Brain-inspired multimodal motion and fine-grained action recognition
Yuening Li, Xiuhua Yang, Changkui Chen · Frontiers in Neurorobotics · 2025
Introduction: Traditional action recognition methods predominantly rely on a single modality, such as vision or motion, which presents significant limitations when dealing with fine-grained action recognition. These methods struggle particularly with video data containing complex combinations of actions and subtle motion variations. Methods: Typically, they depend on handcrafted feature extractors or simple convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures, which makes effective multimodal fusion challenging. This study introduces a novel architecture called FGM-CLIP (Fine-Grained Motion CLIP) to enhance fine-grained action recognition. FGM-CLIP leverages the powerful capabilities of Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP), integrating a fine-grained motion encoder and a multimodal fusion layer to achieve precise end-to-end action recognition. By jointly optimizing visual and motion features, the model captures subtle action variations, resulting in higher classification accuracy in complex video data. Results and discussion: Experimental results demonstrate that FGM-CLIP significantly outperforms existing methods on multiple fine-grained action recognition datasets. Its multimodal fusion strategy notably improves the model's robustness and accuracy, particularly for videos with intricate action patterns.