Instance-aware detailed action labeling in videos

We address the problem of detailed sequence labeling of complex activities in videos, which aims to assign an action label to every frame. Previous work typically focus on predicting action class labels for each frame in a sequence without reasoning action instances. However, such category-level labeling is inefficient in encoding the global constraints at the action instance level and tends to produce inconsistent results. In this work we consider a fusion approach that exploits the synergy between action detection and sequence labeling for complex activities. To this end, we propose an instance-aware sequence labeling method that utilizes the cues from action instance detection. In particular, we design an LSTM-based fusion network that integrates framewise action labeling and action instance prediction to produce a final consistent labeling. To evaluate our method, we create a large-scale RGBD video dataset on gym activities for sequence labeling and action detection called GADD. The experimental results on GADD dataset show that our method outperforms all the state-of-the-art methods consistently in terms of labeling accuracy.