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Abstract
As a crucial topic of high-level video understanding, weakly supervised online activity detection (WS-OAD) involves identifying the ongoing behaviors moment-to-moment in streaming videos, trained with solely cheap video-level annotations. It is essentially a challenging task, which requires addressing the entangled issues of the weakly supervised settings and online constraints. In this paper, we tackle the WS-OAD task from the knowledge-distillation (KD) perspective, which trains an online student detector to distill dual-level knowledge from a weakly supervised offline teacher model. To guarantee the completeness of knowledge transfer, we improve the vanilla KD framework from two aspects. First, we introduce an external memory bank to maintain the long-term activity prototypes, which serves as a bridge to align the activity semantics learned from the offline teacher and online student models. Second, to compensate the missing contexts of unseen near future, we leverage a curriculum learning paradigm to gradually train the online student detector to anticipate the future activity semantics. By dynamically scheduling the provided auxiliary future states, the online detector progressively distills contextual information from the offline model in an easy-to-hard course. Extensive experimental results on three public data sets demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method over the competing methods.
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