Coherent Temporal Synthesis for Incremental Action Segmentation
Guodong Ding Hans Golong Angela Yao
Data replay is a successful incremental learning technique for images. It
prevents catastrophic forgetting by keeping a reservoir of previous data,
original or synthesized, to ensure the model retains past knowledge while
adapting to novel concepts. However, its application in the video domain is
rudimentary, as it simply stores frame exemplars for action recognition. This
paper presents the first exploration of video data replay techniques for
incremental action segmentation, focusing on action temporal modeling. We
propose a Temporally Coherent Action (TCA) model, which represents actions
using a generative model instead of storing individual frames. The integration
of a conditioning variable that captures temporal coherence allows our model to
understand the evolution of action features over time. Therefore, action
segments generated by TCA for replay are diverse and temporally coherent. In a
10-task incremental setup on the Breakfast dataset, our approach achieves
significant increases in accuracy for up to 22% compared to the baselines.