A Review of Machine Learning Methods Applied to Video Analysis Systems

Abstract: The paper provides a survey of the development of machine-learning techniques for video analysis. The survey provides a summary of the most popular deep learning methods used for human activity recognition. We discuss how popular architectures perform on standard datasets and highlight the differences from real-life datasets dominated by multiple activities performed by multiple participants over long periods. For real-life datasets, we describe the use of low-parameter models (with 200X or 1,000X fewer parameters) that are trained to detect a single activity after the relevant objects have been successfully detected. Our survey then turns to a summary of machine learning methods that are specifically developed for working with a small number of labeled video samples. Our goal here is to describe modern techniques that are specifically designed so as to minimize the amount of ground truth that is needed for training and testing video analysis systems. We provide summaries of the development of self-supervised learning, semi-supervised learning, active learning, and zero-shot learning for applications in video analysis. For each method, we provide representative examples.