FASTER Recurrent Networks for Efficient Video Classification

Authors

  • Linchao Zhu University of Technology Sydney
  • Du Tran Facebook
  • Laura Sevilla-Lara University of Edinburgh
  • Yi Yang University of Technology Sydney
  • Matt Feiszli Facebook
  • Heng Wang Facebook

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i07.7012

Abstract

Typical video classification methods often divide a video into short clips, do inference on each clip independently, then aggregate the clip-level predictions to generate the video-level results. However, processing visually similar clips independently ignores the temporal structure of the video sequence, and increases the computational cost at inference time. In this paper, we propose a novel framework named FASTER, i.e., Feature Aggregation for Spatio-TEmporal Redundancy. FASTER aims to leverage the redundancy between neighboring clips and reduce the computational cost by learning to aggregate the predictions from models of different complexities. The FASTER framework can integrate high quality representations from expensive models to capture subtle motion information and lightweight representations from cheap models to cover scene changes in the video. A new recurrent network (i.e., FAST-GRU) is designed to aggregate the mixture of different representations. Compared with existing approaches, FASTER can reduce the FLOPs by over 10× while maintaining the state-of-the-art accuracy across popular datasets, such as Kinetics, UCF-101 and HMDB-51.

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Published

2020-04-03

How to Cite

Zhu, L., Tran, D., Sevilla-Lara, L., Yang, Y., Feiszli, M., & Wang, H. (2020). FASTER Recurrent Networks for Efficient Video Classification. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(07), 13098-13105. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i07.7012

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AAAI Technical Track: Vision