Weakly-Supervised Action Segmentation and Unseen Error Detection in Anomalous Instructional Videos

Abstract

We present a novel method for weakly-supervised action segmentation and unseen error detection in anomalous instructional videos. In the absence of an appropriate dataset for this task, we introduce the Anomalous Toy Assembly (ATA) dataset 1, which comprises 1152 untrimmed videos of 32 participants assembling three different toys, recorded from four different viewpoints. The training set comprises 27 participants who assemble toys in an expected and consistent manner, while the test and validation sets comprise 5 participants who display sequential anomalies in their task. We introduce a weakly labeled segmentation algorithm that is a generalization of the constrained Viterbi algorithm and identifies potential anomalous moments based on the difference between future anticipation and current recognition results. The proposed method is not restricted by the training transcripts during testing, allowing for the inference of anomalous action sequences while maintaining real-time performance. Based on these segmentation results, we also introduce a baseline to detect pre-defined human errors, and benchmark results on the ATA dataset. Experiments were conducted on the ATA and CSV datasets, outperforming the state-of-the-art in segmenting anomalous videos under both online and offline conditions.