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Current state-of-the-art methods solve spatiotemporal action localisation by extending 2D anchors to 3D-cuboid proposals on stacks of frames, to generate sets of temporally connected bounding boxes called \textit{action micro-tubes}.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-02 Gurkirt Singh , Suman Saha , Fabio Cuzzolin

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

We present a model for temporally precise action spotting in videos, which uses a dense set of detection anchors, predicting a detection confidence and corresponding fine-grained temporal displacement for each anchor. We experiment with two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 João V. B. Soares , Avijit Shah , Topojoy Biswas

Self-attention based Transformer models have demonstrated impressive results for image classification and object detection, and more recently for video understanding. Inspired by this success, we investigate the application of Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Chenlin Zhang , Jianxin Wu , Yin Li

Existing anchor-based and anchor-free object detectors in multi-stage or one-stage pipelines have achieved very promising detection performance. However, they still encounter the design difficulty in hand-crafted 2D anchor definition and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Geng Zhan , Dan Xu , Guo Lu , Wei Wu , Chunhua Shen , Wanli Ouyang

Temporal action detection aims at not only recognizing action category but also detecting start time and end time for each action instance in an untrimmed video. The key challenge of this task is to accurately classify the action and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Wen Wang , Yongjian Wu , Haijun Liu , Shiguang Wang , Jian Cheng

Current one-stage action detection methods, which simultaneously predict action boundaries and the corresponding class, do not estimate or use a measure of confidence in their boundary predictions, which can lead to inaccurate boundaries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Hanyuan Wang , Majid Mirmehdi , Dima Damen , Toby Perrett

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

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to localize action instances temporal boundary and identify the corresponding action category with only video-level labels. Traditional methods mainly focus on foreground and background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Sanqing Qu , Guang Chen , Zhijun Li , Lijun Zhang , Fan Lu , Alois Knoll

Recognition and localization of surgical detailed actions is an essential component of developing a context-aware decision support system. However, most existing detection algorithms fail to provide high-accuracy action classes even having…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Luoying Hao , Yan Hu , Wenjun Lin , Qun Wang , Heng Li , Huazhu Fu , Jinming Duan , Jiang Liu

We tackle the problem of localizing temporal intervals of actions with only a single frame label for each action instance for training. Owing to label sparsity, existing work fails to learn action completeness, resulting in fragmentary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Pilhyeon Lee , Hyeran Byun

Online Temporal Action Localization (On-TAL) aims to immediately provide action instances from untrimmed streaming videos. The model is not allowed to utilize future frames and any processing techniques to modify past predictions, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Tuan N. Tang , Jungin Park , Kwonyoung Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

This technical report analyzes a temporal action localization method we used in the HACS competition which is hosted in Activitynet Challenge 2020.The goal of our task is to locate the start time and end time of the action in the untrimmed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Zhiwu Qing , Xiang Wang , Yongpeng Sang , Changxin Gao , Shiwei Zhang , Nong Sang

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) is a critical task in video analysis, identifying precise start and end times of actions. Existing methods like CNNs, RNNs, GCNs, and Transformers have limitations in capturing long-range dependencies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sangyoun Lee , Juho Jung , Changdae Oh , Sunghee Yun

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) task which is to predict the start and end of each action in a video along with the class label of the action has numerous applications in the real world. But due to the complexity of this task, acceptable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Hassan Keshvarikhojasteh , Hoda Mohammadzade , Hamid Behroozi

We propose a novel and flexible anchor mechanism named MetaAnchor for object detection frameworks. Unlike many previous detectors model anchors via a predefined manner, in MetaAnchor anchor functions could be dynamically generated from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Tong Yang , Xiangyu Zhang , Zeming Li , Wenqiang Zhang , Jian Sun

In the task of temporal action localization of ActivityNet-1.3 datasets, we propose to locate the temporal boundaries of each action and predict action class in untrimmed videos. We first apply VideoSwinTransformer as feature extractor to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Shimin Chen , Wei Li , Jianyang Gu , Chen Chen , Yandong Guo

In this paper, a cooperative localization algorithm is proposed that considers the existence of obstacles in mobilityassisted wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this scheme, a mobile anchor (MA) node cooperates with static sensor nodes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hongyang Chen , Qingjiang Shi , Pei Huang , H. Vincent Poor , Kaoru Sezaki

Location-aware networks will introduce new services and applications for modern convenience, surveillance, and public safety. In this paper, we consider the problem of cooperative localization in a wireless network where the position of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Wenyu Zhang , Bryan Teague , Florian Meyer

Detecting activities in untrimmed videos is an important but challenging task. The performance of existing methods remains unsatisfactory, e.g., they often meet difficulties in locating the beginning and end of a long complex action. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Yuanjun Xiong , Yue Zhao , Limin Wang , Dahua Lin , Xiaoou Tang