Multi-Task Edge Prediction in Temporally-Dynamic Video Graphs


Osman Ülger (University of Amsterdam),* Julian Wiederer (Ulm University), Mohsen Ghafoorian (TomTom), Vasileios Belagiannis (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Pascal Mettes (University of Amsterdam)
The 33rd British Machine Vision Conference

Abstract

Graph neural networks have shown to learn effective node representations, enabling node-, link-, and graph-level inference. Conventional graph networks assume static relations between nodes, while relations between entities in a video often evolve over time, with nodes entering and exiting dynamically. In such temporally-dynamic graphs, a core problem is inferring the future state of spatio-temporal edges, which can constitute multiple types of relations. To address this problem, we propose MTD-GNN, a graph network for predicting temporally-dynamic edges for multiple types of relations. We propose a factorized spatio-temporal graph attention layer to learn dynamic node representations and present a multi-task edge prediction loss that models multiple relations simultaneously. The proposed architecture operates on top of scene graphs that we obtain from videos through object detection and spatio-temporal linking. Experimental evaluations on ActionGenome and CLEVRER show that modeling multiple relations in our temporally-dynamic graph network can be mutually beneficial, outperforming existing static and spatio-temporal graph neural networks, as well as state-of-the-art predicate classification methods. Code is available at https://github.com/ozzyou/MTD-GNN.

Video



Citation

@inproceedings{Ülger_2022_BMVC,
author    = {Osman Ülger and Julian Wiederer and Mohsen Ghafoorian and Vasileios Belagiannis and Pascal Mettes},
title     = {Multi-Task Edge Prediction in Temporally-Dynamic Video Graphs},
booktitle = {33rd British Machine Vision Conference 2022, {BMVC} 2022, London, UK, November 21-24, 2022},
publisher = {{BMVA} Press},
year      = {2022},
url       = {https://bmvc2022.mpi-inf.mpg.de/0968.pdf}
}


Copyright © 2022 The British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition
The British Machine Vision Conference is organised by The British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition. The Association is a Company limited by guarantee, No.2543446, and a non-profit-making body, registered in England and Wales as Charity No.1002307 (Registered Office: Dept. of Computer Science, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK).

Imprint | Data Protection