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Weakly-supervised temporal action localization (WTAL) aims to recognize and localize action instances with only video-level labels. Despite the significant progress, existing methods suffer from severe performance degradation when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yangcen Liu , Ziyi Liu , Yuanhao Zhai , Wen Li , David Doerman , Junsong Yuan

This paper focuses on temporal localization of actions in untrimmed videos. Existing methods typically train classifiers for a pre-defined list of actions and apply them in a sliding window fashion. However, activities in the wild consist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Jiyang Gao , Chen Sun , Zhenheng Yang , Ram Nevatia

Temporal action localization (TAL), which involves recognizing and locating action instances, is a challenging task in video understanding. Most existing approaches directly predict action classes and regress offsets to boundaries, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Jiayi Shao , Xiaohan Wang , Ruijie Quan , Junjun Zheng , Jiang Yang , Yi Yang

Weakly supervised temporal action localization aims at learning the instance-level action pattern from the video-level labels, where a significant challenge is action-context confusion. To overcome this challenge, one recent work builds an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Le Yang , Junwei Han , Tao Zhao , Tianwei Lin , Dingwen Zhang , Jianxin Chen

Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (W-TAL) aims to classify and localize all action instances in an untrimmed video under only video-level supervision. However, without frame-level annotations, it is challenging for W-TAL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Yuanhao Zhai , Le Wang , Wei Tang , Qilin Zhang , Junsong Yuan , Gang Hua

Locating actions in long untrimmed videos has been a challenging problem in video content analysis. The performances of existing action localization approaches remain unsatisfactory in precisely determining the beginning and the end of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Haonan Qiu , Yingbin Zheng , Hao Ye , Yao Lu , Feng Wang , Liang He

Recently, Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) has been densely studied but there is still a large gap between weakly-supervised models and fully-supervised models. It is practical and intuitive to annotate temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Xudong Lin , Zheng Shou , Shih-Fu Chang

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization (WTAL) intends to detect action instances with only weak supervision, e.g., video-level labels. The current~\textit{de facto} pipeline locates action instances by thresholding and grouping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Qinying Liu , Zilei Wang , Ruoxi Chen , Zhilin Li

Effectively tackling the problem of temporal action localization (TAL) necessitates a visual representation that jointly pursues two confounding goals, i.e., fine-grained discrimination for temporal localization and sufficient visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Zixin Zhu , Wei Tang , Le Wang , Nanning Zheng , Gang Hua

We propose TAL-Net, an improved approach to temporal action localization in video that is inspired by the Faster R-CNN object detection framework. TAL-Net addresses three key shortcomings of existing approaches: (1) we improve receptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Yu-Wei Chao , Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , Bryan Seybold , David A. Ross , Jia Deng , Rahul Sukthankar

Temporal action localization (TAL) is a fundamental yet challenging task in video understanding. Existing TAL methods rely on pre-training a video encoder through action classification supervision. This results in a task discrepancy problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Mengmeng Xu , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua , Xiatian Zhu , Bernard Ghanem , Brais Martinez

Temporal action localization (TAL) requires recognizing the target event and localizing its start and end times precisely in untrimmed videos. Recent vision-language formulations improve semantic reasoning and support language-conditioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Fengshun Wang , Zhengbo Zhang , Zhigang Tu

Online temporal action localization (On-TAL) is the task of identifying multiple action instances given a streaming video. Since existing methods take as input only a video segment of fixed size per iteration, they are limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Youngkil Song , Dongkeun Kim , Minsu Cho , Suha Kwak

Temporal action localization is an important step towards video understanding. Most current action localization methods depend on untrimmed videos with full temporal annotations of action instances. However, it is expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Ashraful Islam , Richard J. Radke

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) has experienced remarkable success under the supervised learning paradigm. However, existing TAL methods are rooted in the closed set assumption, which cannot handle the inevitable unknown actions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Wentao Bao , Qi Yu , Yu Kong

Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization (ZS-TAL) seeks to identify and locate actions in untrimmed videos unseen during training. Existing ZS-TAL methods involve fine-tuning a model on a large amount of annotated training data. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Benedetta Liberatori , Alessandro Conti , Paolo Rota , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

We address the problem of temporal action localization in videos. We pose action localization as a structured prediction over arbitrary-length temporal windows, where each window is scored as the sum of frame-wise classification scores.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Zehuan Yuan , Jonathan C. Stroud , Tong Lu , Jia Deng

Online Temporal Action Localization (On-TAL) aims to detect the occurrence time and category of actions in untrimmed streaming videos immediately upon their completion. Recent advancements in this field focus on developing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chaolei Han , Hongsong Wang , Xin Gong , Jie Gui

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

Few-shot temporal action localization (TAL) methods that adapt large models via single-prompt tuning often fail to produce precise temporal boundaries. This stems from the model learning a non-discriminative mean representation of an action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Edward Fish , Andrew Gilbert