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Temporal Action Localization (TAL) requires identifying both the boundaries and categories of actions in untrimmed videos. While vision-language models (VLMs) offer rich semantics to complement visual evidence, existing approaches tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiaqi Li , Guangming Wang , Shuntian Zheng , Minzhe Ni , Xiaoman Lu , Guanghui Ye , Yu Guan

Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) aims to classify and localize temporal boundaries of actions for the video, given only video-level category labels in the training datasets. Due to the lack of boundary information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Guozhang Li , De Cheng , Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Jie Li , Xinbo Gao

We introduce the task of retrieving relevant video moments from a large corpus of untrimmed, unsegmented videos given a natural language query. Our task poses unique challenges as a system must efficiently identify both the relevant videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Victor Escorcia , Mattia Soldan , Josef Sivic , Bernard Ghanem , Bryan Russell

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) is a critical task in video analysis, identifying precise start and end times of actions. Existing methods like CNNs, RNNs, GCNs, and Transformers have limitations in capturing long-range dependencies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sangyoun Lee , Juho Jung , Changdae Oh , Sunghee Yun

Zero-shot temporal action localization (ZS-TAL) consists of classifying and localizing actions in untrimmed videos, where action classes are unseen at training time. Existing work uses Vision and Language Models (VLMs), taking advantage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Benedetta Liberatori , Alessandro Conti , Lorenzo Vaquero , Paolo Rota , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

Traditional temporal action localization (TAL) methods rely on large amounts of detailed annotated data, whereas few-shot TAL reduces this dependence by using only a few training samples to identify unseen action categories. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Mengshi Qi , Hongwei Ji , Wulian Yun , Xianlin Zhang , Huadong Ma

Detecting actions in videos have been widely applied in on-device applications. Practical on-device videos are always untrimmed with both action and background. It is desirable for a model to both recognize the class of action and localize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Yue Tang , Yawen Wu , Peipei Zhou , Jingtong Hu

Temporal Action Detection (TAD), the task of localizing and classifying actions in untrimmed video, remains challenging due to action overlaps and variable action durations. Recent findings suggest that TAD performance is dependent on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Aglind Reka , Diana Laura Borza , Dominick Reilly , Michal Balazia , Francois Bremond

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) task which is to predict the start and end of each action in a video along with the class label of the action has numerous applications in the real world. But due to the complexity of this task, acceptable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Hassan Keshvarikhojasteh , Hoda Mohammadzade , Hamid Behroozi

The task of language-guided video temporal grounding is to localize the particular video clip corresponding to a query sentence in an untrimmed video. Though progress has been made continuously in this field, some issues still need to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Binjie Zhang , Yu Li , Chun Yuan , Dejing Xu , Pin Jiang , Ying Shan

Temporal Action Detection (TAD) is an essential and challenging topic in video understanding, aiming to localize the temporal segments containing human action instances and predict the action categories. The previous works greatly rely upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jiannan Wu , Peize Sun , Shoufa Chen , Jiewen Yang , Zihao Qi , Lan Ma , Ping Luo

Temporal action localization (TAL) aims to detect the boundary and identify the class of each action instance in a long untrimmed video. Current approaches treat video frames homogeneously, and tend to give background and key objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yifan Liu , Youbao Tang , Ning Zhang , Ruei-Sung Lin , Haoqian Wang

Temporal action localization (TAL), which involves recognizing and locating action instances, is a challenging task in video understanding. Most existing approaches directly predict action classes and regress offsets to boundaries, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Jiayi Shao , Xiaohan Wang , Ruijie Quan , Junjun Zheng , Jiang Yang , Yi Yang

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization (WS-TAL) aims to localize actions in untrimmed videos with only video-level labels. Most existing models follow the "localization by classification" procedure: locate temporal regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Can Zhang , Meng Cao , Dongming Yang , Jie Chen , Yuexian Zou

Recently, temporal action localization (TAL) has garnered significant interest in information retrieval community. However, existing supervised/weakly supervised methods are heavily dependent on extensive labeled temporal boundaries and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yupeng Hu , Han Jiang , Hao Liu , Kun Wang , Haoyu Tang , Liqiang Nie

In the task of temporal action localization of ActivityNet-1.3 datasets, we propose to locate the temporal boundaries of each action and predict action class in untrimmed videos. We first apply VideoSwinTransformer as feature extractor to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Shimin Chen , Wei Li , Jianyang Gu , Chen Chen , Yandong Guo

We address the problem of language-based temporal localization of moments in untrimmed videos. Compared to temporal localization with fixed categories, this problem is more challenging as the language-based queries have no predefined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Madhawa Vidanapathirana , Supriya Pandhre , Sonia Raychaudhuri , Anjali Khurana

Due to the lack of temporal annotation, current Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) methods are generally stuck into over-complete or incomplete localization. In this paper, we aim to leverage the text information to boost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Guozhang Li , De Cheng , Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Xiaoyu Wang , Xinbo Gao

Online Temporal Action Localization (On-TAL) aims to detect the occurrence time and category of actions in untrimmed streaming videos immediately upon their completion. Recent advancements in this field focus on developing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chaolei Han , Hongsong Wang , Xin Gong , Jie Gui

Online temporal action localization (On-TAL) is the task of identifying multiple action instances given a streaming video. Since existing methods take as input only a video segment of fixed size per iteration, they are limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Youngkil Song , Dongkeun Kim , Minsu Cho , Suha Kwak