Learning Representations for Predicting Future Activities

Mohammadreza Zolfaghari, Ozgun Cicek, Syed Mohsin Ali, Farzaneh Mahdisoltani, Can Zhang, Thomas Brox

Abstract: Foreseeing the future is one of the key factors of intelligence. It involves understanding of the past and current environment as well as decent experience of its possible dynamics. In this work, we address future prediction at the abstract level of activities. We propose a network module for learning embeddings of the environment's dynamics in a self-supervised way. To take the ambiguities and high variances in the future activities into account, we use a multi-hypotheses scheme that can represent multiple futures. We demonstrate the approach by classifying future activities on the Epic-Kitchens and Breakfast datasets. Moreover, we generate captions that describe the future activities.