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Temporal action localization is an important yet challenging research topic due to its various applications. Since the frame-level or segment-level annotations of untrimmed videos require amounts of labor expenditure, studies on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Chengwei Zhang , Yunlu Xu , Zhanzhan Cheng , Yi Niu , Shiliang Pu , Fei Wu , Futai Zou

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

Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WS-TAL) methods learn to localize temporal starts and ends of action instances in a video under only video-level supervision. Existing WS-TAL methods rely on deep features learned for action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Ziyi Liu , Le Wang , Wei Tang , Junsong Yuan , Nanning Zheng , Gang Hua

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

Weakly supervised temporal action localization aims to localize temporal boundaries of actions and simultaneously identify their categories with only video-level category labels. Many existing methods seek to generate pseudo labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Linjiang Huang , Liang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Psychological studies have found that human visual tracking system involves learning, memory, and planning. Despite recent successes, not many works have focused on memory and planning in deep learning based tracking. We are thus interested…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Zhenmei Shi , Haoyang Fang , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

We present a method for weakly-supervised action localization based on graph convolutions. In order to find and classify video time segments that correspond to relevant action classes, a system must be able to both identify discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Maheen Rashid , Hedvig Kjellström , Yong Jae Lee

Most activity localization methods in the literature suffer from the burden of frame-wise annotation requirement. Learning from weak labels may be a potential solution towards reducing such manual labeling effort. Recent years have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Sujoy Paul , Sourya Roy , Amit K Roy-Chowdhury

Weakly-supervised action localization requires training a model to localize the action segments in the video given only video level action label. It can be solved under the Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) framework, where a bag (video)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Zhekun Luo , Devin Guillory , Baifeng Shi , Wei Ke , Fang Wan , Trevor Darrell , Huijuan Xu

Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization (WS-TAL) task aims to recognize and localize temporal starts and ends of action instances in an untrimmed video with only video-level label supervision. Due to lack of negative samples of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Xiang Wang , Zhiwu Qing , Ziyuan Huang , Yutong Feng , Shiwei Zhang , Jianwen Jiang , Mingqian Tang , Yuanjie Shao , Nong Sang

Facial action units (AUs) are essential to decode human facial expressions. Researchers have focused on training AU detectors with a variety of features and classifiers. However, several issues remain. These are spatial representation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Wen-Sheng Chu , Fernando De la Torre , Jeffrey F. Cohn

Fine-grained action localization in untrimmed sports videos presents a significant challenge due to rapid and subtle motion transitions over short durations. Existing supervised and weakly supervised solutions often rely on extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Bikash Kumar Badatya , Vipul Baghel , Ravi Hegde

This paper proposes a novel multi-modal transformer network for detecting actions in untrimmed videos. To enrich the action features, our transformer network utilizes a new multi-modal attention mechanism that computes the correlations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Matthew Korban , Scott T. Acton , Peter Youngs

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

Despite the recent advances in video classification, progress in spatio-temporal action recognition has lagged behind. A major contributing factor has been the prohibitive cost of annotating videos frame-by-frame. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Anurag Arnab , Chen Sun , Arsha Nagrani , Cordelia Schmid

Temporal action localization aims at localizing action instances from untrimmed videos. Existing works have designed various effective modules to precisely localize action instances based on appearance and motion features. However, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Le Yang , Junwei Han , Tao Zhao , Nian Liu , Dingwen Zhang

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

Online action detection in untrimmed videos aims to identify an action as it happens, which makes it very important for real-time applications. Previous methods rely on tedious annotations of temporal action boundaries for training, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Mingfei Gao , Yingbo Zhou , Ran Xu , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

We address the problem of fine-grained action localization from temporally untrimmed web videos. We assume that only weak video-level annotations are available for training. The goal is to use these weak labels to identify temporal segments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-05 Chen Sun , Sanketh Shetty , Rahul Sukthankar , Ram Nevatia

Localizing unusual activities, such as human errors or surveillance incidents, in videos holds practical significance. However, current video understanding models struggle with localizing these unusual events likely because of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Hasnat Md Abdullah , Tian Liu , Kangda Wei , Shu Kong , Ruihong Huang