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Current state-of-the-art human action recognition is focused on the classification of temporally trimmed videos in which only one action occurs per frame. In this work we address the problem of action localisation and instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Suman Saha , Gurkirt Singh , Michael Sapienza , Philip H. S. Torr , Fabio Cuzzolin

We present an approach to semi-supervised video object segmentation, in the context of the DAVIS 2017 challenge. Our approach combines category-based object detection, category-independent object appearance segmentation and temporal object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Gilad Sharir , Eddie Smolyansky , Itamar Friedman

Although the performance of Temporal Action Segmentation (TAS) has improved in recent years, achieving promising results often comes with a high computational cost due to dense inputs, complex model structures, and resource-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Peiyao Wang , Yuewei Lin , Erik Blasch , Jie Wei , Haibin Ling

Temporal action detection (TAD) with end-to-end training often suffers from the pain of huge demand for computing resources due to long video duration. In this work, we propose an efficient temporal action detector (ETAD) that can train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Shuming Liu , Mengmeng Xu , Chen Zhao , Xu Zhao , Bernard Ghanem

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) presents significant challenges in early diagnosis and intervention, impacting children and their families. With prevalence rates rising, there is a critical need for accessible and efficient screening tools.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Halil Ismail Helvaci , Sen-ching Samson Cheung , Chen-Nee Chuah , Sally Ozonoff

Vision--Language--Action (VLA) policies have shown strong progress in mapping language instructions and visual observations to robotic actions, yet their reliability degrades in cluttered scenes with distractors. By analyzing failure cases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Jiaying Zhou , Zhihao Zhan , Ruifeng Zhai , Qinhan Lyu , Hao Liu , Keze Wang , Liang Lin , Guangrun Wang

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) aims to detect the start and end timestamps of actions in a video. However, the training of TAL models requires a substantial amount of manually annotated data. Data programming is an efficient method to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yuchen He , Jianbing Lv , Liqi Cheng , Lingyu Meng , Dazhen Deng , Yingcai Wu

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

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

Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to locate action positions and recognize action categories in long-term untrimmed videos. Although many methods have achieved promising results, their robustness has not been thoroughly studied. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Runhao Zeng , Xiaoyong Chen , Jiaming Liang , Huisi Wu , Guangzhong Cao , Yong Guo

Detecting actions in videos have been widely applied in on-device applications. Practical on-device videos are always untrimmed with both action and background. It is desirable for a model to both recognize the class of action and localize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Yue Tang , Yawen Wu , Peipei Zhou , Jingtong Hu

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

In the task of temporal action localization of ActivityNet-1.3 datasets, we propose to locate the temporal boundaries of each action and predict action class in untrimmed videos. We first apply VideoSwinTransformer as feature extractor to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Shimin Chen , Wei Li , Jianyang Gu , Chen Chen , Yandong Guo

Training temporal action detection in videos requires large amounts of labeled data, yet such annotation is expensive to collect. Incorporating unlabeled or weakly-labeled data to train action detection model could help reduce annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Baifeng Shi , Qi Dai , Judy Hoffman , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell , Huijuan Xu

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

This paper studies the joint learning of action recognition and temporal localization in long, untrimmed videos. We employ a multi-task learning framework that performs the three highly related steps of action proposal, action recognition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Yi Zhu , Shawn Newsam

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to localize and recognize actions in untrimmed videos with only video-level category labels during training. Without instance-level annotations, most existing methods follow the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Huan Ren , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Yongdong Zhang

Temporal action segmentation (TAS) demands dense temporal supervision, yet most of the annotation cost in untrimmed videos is spent identifying and refining action transitions, where segmentation errors concentrate and small temporal shifts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Halil Ismail Helvaci , Sen-ching Samson Cheung

We present Temporal Aggregation Network (TAN) which decomposes 3D convolutions into spatial and temporal aggregation blocks. By stacking spatial and temporal convolutions repeatedly, TAN forms a deep hierarchical representation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Xiyang Dai , Bharat Singh , Joe Yue-Hei Ng , Larry S. Davis

Temporally locating and classifying action segments in long untrimmed videos is of particular interest to many applications like surveillance and robotics. While traditional approaches follow a two-step pipeline, by generating frame-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Yazan Abu Farha , Juergen Gall