Activity analysis

mmlab
https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmaction2

https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmaction MMAction is capable of dealing with all of the tasks below. action recognition from trimmed videos temporal action detection (also known as action localization) in untrimmed videos, spatial-temporal action detection in untrimmed videos.

https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmskeleton Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks (ST-GCN) for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition in PyTorch. See Pose estimation

NVlabs Nvidia
https://github.com/NVlabs/STEP STEP is a fully end-to-end action detector that performs detection simply from a handful of initial proposals with no need of relying on an extra person detector.

General github repos
https://github.com/gabeur/mmt Took first place in https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/challenges/video-pentathlon/ Focus: The focus of this workshop is the task of searching for content within a corpus of videos using natural language queries. This challenge tackles the task of caption-to-video retrieval. Given a query in the form of a caption, the goal is to re-trieve the videos best described by it.

AdeilaDet
https://github.com/aim-uofa/AdelaiDet AdelaiDet is an open source toolbox for multiple instance-level recognition tasks on top of Detectron2. All instance-level recognition works from our group are open-sourced here.

https://github.com/Yuliang-Liu/bezier_curve_text_spotting Extracts text from an image written in any orientation, use this for License plate recognitoin.

https://github.com/Yuliang-Liu/Box_Discretization_Network   Scene text detection. BDN can directly produce compact quadrilateral detection box. (segmentation-based methods need additional steps to group pixels & such steps usually sensitive to outliers) BDN can avoid label confusion (non-segmentation-based methods are mostly sensitive to label sequence, which can significantly undermine the detection result). Comparison on ICDAR 2015 dataset showing different methods’ ability of resistant to the label confusion issue (by adding rotated pseudo samples). Textboxes++, East, and CTD are all Sesitive-to-Label-Sequence methods.

tencent
https://github.com/Tencent/ActionDetection-DBG video dataset scraped from youtube with https://github.com/activitynet/ActivityNet

oxford
https://github.com/albanie/collaborative-experts Our goal is to condense the multi-modal, extremely high dimensional information from videos into a single, compact video representation for the task of video retrieval using free-form text queries, where the degree of specificity is open-ended

bryanyzhu
https://github.com/bryanyzhu/two-stream-pytorch Deep convolutional networks have achieved great success for object recognition in still images. However, for action recognition in videos, the improvement of deep convolutional networks is not so evident. We argue that there are two reasons that could probably explain this result. First the current network architectures (e.g. Two-stream ConvNets) are relatively shallow compared with those very deep models in image domain (e.g. VGGNet, GoogLeNet), and therefore their modeling capacity is constrained by their depth. Second, probably more importantly, the training dataset of action recognition is extremely small compared with the ImageNet dataset, and thus it will be easy to over-fit on the training dataset.

Curated list
https://github.com/jinwchoi/awesome-action-recognition List of activity analysis repos github.

https://github.com/wutianyiRosun/Segmentation.X#video-Segmentation

classify
https://pythonawesome.com/a-python-library-for-training-machine-learning-models-to-classify-human-action/ from Solo

https://github.com/smellslikeml/ActionAI

https://towardsdatascience.com/computer-vision-for-tracking-8220759eee85

wadhwasahil
https://github.com/wadhwasahil/Video-Classification-2-Stream-CNN We use a spatial and a temporal stream with VGG-16 and CNN-M respectively for modeling video information. LSTMs are stacked on top of the CNNs for modeling long term dependencies between video frames. For more information, see these papers.
 * Two-Stream Convolutional Networks for Action Recognition in Videos
 * Fusing Multi-Stream Deep Networks for Video Classification
 * Modeling Spatial-Temporal Clues in a Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Video Classification
 * Towards Good Practices for Very Deep Two-Stream ConvNets

harvitronix
Activity analysis is done with RNN and LSTM. Object recognition with CNN(yolo).

https://blog.coast.ai/five-video-classification-methods-implemented-in-keras-and-tensorflow-99cad29cc0b5 p.3

https://github.com/harvitronix/five-video-classification-methods

https://blog.coast.ai/continuous-online-video-classification-with-tensorflow-inception-and-a-raspberry-pi-785c8b1e13e1 with tensorflow on Raspberry pi

https://blog.coast.ai/continuous-video-classification-with-tensorflow-inception-and-recurrent-nets-250ba9ff6b85

http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/ Humans don’t start their thinking from scratch every second. As you read this essay, you understand each word based on your understanding of previous words. You don’t throw everything away and start thinking from scratch again. Your thoughts have persistence. Traditional neural networks can’t do this, and it seems like a major shortcoming. For example, imagine you want to classify what kind of event is happening at every point in a movie. It’s unclear how a traditional neural network could use its reasoning about previous events in the film to inform later ones.

Recurrent neural networks address this issue. They are networks with loops in them, allowing information to persist.

see Deepgroup

HAKE
http://hake-mvig.cn/home/ Human Activity Knowledge Engine (HAKE) aims at promoting the human activity/action understanding. As a large-scale knowledge base, HAKE is built upon existing activity datasets, and supplies human instance action labels and corresponding body part level atomic action labels (Part States). With the power of HAKE, our baseline methods have outperformed state-of-the-art approaches on several wide-used activity and Human-Object Interaction benchmarks. HAKE is still under construction, we will keep enriching and enlarging it. And we hope the volunteers from all the communities to work with us. We will make the dataset publicly available this summer.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ywchao/hico/ data sets

https://github.com/DirtyHarryLYL/Transferable-Interactiveness-Network

https://github.com/DirtyHarryLYL/HAKE.git

https://github.com/ywchao/ho-rcnn

BERT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQChvHH4L3M referenced by https://github.com/facebookresearch/mmbt Supervised Multimodal Bitransformers for Classifying Images and Text

He Wang
https://github.com/hughw19/ActionPlotGeneration Learning a Generative Model for Multi-Step Human-Object Interactions from Videos. See Object tracking for papers and code from Wang.

feichtenhofer
https://github.com/feichtenhofer/twostreamfusion Convolutional Two-Stream Network Fusion for Video Action Recognition

Visual question answering
https://github.com/peteanderson80/bottom-up-attention Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention for Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering Top-down visual attention mechanisms have been used extensively in image captioning and visual question answering (VQA) to enable deeper image understanding through fine-grained analysis and even multiple steps of reasoning. In this work, we propose a combined bottom-up and topdown attention mechanism that enables attention to be calculated at the level of objects and other salient image regions. This is the natural basis for attention to be considered. Within our approach, the bottom-up mechanism (based on Faster R-CNN) proposes image regions, each with an associated feature vector, while the top-down mechanism determines feature weightings

Scene graph parser
https://github.com/NVIDIA/ContrastiveLosses4VRD Most scene graph parsers use a two-stage pipeline to detect visual relationships: the first stage detects entities, and the second predicts the predicate for each entity pair using a softmax distribution. We find that such pipelines, trained with only a cross entropy loss over predicate classes, suffer from two common errors. The first, Entity Instance Confusion, occurs when the model confuses multiple instances of the same type of entity (e.g. multiple cups). The second, Proximal Relationship Ambiguity, arises when multiple subject-predicate-object triplets appear in close proximity with the same predicate, and the model struggles to infer the correct subject-object pairings (e.g. mis-pairing musicians and their instruments). We propose a set of contrastive loss formulations that specifically target these types of errors within the scene graph parsing problem, collectively termed the Graphical Contrastive Losses. These losses explicitly force the model to disambiguate related and unrelated instances through margin constraints specific to each type of confusion. We further construct a relationship detector, called RelDN, using the aforementioned pipeline to demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed losses. Our model outperforms the winning method of the OpenImages Relationship Detection Challenge by 4.7\% (16.5\% relative) on the test set. We also show improved results over the best previous methods on the Visual Genome and Visual Relationship Detection datasets.

facebook
https://github.com/facebookresearch/ClassyVision and https://classyvision.ai/tutorials/video_classification. Dataset at https://www.di.ens.fr/~miech/datasetviz/

https://github.com/facebookresearch/SlowFast PySlowFast is an open source video understanding codebase from FAIR that provides state-of-the-art video classification models, including papers "SlowFast Networks for Video Recognition", and "Non-local Neural Networks". https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03982, https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03982 We present SlowFast networks for video recognition. Our model involves (i) a Slow pathway, operating at low frame rate, to capture spatial semantics, and (ii) a Fast pathway, operating at high frame rate, to capture motion at fine temporal resolution. The Fast pathway can be made very lightweight by reducing its channel capacity, yet can learn useful temporal information for video recognition. Our models achieve strong performance for both action classification and detection in video, and large improvements are pin-pointed as contributions by our SlowFast concept. We report state-of-the-art accuracy on major video recognition benchmarks, Kinetics, Charades and AVA.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/ActivityNet-Entities This repo hosts the dataset and evaluation scripts used in our paper Grounded Video Description (GVD). We also released the source code of GVD in this repo.

ActivityNet-Entities, is based on the video description dataset ActivityNet Captions and augments it with 158k bounding box annotations, each grounding a noun phrase (NP). Here we release the complete set of NP-based annotations as well as the pre-processed object-based annotations.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/grounded-video-description based on https://github.com/jiasenlu/NeuralBabyTalk

https://github.com/jiasenlu/AdaptiveAttention Attention-based neural encoder-decoder frameworks have been widely adopted for image captioning. Most methods force visual attention to be active for every generated word. However, the decoder likely requires little to no visual information from the image to predict non-visual words such as "the" and "of". Other words that may seem visual can often be predicted reliably just from the language model e.g., "sign" after "behind a red stop" or "phone" following "talking on a cell". In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive attention model with a visual sentinel. At each time step, our model decides whether to attend to the image (and if so, to which regions) or to the visual sentinel. The model decides whether to attend to the image and where, in order to extract meaningful information for sequential word generation. We test our method on the COCO image captioning 2015 challenge dataset and Flickr30K. Our approach sets the new state-of-the-art by a significant margin.

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/ranjaykrishna/densevid/

davischallenge
https://davischallenge.org/challenge2019/publications.html

https://github.com/KevinDuarte/CapsuleVOS Object-based Spatial Similarity for Semi-supervised Video Object Segmentation. Test the trained model with the weights above, run the inference code by calling python3 inference.py. This code will read in an .mp4 file and a reference segmentation mask, and output the segmented frames of the video to the Output folder. An example video is available in the Example folder. Uses the https://youtube-vos.org/ dataset.

from https://www.groundai.com/project/capsulevos-semi-supervised-video-object-segmentation-using-capsule-routing/1

https://eungbean.github.io/2019/09/04/awesome-video-object-segmentation/ List of video object segmentation papers.

https://github.com/linjieyangsc/video_seg OSMN: One-Shot Modulation Network for Semi-supervised Video Segmentation In this work, we propose to use a meta neural network named modulator to manipulate the intermediate layers of the segmentation network given the appearance of the object in the first frame. Our method only takes 140ms/frame for inference on DAVIS dataset.

image captioning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06632 Image captioning has attracted considerable attention in recent years. However, little work has been done for game image captioning which has some unique characteristics and requirements. In this work we propose a novel game image captioning model which integrates bottom-up attention with a new multi-level residual top-down attention mechanism. Firstly, a lower-level residual top-down attention network is added to the Faster R-CNN based bottom-up attention network to address the problem that the latter may lose important spatial information when extracting regional features. Secondly, an upper-level residual top-down attention network is implemented in the caption generation network to better fuse the extracted regional features for subsequent caption prediction. We create two game datasets to evaluate the proposed model. Extensive experiments show that our proposed model outperforms existing baseline models.

movement prediction
https://github.com/Yijunmaverick/FlowGrounded-VideoPrediction

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.09755.pdf Abstract. Existing video prediction methods mainly rely on observing multiple historical frames or focus on predicting the next one-frame. In this work, we study the problem of generating consecutive multiple future frames by observing one single still image only. We formulate the multi-frame prediction task as a multiple time step ﬂow (multi-ﬂow) prediction phase followed by a ﬂow-to-frame synthesis phase. The multi-ﬂow prediction is modeled in a variational probabilistic manner with spatialtemporal relationships learned through 3D convolutions. The ﬂow-toframe synthesis is modeled as a generative process in order to keep the predicted results lying closer to the manifold shape of real video sequence. Such a two-phase design prevents the model from directly looking at the high-dimensional pixel space of the frame sequence and is demonstrated to be more eﬀective in predicting better and diverse results. Extensive experimental results on videos with diﬀerent types of motion show that the proposed algorithm performs favorably against existing methods in terms of quality, diversity and human perceptual evaluation. Keywords: Future prediction, conditional variational autoencoder, 3D convolutions.

https://github.com/anuragranj/end2end-spynet

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00850 We learn to compute optical flow by combining a classical spatial-pyramid formulation with deep learning. This estimates large motions in a coarse-to-fine approach by warping one image of a pair at each pyramid level by the current flow estimate and computing an update to the flow. Instead of the standard minimization of an objective function at each pyramid level, we train one deep network per level to compute the flow update. Unlike the recent FlowNet approach, the networks do not need to deal with large motions; these are dealt with by the pyramid. This has several advantages. First, our Spatial Pyramid Network (SPyNet) is much simpler and 96% smaller than FlowNet in terms of model parameters. This makes it more efficient and appropriate for embedded applications. Second, since the flow at each pyramid level is small (< 1 pixel), a convolutional approach applied to pairs of warped images is appropriate. Third, unlike FlowNet, the learned convolution filters appear similar to classical spatio-temporal filters, giving insight into the method and how to improve it. Our results are more accurate than FlowNet on most standard benchmarks, suggesting a new direction of combining classical flow methods with deep learning.

comp vision for video training
https://github.com/kenshohara/3D-ResNets-PyTorch The purpose of this study is to determine whether current video datasets have sufficient data for training very deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with spatio-temporal three-dimensional (3D) kernels. Recently, the performance levels of 3D CNNs in the field of action recognition have improved significantly. However, to date, conventional research has only explored relatively shallow 3D architectures. We examine the architectures of various 3D CNNs from relatively shallow to very deep ones on current video datasets. Based on the results of those experiments, the following conclusions could be obtained: (i) ResNet-18 training resulted in significant overfitting for UCF-101, HMDB-51, and ActivityNet but not for Kinetics. (ii) The Kinetics dataset has sufficient data for training of deep 3D CNNs, and enables training of up to 152 ResNets layers, interestingly similar to 2D ResNets on ImageNet. ResNeXt-101 achieved 78.4% average accuracy on the Kinetics test set. (iii) Kinetics pretrained simple 3D architectures outperforms complex 2D architectures, and the pretrained ResNeXt-101 achieved 94.5% and 70.2% on UCF-101 and HMDB-51, respectively. The use of 2D CNNs trained on ImageNet has produced significant progress in various tasks in image. We believe that using deep 3D CNNs together with Kinetics will retrace the successful history of 2D CNNs and ImageNet, and stimulate advances in computer vision for videos. The codes and pretrained models used in this study are publicly available. this https URL

links
Two minute papers

Pose estimation

https://dzone.com/articles/video-analysis-to-detect-suspicious-activity-based