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Semi-supervised action recognition aims to improve spatio-temporal reasoning ability with a few labeled data in conjunction with a large amount of unlabeled data. Albeit recent advancements, existing powerful methods are still prone to…

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The self-supervised pretraining paradigm has achieved great success in learning 3D action representations for skeleton-based action recognition using contrastive learning. However, learning effective representations for skeleton-based…

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Modern self-supervised learning algorithms typically enforce persistency of instance representations across views. While being very effective on learning holistic image and video representations, such an objective becomes sub-optimal for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Liangzhe Yuan , Rui Qian , Yin Cui , Boqing Gong , Florian Schroff , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Hartwig Adam , Ting Liu

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) has attracted increasing attention for model pre-training via unlabeled data. The resulted CSL models provide instance-discriminative visual features that are uniformly scattered in the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Yifan Zhang , Bryan Hooi , Dapeng Hu , Jian Liang , Jiashi Feng

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

Few-shot fine-grained recognition (FS-FGR) aims to recognize novel fine-grained categories with the help of limited available samples. Undoubtedly, this task inherits the main challenges from both few-shot learning and fine-grained…

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We introduce the task of weakly supervised learning for detecting human and object interactions in videos. Our task poses unique challenges as a system does not know what types of human-object interactions are present in a video or the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Shuang Li , Yilun Du , Antonio Torralba , Josef Sivic , Bryan Russell

Few-shot action recognition (FSAR) has recently made notable progress through set matching and efficient adaptation of large-scale pre-trained models. However, two key limitations persist. First, existing set matching metrics typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Fei Long , Yao Zhang , Jiaming Lv , Jiangtao Xie , Peihua Li

Temporal action localization is an important yet challenging research topic due to its various applications. Since the frame-level or segment-level annotations of untrimmed videos require amounts of labor expenditure, studies on the…

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Novel category discovery aims at adapting models trained on known categories to novel categories. Previous works only focus on the scenario where known and novel categories are of the same granularity. In this paper, we investigate a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Wenbin An , Feng Tian , Ping Chen , Siliang Tang , Qinghua Zheng , QianYing Wang

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization (WTAL) learns to detect and classify action instances with only category labels. Most methods widely adopt the off-the-shelf Classification-Based Pre-training (CBP) to generate video features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Chen Ju , Kunhao Zheng , Jinxiang Liu , Peisen Zhao , Ya Zhang , Jianlong Chang , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

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…

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Foundation models have recently gained attention within the field of machine learning thanks to its efficiency in broad data processing. While researchers had attempted to extend this success to time series models, the main challenge is…

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Unsupervised visual representation learning has gained much attention from the computer vision community because of the recent achievement of contrastive learning. Most of the existing contrastive learning frameworks adopt the instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Shan You , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

Vision-language models like CLIP have shown impressive capabilities in aligning images and text, but they often struggle with lengthy and detailed text descriptions because of their training focus on short and concise captions. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Hyungyu Choi , Young Kyun Jang , Chanho Eom

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

Modern deep learning models require large amounts of accurately annotated data, which is often difficult to satisfy. Hence, weakly supervised tasks, including weakly supervised object localization~(WSOL) and detection~(WSOD), have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Chen-Lin Zhang , Yin Li , Jianxin Wu

Feature quality is paramount for classification performance, particularly in few-shot scenarios. Contrastive learning, a widely adopted technique for enhancing feature quality, leverages sample relations to extract intrinsic features that…

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Despite recent progress in video and language representation learning, the weak or sparse correspondence between the two modalities remains a bottleneck in the area. Most video-language models are trained via pair-level loss to predict…

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