Edge Guided Network With Motion Enhancement for Few-Shot Action Recognition

Existing state-of-the-art methods for few-shot action recognition (FSAR) achieve promising performance by spatial and temporal modeling. However, most current methods ignore the importance of edge information and motion cues, leading to inferior performance. For the few-shot task, it is important to effectively explore limited data. Additionally, effectively utilizing edge information is beneficial for exploring motion cues, and vice versa. In this paper, we propose a novel edge guided network with motion enhancement (EGME) for FSAR. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to utilize the edge information as guidance in the FSAR task. Our EGME contains two crucial components, including an edge information extractor (EIE) and a motion enhancement module (ME). Specifically, EIE is used to obtain edge information on video frames. Afterward, the edge information is used as guidance to fuse with the frame features. In addition, ME can adaptively capture motion-sensitive features of videos. It adopts a self-gating mechanism to highlight motion-sensitive regions in videos from a large temporal receptive field. Based on the above designed components, EGME can capture edge information and motion cues, resulting in superior recognition performance. Experimental results on four challenging benchmarks show that EGME performs favorably against recent advanced methods.