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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

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

Detecting actions in untrimmed videos is an important yet challenging task. In this paper, we present the structured segment network (SSN), a novel framework which models the temporal structure of each action instance via a structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Yue Zhao , Yuanjun Xiong , Limin Wang , Zhirong Wu , Xiaoou Tang , Dahua Lin

Inspired by the recent success of transformers and multi-stage architectures in video recognition and object detection domains. We thoroughly explore the rich spatio-temporal properties of transformers within a multi-stage architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Hayat Ullah , Arslan Munir , Oliver Nina

Temporal action localization in untrimmed videos is an important but difficult task. Difficulties are encountered in the application of existing methods when modeling temporal structures of videos. In the present study, we developed a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yuan Zhou , Hongru Li , Sun-Yuan Kung

Zero-shot temporal action localization (ZS-TAL) consists of classifying and localizing actions in untrimmed videos, where action classes are unseen at training time. Existing work uses Vision and Language Models (VLMs), taking advantage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Benedetta Liberatori , Alessandro Conti , Lorenzo Vaquero , Paolo Rota , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

Online temporal action localization from an untrimmed video stream is a challenging problem in computer vision. It is challenging because of i) in an untrimmed video stream, more than one action instance may appear, including background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Da-Hye Yoon , Nam-Gyu Cho , Seong-Whan Lee

Online Temporal Action Localization (On-TAL) aims to immediately provide action instances from untrimmed streaming videos. The model is not allowed to utilize future frames and any processing techniques to modify past predictions, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Tuan N. Tang , Jungin Park , Kwonyoung Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

This technical report analyzes a temporal action localization method we used in the HACS competition which is hosted in Activitynet Challenge 2020.The goal of our task is to locate the start time and end time of the action in the untrimmed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Zhiwu Qing , Xiang Wang , Yongpeng Sang , Changxin Gao , Shiwei Zhang , Nong Sang

We introduce Activity Graph Transformer, an end-to-end learnable model for temporal action localization, that receives a video as input and directly predicts a set of action instances that appear in the video. Detecting and localizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Megha Nawhal , Greg Mori

State-of-the-art temporal action detectors inefficiently search the entire video for specific actions. Despite the encouraging progress these methods achieve, it is crucial to design automated approaches that only explore parts of the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Humam Alwassel , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Bernard Ghanem

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) has experienced remarkable success under the supervised learning paradigm. However, existing TAL methods are rooted in the closed set assumption, which cannot handle the inevitable unknown actions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Wentao Bao , Qi Yu , Yu Kong

Point-supervised Temporal Action Localization (PTAL) adopts a lightly frame-annotated paradigm (\textit{i.e.}, labeling only a single frame per action instance) to train a model to effectively locate action instances within untrimmed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yunchuan Ma , Laiyun Qing , Guorong Li , Yuqing Liu , Yuankai Qi , Qingming Huang

This technical report presents an overview of our solution used in the submission to ActivityNet Challenge 2020 Task 1 (\textbf{temporal action localization/detection}). Temporal action localization requires to not only precisely locate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Haisheng Su , Jinyuan Feng , Hao Shao , Zhenyu Jiang , Manyuan Zhang , Wei Wu , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li , Junjie Yan

Detecting activities in untrimmed videos is an important but challenging task. The performance of existing methods remains unsatisfactory, e.g., they often meet difficulties in locating the beginning and end of a long complex action. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Yuanjun Xiong , Yue Zhao , Limin Wang , Dahua Lin , Xiaoou Tang

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) aims to identify actions' start, end, and class labels in untrimmed videos. While recent advancements using transformer networks and Feature Pyramid Networks (FPN) have enhanced visual feature recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Edward Fish , Jon Weinbren , Andrew Gilbert

Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to detect all action boundaries and their corresponding categories in an untrimmed video. The unclear boundaries of actions in videos often result in imprecise predictions of action boundaries by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Dingfeng Shi , Qiong Cao , Yujie Zhong , Shan An , Jian Cheng , Haogang Zhu , Dacheng Tao

The crux of semi-supervised temporal action localization (SS-TAL) lies in excavating valuable information from abundant unlabeled videos. However, current approaches predominantly focus on building models that are robust to the error-prone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Kun Xia , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou , Gang Hua , Wei Tang

Temporal action localization requires both precise boundary detection and computational efficiency. Current methods apply uniform computation across all temporal positions, wasting resources on easy boundaries while struggling with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ibne Farabi Shihab , Sanjeda Akter , Anuj Sharma

Temporal action proposal generation is an important task, akin to object proposals, temporal action proposals are intended to capture "clips" or temporal intervals in videos that are likely to contain an action. Previous methods can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Jiyang Gao , Kan Chen , Ram Nevatia