Interpretable human action recognition in compressed domain

Vignesh Srinivasan, Sebastian Lapuschkin, Cornelius Hellge, Klaus Robert Muller, Wojciech Samek

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16 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Compressed domain human action recognition algorithms are extremely efficient, because they only require a partial decoding of the video bit stream. However, the question what exactly makes these algorithms decide for a particular action is still a mystery. In this paper, we present a general method, Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP), to understand and interpret action recognition algorithms and apply it to a state-of-the-art compressed domain method based on Fisher vector encoding and SVM classification. By using LRP, the classifiers decisions are propagated back every step in the action recognition pipeline until the input is reached. This methodology allows to identify where and when the important (from the classifier's perspective) action happens in the video. To our knowledge, this is the first work to interpret a compressed domain action recognition algorithm. We evaluate our method on the HMDB51 dataset and show that in many cases a few significant frames contribute most towards the prediction of the video to a particular class.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1692-1696
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509041176
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Jun 16
Externally publishedYes
Event2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017 - New Orleans, United States
Duration: 2017 Mar 52017 Mar 9

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period17/3/517/3/9

Keywords

  • Action recognition
  • compressed domain
  • fisher vector encoding
  • interpretable classification
  • motion vectors

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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