Hierarchical Action Recognition: A Contrastive Video-Language Approach with Hierarchical Interactions
<|reference_start|>Hierarchical Action Recognition: A Contrastive Video-Language Approach with Hierarchical Interactions: Video recognition remains an open challenge, requiring the identification of diverse content categories within videos. Mainstream approaches often perform flat classification, overlooking the intrinsic hierarchical structure relating categories. To address this, we formalize the novel task of hierarchical video recognition, and propose a video-language learning framework tailored for hierarchical recognition. Specifically, our framework encodes dependencies between hierarchical category levels, and applies a top-down constraint to filter recognition predictions. We further construct a new fine-grained dataset based on medical assessments for rehabilitation of stroke patients, serving as a challenging benchmark for hierarchical recognition. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate the efficacy of our approach for hierarchical recognition, significantly outperforming conventional methods, especially for fine-grained subcategories. The proposed framework paves the way for hierarchical modeling in video understanding tasks, moving beyond flat categorization.<|reference_end|>
@article{zhang2024hierarchical,
    title={Hierarchical Action Recognition: A Contrastive Video-Language Approach
  with Hierarchical Interactions},
    author={Rui Zhang, Shuailong Li, Junxiao Xue, Feng Lin, Qing Zhang, Xiao Ma,
  Xiaoran Yan},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.17729},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2405.17729},
    primaryClass={cs.CV cs.MM}
}