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Semantic segmentation is a crucial task in computer vision, where each pixel in an image is classified into a category. However, traditional methods face significant challenges, including the need for pixel-level annotations and extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yasufumi Kawano , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Temporal action detection (TAD) involves the localization and classification of action instances within untrimmed videos. While standard TAD follows fully supervised learning with closed-set setting on large training data, recent zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Thinh Phan , Khoa Vo , Duy Le , Gianfranco Doretto , Donald Adjeroh , Ngan Le

Temporal action detection is a fundamental yet challenging task in video understanding. Many of the state-of-the-art methods predict the boundaries of action instances based on predetermined anchors akin to the two-dimensional object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Yiping Tang , Chuang Niu , Minghao Dong , Shenghan Ren , Jimin Liang

Learning descriptive spatio-temporal object models from data is paramount for the task of semi-supervised video object segmentation. Most existing approaches mainly rely on models that estimate the segmentation mask based on a reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Sergi Caelles , Albert Pumarola , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Alberto Sanfeliu , Luc Van Gool

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

Temporal Action Proposal (TAP) generation is an important problem, as fast and accurate extraction of semantically important (e.g. human actions) segments from untrimmed videos is an important step for large-scale video analysis. We propose…

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

In this paper, we investigate that the normalized coordinate expression is a key factor as reliance on hand-crafted components in query-based detectors for temporal action detection (TAD). Despite significant advancements towards an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Ho-Joong Kim , Jung-Ho Hong , Heejo Kong , Seong-Whan Lee

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

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art image generation but often produce semantic inconsistencies, or hallucinations. Existing inference-time guidance methods rely on external signals or architectural modifications, adding computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hyunmin Cho , Donghoon Ahn , Susung Hong , Jee Eun Kim , Seungryong Kim , Kyong Hwan Jin

This technical report presents an overview of our solution used in the submission to 2021 HACS Temporal Action Localization Challenge on both Supervised Learning Track and Weakly-Supervised Learning Track. Temporal Action Localization (TAL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Haisheng Su , Peiqin Zhuang , Yukun Li , Dongliang Wang , Weihao Gan , Wei Wu , Yu Qiao

Temporal action segmentation (TAS) divides untrimmed videos into labeled action segments. While fully supervised methods have advanced the field, challenges such as action variability, ambiguous boundaries, and high annotation costs remain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yeo Keat Ee , Debaditya Roy , Chen Li , Hao Zhang , Basura Fernando

Temporal Action Detection (TAD) aims to identify and localize actions by determining their starting and ending frames within untrimmed videos. Recent Structured State-Space Models such as Mamba have demonstrated potential in TAD due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hui Lu , Yi Yu , Shijian Lu , Deepu Rajan , Boon Poh Ng , Alex C. Kot , Xudong Jiang

We present a novel framework, Action Progression Network (APN), for temporal action detection (TAD) in videos. The framework locates actions in videos by detecting the action evolution process. To encode the action evolution, we quantify a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Chongkai Lu , Man-Wai Mak , Ruimin Li , Zheru Chi , Hong Fu

This paper addresses the task of unsupervised video multi-object segmentation. Current approaches follow a two-stage paradigm: 1) detect object proposals using pre-trained Mask R-CNN, and 2) conduct generic feature matching for temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Tianfei Zhou , Jianwu Li , Xueyi Li , Ling Shao

Online action detection in untrimmed videos aims to identify an action as it happens, which makes it very important for real-time applications. Previous methods rely on tedious annotations of temporal action boundaries for training, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Mingfei Gao , Yingbo Zhou , Ran Xu , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

As a fundamental task in long-form video understanding, temporal action detection (TAD) aims to capture inherent temporal relations in untrimmed videos and identify candidate actions with precise boundaries. Over the years, various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Shuming Liu , Lin Sui , Chen-Lin Zhang , Fangzhou Mu , Chen Zhao , Bernard Ghanem

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to extract relevant video segments based on a given natural language query. Recently, zero-shot VTG methods have gained attention by leveraging pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) to localize target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jin-Seop Lee , SungJoon Lee , Jaehan Ahn , YunSeok Choi , Jee-Hyong Lee

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to recognize and localize action segments in untrimmed videos given only video-level action labels for training. Without the boundary information of action segments, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Bo He , Xitong Yang , Le Kang , Zhiyu Cheng , Xin Zhou , Abhinav Shrivastava

Temporally localizing actions in a video is a fundamental challenge in video understanding. Most existing approaches have often drawn inspiration from image object detection and extended the advances, e.g., SSD and Faster R-CNN, to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Fuchen Long , Ting Yao , Zhaofan Qiu , Xinmei Tian , Jiebo Luo , Tao Mei

Typical techniques for sequence classification are designed for well-segmented sequences which have been edited to remove noisy or irrelevant parts. Therefore, such methods cannot be easily applied on noisy sequences expected in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Wenjie Pei , Tadas Baltrušaitis , David M. J. Tax , Louis-Philippe Morency