# Temporal Alignment Prediction for Few-Shot Video Classification

Source: [Temporal Alignment Prediction for Few-Shot Video Classification](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6b861e209131cea2ed57>)

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Authors: Fei Pan, Chunlei Xu, Jie Guo, Yanwen Guo

Published: 2021-07-26T05:12:27.000Z

## Abstract

The goal of few-shot video classification is to learn a classification model with good generalization ability when trained with only a few labeled videos. However, it is difficult to learn discriminative feature representations for videos in such a setting. In this paper, we propose Temporal Alignment Prediction (TAP) based on sequence similarity learning for few-shot video classification. In order to obtain the similarity of a pair of videos, we predict the alignment scores between all pairs of temporal positions in the two videos with the temporal alignment prediction function. Besides, the inputs to this function are also equipped with the context information in the temporal domain. We evaluate TAP on two video classification benchmarks including Kinetics and Something-Something V2. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of TAP and show its superiority over state-of-the-art methods.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11960>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.11960.pdf>)
