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We address a novel cross-domain few-shot learning task (CD-FSL) with multimodal input and unlabeled target data for egocentric action recognition. This paper simultaneously tackles two critical challenges associated with egocentric action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Masashi Hatano , Ryo Hachiuma , Ryo Fujii , Hideo Saito

Weakly supervised learning generally faces challenges in applicability to various scenarios with diverse weak supervision and in scalability due to the complexity of existing algorithms, thereby hindering the practical deployment. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Hao Chen , Jindong Wang , Lei Feng , Xiang Li , Yidong Wang , Xing Xie , Masashi Sugiyama , Rita Singh , Bhiksha Raj

Action recognition is a key problem in computer vision that labels videos with a set of predefined actions. Capturing both, semantic content and motion, along the video frames is key to achieve high accuracy performance on this task. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Xia Huang , Hossein Mousavi , Gemma Roig

In this paper, we propose a novel fully unsupervised framework that learns action representations suitable for the action segmentation task from the single input video itself, without requiring any training data. Our method is a deep metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 E. Bueno-Benito , B. Tura , M. Dimiccoli

Accurate identification of breast masses is crucial in diagnosing breast cancer; however, it can be challenging due to their small size and being camouflaged in surrounding normal glands. Worse still, it is also expensive in clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xinyu Xiong , Churan Wang , Wenxue Li , Guanbin Li

Modern deep learning models require large amounts of accurately annotated data, which is often difficult to satisfy. Hence, weakly supervised tasks, including weakly supervised object localization~(WSOL) and detection~(WSOD), have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Chen-Lin Zhang , Yin Li , Jianxin Wu

As a computer vision task, automatic object segmentation remains challenging in specialized image domains without massive labeled data, such as synthetic aperture sonar images, remote sensing, biomedical imaging, etc. In any domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hassan Baker , Matthew S. Emigh , Austin J. Brockmeier

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

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) automates the identification of unusual events, such as security threats in surveillance videos. In real-world applications, VAD models must effectively operate in cross-domain settings, identifying rare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yashika Jain , Ali Dabouei , Min Xu

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

Weakly-supervised learning based on, e.g., partially labelled images or image-tags, is currently attracting significant attention in CNN segmentation as it can mitigate the need for full and laborious pixel/voxel annotations. Enforcing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Hoel Kervadec , Jose Dolz , Meng Tang , Eric Granger , Yuri Boykov , Ismail Ben Ayed

This paper is about action segmentation under weak supervision in training, where the ground truth provides only a set of actions present, but neither their temporal ordering nor when they occur in a training video. We use a Hidden Markov…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Jun Li , Sinisa Todorovic

Humans perceive actions through key transitions that structure actions across multiple abstraction levels, whereas machines, relying on visual features, tend to over-segment. This highlights the difficulty of enabling hierarchical reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Junxian Huang , Ruichu Cai , Hao Zhu , Juntao Fang , Boyan Xu , Weilin Chen , Zijian Li , Shenghua Gao

Sequential video understanding, as an emerging video understanding task, has driven lots of researchers' attention because of its goal-oriented nature. This paper studies weakly supervised sequential video understanding where the accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Sixun Dong , Huazhang Hu , Dongze Lian , Weixin Luo , Yicheng Qian , Shenghua Gao

Recent temporal action segmentation approaches need frame annotations during training to be effective. These annotations are very expensive and time-consuming to obtain. This limits their performances when only limited annotated data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Sovan Biswas , Anthony Rhodes , Ramesh Manuvinakurike , Giuseppe Raffa , Richard Beckwith

Unsupervised video segmentation plays an important role in a wide variety of applications from object identification to compression. However, to date, fast motion, motion blur and occlusions pose significant challenges. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Yuan-Ting Hu , Jia-Bin Huang , Alexander G. Schwing

Learning latent actions from large-scale videos is crucial for the pre-training of scalable embodied foundation models, yet existing methods often struggle with action-irrelevant distractors. Although incorporating action supervision can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xizhou Bu , Jiexi Lyu , Fulei Sun , Ruichen Yang , Zhiqiang Ma , Wei Li

Few-shot learning aims to recognize instances from novel classes with few labeled samples, which has great value in research and application. Although there has been a lot of work in this area recently, most of the existing work is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Congqi Cao , Yajuan Li , Qinyi Lv , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Frame-level micro- and macro-expression spotting methods require time-consuming frame-by-frame observation during annotation. Meanwhile, video-level spotting lacks sufficient information about the location and number of expressions during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Wang-Wang Yu , Xian-Shi Zhang , Fu-Ya Luo , Yijun Cao , Kai-Fu Yang , Hong-Mei Yan , Yong-Jie Li

We introduce a novel approach for temporal activity segmentation with timestamp supervision. Our main contribution is a graph convolutional network, which is learned in an end-to-end manner to exploit both frame features and connections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Hamza Khan , Sanjay Haresh , Awais Ahmed , Shakeeb Siddiqui , Andrey Konin , M. Zeeshan Zia , Quoc-Huy Tran