A visualization tool for temporal action localization
Project description
VISTAL: A visualization tool for temporal action localization
A lightweight tool for visualizing temporal action localization results. It generates .ass subtitle files containing timelines for videos.
Installation
pip install vistal
Tutorial
Import the library
from vistal import vistal, ColourScheme, Colour
Pack the temporal labels into a list of tuple(start, end, label_id)
, for example:
prediction = [
# start, end, label_id
( 0, 2, 0),
( 2, 3, 1),
( 3, 5, 2),
( 5, 6, 3),
]
start
and end
are integers or floats in seconds, and label_id
are integer IDs for each action. It is best that the whole video duration is covered by (start, end)
sections.
And the actual temporal label, for example, is
ground_truth = [
( 0, 1, 0),
( 1, 1.8, 3),
( 1.8, 3.7, 1),
( 3.7, 4.5, 3),
( 4.5, 6, 2),
]
And another dict
maps from label IDs to their names:
label_names = {
0: 'foo',
1: 'bar',
2: 'baz',
3: 'background',
}
Now we create a colour scheme to determine what colour to represent each action:
colour_scheme = ColourScheme(
colours=[
Colour(b=255, g=0, r=0),
Colour(b=0, g=255, r=0),
Colour(b=0, g=0, r=255),
Colour(alpha=255),
]
)
Or, we can generate some random colours. The last action is background, therefore it should be transparent.
colour_scheme = ColourScheme(n_colours=4, transparent_id=3)
Suppose the video resolution is 1280x720, and it lasts for 6 seconds:
display_width = 1280
display_height = 720
video_duration = 6
The main function vistal
creates a subtitle object:
sub = vistal(
temporal_list_dict={
'gt ': ground_truth,
'pred': prediction
},
label_names=label_names,
colour_scheme=colour_scheme,
video_duration=video_duration,
display_width=display_width,
display_height=display_height,
timeline_height=72,
font_size=72,
font_name='Ubuntu Mono',
show_legend=True,
)
Save to an .ass
file:
sub.save('tutorial.ass')
Finally, play the video and load the subtitle to the player. Make sure your video player supports .ass
subtitle, for example PotPlayer. Here is how it looks like on a blank video:
For another complete example, see example.py.
FAQ
- What video player supports the generated subtitles?
- As far as I am aware of, VLC media player and PotPlayer on Windows works fine.
- Why the VLC media player sometimes fails to show some elements?
- Try restart the video, without unloading the subtitles. For example, click "next media" while in "loop one" mode.
- The moving cursor jumps rather than moves in PotPlayer.
- Try right click video -> subtitles -> Enable ASS/SSA subtitle animations.
- Why are everything looks like stretched?
display_width
anddisplay_height
do not match the video aspect ratio.
- How to burn the subtitles into the video?
- FFmpeg is capable of doing this. For example:
ffmpeg -i {input_video_path} -vf scale={width}x{height},subtitles={subtitle_path} {output_path}
- FFmpeg is capable of doing this. For example:
- How to put the subtitles outside the video?
- The solution is for PotPlayer. Aspect ratio of the display area (not video) leaving enough room for the subtitles needs to be determined beforehand, applied in right click -> Window Size -> Set Custom Window Size. Then
display_width
anddisplay_height
should match it too. Before playing the video, uncheck "Display text subs inside the video" in Preferences -> Subtitles.
- The solution is for PotPlayer. Aspect ratio of the display area (not video) leaving enough room for the subtitles needs to be determined beforehand, applied in right click -> Window Size -> Set Custom Window Size. Then
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