Frame Order Matters: A Temporal Sequence-Aware Model for Few-Shot Action Recognition
This addresses the problem of recognizing actions from limited examples for video analysis, representing a novel method for a known bottleneck.
The paper tackles few-shot action recognition by proposing a Temporal Sequence-Aware Model that integrates sequential temporal dynamics and contextual semantic information, achieving new benchmarks on five datasets with large margins over competitors.
In this paper, we propose a novel Temporal Sequence-Aware Model (TSAM) for few-shot action recognition (FSAR), which incorporates a sequential perceiver adapter into the pre-training framework, to integrate both the spatial information and the sequential temporal dynamics into the feature embeddings. Different from the existing fine-tuning approaches that capture temporal information by exploring the relationships among all the frames, our perceiver-based adapter recurrently captures the sequential dynamics alongside the timeline, which could perceive the order change. To obtain the discriminative representations for each class, we extend a textual corpus for each class derived from the large language models (LLMs) and enrich the visual prototypes by integrating the contextual semantic information. Besides, We introduce an unbalanced optimal transport strategy for feature matching that mitigates the impact of class-unrelated features, thereby facilitating more effective decision-making. Experimental results on five FSAR datasets demonstrate that our method set a new benchmark, beating the second-best competitors with large margins.