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Existing temporal action localization (TAL) works rely on a large number of training videos with exhaustive segment-level annotation, preventing them from scaling to new classes. As a solution to this problem, few-shot TAL (FS-TAL) aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Sauradip Nag , Xiatian Zhu , Tao Xiang

Few-shot action recognition, i.e. recognizing new action classes given only a few examples, benefits from incorporating temporal information. Prior work either encodes such information in the representation itself and learns classifiers at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Juliette Bertrand , Yannis Kalantidis , Giorgos Tolias

Few-Shot Action Recognition (FSAR) aims to train a model with only a few labeled video instances. A key challenge in FSAR is handling divergent narrative trajectories for precise video matching. While the frame- and tuple-level alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 SuBeen Lee , WonJun Moon , Hyun Seok Seong , Jae-Pil Heo

Few-shot learning is a fundamental and challenging problem since it requires recognizing novel categories from only a few examples. The objects for recognition have multiple variants and can locate anywhere in images. Directly comparing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Congqi Cao , Yanning Zhang

Temporal action segmentation (TAS) aims to classify and locate actions in the long untrimmed action sequence. With the success of deep learning, many deep models for action segmentation have emerged. However, few-shot TAS is still a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Leiyang Xu , Qiang Wang , Xiaotian Lin , Lin Yuan

Few-shot learning (FSL), which aims to recognise new classes by adapting the learned knowledge with extremely limited few-shot (support) examples, remains an important open problem in computer vision. Most of the existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Li Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel queries with limited support samples by learning from base knowledge. Recent progress in this setting assumes that the base knowledge and novel query samples are distributed in the same domains,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yifan Zhao , Tong Zhang , Jia Li , Yonghong Tian

In this paper, we develop an efficient multi-scale network to predict action classes in partial videos in an end-to-end manner. Unlike most existing methods with offline feature generation, our method directly takes frames as input and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Xiaofa Liu , Jianqin Yin , Yuan Sun , Zhicheng Zhang , Jin Tang

Viewpoint change invariance and action temporal consistency are critical aspects for the effective deployment of human action detection of untrimmed videos. Existing appearance-based video detection methods often struggle with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yannick Porto , Renato Martins , Thomas Chalumeau , Cedric Demonceaux

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment novel-class objects in a given query image with only a few labeled support images. Most advanced solutions exploit a metric learning framework that performs segmentation through matching each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jiacheng Chen , Bin-Bin Gao , Zongqing Lu , Jing-Hao Xue , Chengjie Wang , Qingmin Liao

Few-shot deep learning is a topical challenge area for scaling visual recognition to open ended growth of unseen new classes with limited labeled examples. A promising approach is based on metric learning, which trains a deep embedding to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Xueting Zhang , Yuting Qiang , Flood Sung , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales

The dominant paradigm for video-based action segmentation is composed of two steps: first, for each frame, compute low-level features using Dense Trajectories or a Convolutional Neural Network that encode spatiotemporal information locally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Colin Lea , Rene Vidal , Austin Reiter , Gregory D. Hager

Many interesting events in the real world are rare making preannotated machine learning ready videos a rarity in consequence. Thus, temporal activity detection models that are able to learn from a few examples are desirable. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Huijuan Xu , Ximeng Sun , Eric Tzeng , Abir Das , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell

Video action detection (spatio-temporal action localization) is usually the starting point for human-centric intelligent analysis of videos nowadays. It has high practical impacts for many applications across robotics, security, healthcare,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Xin Hu , Zhenyu Wu , Hao-Yu Miao , Siqi Fan , Taiyu Long , Zhenyu Hu , Pengcheng Pi , Yi Wu , Zhou Ren , Zhangyang Wang , Gang Hua

Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to detect the semantic labels and boundaries of action instances in untrimmed videos. Current mainstream approaches are multi-step solutions, which fall short in efficiency and flexibility. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Shimin Chen , Chen Chen , Wei Li , Xunqiang Tao , Yandong Guo

To mitigate the detection performance drop caused by domain shift, we aim to develop a novel few-shot adaptation approach that requires only a few target domain images with limited bounding box annotations. To this end, we first observe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Tao Wang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Li Yuan , Jiashi Feng

Humans can easily recognize actions with only a few examples given, while the existing video recognition models still heavily rely on the large-scale labeled data inputs. This observation has motivated an increasing interest in few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Yuqian Fu , Li Zhang , Junke Wang , Yanwei Fu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Tiny Actions Challenge focuses on understanding human activities in real-world surveillance. Basically, there are two main difficulties for activity recognition in this scenario. First, human activities are often recorded at a distance, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Boyu Chen , Yu Qiao , Yali Wang

Although action recognition systems can achieve top performance when evaluated on in-distribution test points, they are vulnerable to unanticipated distribution shifts in test data. However, test-time adaptation of video action recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Wei Lin , Muhammad Jehanzeb Mirza , Mateusz Kozinski , Horst Possegger , Hilde Kuehne , Horst Bischof

Many few-shot learning models focus on recognising images. In contrast, we tackle a challenging task of few-shot action recognition from videos. We build on a C3D encoder for spatio-temporal video blocks to capture short-range action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Hongguang Zhang , Li Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi , Hongdong Li , Philip H. S. Torr , Piotr Koniusz