The Something-Else Annotations

This repository provides instructions regarding the annotations used in the paper: 'Something-Else: Compositional Action Recognition with Spatial-Temporal Interaction Networks' (https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09930), project website available at https://joaanna.github.io/something_else/. We collected annotations for 180049 videos from the Something-Something Dataset (https://20bn.com/datasets/something-something), that include per frame bounding box annotation for each object and hand in the human-object interaction in the video.

The file containing annotations can be downloaded from:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XqZC2jIHqrLPugPOVJxCH_YWa275PBrZ in four parts, it containes a dictionary mapping each video id, the name of the video file to the list of per-frame annotations. The annotations assume that the frame rate of the videos is 12. An example of per-frame annotation is shown below, the names and number of "something's" in the frame correspond to the fields 'gt_placeholders' and 'nr_instances', the frame path is given in the field 'name', 'labels' is a list of object's and hand's bounding boxes and names.

   [
    {'gt_placeholders': ['pillow'],
     'labels': [{'box2d': {'x1': 97.64950730138266,
                          'x2': 427,
                          'y1': 11.889318166856967,
                          'y2': 239.92858832368972},
                          'category': 'pillow',
                          'standard_category': '0000'}},
                {'box2d': {'x1': 210.1160330781122,
                          'x2': 345.4329005999551,
                          'y1': 78.65516045335991,
                          'y2': 209.68758889799403},
                          'category': 'hand',
                          'standard_category': 'hand'}}],
     'name': '2/0001.jpg',
     'nr_instances': 2}, 
     {...},
     ...
     {...},
     ]

The annotations for example videos are a small subset of the annotation file, and can be found in annotations.json.

Citation

If you use our annotations in your research or wish to refer to the baseline results, please use the following BibTeX entry.

@inproceedings{CVPR2020_SomethingElse,
  title={Something-Else: Compositional Action Recognition with Spatial-Temporal Interaction Networks},
  author={Materzynska, Joanna and Xiao, Tete and Herzig, Roei and Xu, Huijuan and Wang, Xiaolong and Darrell, Trevor},
  booktitle = {CVPR},
  year={2020}
}

@inproceedings{goyal2017something,
  title={The" Something Something" Video Database for Learning and Evaluating Visual Common Sense.},
  author={Goyal, Raghav and Kahou, Samira Ebrahimi and Michalski, Vincent and Materzynska, Joanna and Westphal, Susanne and Kim, Heuna and Haenel, Valentin and Fruend, Ingo and Yianilos, Peter and Mueller-Freitag, Moritz and others},
  booktitle={ICCV},
  volume={1},
  number={4},
  pages={5},
  year={2017}
}

Dataset splits

The compositional, compositional shuffle, one-class compositional and few-shot splits of the Something Something v2 Dataset are available in the folder dataset_splits.

Visualization of the ground-truth bounding boxes

The folder videos contains example videos from the dataset and selected annotations file (full file available on google drive). To visualize videos with annotated bounding boxes run:

python annotate_videos.py

The annotated videos will be saved in the annotated_videos folder.

Visualization of the detected bounding boxes

Training

To train the models from our paper run:

                   --coord_feature_dim 256 --root_frames /path/to/frames 
                   --json_data_train dataset_splits/compositional/train.json 
                   --json_data_val dataset_splits/compositional/validation.json 
                   --json_file_labels dataset_splits/compositional/labels.json
                   --tracked_boxes /path/to/bounding_box_annotations.json

Place the data in the folder /path/to/frames each video bursted into frames in a separate folder. The ground-truth box annotations can be found in the google drive in parts and have to be concatenated in a single json file.

The models that are using appearance features are initialized with I3D network pre-trained on Kinetics, the checkpoint can be found in the google drive and should be placed in 'model/pretrained_weights/kinetics-res50.pth'.

We also provide some checkpoints to the trained models. To evaluate a model use the same script as for training with a flag --args.evaluate and path to the checkpoint --args.resume /path/to/checkpoint'

Acknowledgments

We used parts of code from following repositories: https://github.com/facebookresearch/SlowFast https://github.com/TwentyBN/something-something-v2-baseline