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The goal of this paper is to determine the spatio-temporal location of actions in video. Where training from hard to obtain box annotations is the norm, we propose an intuitive and effective algorithm that localizes actions from their class…

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This paper presents a new method to describe spatio-temporal relations between objects and hands, to recognize both interactions and activities within video demonstrations of manual tasks. The approach exploits Scene Graphs to extract key…

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The goal of human action recognition is to temporally or spatially localize the human action of interest in video sequences. Temporal localization (i.e. indicating the start and end frames of the action in a video) is referred to as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Waqas Sultani , Qazi Ammar Arshad , Chen Chen

Autonomous driving systems require huge amounts of data to train. Manual annotation of this data is time-consuming and prohibitively expensive since it involves human resources. Therefore, active learning emerged as an alternative to ease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Javad Zolfaghari Bengar , Abel Gonzalez-Garcia , Gabriel Villalonga , Bogdan Raducanu , Hamed H. Aghdam , Mikhail Mozerov , Antonio M. Lopez , Joost van de Weijer

Human activity recognition is typically addressed by detecting key concepts like global and local motion, features related to object classes present in the scene, as well as features related to the global context. The next open challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Fabien Baradel , Natalia Neverova , Christian Wolf , Julien Mille , Greg Mori

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 problems such as sports video analytics, it is difficult to obtain accurate frame level annotations and exact event duration because of the lengthy videos and sheer volume of video data. This issue is even more pronounced in fast-paced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Kanav Vats , Mehrnaz Fani , Pascale Walters , David A. Clausi , John Zelek

Group activity detection in soccer can be done by using either video data or player and ball trajectory data. In current soccer activity datasets, activities are labelled as atomic events without a duration. Given that the state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Ryan Sanford , Siavash Gorji , Luiz G. Hafemann , Bahareh Pourbabaee , Mehrsan Javan

We present a semi-supervised learning approach to the temporal action segmentation task. The goal of the task is to temporally detect and segment actions in long, untrimmed procedural videos, where only a small set of videos are densely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Guodong Ding , Angela Yao

Soccer commentary plays a crucial role in enhancing the soccer game viewing experience for audiences. Previous studies in automatic soccer commentary generation typically adopt an end-to-end method to generate anonymous live text…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zeyu Jin , Xiaoyu Qin , Songtao Zhou , Kaifeng Yun , Jia Jia

The SoccerNet 2024 challenges represent the fourth annual video understanding challenges organized by the SoccerNet team. These challenges aim to advance research across multiple themes in football, including broadcast video understanding,…

Spatio-temporal action detection encompasses the tasks of localizing and classifying individual actions within a video. Recent works aim to enhance this process by incorporating interaction modeling, which captures the relationship between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Wei-Jhe Huang , Min-Hung Chen , Shang-Hong Lai

From Vision-Language-Action (VLA) systems to robotics, existing egocentric datasets primarily focus on action recognition tasks, while largely overlooking the inherent role of motion analysis in sports and other fast-movement scenarios. To…

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Soccer is one of the most popular sport worldwide, with live broadcasts frequently available for major matches. However, extracting detailed, frame-by-frame information on player actions from these videos remains a challenge. Utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Shikun Xu , Yandong Zhu , Gen Li , Changhu Wang

In many real-world complex systems, the behavior can be observed as a collection of discrete events generated by multiple interacting agents. Analyzing the dynamics of these multi-agent systems, especially team sports, often relies on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Rikuhei Umemoto , Keisuke Fujii

Recent methods for video action recognition have reached outstanding performances on existing benchmarks. However, they tend to leverage context such as scenes or objects instead of focusing on understanding the human action itself. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Philippe Weinzaepfel , Grégory Rogez

We have witnessed impressive advances in video action understanding. Increased dataset sizes, variability, and computation availability have enabled leaps in performance and task diversification. Current systems can provide coarse- and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Alexandros Stergiou , Ronald Poppe

Due to burdensome data requirements, learning from demonstration often falls short of its promise to allow users to quickly and naturally program robots. Demonstrations are inherently ambiguous and incomplete, making correct generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Wonjoon Goo , Scott Niekum

High-quality video datasets are foundational for training robust models in tasks like action recognition, phase detection, and event segmentation. However, many real-world video datasets suffer from annotation errors such as *mislabeling*,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Praditha Alwis , Soumyadeep Chandra , Deepak Ravikumar , Kaushik Roy

We propose a novel recurrent attentional structure to localize and recognize objects jointly. The network can learn to extract a sequence of local observations with detailed appearance and rough context, instead of sliding windows or…

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