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Human action is naturally compositional: humans can easily recognize and perform actions with objects that are different from those used in training demonstrations. In this paper, we study the compositionality of action by looking into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Joanna Materzynska , Tete Xiao , Roei Herzig , Huijuan Xu , Xiaolong Wang , Trevor Darrell

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

The task of language-guided video temporal grounding is to localize the particular video clip corresponding to a query sentence in an untrimmed video. Though progress has been made continuously in this field, some issues still need to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Binjie Zhang , Yu Li , Chun Yuan , Dejing Xu , Pin Jiang , Ying Shan

Few-shot temporal action localization (TAL) methods that adapt large models via single-prompt tuning often fail to produce precise temporal boundaries. This stems from the model learning a non-discriminative mean representation of an action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Edward Fish , Andrew Gilbert

Temporal action localization has long been researched in computer vision. Existing state-of-the-art action localization methods divide each video into multiple action units (i.e., proposals in two-stage methods and segments in one-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Runhao Zeng , Wenbing Huang , Mingkui Tan , Yu Rong , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang , Chuang Gan

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 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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Chengwei Zhang , Yunlu Xu , Zhanzhan Cheng , Yi Niu , Shiliang Pu , Fei Wu , Futai Zou

Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WS-TAL) methods learn to localize temporal starts and ends of action instances in a video under only video-level supervision. Existing WS-TAL methods rely on deep features learned for action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Ziyi Liu , Le Wang , Wei Tang , Junsong Yuan , Nanning Zheng , Gang Hua

Temporal Action Detection (TAD) is an essential and challenging topic in video understanding, aiming to localize the temporal segments containing human action instances and predict the action categories. The previous works greatly rely upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jiannan Wu , Peize Sun , Shoufa Chen , Jiewen Yang , Zihao Qi , Lan Ma , Ping Luo

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

Human Motion Segmentation (HMS), which aims to partition a video into non-overlapping segments corresponding to different human motions, has recently attracted increasing research attention. Existing HMS approaches are predominantly based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xianghan Meng , Zhiyuan Huang , Zhengyu Tong , Chun-Guang Li

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

We propose TAL-Net, an improved approach to temporal action localization in video that is inspired by the Faster R-CNN object detection framework. TAL-Net addresses three key shortcomings of existing approaches: (1) we improve receptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Yu-Wei Chao , Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , Bryan Seybold , David A. Ross , Jia Deng , Rahul Sukthankar

Temporal moment localization aims to retrieve the best video segment matching a moment specified by a query. The existing methods generate the visual and semantic embeddings independently and fuse them without full consideration of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Jungkyoo Shin , Jinyoung Moon

An important challenge in vision-based action recognition is the embedding of spatiotemporal features with two or more heterogeneous modalities into a single feature. In this study, we propose a new 3D deformable transformer for action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sangwon Kim , Dasom Ahn , Byoung Chul Ko

Temporal action segmentation in untrimmed videos has gained increased attention recently. However, annotating action classes and frame-wise boundaries is extremely time consuming and cost intensive, especially on large-scale datasets. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Wei Lin , Anna Kukleva , Horst Possegger , Hilde Kuehne , Horst Bischof

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

Visual attention has been extensively studied for learning fine-grained features in both facial expression recognition (FER) and Action Unit (AU) detection. A broad range of previous research has explored how to use attention modules to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Xiaotian Li , Zhihua Li , Huiyuan Yang , Geran Zhao , Lijun Yin

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) is a critical task in video analysis, identifying precise start and end times of actions. Existing methods like CNNs, RNNs, GCNs, and Transformers have limitations in capturing long-range dependencies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sangyoun Lee , Juho Jung , Changdae Oh , Sunghee Yun

Recently, temporal action localization (TAL), i.e., finding specific action segments in untrimmed videos, has attracted increasing attentions of the computer vision community. State-of-the-art solutions for TAL involves evaluating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Peisen Zhao , Lingxi Xie , Chen Ju , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian