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Learning to localize actions in long, cluttered, and untrimmed videos is a hard task, that in the literature has typically been addressed assuming the availability of large amounts of annotated training samples for each class -- either in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Ting-Ting Xie , Christos Tzelepis , Fan Fu , Ioannis Patras

In this paper, we address the problem of spatio-temporal person retrieval from multiple videos using a natural language query, in which we output a tube (i.e., a sequence of bounding boxes) which encloses the person described by the query.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Masataka Yamaguchi , Kuniaki Saito , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

Due to the rapid temporal and fine-grained nature of complex human assembly atomic actions, traditional action segmentation approaches requiring the spatial (and often temporal) down sampling of video frames often loose vital fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Matthew Kent Myers , Nick Wright , Stephen McGough , Nicholas Martin

Monitoring the progression of an action towards completion offers fine grained insight into the actor's behaviour. In this work, we target detecting the completion moment of actions, that is the moment when the action's goal has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Farnoosh Heidarivincheh , Majid Mirmehdi , Dima Damen

In this work, we propose a novel Spatial-Temporal Attention (STA) approach to tackle the large-scale person re-identification task in videos. Different from the most existing methods, which simply compute representations of video clips…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Yang Fu , Xiaoyang Wang , Yunchao Wei , Thomas Huang

Spatio-temporal action localization consists of three levels of tasks: spatial localization, action classification, and temporal localization. In this work, we propose a new progressive cross-stream cooperation (PCSC) framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Rui Su , Dong Xu , Luping Zhou , Wanli Ouyang

Surgical tool localization is an essential task for the automatic analysis of endoscopic videos. In the literature, existing methods for tool localization, tracking and segmentation require training data that is fully annotated, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Armine Vardazaryan , Didier Mutter , Jacques Marescaux , Nicolas Padoy

Recent research into human action recognition (HAR) has focused predominantly on skeletal action recognition and video-based methods. With the increasing availability of consumer-grade depth sensors and Lidar instruments, there is a growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 James Dickens

Skeleton-based temporal action segmentation is a fundamental yet challenging task, playing a crucial role in enabling intelligent systems to perceive and respond to human activities. While fully-supervised methods achieve satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hongsong Wang , Yiqin Shen , Pengbo Yan , Jie Gui

Instrument playing is among the most common scenes in music-related videos, which represent nowadays one of the largest sources of online videos. In order to understand the instrument-playing scenes in the videos, it is important to know…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Jen-Yu Liu , Yi-Hsuan Yang , Shyh-Kang Jeng

This work explores the performance of a large video understanding foundation model on the downstream task of human fall detection on untrimmed video and leverages a pretrained vision transformer for multi-class action detection, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Till Grutschus , Ola Karrar , Emir Esenov , Ekta Vats

Human body actions are an important form of non-verbal communication in social interactions. This paper specifically focuses on a subset of body actions known as micro-actions, which are subtle, low-intensity body movements with promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Kun Li , Pengyu Liu , Dan Guo , Fei Wang , Zhiliang Wu , Hehe Fan , Meng Wang

Localizing actions in video is a core task in computer vision. The weakly supervised temporal localization problem investigates whether this task can be adequately solved with only video-level labels, significantly reducing the amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Junwei Ma , Satya Krishna Gorti , Maksims Volkovs , Guangwei Yu

Action Detection is a complex task that aims to detect and classify human actions in video clips. Typically, it has been addressed by processing fine-grained features extracted from a video classification backbone. Recently, thanks to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Matteo Tomei , Lorenzo Baraldi , Simone Calderara , Simone Bronzin , Rita Cucchiara

We describe a latent approach that learns to detect actions in long sequences given training videos with only whole-video class labels. Our approach makes use of two innovations to attention-modeling in weakly-supervised learning. First,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Phuc Xuan Nguyen , Deva Ramanan , Charless C. Fowlkes

Location prediction forecasts a user's location based on historical user mobility traces. To tackle the intrinsic sparsity issue of real-world user mobility traces, spatiotemporal contexts have been shown as significantly useful. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Bangchao Deng , Bingqing Qu , Pengyang Wang , Dingqi Yang , Benjamin Fankhauser , Philippe Cudre-Mauroux

Nowadays, the interaction between humans and robots is constantly expanding, requiring more and more human motion recognition applications to operate in real time. However, most works on temporal action detection and recognition perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Vasiliki I. Vasileiou , Nikolaos Kardaris , Petros Maragos

Weakly supervised temporal action localization is a challenging vision task due to the absence of ground-truth temporal locations of actions in the training videos. With only video-level supervision during training, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Ashraful Islam , Chengjiang Long , Richard Radke

Since collecting and annotating data for spatio-temporal action detection is very expensive, there is a need to learn approaches with less supervision. Weakly supervised approaches do not require any bounding box annotations and can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Sovan Biswas , Juergen Gall

Learning to recognize actions from only a handful of labeled videos is a challenging problem due to the scarcity of tediously collected activity labels. We approach this problem by learning a two-pathway temporal contrastive model using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ankit Singh , Omprakash Chakraborty , Ashutosh Varshney , Rameswar Panda , Rogerio Feris , Kate Saenko , Abir Das