predicted attention to act like a binary selection, and promote the precise localization of action instance boundaries. Experiments conducted on the THUMOS14 and ActivityNet datasets show that the proposed TSCN outperforms current state-of-the-art methods, and even achieves comparable results with some recent fully-supervised methods.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Weakly Supervised Action Localization THUMOS14 TSCN avg-mAP (0.1-0.5) 47.0 # 10
avg-mAP (0.3-0.7) 28.8 # 12
avg-mAP (0.1:0.7) 37.8 # 10

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