Video based computer vision tasks can benefit from estimation of the salient regions and interactions between those regions. Traditionally, this has been done by identifying the object regions in the images by utilizing pre-trained models to perform object detection, object segmentation and/or object pose estimation. Though using pre-trained models seems to be a viable approach, it is infeasible in practice due to the need for exhaustive annotation of object categories, domain gap between datasets and bias present in pre-trained models. To overcome these downsides, we propose to utilize the common rationale that a sequence of video frames capture a set of common objects and interactions between them, thus a notion of co-segmentation between the video frame features may equip the model with the ability to automatically focus on salient regions and improve underlying task's performance in an end-to-end manner. In this regard, we propose a generic module called "Co-Segmentation Activation Module" (COSAM) that can be plugged-in to any CNN to promote the notion of co-segmentation based attention among a sequence of video frame features. We show the application of COSAM in three video based tasks namely: 1) Video-based person re-ID, 2) Video captioning, & 3) Video action classification and demonstrate that COSAM is able to capture salient regions in the video frames, thus leading to notable performance improvements along with interpretable attention maps.
We propose a novel approach for First Impressions Recognition in terms of the Big Five personality-traits from short videos. The Big Five personality traits is a model to describe human personality using five broad categories: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Openness. We train two bi-modal end-to-end deep neural network architectures using temporally ordered audio and novel stochastic visual features from few frames, without over-fitting. We empirically show that the trained models perform exceptionally well, even after training from a small sub-portions of inputs. Our method is evaluated in ChaLearn LAP 2016 Apparent Personality Analysis (APA) competition using ChaLearn LAP APA2016 dataset and achieved excellent performance.
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