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    • Artificial Intelligence

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    • Localizing unintentional actions in videos remains a challenge for AI.
    • Existing models may be biased by action content, overlooking intention.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a causal inference approach for localizing unintentional actions.
    • To improve AI's ability to distinguish intentional from unintentional actions.
    • To address biases in action recognition models.

    Main Methods:

    • Constructed a video pool with intentional knowledge.
    • Applied counterfactual intervention to generate intentional action examples.
    • Trained a model to maximize differences between factual and counterfactual predictions.
    • Disentangled action content and intention clues.

    Main Results:

    • Achieved consistent improvements in unintentional action recognition.
    • Demonstrated enhanced performance in unintentional action localization.
    • Successfully highlighted intention clues and mitigated action content bias.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed causal inference method effectively localizes unintentional actions.
    • This approach enhances AI's understanding of action intention.
    • The method shows promise for real-world applications in video analysis.