MMAction2 V0.16.0 Release

Highlights

• Support using backbone from pytorch-image-models(timm)
• Support PIMS Decoder
• Demo for skeleton-based action recognition
• Support Timesformer

New Features

• Support using backbones from pytorch-image-models(timm) for TSN (#880)
• Support torchvision transformations in preprocessing pipelines (#972)
• Demo for skeleton-based action recognition (#972)
• Support Timesformer (#839)

Improvements

• Add a tool to find invalid videos (#907, #950)
• Add an option to specify spectrogram_type (#909)
• Add json output to video demo (#906)
• Add MIM related docs (#918)
• Rename lr to scheduler (#916)
• Support --cfg-options for demos (#911)
• Support number counting for flow-wise filename template (#922)
• Add Chinese tutorial (#941)
• Change ResNet3D default values (#939)
• Adjust script structure (#935)
• Add font color to args in long_video_demo (#947)
• Polish code style with Pylint (#908)
• Support PIMS Decoder (#946)
• Improve Metafiles (#956, #979, #966)
• Add links to download Kinetics400 validation (#920)
• Audit the usage of shutil.rmtree (#943)
• Polish localizer related codes(#913)

Bug and Typo Fixes

• Fix spatiotemporal detection demo (#899)
• Fix docstring for 3D inflate (#925)
• Fix bug of writing text to video with TextClip (#952)
• Fix mmcv install in CI (#977)

ModelZoo

• Add TSN with Swin Transformer backbone as an example for using pytorch-image-models(timm) backbones (#880)
• Port CSN checkpoints from VMZ (#945)
• Release various checkpoints for UCF101, HMDB51 and Sthv1 (#938)
• Support Timesformer (#839)
• Update TSM modelzoo (#981)