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Temporal Action Detection (TAD) is challenging but fundamental for real-world video applications. Recently, DETR-based models have been devised for TAD but have not performed well yet. In this paper, we point out the problem in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jihwan Kim , Miso Lee , Jae-Pil Heo

Detection Transformer (DETR) and Deformable DETR have been proposed to eliminate the need for many hand-designed components in object detection while demonstrating good performance as previous complex hand-crafted detectors. However, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Qianyu Zhou , Xiangtai Li , Lu He , Yibo Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Yunhai Tong , Lizhuang Ma , Dacheng Tao

Most recent approaches for online action detection tend to apply Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to capture long-range temporal structure. However, RNN suffers from non-parallelism and gradient vanishing, hence it is hard to be optimized. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Zhiwu Qing , Yuanjie Shao , Zhengrong Zuo , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

Temporal Action Detection (TAD) requires precise localization of action boundaries within long, untrimmed video sequences. While current high-performing methods achieve strong accuracy, they are often characterized by excessive parameter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zepeng Sun , Naichuan Zheng , Hailun Xia , Junjie Wu , Liwei Bao , Xiaotai Zhang

Temporal action localization (TAL) is a task of identifying a set of actions in a video, which involves localizing the start and end frames and classifying each action instance. Existing methods have addressed this task by using predefined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Tae-Kyung Kang , Gun-Hee Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

We present a novel framework, Action Progression Network (APN), for temporal action detection (TAD) in videos. The framework locates actions in videos by detecting the action evolution process. To encode the action evolution, we quantify a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Chongkai Lu , Man-Wai Mak , Ruimin Li , Zheru Chi , Hong Fu

The task of action detection aims at deducing both the action category and localization of the start and end moment for each action instance in a long, untrimmed video. While vision Transformers have driven the recent advances in video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Yuetian Weng , Zizheng Pan , Mingfei Han , Xiaojun Chang , Bohan Zhuang

Temporal Action Detection (TAD) aims to identify the action boundaries and the corresponding category within untrimmed videos. Inspired by the success of DETR in object detection, several methods have adapted the query-based framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yuhan Zhu , Guozhen Zhang , Jing Tan , Gangshan Wu , Limin Wang

Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to locate and recognize the actions in an untrimmed video. Anchor-free methods have made remarkable progress which mainly formulate TAD into two tasks: classification and localization using two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Junshan Hu , Chaoxu guo , Liansheng Zhuang , Biao Wang , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Houqiang Li

Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to identify and localize action instances in untrimmed videos, which is essential for various video understanding tasks. However, recent improvements in model performance, driven by larger feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Xiaoyong Chen , Yong Guo , Jiaming Liang , Sitong Zhuang , Runhao Zeng , Xiping Hu

Most current pipelines for spatio-temporal action localization connect frame-wise or clip-wise detection results to generate action proposals, where only local information is exploited and the efficiency is hindered by dense per-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Yuxi Li , Weiyao Lin , John See , Ning Xu , Shugong Xu , Ke Yan , Cong Yang

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

Existing Temporal Action Detection (TAD) methods typically take a pre-processing step in converting an input varying-length video into a fixed-length snippet representation sequence, before temporal boundary estimation and action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Sauradip Nag , Xiatian Zhu , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang

Temporal Action Detection (TAD) is fundamental yet challenging for real-world video applications. Leveraging the unique benefits of transformers, various DETR-based approaches have been adopted in TAD. However, it has recently been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jihwan Kim , Miso Lee , Cheol-Ho Cho , Jihyun Lee , Jae-Pil Heo

In this work we introduce a fully end-to-end approach for action detection in videos that learns to directly predict the temporal bounds of actions. Our intuition is that the process of detecting actions is naturally one of observation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Serena Yeung , Olga Russakovsky , Greg Mori , Li Fei-Fei

Online temporal action localization (On-TAL) is the task of identifying multiple action instances given a streaming video. Since existing methods take as input only a video segment of fixed size per iteration, they are limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Youngkil Song , Dongkeun Kim , Minsu Cho , Suha Kwak

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

Recently, large-scale pre-trained vision-language models (e.g., CLIP), have garnered significant attention thanks to their powerful representative capabilities. This inspires researchers in transferring the knowledge from these large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Bin Wang , Wentong Li , Wenqian Wang , Mingliang Gao , Runmin Cong , Wei Zhang

Temporal action detection is a very important yet challenging problem, since videos in real applications are usually long, untrimmed and contain multiple action instances. This problem requires not only recognizing action categories but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Tianwei Lin , Xu Zhao , Zheng Shou

Temporal Action Detection (TAD) focuses on detecting pre-defined actions, while Moment Retrieval (MR) aims to identify the events described by open-ended natural language within untrimmed videos. Despite that they focus on different events,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yingsen Zeng , Yujie Zhong , Chengjian Feng , Lin Ma