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Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to localize actions in untrimmed videos with only video-level action category labels. Most of previous methods ignore the incompleteness issue of Class Activation Sequences (CAS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Chen Ju , Peisen Zhao , Siheng Chen , Ya Zhang , Xiaoyun Zhang , Qi Tian

Spatio-temporal grounding describes the task of localizing events in space and time, e.g., in video data, based on verbal descriptions only. Models for this task are usually trained with human-annotated sentences and bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Brian Chen , Nina Shvetsova , Andrew Rouditchenko , Daniel Kondermann , Samuel Thomas , Shih-Fu Chang , Rogerio Feris , James Glass , Hilde Kuehne

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

Traditional temporal action localization (TAL) methods rely on large amounts of detailed annotated data, whereas few-shot TAL reduces this dependence by using only a few training samples to identify unseen action categories. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Mengshi Qi , Hongwei Ji , Wulian Yun , Xianlin Zhang , Huadong Ma

Existing temporal action detection (TAD) methods rely on large training data including segment-level annotations, limited to recognizing previously seen classes alone during inference. Collecting and annotating a large training set for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Sauradip Nag , Xiatian Zhu , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang

Real-world videos contain many complex actions with inherent relationships between action classes. In this work, we propose an attention-based architecture that models these action relationships for the task of temporal action localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Praveen Tirupattur , Kevin Duarte , Yogesh Rawat , Mubarak Shah

We propose an effective approach for spatio-temporal action localization in realistic videos. The approach first detects proposals at the frame-level and scores them with a combination of static and motion CNN features. It then tracks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Philippe Weinzaepfel , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

Temporal action segmentation (TAS) demands dense temporal supervision, yet most of the annotation cost in untrimmed videos is spent identifying and refining action transitions, where segmentation errors concentrate and small temporal shifts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Halil Ismail Helvaci , Sen-ching Samson Cheung

Training temporal action detection in videos requires large amounts of labeled data, yet such annotation is expensive to collect. Incorporating unlabeled or weakly-labeled data to train action detection model could help reduce annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Baifeng Shi , Qi Dai , Judy Hoffman , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell , Huijuan Xu

Training models dedicated to semantic segmentation requires a large amount of pixel-wise annotated data. Due to their costly nature, these annotations might not be available for the task at hand. To alleviate this problem, unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Fei Pan , Francois Rameau , Junsik Kim , In So Kweon

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) involves localizing and classifying action snippets in an untrimmed video. The emergence of large video foundation models has led RGB-only video backbones to outperform previous methods needing both RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Akshita Gupta , Gaurav Mittal , Ahmed Magooda , Ye Yu , Graham W. Taylor , Mei Chen

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

Repetitive action counting (RAC) aims to estimate the number of class-agnostic action occurrences in a video without exemplars. Most current RAC methods rely on a raw frame-to-frame similarity representation for period prediction. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sujia Wang , Xiangwei Shen , Yansong Tang , Xin Dong , Wenjia Geng , Lei Chen

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

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

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization (WTAL) learns to detect and classify action instances with only category labels. Most methods widely adopt the off-the-shelf Classification-Based Pre-training (CBP) to generate video features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Chen Ju , Kunhao Zheng , Jinxiang Liu , Peisen Zhao , Ya Zhang , Jianlong Chang , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

Annotating bounding boxes is costly and limits the scalability of object detection. This challenge is compounded by the need to preserve high accuracy while minimizing manual effort in real-world applications. Prior active learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rashi Sharma , Justin Timothy C. Bersamin , Karthikk Subramanian

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

Pedestrian attribute recognition has been an emerging research topic in the area of video surveillance. To predict the existence of a particular attribute, it is demanded to localize the regions related to the attribute. However, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Chufeng Tang , Lu Sheng , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Xiaolin Hu

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