An End-to-End Two-Stream Network Based on RGB Flow and Representation Flow for Human Action Recognition

Abstract: With the rapid advancements in deep learning, computer vision tasks have seen significant improvements, making two-stream neural networks a popular focus for video based action recognition. Traditional models using RGB and optical flow streams achieve strong performance but at a high computational cost. To address this, we introduce a representation flow algorithm to replace the optical flow branch in the egocentric action recognition model, enabling end-to-end training while reducing computational cost and prediction time. Our model, designed for egocentric action recognition, uses class activation maps (CAMs) to improve accuracy and ConvLSTM for spatio temporal encoding with spatial attention. When evaluated on the GTEA61, EGTEA GAZE+, and HMDB datasets, our model matches the accuracy of the original model on GTEA61 and exceeds it by 0.65% and 0.84% on EGTEA GAZE+ and HMDB, respectively. Prediction runtimes are significantly reduced to 0.1881s, 0.1503s, and 0.1459s, compared to the original model's 101.6795s, 25.3799s, and 203.9958s. Ablation studies were also conducted to study the impact of different parameters on model performance. Keywords: two-stream, egocentric, action recognition, CAM, representation flow, CAM, ConvLSTM