Ani-GIFs: A benchmark dataset for domain generalization of action recognition from GIFs

Deep learning models perform remarkably well for the same task under the assumption that data is always coming from the same distribution. However, this is generally violated in practice, mainly due to the differences in data acquisition techniques and the lack of information about the underlying so...

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Published in:	Frontiers in computer science (Lausanne) Vol. 4
Main Authors:	Majumdar, Shoumik Sovan, Jain, Shubhangi, Tourni, Isidora Chara, Mustafin, Arsenii, Lteif, Diala, Sclaroff, Stan, Saenko, Kate, Bargal, Sarah Adel
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A 26-09-2022
Subjects:	domain adaptation domain generalization explainability GIFs transfer learning video action recognition
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Summary:	Deep learning models perform remarkably well for the same task under the assumption that data is always coming from the same distribution. However, this is generally violated in practice, mainly due to the differences in data acquisition techniques and the lack of information about the underlying source of new data. Domain generalization targets the ability to generalize to test data of an unseen domain; while this problem is well-studied for images, such studies are significantly lacking in spatiotemporal visual content—videos and GIFs. This is due to (1) the challenging nature of misalignment of temporal features and the varying appearance/motion of actors and actions in different domains, and (2) spatiotemporal datasets being laborious to collect and annotate for multiple domains. We collect and present the first synthetic video dataset of Animated GIFs for domain generalization, Ani-GIFs , that is used to study the domain gap of videos vs. GIFs, and animated vs. real GIFs, for the task of action recognition. We provide a training and testing setting for Ani-GIFs , and extend two domain generalization baseline approaches, based on data augmentation and explainability, to the spatiotemporal domain to catalyze research in this direction.
ISSN:	2624-9898 2624-9898
DOI:	10.3389/fcomp.2022.876846