MVP-Shot: Multi-Velocity Progressive-Alignment Framework for Few-Shot Action Recognition
<|reference_start|>MVP-Shot: Multi-Velocity Progressive-Alignment Framework for Few-Shot Action Recognition: Recent few-shot action recognition (FSAR) methods typically perform semantic matching on learned discriminative features to achieve promising performance. However, most FSAR methods focus on single-scale (e.g., frame-level, segment-level, etc) feature alignment, which ignores that human actions with the same semantic may appear at different velocities. To this end, we develop a novel Multi-Velocity Progressive-alignment (MVP-Shot) framework to progressively learn and align semantic-related action features at multi-velocity levels. Concretely, a Multi-Velocity Feature Alignment (MVFA) module is designed to measure the similarity between features from support and query videos with different velocity scales and then merge all similarity scores in a residual fashion. To avoid the multiple velocity features deviating from the underlying motion semantic, our proposed Progressive Semantic-Tailored Interaction (PSTI) module injects velocity-tailored text information into the video feature via feature interaction on channel and temporal domains at different velocities. The above two modules compensate for each other to make more accurate query sample predictions under the few-shot settings. Experimental results show our method outperforms current state-of-the-art methods on multiple standard few-shot benchmarks (i.e., HMDB51, UCF101, Kinetics, and SSv2-small).<|reference_end|>
@article{qu2024mvp-shot:,
    title={MVP-Shot: Multi-Velocity Progressive-Alignment Framework for Few-Shot
  Action Recognition},
    author={Hongyu Qu, Rui Yan, Xiangbo Shu, Hailiang Gao, Peng Huang, Guo-Sen Xie},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.02077},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2405.02077},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}