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Learning to recognize actions from only a handful of labeled videos is a challenging problem due to the scarcity of tediously collected activity labels. We approach this problem by learning a two-pathway temporal contrastive model using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ankit Singh , Omprakash Chakraborty , Ashutosh Varshney , Rameswar Panda , Rogerio Feris , Kate Saenko , Abir Das

Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization (ZS-TAL) seeks to identify and locate actions in untrimmed videos unseen during training. Existing ZS-TAL methods involve fine-tuning a model on a large amount of annotated training data. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Benedetta Liberatori , Alessandro Conti , Paolo Rota , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

Enabling computational systems with the ability to localize actions in video-based content has manifold applications. Traditionally, such a problem is approached in a fully-supervised setting where video-clips with complete frame-by-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Kurt Degiorgio , Fabio Cuzzolin

Previous work on action representation learning focused on global representations for short video clips. In contrast, many practical applications, such as video alignment, strongly demand learning the intensive representation of long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Minghao Chen , Renbo Tu , Chenxi Huang , Yuqi Lin , Boxi Wu , Deng Cai

Video-Language Pre-training models have recently significantly improved various multi-modal downstream tasks. Previous dominant works mainly adopt contrastive learning to achieve global feature alignment across modalities. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Fan Ma , Xiaojie Jin , Heng Wang , Jingjia Huang , Linchao Zhu , Jiashi Feng , Yi Yang

With video-level labels, weakly supervised temporal action localization (WTAL) applies a localization-by-classification paradigm to detect and classify the action in untrimmed videos. Due to the characteristic of classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Ziqiang Li , Yongxin Ge , Jiaruo Yu , Zhongming Chen

We present a self-supervised approach for learning video representations using temporal video alignment as a pretext task, while exploiting both frame-level and video-level information. We leverage a novel combination of temporal alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sanjay Haresh , Sateesh Kumar , Huseyin Coskun , Shahram Najam Syed , Andrey Konin , Muhammad Zeeshan Zia , Quoc-Huy Tran

This report presents our method for Temporal Action Localisation (TAL), which focuses on identifying and classifying actions within specific time intervals throughout a video sequence. We employ a data augmentation technique by expanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yinan Han , Qingyuan Jiang , Hongming Mei , Yang Yang , Jinhui Tang

Alleviating noisy pseudo labels remains a key challenge in Semi-Supervised Temporal Action Localization (SS-TAL). Existing methods often filter pseudo labels based on strict conditions, but they typically assess classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Feixiang Zhou , Bryan Williams , Hossein Rahmani

Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) aims to classify and localize temporal boundaries of actions for the video, given only video-level category labels in the training datasets. Due to the lack of boundary information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Guozhang Li , De Cheng , Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Jie Li , Xinbo Gao

Spatio-temporal representation learning is critical for video self-supervised representation. Recent approaches mainly use contrastive learning and pretext tasks. However, these approaches learn representation by discriminating sampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Yujia Zhang , Lai-Man Po , Xuyuan Xu , Mengyang Liu , Yexin Wang , Weifeng Ou , Yuzhi Zhao , Wing-Yin Yu

Temporal action segmentation is a task to classify each frame in the video with an action label. However, it is quite expensive to annotate every frame in a large corpus of videos to construct a comprehensive supervised training dataset.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhe Wang , Hao Chen , Xinyu Li , Chunhui Liu , Yuanjun Xiong , Joseph Tighe , Charless Fowlkes

Long-form video understanding requires designing approaches that are able to temporally localize activities or language. End-to-end training for such tasks is limited by the compute device memory constraints and lack of temporal annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Mengmeng Xu , Erhan Gundogdu , Maksim Lapin , Bernard Ghanem , Michael Donoser , Loris Bazzani

Temporal action localization (TAL) requires recognizing the target event and localizing its start and end times precisely in untrimmed videos. Recent vision-language formulations improve semantic reasoning and support language-conditioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Fengshun Wang , Zhengbo Zhang , Zhigang Tu

Temporal action localization (TAL) aims to detect the boundary and identify the class of each action instance in a long untrimmed video. Current approaches treat video frames homogeneously, and tend to give background and key objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yifan Liu , Youbao Tang , Ning Zhang , Ruei-Sung Lin , Haoqian Wang

This paper focuses on temporal localization of actions in untrimmed videos. Existing methods typically train classifiers for a pre-defined list of actions and apply them in a sliding window fashion. However, activities in the wild consist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Jiyang Gao , Chen Sun , Zhenheng Yang , Ram Nevatia

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

Temporal action localization (TAL) involves dual tasks to classify and localize actions within untrimmed videos. However, the two tasks often have conflicting requirements for features. Existing methods typically employ separate heads for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Qiang Li , Di Liu , Jun Kong , Sen Li , Hui Xu , Jianzhong Wang

Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization (WS-TAL) task aims to recognize and localize temporal starts and ends of action instances in an untrimmed video with only video-level label supervision. Due to lack of negative samples of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Xiang Wang , Zhiwu Qing , Ziyuan Huang , Yutong Feng , Shiwei Zhang , Jianwen Jiang , Mingqian Tang , Yuanjie Shao , Nong Sang

Weakly supervised temporal action localization is a challenging task as only the video-level annotation is available during the training process. To address this problem, we propose a two-stage approach to fully exploit multi-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Rui Su , Dong Xu , Luping Zhou , Wanli Ouyang