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The performance of object detection, to a great extent, depends on the availability of large annotated datasets. To alleviate the annotation cost, the research community has explored a number of ways to exploit unlabeled or weakly labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shijie Fang , Yuhang Cao , Xinjiang Wang , Kai Chen , Dahua Lin , Wayne Zhang

Temporal action detection (TAD) is an important yet challenging task in video analysis. Most existing works draw inspiration from image object detection and tend to reformulate it as a proposal generation - classification problem. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Chen Zhao , Merey Ramazanova , Mengmeng Xu , Bernard Ghanem

The goal of weakly-supervised video moment retrieval is to localize the video segment most relevant to the given natural language query without access to temporal annotations during training. Prior strongly- and weakly-supervised approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Reuben Tan , Huijuan Xu , Kate Saenko , Bryan A. Plummer

Weakly-supervised object localization (WSOL) has gained popularity over the last years for its promise to train localization models with only image-level labels. Since the seminal WSOL work of class activation mapping (CAM), the field has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Junsuk Choe , Seong Joon Oh , Sanghyuk Chun , Seungho Lee , Zeynep Akata , Hyunjung Shim

This technical report present an overview of our system proposed for the spatio-temporal action localization(SAL) task in ActivityNet Challenge 2019. Unlike previous two-streams-based works, we focus on exploring the end-to-end trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Chunfei Ma , Joonhyang Choi , Byeongwon Lee , Seungji Yang

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) aims to detect the start and end timestamps of actions in a video. However, the training of TAL models requires a substantial amount of manually annotated data. Data programming is an efficient method to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yuchen He , Jianbing Lv , Liqi Cheng , Lingyu Meng , Dazhen Deng , Yingcai Wu

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to localize action instances in videos with only video-level action labels. Existing methods mainly embrace a localization-by-classification pipeline that optimizes the snippet-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Qinying Liu , Zilei Wang , Shenghai Rong , Junjie Li , Yixin Zhang

Most existing weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods rely on Class Activation Mapping (CAM) to extract coarse class-specific localization maps using image-level labels. Prior works have commonly used an off-line heuristic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Lian Xu , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Wanli Ouyang , Ferdous Sohel , Dan Xu

For training a video-based action recognition model that accepts multi-view video, annotating frame-level labels is tedious and difficult. However, it is relatively easy to annotate sequence-level labels. This kind of coarse annotations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Vijay John , Yasutomo Kawanishi

Temporal action localization plays an important role in video analysis, which aims to localize and classify actions in untrimmed videos. The previous methods often predict actions on a feature space of a single-temporal scale. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Zan Gao , Xinglei Cui , Tao Zhuo , Zhiyong Cheng , An-An Liu , Meng Wang , Shenyong Chen

Action detection and temporal segmentation of actions in videos are topics of increasing interest. While fully supervised systems have gained much attention lately, full annotation of each action within the video is costly and impractical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Alexander Richard , Hilde Kuehne , Juergen Gall

In many applications, training machine learning models involves using large amounts of human-annotated data. Obtaining precise labels for the data is expensive. Instead, training with weak supervision provides a low-cost alternative. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Chidubem Arachie , Bert Huang

Weakly supervised point cloud semantic segmentation methods that require 1\% or fewer labels, hoping to realize almost the same performance as fully supervised approaches, which recently, have attracted extensive research attention. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Tianfang Sun , Zhizhong Zhang , Xin Tan , Yanyun Qu , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

Temporal action localization in untrimmed videos is an important but difficult task. Difficulties are encountered in the application of existing methods when modeling temporal structures of videos. In the present study, we developed a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yuan Zhou , Hongru Li , Sun-Yuan Kung

Temporal action segmentation (TAS) demands dense temporal supervision, yet most of the annotation cost in untrimmed videos is spent identifying and refining action transitions, where segmentation errors concentrate and small temporal shifts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Halil Ismail Helvaci , Sen-ching Samson Cheung

In recent years, there has been remarkable progress in supervised image segmentation. Video segmentation is less explored, despite the temporal dimension being highly informative. Semantic labels, e.g. that cannot be accurately detected in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Radu Sibechi , Olaf Booij , Nora Baka , Peter Bloem

The classification of carotid artery ultrasound images is a crucial means for diagnosing carotid plaques, holding significant clinical relevance for predicting the risk of stroke. Recent research suggests that utilizing plaque segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Haitao Gan , Lingchao Fu , Ran Zhou , Weiyan Gan , Furong Wang , Xiaoyan Wu , Zhi Yang , Zhongwei Huang

Temporal action localization is a recently-emerging task, aiming to localize video segments from untrimmed videos that contain specific actions. Despite the remarkable recent progress, most two-stage action localization methods still suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Guoqiang Gong , Liangfeng Zheng , Kun Bai , Yadong Mu

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to localize actions in untrimmed videos with only video-level action category labels. Most of previous methods ignore the incompleteness issue of Class Activation Sequences (CAS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Chen Ju , Peisen Zhao , Siheng Chen , Ya Zhang , Xiaoyun Zhang , Qi Tian

Existing weak supervision approaches use all the data covered by weak signals to train a classifier. We show both theoretically and empirically that this is not always optimal. Intuitively, there is a tradeoff between the amount of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-08 Hunter Lang , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan , David Sontag