NSNet: Non-saliency Suppression Sampler for Efficient Video Recognition

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022

Boyang Xia1,2*,   Wenhao Wu3,4$\dagger$*,  Haoran Wang4Rui Su5Dongliang He4Haosen Yang6Xiaoran Fan1,2Wanli Ouyang5,3 
1Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences   3The University of Sydney
4Baidu Inc.   5Shanghai AI Laboratory   6Harbin Institute of Technology
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To accelerate the video recognition architectures, one typically build a lightweight video key frame sampler to firstly sample a few salient frames and then evoke a recognizer on them, to reduce temporal redundancies. However, existing methods neglect the discrimination between non-salient frames and salient ones in training objectives. We introduced a novel multi-granularity supervision scheme to suppress the non-salient frames and achieved SOTA accuracy with very low GFLOPs and wall-clock time ($4\times$ faster than SOTA methods) on 4 video recognition benchmarks.