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Temporal action detection aims at not only recognizing action category but also detecting start time and end time for each action instance in an untrimmed video. The key challenge of this task is to accurately classify the action and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Wen Wang , Yongjian Wu , Haijun Liu , Shiguang Wang , Jian Cheng

Dominant approaches to action detection can only provide sub-optimal solutions to the problem, as they rely on seeking frame-level detections, to later compose them into "action tubes" in a post-processing step. With this paper we radically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Suman Saha , Gurkirt Singh , Fabio Cuzzolin

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

Online action detection is a task with the aim of identifying ongoing actions from streaming videos without any side information or access to future frames. Recent methods proposed to aggregate fixed temporal ranges of invisible but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Sanqing Qu , Guang Chen , Dan Xu , Jinhu Dong , Fan Lu , Alois Knoll

Temporal action detection (TAD) is challenging, yet fundamental for real-world video applications. Large temporal scale variation of actions is one of the most primary difficulties in TAD. Naturally, multi-scale features have potential in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jihwan Kim , Jaehyun Choi , Yerim Jeon , Jae-Pil Heo

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

Spatial-temporal action detection is a vital part of video understanding. Current spatial-temporal action detection methods mostly use an object detector to obtain person candidates and classify these person candidates into different action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Lin Sui , Chen-Lin Zhang , Lixin Gu , Feng Han

Video temporal action detection aims to temporally localize and recognize the action in untrimmed videos. Existing one-stage approaches mostly focus on unifying two subtasks, i.e., localization of action proposals and classification of each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Yupan Huang , Qi Dai , Yutong Lu

Anomaly detection techniques enable effective anomaly detection and diagnosis in multi-variate time series data, which are of major significance for today's industrial applications. However, establishing an anomaly detection system that can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Lingrui Yu

Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Detection (OV-TAD) aims to classify and localize action segments in untrimmed videos for unseen categories. Previous methods rely solely on global alignment between label-level semantics and visual features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Sa Zhu , Wanqian Zhang , Lin Wang , Xiaohua Chen , Chenxu Cui , Jinchao Zhang , Bo Li

In recent years, proposed studies on time-series anomaly detection (TAD) report high F1 scores on benchmark TAD datasets, giving the impression of clear improvements in TAD. However, most studies apply a peculiar evaluation protocol called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Siwon Kim , Kukjin Choi , Hyun-Soo Choi , Byunghan Lee , Sungroh Yoon

Human Action Anomaly Detection (HAAD) aims to identify anomalous actions given only normal action data during training. Existing methods typically follow a one-model-per-category paradigm, requiring separate training for each action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Koichiro Kamide , Shunsuke Sakai , Shun Maeda , Chunzhi Gu , Chao Zhang

Efficient anomaly detection and diagnosis in multivariate time-series data is of great importance for modern industrial applications. However, building a system that is able to quickly and accurately pinpoint anomalous observations is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Shreshth Tuli , Giuliano Casale , Nicholas R. Jennings

Recent proposed neural network-based Temporal Action Detection (TAD) models are inherently limited to extracting the discriminative representations and modeling action instances with various lengths from complex scenes by shared-weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Le Yang , Ziwei Zheng , Yizeng Han , Hao Cheng , Shiji Song , Gao Huang , Fan Li

This technical report presents our solution for temporal action detection task in AcitivityNet Challenge 2021. The purpose of this task is to locate and identify actions of interest in long untrimmed videos. The crucial challenge of the…

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

Point-Level temporal action localization (PTAL) aims to localize actions in untrimmed videos with only one timestamp annotation for each action instance. Existing methods adopt the frame-level prediction paradigm to learn from the sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Chen Ju , Peisen Zhao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

Despite the recent progress in video understanding and the continuous rate of improvement in temporal action localization throughout the years, it is still unclear how far (or close?) we are to solving the problem. To this end, we introduce…

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

Temporal action proposal generation (TAPG) is a fundamental and challenging task in video understanding, especially in temporal action detection. Most previous works focus on capturing the local temporal context and can well locate simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Fan Wang , Hao Li , Jiashi Feng

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

Current state-of-the-art action detection systems are tailored for offline batch-processing applications. However, for online applications like human-robot interaction, current systems fall short, either because they only detect one action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Harkirat Singh Behl , Michael Sapienza , Gurkirt Singh , Suman Saha , Fabio Cuzzolin , Philip H. S. Torr