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HCMS: Hierarchical and Conditional Modality Selection for Efficient Video Recognition

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Zejia Weng
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Zuxuan Wu *
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Hengduo Li
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Jingjing Chen
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Yu–Gang Jiang
DOI:10.1145/3572776delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Videos are multimodal in nature. Conventional video recognition pipelines typically fuse multimodal features for improved performance. However, this is not only computationally expensive but also neglects the fact that different videos rely on different modalities for predictions. This article introduces Hierarchical and Conditional Modality Selection (HCMS), a simple yet efficient multimodal learning framework for efficient video recognition. HCMS operates on a low-cost modality, i.e., audio clues, by default, and dynamically decides on-the-fly whether to use computationally expensive modalities, including appearance and motion clues, on a per-input basis. This is achieved by the collaboration of three LSTMs that are organized in a hierarchical manner. In particular, LSTMs that operate on high-cost modalities contain a gating module, which takes as inputs lower-level features and historical information to adaptively determine whether to activate its corresponding modality; otherwise, it simply reuses historical information. We conduct extensive experiments on two large-scale video benchmarks, FCVID and ActivityNet, and the results demonstrate the proposed approach can effectively explore multimodal information for improved classification performance while requiring much less computation.
Keywords:
Multimodal analysis
video recognition
efficient inference

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ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications cover
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications
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fudan university
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University System of Maryland
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