We present a novel method for few-shot video classification, which performs
appearance and temporal alignments. In particular, given a pair of query and
support videos, we conduct appearance alignment via frame-level feature
matching to achieve the appearance similarity score between the videos, while
utilizing temporal order-preserving priors for obtaining the temporal
similarity score between the videos. Moreover, we introduce a few-shot video
classification framework that leverages the above appearance and temporal
similarity scores across multiple steps, namely prototype-based training and
testing as well as inductive and transductive prototype refinement. To the best
of our knowledge, our work is the first to explore transductive few-shot video
classification. Extensive experiments on both Kinetics and Something-Something
V2 datasets show that both appearance and temporal alignments are crucial for
datasets with temporal order sensitivity such as Something-Something V2. Our
approach achieves similar or better results than previous methods on both
datasets. Our code is available at this https URL

提出了一种新的少样本视频分类方法，该方法通过外貌和时间对齐来进行，采用了原型训练和测试，以及归纳和推导原型细化。此方法在 Kinetics 和 Something-Something V2 数据集上进行了广泛实验，并取得了类似或更好的结果。