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This study introduces Active Learning for Sequences (AL-SAR), a novel method for action recognition that minimizes required labels by combining unsupervised learning with sparse annotations. AL-SAR effectively identifies human actions in temporal sequences using an encoder-decoder framework.

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Area of Science:

Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence

Background:

Action recognition from temporal sequences typically requires extensive ground truth annotations for supervised training.
Existing unsupervised methods for sequence organization still necessitate annotations to link clusters with specific actions.
The challenge of extensive annotation requirements drives the need for efficient classification methods that minimize label usage.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a novel Active Learning (AL) method for sequence data, named AL-SAR, designed to reduce the need for extensive annotations.
To develop a classification methodology that effectively minimizes the number of required labels for accurate action recognition.
To improve the efficiency and accuracy of action recognition in temporal multivariate sequences.

Main Methods:

AL-SAR combines unsupervised training with sparsely supervised annotation for sequence data.
It utilizes an encoder-decoder framework with a multi-head mechanism for robust uncertainty evaluation in the latent space.
The method iteratively selects samples where annotation maximally contributes to the disentanglement of the latent space.

Main Results:

AL-SAR was evaluated on benchmark datasets including NW-UCLA, NTU RGB+D 60, and UWA3D.
The proposed AL-SAR method, when coupled with an encoder-decoder network, demonstrated superior performance compared to other AL methods using the same network structure.
Results indicate that AL-SAR effectively reduces annotation burden while maintaining high action recognition accuracy.

Conclusions:

AL-SAR presents a significant advancement in active learning for sequence-based action recognition.
The method offers a more efficient approach to training action recognition models by minimizing the need for labeled data.
AL-SAR's effectiveness in uncertainty evaluation and latent space disentanglement contributes to its superior performance.