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Current methods for action recognition primarily rely on deep convolutional networks to derive feature embeddings of visual and motion features. While these methods have demonstrated remarkable performance on standard benchmarks, we are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Dian Shao , Yue Zhao , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

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

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

Foundation models (FMs) are large neural networks trained on broad datasets, excelling in downstream tasks with minimal fine-tuning. Human activity recognition in video has advanced with FMs, driven by competition among different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Thinesh Thiyakesan Ponbagavathi , Kunyu Peng , Alina Roitberg

Understanding human actions from videos is essential in many domains, including sports. In figure skating, technical judgments are performed by watching skaters' 3D movements, and its part of the judging procedure can be regarded as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ryota Tanaka , Tomohiro Suzuki , Keisuke Fujii

In this paper, we consider the problem of temporal action localization under low-shot (zero-shot & few-shot) scenario, with the goal of detecting and classifying the action instances from arbitrary categories within some untrimmed videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Chen Ju , Zeqian Li , Peisen Zhao , Ya Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Weakly supervised temporal action localization is a challenging vision task due to the absence of ground-truth temporal locations of actions in the training videos. With only video-level supervision during training, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Ashraful Islam , Chengjiang Long , Richard Radke

The recent introduction of the AVA dataset for action detection has caused a renewed interest to this problem. Several approaches have been recently proposed that improved the performance. However, all of them have ignored the main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Yubo Zhang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert , Cordelia Schmid

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) requires identifying both the boundaries and categories of actions in untrimmed videos. While vision-language models (VLMs) offer rich semantics to complement visual evidence, existing approaches tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiaqi Li , Guangming Wang , Shuntian Zheng , Minzhe Ni , Xiaoman Lu , Guanghui Ye , Yu Guan

While recent multimodal models have shown progress in vision-language tasks, small-scale variants still struggle with the fine-grained temporal reasoning required for video understanding. We introduce ReasonAct, a method that enhances video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiaxin Liu , Zhaolu Kang

While fine-grained object recognition is an important problem in computer vision, current models are unlikely to accurately classify objects in the wild. These fully supervised models need additional annotated images to classify objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Timnit Gebru , Judy Hoffman , Li Fei-Fei

Temporal Action Detection (TAD), the task of localizing and classifying actions in untrimmed video, remains challenging due to action overlaps and variable action durations. Recent findings suggest that TAD performance is dependent on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Aglind Reka , Diana Laura Borza , Dominick Reilly , Michal Balazia , Francois Bremond

Despite significant advances in video generation, synthesizing physically plausible human actions remains a persistent challenge, particularly in modeling fine-grained semantics and complex temporal dynamics. For instance, generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Dian Shao , Mingfei Shi , Shengda Xu , Haodong Chen , Yongle Huang , Binglu Wang

Temporally localizing actions in a video is a fundamental challenge in video understanding. Most existing approaches have often drawn inspiration from image object detection and extended the advances, e.g., SSD and Faster R-CNN, to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Fuchen Long , Ting Yao , Zhaofan Qiu , Xinmei Tian , Jiebo Luo , Tao Mei

The goal of Temporal Action Localization (TAL) is to find the categories and temporal boundaries of actions in an untrimmed video. Most TAL methods rely heavily on action recognition models that are sensitive to action labels rather than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hao Zhang , Chunyan Feng , Jiahui Yang , Zheng Li , Caili Guo

We propose a method for human action recognition, one that can localize the spatiotemporal regions that `define' the actions. This is a challenging task due to the subtlety of human actions in video and the co-occurrence of contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Yang Wang , Vinh Tran , Gedas Bertasius , Lorenzo Torresani , Minh Hoai

Current developments in temporal event or action localization usually target actions captured by a single camera. However, extensive events or actions in the wild may be captured as a sequence of shots by multiple cameras at different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Xiaolong Liu , Yao Hu , Song Bai , Fei Ding , Xiang Bai , Philip H. S. Torr

Every day, humans perform many closely related activities that involve subtle discriminative motions, such as putting on a shirt vs. putting on a jacket, or shaking hands vs. giving a high five. Activity recognition by ethical visual AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jeffrey Byrne , Greg Castanon , Zhongheng Li , Gil Ettinger

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

Understanding Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) is a crucial step for different applications including assistive robots, smart homes, and healthcare. However, to date, few benchmarks and methods have focused on complex ADLs, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Zane Durante , Robathan Harries , Edward Vendrow , Zelun Luo , Yuta Kyuragi , Kazuki Kozuka , Li Fei-Fei , Ehsan Adeli