Uncertainty sampling for action recognition via maximizing expected average precision

Hanmo Wang, Xiaojun Chang, Lei Shi, Yi Yang, Yi Dong Shen

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Abstract

Recognizing human actions in video clips has been an important topic in computer vision. Sufficient labeled data is one of the prerequisites for the good performance of action recognition algorithms. However, while abundant videos can be collected from the Internet, categorizing each video clip is time-consuming. Active learning is one way to alleviate the labeling labor by allowing the classifier to choose the most informative unlabeled instances for manual annotation. Among various active learning algorithms, uncertainty sampling is arguably the most widely-used strategy. Conventional uncertainty sampling strategies such as entropy-based methods are usually tested under accuracy. However, in action recognition Average Precision (AP) is an acknowledged evaluation metric, which is somehow ignored in the active learning community. It is defined as the area under the precision-recall curve. In this paper, we propose a novel uncertainty sampling algorithm for action recognition using expected AP. We conduct experiments on three real-world action recognition datasets and show that our algorithm outperforms other uncertainty-based active learning algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2018
EditorsJérôme Lang
Place of PublicationMarina del Rey CA USA
PublisherAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Pages964-970
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9780999241127
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2018 - Stockholm, Sweden
Duration: 13 Jul 201819 Jul 2018
Conference number: 27th
https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2018/
https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2018/ (Proceedings)

Conference

ConferenceInternational Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2018
Abbreviated titleIJCAI 2018
Country/TerritorySweden
CityStockholm
Period13/07/1819/07/18
Internet address

Keywords

  • Active Learning
  • Classification
  • Action Recognition
  • Machine Learning
  • Computer Vision

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