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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

Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to locate and recognize the actions in an untrimmed video. Anchor-free methods have made remarkable progress which mainly formulate TAD into two tasks: classification and localization using two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Junshan Hu , Chaoxu guo , Liansheng Zhuang , Biao Wang , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Houqiang Li

Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to detect all action boundaries and their corresponding categories in an untrimmed video. The unclear boundaries of actions in videos often result in imprecise predictions of action boundaries by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Dingfeng Shi , Qiong Cao , Yujie Zhong , Shan An , Jian Cheng , Haogang Zhu , Dacheng Tao

As of today, state-of-the-art activity recognition from wearable sensors relies on algorithms being trained to classify fixed windows of data. In contrast, video-based Human Activity Recognition, known as Temporal Action Localization (TAL),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Marius Bock , Michael Moeller , Kristof Van Laerhoven

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

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

Temporal action detection (TAD) is a challenging task which aims to temporally localize and recognize the human action in untrimmed videos. Current mainstream one-stage TAD approaches localize and classify action proposals relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Ranyu Ning , Can Zhang , Yuexian Zou

In this report, we introduce the Winner method for HACS Temporal Action Localization Challenge 2019. Temporal action localization is challenging since a target proposal may be related to several other candidate proposals in an untrimmed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Songyang Zhang , Houwen Peng , Le Yang , Jianlong Fu , Jiebo Luo

The goal of Temporal Action Localization (TAL) is to find the categories and temporal boundaries of actions in an untrimmed video. Most TAL methods rely heavily on action recognition models that are sensitive to action labels rather than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hao Zhang , Chunyan Feng , Jiahui Yang , Zheng Li , Caili Guo

Temporal action proposals are a common module in action detection pipelines today. Most current methods for training action proposal modules rely on fully supervised approaches that require large amounts of annotated temporal action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Jingwei Ji , Kaidi Cao , Juan Carlos Niebles

Temporal action detection (TAD) is extensively studied in the video understanding community by generally following the object detection pipeline in images. However, complex designs are not uncommon in TAD, such as two-stream feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Min Yang , Guo Chen , Yin-Dong Zheng , Tong Lu , Limin Wang

Existing action detection algorithms usually generate action proposals through an extensive search over the video at multiple temporal scales, which brings about huge computational overhead and deviates from the human perception procedure.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Jingjia Huang , Nannan Li , Tao Zhang , Ge Li

Transformer networks are effective at modeling long-range contextual information and have recently demonstrated exemplary performance in the natural language processing domain. Conventionally, the temporal action proposal generation (TAPG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Lining Wang , Haosen Yang , Wenhao Wu , Hongxun Yao , Hujie Huang

Temporal Action Detection (TAD) requires precise localization of action boundaries within long, untrimmed video sequences. While current high-performing methods achieve strong accuracy, they are often characterized by excessive parameter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zepeng Sun , Naichuan Zheng , Hailun Xia , Junjie Wu , Liwei Bao , Xiaotai Zhang

Temporal action proposal generation is an important task, akin to object proposals, temporal action proposals are intended to capture "clips" or temporal intervals in videos that are likely to contain an action. Previous methods can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Jiyang Gao , Kan Chen , Ram Nevatia

Temporal action segmentation is typically achieved by discovering the dramatic variances in global visual descriptors. In this paper, we explore the merits of local features by proposing the unsupervised framework of Object-centric Temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yuerong Li , Zhengrong Xue , Huazhe Xu

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) aims to predict both action category and temporal boundary of action instances in untrimmed videos, i.e., start and end time. Fully-supervised solutions are usually adopted in most existing works, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ding Li , Xuebing Yang , Yongqiang Tang , Chenyang Zhang , Wensheng Zhang

Temporal Action Detection(TAD) is a crucial but challenging task in video understanding.It is aimed at detecting both the type and start-end frame for each action instance in a long, untrimmed video.Most current models adopt both RGB and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Bowen Deng , Dongchang Liu

Masked video modeling~(MVM) has emerged as a highly effective pre-training strategy for visual foundation models, whereby the model reconstructs masked spatiotemporal tokens using information from visible tokens. However, a key challenge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Ayush K. Rai , Kyle Min , Tarun Krishna , Feiyan Hu , Alan F. Smeaton , Noel E. O'Connor

Open-vocabulary Temporal Action Detection (Open-vocab TAD) is an advanced video analysis approach that expands Closed-vocabulary Temporal Action Detection (Closed-vocab TAD) capabilities. Closed-vocab TAD is typically confined to localizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Trung Thanh Nguyen , Yasutomo Kawanishi , Takahiro Komamizu , Ichiro Ide