Introduction
Deep learning-based solutions for video recognition is primarily about the detection, classification and localization of static, multi-class objects in the field of view, and plotting the changing form factors, pose, orientation and position of objects in time. The most popular use case is to analyze how human actors within the field of vision. There are a variety of solutions utilized in the Deep Computer Vision community to enhance the pipeline's throughput, utilization of resources (specifically when inference is performed using edge devices with compute constraints) in addition to performance (accuracy and response).
In this blog, we'll explore the many options for inputs, solutions and design considerations that are applied to recognition of collected Video Dataset by using methods of deep learning.
What are the most common video datasets used to train models?
Deep learning models to train for different video analysis tasks, such as visual recognition and human movement recognition requires a massive amounts of annotated data in terms of detection of objects, classification, localization, skeleton-level human motion detection which is GTS provides through it's Data Annotation Services.
Most popular datasets that can be used to evaluate the model's efficiency in relation to precision and accuracy include Kinetics (400600/400 700), Atomic Visual Actions (AVA) and Charades. These include a variety of videos, durations and levels of annotation for characteristics.
What are the considerations for input processing?
1. Rates of frame, sample, and strides to train
The task of training video action recognition with raw video inputs at a high frame rate needs massive computing resources. To maximize the efficiency of the process, frame sampling that uses optimal strides i.e. the analysis of every N frame. To optimize the process, analyzing every N frame is commonly used with stride parameters that vary according to the nature of the job complexity, the variability over time, and sample.
2. Prediction based on averaging short clips and validating
Optimizing and validating models' outputs for configuration on multiple, short, interspersed videos allows ML engineers to take in a wide array of real-world inputs which in turn ensures the highest performance of models in terms of reliability, accuracy and durability.
What have different solutions been currently being explored?
* Single network models
This is the fundamental approach to recognize actions in video. The goal is to develop an 2D CNN algorithm to anticipate the actions in each frame in the film. This provides a solid performance base, which can be further refined with regard to backbone architectures and mechanisms. This method works in the case of actions without interframe temporal dependency e.g. walking, running, eating, drinking etc.
However, in the event of complicated actions that require to be identified as a sequence of tasks that are performed by an industrial assembly operator or associate from a retail store, the accuracy of this method could not be sufficient.
* Two models from the network
This approach is an ensemble solution that has two networks that are parallel and their outputs being fused or merged at the requisite locations in the pipeline, either early fusion, slow fusion, or late fusion. The mechanism for fusion is designed in accordance with the requirements for performance of the application.
Here are the key characteristics of two pipeline networks.
Spatial stream - It examines the individual frames of an image to detect actions by analyzing the spatial elements within the frame. It is not given much thought of inter-frame relationships as part of action recognition process in this stream.
Temporal stream - It analyses the sequence of frames to detect events by inter-relations among image frames that manifest as dynamic brightness of pixel pixels in the optical flow stacked Spatial streams comprise CNNs (convolutional neural networks) specifically designed to analyze images (classification and object detection counting). Temporal streams are typically models that store temporal data such as LSTMs and RNNs.
They are typically utilized as parallel streams and Dataset For Machine Learning their outputs are combined to attain the required performance. In certain instances they can also be used in a serial fashion, with the output of the spatial stream fed into a temporal stream, also known as convolutional neural network (CRNN) or CRNN model.
* Models with attention-based features
This approach makes use of the longer-term contextual information that is essential to skeleton-based tasks for human activity recognition and cannot be captured by techniques that use ensemble architectures such as CNN and RNN which we have talked about in the past. CNNs and RNNs depend on local processes from a temporal and spatial perspective and vice versa. The self-attention mechanism of network models or SAN models assists in understanding the global perspective.
* Slow and slow-speed networks
The method of solution created and published by Facebook AI Research employs a two-pathway model: slow path with a low framerate that is able to capture the spatial semantics as well as a speedy pathway with a high frame rate which records the temporal shift in time. The two pathways are joined by connecting lateral channels. While it is an ensemble model that is two-network the main distinction of this model from earlier two-stream approaches is that the temporal speeds of both streams differ. The faster stream has a high temporal speeds, yet it is a lighter network, which allows it to record the state changes of spatially distinct, semantically semantic objects in the field of view that are later recognized by the slower pathway that has a lower frame rate, but a more channels of input. This technique is widely regarded as the most advanced technology.
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