Anticipative Feature Fusion Transformer for Multi-Modal Action Anticipation

23 Oct 2022  ·  Zeyun Zhong, David Schneider, Michael Voit, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jürgen Beyerer ·

Although human action anticipation is a task which is inherently multi-modal, state-of-the-art methods on well known action anticipation datasets leverage this data by applying ensemble methods and averaging scores of unimodal anticipation networks. In this work we introduce transformer based modality fusion techniques, which unify multi-modal data at an early stage. Our Anticipative Feature Fusion Transformer (AFFT) proves to be superior to popular score fusion approaches and presents state-of-the-art results outperforming previous methods on EpicKitchens-100 and EGTEA Gaze+. Our model is easily extensible and allows for adding new modalities without architectural changes. Consequently, we extracted audio features on EpicKitchens-100 which we add to the set of commonly used features in the community.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Action Anticipation EPIC-KITCHENS-100 AFFT Recall@5 18.5 # 2
Action Anticipation EPIC-KITCHENS-100 (test) AFFT recall@5 14.9 # 3

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