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While important advances were recently made towards temporally localizing and recognizing specific human actions or activities in videos, efficient detection and classification of long video chunks belonging to semantically defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Danila Potapov , Matthijs Douze , Jerome Revaud , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

In this paper we consider the problem of classifying fine-grained, multi-step activities (e.g., cooking different recipes, making disparate home improvements, creating various forms of arts and crafts) from long videos spanning up to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Xudong Lin , Fabio Petroni , Gedas Bertasius , Marcus Rohrbach , Shih-Fu Chang , Lorenzo Torresani

Moments capture a huge part of our lives. Accurate recognition of these moments is challenging due to the diverse and complex interpretation of the moments. Action recognition refers to the act of classifying the desired action/activity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Ankit Shah , Harini Kesavamoorthy , Poorva Rane , Pramati Kalwad , Alexander Hauptmann , Florian Metze

With the explosive growth of video data in real-world applications, a comprehensive representation of videos becomes increasingly important. In this paper, we address the problem of video scene recognition, whose goal is to learn a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xuzheng Yu , Chen Jiang , Wei Zhang , Tian Gan , Linlin Chao , Jianan Zhao , Yuan Cheng , Qingpei Guo , Wei Chu

Few-shot action recognition aims to address the high cost and impracticality of manually labeling complex and variable video data in action recognition. It requires accurately classifying human actions in videos using only a few labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yuyang Wanyan , Xiaoshan Yang , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu

With advances in data-driven machine learning research, a wide variety of prediction models have been proposed to capture spatio-temporal features for the analysis of video streams. Recognising actions and detecting action transitions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Harshala Gammulle , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Simon Denman , Lachlan Tychsen-Smith , Lars Petersson , Clinton Fookes

Video anomaly detection aims to find the events in a video that do not conform to the expected behavior. The prevalent methods mainly detect anomalies by snippet reconstruction or future frame prediction error. However, the error is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Congqi Cao , Yue Lu , Yanning Zhang

Understanding temporal information and how the visual world changes over time is a fundamental ability of intelligent systems. In video understanding, temporal information is at the core of many current challenges, including compression,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Laura Sevilla-Lara , Shengxin Zha , Zhicheng Yan , Vedanuj Goswami , Matt Feiszli , Lorenzo Torresani

Many human activities take minutes to unfold. To represent them, related works opt for statistical pooling, which neglects the temporal structure. Others opt for convolutional methods, as CNN and Non-Local. While successful in learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Noureldien Hussein , Efstratios Gavves , Arnold W. M. Smeulders

Tiny Actions Challenge focuses on understanding human activities in real-world surveillance. Basically, there are two main difficulties for activity recognition in this scenario. First, human activities are often recorded at a distance, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Boyu Chen , Yu Qiao , Yali Wang

How do two individuals differ when performing the same action? In this work, we introduce Video Action Differencing (VidDiff), the novel task of identifying subtle differences between videos of the same action, which has many applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 James Burgess , Xiaohan Wang , Yuhui Zhang , Anita Rau , Alejandro Lozano , Lisa Dunlap , Trevor Darrell , Serena Yeung-Levy

Video action recognition is one of the representative tasks for video understanding. Over the last decade, we have witnessed great advancements in video action recognition thanks to the emergence of deep learning. But we also encountered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Yi Zhu , Xinyu Li , Chunhui Liu , Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Yuanjun Xiong , Chongruo Wu , Zhi Zhang , Joseph Tighe , R. Manmatha , Mu Li

We propose a soft attention based model for the task of action recognition in videos. We use multi-layered Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) units which are deep both spatially and temporally. Our model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Shikhar Sharma , Ryan Kiros , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Video anomaly detection research is generally evaluated on short, isolated benchmark videos only a few minutes long. However, in real-world environments, security cameras observe the same scene for months or years at a time, and the notion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Zhengye Yang , Richard Radke

Current state-of-the-art human activity recognition is focused on the classification of temporally trimmed videos in which only one action occurs per frame. We propose a simple, yet effective, method for the temporal detection of activities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-14 Gurkirt Singh , Fabio Cuzzolin

Videos capture events that typically contain multiple sequential, and simultaneous, actions even in the span of only a few seconds. However, most large-scale datasets built to train models for action recognition in video only provide a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Mathew Monfort , Bowen Pan , Kandan Ramakrishnan , Alex Andonian , Barry A McNamara , Alex Lascelles , Quanfu Fan , Dan Gutfreund , Rogerio Feris , Aude Oliva

While existing video benchmarks largely consider specialized downstream tasks like retrieval or question-answering (QA), contemporary multimodal AI systems must be capable of well-rounded common-sense reasoning akin to human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Kate Sanders , Benjamin Van Durme

We investigate architectures of discriminatively trained deep Convolutional Networks (ConvNets) for action recognition in video. The challenge is to capture the complementary information on appearance from still frames and motion between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-13 Karen Simonyan , Andrew Zisserman

The recognition of behaviors in videos usually requires a combinatorial analysis of the spatial information about objects and their dynamic action information in the temporal dimension. Specifically, behavior recognition may even rely more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Lizong Zhang , Yiming Wang , Bei Hui , Xiujian Zhang , Sijuan Liu , Shuxin Feng

Though action recognition in videos has achieved great success recently, it remains a challenging task due to the massive computational cost. Designing lightweight networks is a possible solution, but it may degrade the recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Wenhao Wu , Dongliang He , Xiao Tan , Shifeng Chen , Yi Yang , Shilei Wen