[Slowfast networks for video recognition](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2019/html/Feichtenhofer_SlowFast_Networks_for_Video_Recognition_ICCV_2019_paper.html)
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## Abstract
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We present SlowFast networks for video recognition. Our model involves (i) a Slow pathway, operating at low frame rate, to capture spatial semantics, and (ii) a Fast pathway, operating at high frame rate, to capture motion at fine temporal resolution. The Fast pathway can be made very lightweight by reducing its channel capacity, yet can learn useful temporal information for video recognition. Our models achieve strong performance for both action classification and detection in video, and large improvements are pin-pointed as contributions by our SlowFast concept. We report state-of-the-art accuracy on major video recognition benchmarks, Kinetics, Charades and AVA.
In data benchmark, we compare two different data preprocessing methods: (1) Resize video to 340x256, (2) Resize the short edge of video to 320px, (3) Resize the short edge of video to 256px.
1. The **gpus** indicates the number of gpu we used to get the checkpoint. It is noteworthy that the configs we provide are used for 8 gpus as default.
According to the [Linear Scaling Rule](https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.02677), you may set the learning rate proportional to the batch size if you use different GPUs or videos per GPU,
e.g., lr=0.01 for 4 GPUs x 2 video/gpu and lr=0.08 for 16 GPUs x 4 video/gpu.
2. The **inference_time** is got by this [benchmark script](/tools/analysis/benchmark.py), where we use the sampling frames strategy of the test setting and only care about the model inference time, not including the IO time and pre-processing time. For each setting, we use 1 gpu and set batch size (videos per gpu) to 1 to calculate the inference time.
3. The validation set of Kinetics400 we used consists of 19796 videos. These videos are available at [Kinetics400-Validation](https://mycuhk-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/1155136485_link_cuhk_edu_hk/EbXw2WX94J1Hunyt3MWNDJUBz-nHvQYhO9pvKqm6g39PMA?e=a9QldB). The corresponding [data list](https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/dataset/k400_val/kinetics_val_list.txt)(each line is of the format 'video_id, num_frames, label_index') and the [label map](https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/dataset/k400_val/kinetics_class2ind.txt) are also available.
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For more details on data preparation, you can refer to corresponding parts in [Data Preparation](/docs/en/data_preparation.md).
## Train
You can use the following command to train a model.
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_r50_video_320p_4x16x1_256e_kinetics400_rgb/slowonly_r50_video_320p_4x16x1_256e_kinetics400_rgb_20201014.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_r50_video_320p_4x16x1_256e_kinetics400_rgb/slowonly_r50_video_320p_4x16x1_256e_kinetics400_rgb_20201014.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_r50_4x16x1_256e_kinetics400_rgb/slowonly_r50_4x16_73.02_90.77.log.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_r50_4x16x1_256e_kinetics400_rgb/so_4x16.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_r50_8x8x1_256e_kinetics400_rgb/slowonly_r50_8x8_74.93_91.92.log.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_r50_8x8x1_256e_kinetics400_rgb/so_8x8.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_4x16x1_150e_kinetics400_rgb/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_4x16x1_150e_kinetics400_rgb_20200912.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_4x16x1_150e_kinetics400_rgb/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_4x16x1_150e_kinetics400_rgb_20200912.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x8x1_150e_kinetics400_rgb/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x8x1_150e_kinetics400_rgb_20200912.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x8x1_150e_kinetics400_rgb/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x8x1_150e_kinetics400_rgb_20200912.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_nl_embedded_gaussian_r50_4x16x1_150e_kinetics400_rgb/20210305_152630.log.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_nl_embedded_gaussian_r50_4x16x1_150e_kinetics400_rgb/20210305_152630.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_nl_embedded_gaussian_r50_8x8x1_150e_kinetics400_rgb/20210308_212250.log.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_nl_embedded_gaussian_r50_8x8x1_150e_kinetics400_rgb/20210308_212250.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_r50_4x16x1_256e_kinetics400_flow/slowonly_r50_4x16x1_256e_kinetics400_flow_61.8_83.6.log.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_r50_4x16x1_256e_kinetics400_flow/slowonly_r50_4x16x1_256e_kinetics400_flow_61.8_83.6.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_r50_8x8x1_256e_kinetics400_flow/slowonly_r50_8x8x1_196e_kinetics400_flow_65.8_86.3.log.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_r50_8x8x1_256e_kinetics400_flow/slowonly_r50_8x8x1_196e_kinetics400_flow_65.8_86.3.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_r50_video_8x8x1_256e_kinetics600_rgb/slowonly_r50_video_8x8x1_256e_kinetics600_rgb_20201015.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_r50_video_8x8x1_256e_kinetics600_rgb/slowonly_r50_video_8x8x1_256e_kinetics600_rgb_20201015.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_r50_video_8x8x1_256e_kinetics700_rgb/slowonly_r50_video_8x8x1_256e_kinetics700_rgb_20201015.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_r50_video_8x8x1_256e_kinetics700_rgb/slowonly_r50_video_8x8x1_256e_kinetics700_rgb_20201015.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_4x16x1_120e_gym99_rgb/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_4x16x1_120e_gym99_rgb_20201111.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_4x16x1_120e_gym99_rgb/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_4x16x1_120e_gym99_rgb_20201111.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_kinetics_pretrained_r50_4x16x1_120e_gym99_flow/slowonly_kinetics_pretrained_r50_4x16x1_120e_gym99_flow_20201111.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_kinetics_pretrained_r50_4x16x1_120e_gym99_flow/slowonly_kinetics_pretrained_r50_4x16x1_120e_gym99_flow_20201111.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x8x1_64e_jester_rgb/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x8x1_64e_jester_rgb.log.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x8x1_64e_jester_rgb/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x8x1_64e_jester_rgb.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x4x1_64e_hmdb51_rgb/20210605_185256.log.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x4x1_64e_hmdb51_rgb/20210605_185256.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_k400_pretrained_r50_8x4x1_40e_hmdb51_rgb/20210606_010153.log.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_k400_pretrained_r50_8x4x1_40e_hmdb51_rgb/20210606_010153.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x4x1_64e_ucf101_rgb/20210605_213503.log.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x4x1_64e_ucf101_rgb/20210605_213503.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_k400_pretrained_r50_8x4x1_40e_ucf101_rgb/20210606_010231.log.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_k400_pretrained_r50_8x4x1_40e_ucf101_rgb/20210606_010231.log
Training Json Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x4x1_64e_sthv1_rgb/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x4x1_64e_sthv1_rgb.json
Training Log:https://download.openmmlab.com/mmaction/recognition/slowonly/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x4x1_64e_sthv1_rgb/slowonly_imagenet_pretrained_r50_8x4x1_64e_sthv1_rgb.log