  In this work, we address the problem of learning an ensemble of specialist
networks using multimodal data, while considering the realistic and challenging
scenario of possible missing modalities at test time. Our goal is to leverage
the complementary information of multiple modalities to the benefit of the
ensemble and each individual network. We introduce a novel Distillation
Multiple Choice Learning framework for multimodal data, where different
modality networks learn in a cooperative setting from scratch, strengthening
one another. The modality networks learned using our method achieve
significantly higher accuracy than if trained separately, due to the guidance
of other modalities. We evaluate this approach on three video action
recognition benchmark datasets. We obtain state-of-the-art results in
comparison to other approaches that work with missing modalities at test time.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition