
The CVPR 2014 paper entitled: Action Localization by Tubelets from Motion by Mihir Jain, Jan C. van Gemert, Hervé Jégou, Patrick Bouthemy, and Cees G. M. Snoek is now available. This paper considers the problem of action localization, where the objective is to determine when and where certain actions appear. We introduce a sampling strategy to produce 2D+t sequences of bounding boxes, called tubelets. Compared to state-of-the-art alternatives, this drastically reduces the number of hypotheses that are likely to include the action of interest. Our method is inspired by a recent technique introduced in the context of image localization. Beyond considering this technique for the first time for videos, we revisit this strategy for 2D+t sequences obtained from super-voxels. Our sampling strategy advantageously exploits a criterion that reflects how action related motion deviates from background motion. We demonstrate the interest of our approach by extensive experiments on two public datasets: UCF Sports and MSR-II. Our approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art on both datasets, while restricting the search of actions to a fraction of possible bounding box sequences.

Hello,
I would like to ask if i can have access to the code used in this paper
Thanks
We plan to provide binaries together with our journal version of the paper. In the meantime you may contact Mihir for extracted tubelets on particular video data sets.