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Weakly-supervised audio-visual video parsing (AVVP) seeks to detect audible, visible, and audio-visual events without temporal annotations. Previous work has emphasized refining global predictions through contrastive or collaborative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yaru Chen , Ruohao Guo , Liting Gao , Yang Xiang , Qingyu Luo , Zhenbo Li , Wenwu Wang

We introduce the task of weakly supervised learning for detecting human and object interactions in videos. Our task poses unique challenges as a system does not know what types of human-object interactions are present in a video or the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Shuang Li , Yilun Du , Antonio Torralba , Josef Sivic , Bryan Russell

This study focuses on weakly-supervised Video Moment Retrieval (VMR), aiming to identify a moment semantically similar to the given query within an untrimmed video using only video-level correspondences, without relying on temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Bolin Zhang , Chao Yang , Bin Jiang , Takahiro Komamizu , Ichiro Ide

Weakly-supervised action segmentation is a task of learning to partition a long video into several action segments, where training videos are only accompanied by transcripts (ordered list of actions). Most of existing methods need to infer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Angchi Xu , Wei-Shi Zheng

Weakly supervised temporal action localization (WSTAL) aims to localize actions in untrimmed videos using video-level labels. Despite recent advances, existing approaches mainly follow a localization-by-classification pipeline, generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Songchun Zhang , Chunhui Zhao

Due to the lack of temporal annotation, current Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) methods are generally stuck into over-complete or incomplete localization. In this paper, we aim to leverage the text information to boost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Guozhang Li , De Cheng , Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Xiaoyu Wang , Xinbo Gao

Text-to-audio grounding (TAG) task aims to predict the onsets and offsets of sound events described by natural language. This task can facilitate applications such as multimodal information retrieval. This paper focuses on weakly-supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xuenan Xu , Ziyang Ma , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

In the Query Focused Multi-Document Summarization (QF-MDS) task, a set of documents and a query are given where the goal is to generate a summary from these documents based on the given query. However, one major challenge for this task is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Enamul Hoque , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) is a challenging problem that aims to learn VAD models only with video-level annotations. In this work, we propose a Long-Short Temporal Co-teaching (LSTC) method to address the WS-VAD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Shengyang Sun , Xiaojin Gong

One challenge with neural ranking is the need for a large amount of manually-labeled relevance judgments for training. In contrast with prior work, we examine the use of weak supervision sources for training that yield pseudo query-document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Sean MacAvaney , Andrew Yates , Kai Hui , Ophir Frieder

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization is a problem of learning an action localization model with only video-level action labeling available. The general framework largely relies on the classification activation, which employs an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Baifeng Shi , Qi Dai , Yadong Mu , Jingdong Wang

In this paper we propose a novel Temporal Attentive Relation Network (TARN) for the problems of few-shot and zero-shot action recognition. At the heart of our network is a meta-learning approach that learns to compare representations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Mina Bishay , Georgios Zoumpourlis , Ioannis Patras

Automatic facial action unit (AU) recognition is a challenging task due to the scarcity of manual annotations. To alleviate this problem, a large amount of efforts has been dedicated to exploiting various weakly supervised methods which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Jingwei Yan , Jingjing Wang , Qiang Li , Chunmao Wang , Shiliang Pu

Video understanding in multimodal language models remains limited by context length: models often miss key transition frames and struggle to maintain coherence across long time scales. To address this, we adapt Native Sparse Attention (NSA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Enxin Song , Wenhao Chai , Shusheng Yang , Ethan Armand , Xiaojun Shan , Haiyang Xu , Jianwen Xie , Zhuowen Tu

In this paper, we address a novel task, namely weakly-supervised spatio-temporally grounding natural sentence in video. Specifically, given a natural sentence and a video, we localize a spatio-temporal tube in the video that semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Zhenfang Chen , Lin Ma , Wenhan Luo , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Video summarization aims to simplify large scale video browsing by generating concise, short summaries that diver from but well represent the original video. Due to the scarcity of video annotations, recent progress for video summarization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Guande Wu , Jianzhe Lin , Claudio T. Silva

The task of language-guided video temporal grounding is to localize the particular video clip corresponding to a query sentence in an untrimmed video. Though progress has been made continuously in this field, some issues still need to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Binjie Zhang , Yu Li , Chun Yuan , Dejing Xu , Pin Jiang , Ying Shan

The task of weakly supervised temporal sentence grounding (WSTSG) aims to detect temporal intervals corresponding to a language description from untrimmed videos with only video-level video-language correspondence. For an anchor sample,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lu Dong , Haiyu Zhang , Hongjie Zhang , Yifei Huang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang , Yali Wang

Supervised ASR models have reached unprecedented levels of accuracy, thanks in part to ever-increasing amounts of labelled training data. However, in many applications and locales, only moderate amounts of data are available, which has led…

Recent video diffusion models (VDMs) synthesize visually convincing clips, yet still drop entities, mis-bind attributes, and weaken the interactions specified in the prompt. Representation-alignment objectives such as VideoREPA and MoAlign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiesong Lian , Zixiang Zhou , Ruizhe Zhong , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Rui Wang , Long Hu , Yixue Hao , Baoru Huang