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Detecting anomalies in surveillance footage is inherently challenging due to their unpredictable and context-dependent nature. This work introduces a novel context-aware zero-shot anomaly detection framework that identifies abnormal events…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Md. Rashid Shahriar Khan , Md. Abrar Hasan , Mohammod Tareq Aziz Justice

This paper addresses the problem of spatiotemporal localization of actions in videos. Compared to leading approaches, which all learn to localize based on carefully annotated boxes on training video frames, we adhere to a weakly-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Victor Escorcia , Cuong D. Dao , Mihir Jain , Bernard Ghanem , Cees Snoek

Action detection plays an important role in high-level video understanding and media interpretation. Many existing studies fulfill this spatio-temporal localization by modeling the context, capturing the relationship of actors, objects, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Jingcheng Ni , Jie Qin , Di Huang

Current methods for spatiotemporal action tube detection often extend a bounding box proposal at a given keyframe into a 3D temporal cuboid and pool features from nearby frames. However, such pooling fails to accumulate meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Gurkirt Singh , Vasileios Choutas , Suman Saha , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot action recognition by learning to associate video embeddings with class embeddings. However, a significant challenge arises when relying solely on action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yehna Kim , Young-Eun Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

In this paper, we propose Spatio-TEmporal Progressive (STEP) action detector---a progressive learning framework for spatio-temporal action detection in videos. Starting from a handful of coarse-scale proposal cuboids, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Xitong Yang , Xiaodong Yang , Ming-Yu Liu , Fanyi Xiao , Larry Davis , Jan Kautz

Video action detection (VAD) is a formidable vision task that involves the localization and classification of actions within the spatial and temporal dimensions of a video clip. Among the myriad VAD architectures, two-stage VAD methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Seok Hwan Lee , Taein Son , Soo Won Seo , Jisong Kim , Jun Won Choi

There is significant progress in recognizing traditional human activities from videos focusing on highly distinctive actions involving discriminative body movements, body-object and/or human-human interactions. Driver's activities are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Zachary Wharton , Ardhendu Behera , Yonghuai Liu , Nik Bessis

Recognizing how objects interact with each other is a crucial task in visual recognition. If we define the context of the interaction to be the objects involved, then most current methods can be categorized as either: (i) training a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Bohan Zhuang , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

Automatic video captioning is challenging due to the complex interactions in dynamic real scenes. A comprehensive system would ultimately localize and track the objects, actions and interactions present in a video and generate a description…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Mihai Zanfir , Elisabeta Marinoiu , Cristian Sminchisescu

Action recognition has typically treated actions and activities as monolithic events that occur in videos. However, there is evidence from Cognitive Science and Neuroscience that people actively encode activities into consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Jingwei Ji , Ranjay Krishna , Li Fei-Fei , Juan Carlos Niebles

Spatial and temporal relationships, both short-range and long-range, between objects in videos, are key cues for recognizing actions. It is a challenging problem to model them jointly. In this paper, we first present a new variant of Long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Zexi Chen , Bharathkumar Ramachandra , Tianfu Wu , Ranga Raju Vatsavai

We propose an action parsing algorithm to parse a video sequence containing an unknown number of actions into its action segments. We argue that context information, particularly the temporal information about other actions in the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Nagita Mehrseresht

We propose a self-supervised learning method to jointly reason about spatial and temporal context for video recognition. Recent self-supervised approaches have used spatial context [9, 34] as well as temporal coherency [32] but a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Unaiza Ahsan , Rishi Madhok , Irfan Essa

Action recognition and anticipation are key to the success of many computer vision applications. Existing methods can roughly be grouped into those that extract global, context-aware representations of the entire image or sequence, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Mohammad Sadegh Aliakbarian , Fatemehsadat Saleh , Basura Fernando , Mathieu Salzmann , Lars Petersson , Lars Andersson

Video prediction aims to predict future frames by modeling the complex spatiotemporal dynamics in videos. However, most of the existing methods only model the temporal information and the spatial information for videos in an independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Zheng Chang , Xinfeng Zhang , Shanshe Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Anticipating future actions based on spatiotemporal observations is essential in video understanding and predictive computer vision. Moreover, a model capable of anticipating the future has important applications, it can benefit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Tsung-Ming Tai , Giuseppe Fiameni , Cheng-Kuang Lee , Simon See , Oswald Lanz

Human action is naturally compositional: humans can easily recognize and perform actions with objects that are different from those used in training demonstrations. In this paper, we study the compositionality of action by looking into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Joanna Materzynska , Tete Xiao , Roei Herzig , Huijuan Xu , Xiaolong Wang , Trevor Darrell

Despite the rapid progress, existing works on action understanding focus strictly on one type of action agent, which we call actor---a human adult, ignoring the diversity of actions performed by other actors. To overcome this narrow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Chenliang Xu , Caiming Xiong , Jason J. Corso

By extracting spatial and temporal characteristics in one network, the two-stream ConvNets can achieve the state-of-the-art performance in action recognition. However, such a framework typically suffers from the separately processing of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yemin Shi , Yonghong Tian , Yaowei Wang , Tiejun Huang