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We introduce Activity Graph Transformer, an end-to-end learnable model for temporal action localization, that receives a video as input and directly predicts a set of action instances that appear in the video. Detecting and localizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Megha Nawhal , Greg Mori

Temporal action localization is an important and challenging task that aims to locate temporal regions in real-world untrimmed videos where actions occur and recognize their classes. It is widely acknowledged that video context is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Xin Qin , Hanbin Zhao , Guangchen Lin , Hao Zeng , Songcen Xu , Xi 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

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

Temporal action proposal generation is an important yet challenging problem, since temporal proposals with rich action content are indispensable for analysing real-world videos with long duration and high proportion irrelevant content. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Tianwei Lin , Xu Zhao , Haisheng Su , Chongjing Wang , Ming Yang

This report presents our method for Temporal Action Localisation (TAL), which focuses on identifying and classifying actions within specific time intervals throughout a video sequence. We employ a data augmentation technique by expanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yinan Han , Qingyuan Jiang , Hongming Mei , Yang Yang , Jinhui Tang

Generating temporal action proposals remains a very challenging problem, where the main issue lies in predicting precise temporal proposal boundaries and reliable action confidence in long and untrimmed real-world videos. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Chuming Lin , Jian Li , Yabiao Wang , Ying Tai , Donghao Luo , Zhipeng Cui , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Rongrong Ji

We present a Temporal Context Network (TCN) for precise temporal localization of human activities. Similar to the Faster-RCNN architecture, proposals are placed at equal intervals in a video which span multiple temporal scales. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Xiyang Dai , Bharat Singh , Guyue Zhang , Larry S. Davis , Yan Qiu Chen

Temporal action localization is a recently-emerging task, aiming to localize video segments from untrimmed videos that contain specific actions. Despite the remarkable recent progress, most two-stage action localization methods still suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Guoqiang Gong , Liangfeng Zheng , Kun Bai , Yadong Mu

Temporal action localization in untrimmed videos is an important but difficult task. Difficulties are encountered in the application of existing methods when modeling temporal structures of videos. In the present study, we developed a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yuan Zhou , Hongru Li , Sun-Yuan Kung

Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to detect all action boundaries and their corresponding categories in an untrimmed video. The unclear boundaries of actions in videos often result in imprecise predictions of action boundaries by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Dingfeng Shi , Qiong Cao , Yujie Zhong , Shan An , Jian Cheng , Haogang Zhu , Dacheng Tao

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

We address temporal action localization in untrimmed long videos. This is important because videos in real applications are usually unconstrained and contain multiple action instances plus video content of background scenes or other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Zheng Shou , Dongang Wang , Shih-Fu Chang

Temporal action recognition always depends on temporal action proposal generation to hypothesize actions and algorithms usually need to process very long video sequences and output the starting and ending times of each potential action in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Tian Wang , Shiye Lei , Youyou Jiang , Choi Chang , Hichem Snoussi , Guangcun Shan

Temporal action localization aims to localize starting and ending time with action category. Limited by GPU memory, mainstream methods pre-extract features for each video. Therefore, feature quality determines the upper bound of detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Zhiwu Qing , Xiang Wang , Ziyuan Huang , Yutong Feng , Shiwei Zhang , jianwen Jiang , Mingqian Tang , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

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) involves dual tasks to classify and localize actions within untrimmed videos. However, the two tasks often have conflicting requirements for features. Existing methods typically employ separate heads for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Qiang Li , Di Liu , Jun Kong , Sen Li , Hui Xu , Jianzhong Wang

The main challenge of Temporal Action Localization is to retrieve subtle human actions from various co-occurring ingredients, e.g., context and background, in an untrimmed video. While prior approaches have achieved substantial progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Kun Xia , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou , Nanning Zheng , Wei Tang

In this work, we address the problem of spatio-temporal action detection in temporally untrimmed videos. It is an important and challenging task as finding accurate human actions in both temporal and spatial space is important for analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Zhenheng Yang , Jiyang Gao , Ram Nevatia

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) remains a fundamental challenge in video understanding, aiming to identify the start time, end time, and category of all action instances within untrimmed videos. While recent single-stage, anchor-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Thisara Rathnayaka , Uthayasanker Thayasivam