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Temporal action localization is an important step towards video understanding. Most current action localization methods depend on untrimmed videos with full temporal annotations of action instances. However, it is expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Ashraful Islam , Richard J. Radke

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

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

Vision Transformer (ViT) has shown high potential in video recognition, owing to its flexible design, adaptable self-attention mechanisms, and the efficacy of masked pre-training. Yet, it remains unclear how to adapt these pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Min Yang , Huan Gao , Ping Guo , Limin Wang

Topological data analysis (TDA) has emerged as one of the most promising techniques to reconstruct the unknown shapes of high-dimensional spaces from observed data samples. TDA, thus, yields key shape descriptors in the form of persistent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Wei Guo , Krithika Manohar , Steven L. Brunton , Ashis G. Banerjee

Weakly supervised temporal action localization aims to localize temporal boundaries of actions and simultaneously identify their categories with only video-level category labels. Many existing methods seek to generate pseudo labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Linjiang Huang , Liang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Training temporal action detection in videos requires large amounts of labeled data, yet such annotation is expensive to collect. Incorporating unlabeled or weakly-labeled data to train action detection model could help reduce annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Baifeng Shi , Qi Dai , Judy Hoffman , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell , Huijuan Xu

Online action detection in untrimmed videos aims to identify an action as it happens, which makes it very important for real-time applications. Previous methods rely on tedious annotations of temporal action boundaries for training, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Mingfei Gao , Yingbo Zhou , Ran Xu , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Action chunking is a widely adopted approach in Learning from Demonstration (LfD). By modeling multi-step action chunks rather than single-step actions, action chunking significantly enhances modeling capabilities for human expert policies.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yueyang Weng , Xiaopeng Zhang , Yongjin Mu , Yingcong Zhu , Yanjie Li , Qi Liu

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

The temporal action segmentation task segments videos temporally and predicts action labels for all frames. Fully supervising such a segmentation model requires dense frame-wise action annotations, which are expensive and tedious to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Guodong Ding , Angela Yao

Spatio-temporal action detection (STAD) aims to classify the actions present in a video and localize them in space and time. It has become a particularly active area of research in computer vision because of its explosively emerging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Peng Wang , Fanwei Zeng , Yuntao Qian

Temporal Action Segmentation (TAS) is an essential task in video analysis, aiming to segment and classify continuous frames into distinct action segments. However, the ambiguous boundaries between actions pose a significant challenge for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shuaibing Wang , Shunli Wang , Mingcheng Li , Dingkang Yang , Haopeng Kuang , Ziyun Qian , Lihua Zhang

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) presents significant challenges in early diagnosis and intervention, impacting children and their families. With prevalence rates rising, there is a critical need for accessible and efficient screening tools.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Halil Ismail Helvaci , Sen-ching Samson Cheung , Chen-Nee Chuah , Sally Ozonoff

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) in untrimmed video is important for many applications. But it is very expensive to annotate the segment-level ground truth (action class and temporal boundary). This raises the interest of addressing TAL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Zheng Shou , Hang Gao , Lei Zhang , Kazuyuki Miyazawa , Shih-Fu Chang

Temporal action localization aims to localize starting and ending time with action category. Limited by GPU memory, mainstream methods pre-extract features for each video. Therefore, feature quality determines the upper bound of detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Zhiwu Qing , Xiang Wang , Ziyuan Huang , Yutong Feng , Shiwei Zhang , jianwen Jiang , Mingqian Tang , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

Temporal action detection (TAD), which locates and recognizes action segments, remains a challenging task in video understanding due to variable segment lengths and ambiguous boundaries. Existing methods treat neighboring contexts of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ning Wang , Yun Xiao , Xiaopeng Peng , Xiaojun Chang , Xuanhong Wang , Dingyi Fang

Temporal action localization has recently attracted significant interest in the Computer Vision community. However, despite the great progress, it is hard to identify which aspects of the proposed methods contribute most to the increase in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Tingting Xie , Xiaoshan Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Changsheng Xu , Ioannis Patras

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

Temporal Action Detection (TAD) in untrimmed videos poses significant challenges, particularly for Activities of Daily Living (ADL) requiring models to (1) process long-duration videos, (2) capture temporal variations in actions, and (3)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Arkaprava Sinha , Monish Soundar Raj , Pu Wang , Ahmed Helmy , Hieu Le , Srijan Das