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Human activity recognition aims to recognize the activities of daily living by utilizing the sensors on different body parts. However, when the labeled data from a certain body position (i.e. target domain) is missing, how to leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yiqiang Chen , Jindong Wang , Meiyu Huang , Han Yu

We propose an effective approach for spatio-temporal action localization in realistic videos. The approach first detects proposals at the frame-level and scores them with a combination of static and motion CNN features. It then tracks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Philippe Weinzaepfel , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

With video-level labels, weakly supervised temporal action localization (WTAL) applies a localization-by-classification paradigm to detect and classify the action in untrimmed videos. Due to the characteristic of classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Ziqiang Li , Yongxin Ge , Jiaruo Yu , Zhongming Chen

Despite great success has been achieved in activity analysis, it still has many challenges. Most existing work in activity recognition pay more attention to design efficient architecture or video sampling strategy. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Jingran Zhang , Fumin Shen , Xing Xu , Heng Tao Shen

The task of retrieving clips within videos based on a given natural language query requires cross-modal reasoning over multiple frames. Prior approaches such as sliding window classifiers are inefficient, while text-clip similarity driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Soham Ghosh , Anuva Agarwal , Zarana Parekh , Alexander Hauptmann

Online temporal action localization from an untrimmed video stream is a challenging problem in computer vision. It is challenging because of i) in an untrimmed video stream, more than one action instance may appear, including background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Da-Hye Yoon , Nam-Gyu Cho , Seong-Whan Lee

In this paper, we investigate that the normalized coordinate expression is a key factor as reliance on hand-crafted components in query-based detectors for temporal action detection (TAD). Despite significant advancements towards an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Ho-Joong Kim , Jung-Ho Hong , Heejo Kong , Seong-Whan Lee

The temporal action segmentation task segments videos temporally and predicts action labels for all frames. Fully supervising such a segmentation model requires dense frame-wise action annotations, which are expensive and tedious to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Guodong Ding , Angela Yao

Action localization in untrimmed videos is an important topic in the field of video understanding. However, existing action localization methods are restricted to a pre-defined set of actions and cannot localize unseen activities. Thus, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Zhu Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Zhijie Lin , Jingkuan Song , Deng Cai

This paper studies the task of temporal moment localization in a long untrimmed video using natural language query. Given a query sentence, the goal is to determine the start and end of the relevant segment within the video. Our key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Basura Fernando , Hongdong Li , Stephen Gould

For human action understanding, a popular research direction is to analyze short video clips with unambiguous semantic content, such as jumping and drinking. However, methods for understanding short semantic actions cannot be directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Kenneth Li , Xiao Sun , Zhirong Wu , Fangyun Wei , Stephen Lin

This report proposes an improved method for the Temporal Sound Localisation (TSL) task, which localizes and classifies the sound events occurring in the video according to a predefined set of sound classes. The champion solution from last…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Haowei Gu , Weihao Zhu , Yang Yang

Continuous-time reinforcement learning (CTRL) provides a natural framework for sequential decision-making in dynamic environments where interactions evolve continuously over time. While CTRL has shown growing empirical success, its ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Runze Zhao , Yue Yu , Ruhan Wang , Chunfeng Huang , Dongruo Zhou

In-context learning (ICL) enables generalization to new tasks with minimal labeled data. However, mainstream ICL approaches rely on a gridding strategy, which lacks the flexibility required for vision applications. We introduce Temporal, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Assefa Wahd , Jacob Jaremko , Abhilash Hareendranathan

While large-scale image-text pretrained models such as CLIP have been used for multiple video-level tasks on trimmed videos, their use for temporal localization in untrimmed videos is still a relatively unexplored task. We design a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Shen Yan , Xuehan Xiong , Arsha Nagrani , Anurag Arnab , Zhonghao Wang , Weina Ge , David Ross , Cordelia Schmid

With the release of large-scale motion datasets with textual annotations, the task of establishing a robust latent space for language and 3D human motion has recently witnessed a surge of interest. Methods have been proposed to convert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Kent Fujiwara , Mikihiro Tanaka , Qing Yu

Recent approaches have explored language-guided classifiers capable of classifying examples from novel tasks when provided with task-specific natural language explanations, instructions or prompts (Sanh et al., 2022; R. Menon et al., 2022).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Kangda Wei , Sayan Ghosh , Rakesh R. Menon , Shashank Srivastava

An integral part of video analysis and surveillance is temporal activity detection, which means to simultaneously recognize and localize activities in long untrimmed videos. Currently, the most effective methods of temporal activity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Lingling Zhang , Xiaojun Chang , Jun Liu , Minnan Luo , Sen Wang , Zongyuan Ge , Alexander Hauptmann

Weakly-supervised action localization aims to recognize and localize action instancese in untrimmed videos with only video-level labels. Most existing models rely on multiple instance learning(MIL), where the predictions of unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Guiqin Wang , Peng Zhao , Cong Zhao , Shusen Yang , Jie Cheng , Luziwei Leng , Jianxing Liao , Qinghai Guo

Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to locate and recognize the actions in an untrimmed video. Anchor-free methods have made remarkable progress which mainly formulate TAD into two tasks: classification and localization using two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Junshan Hu , Chaoxu guo , Liansheng Zhuang , Biao Wang , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Houqiang Li