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This work aims at advancing temporal action detection (TAD) using an encoder-decoder framework with action queries, similar to DETR, which has shown great success in object detection. However, the framework suffers from several problems if…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Dingfeng Shi , Yujie Zhong , Qiong Cao , Jing Zhang , Lin Ma , Jia Li , Dacheng Tao

Many segmentation tasks, such as medical image segmentation or future state prediction, are inherently ambiguous, meaning that multiple predictions are equally correct. Current methods typically rely on generative models to capture this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Sebastian Gerard , Josephine Sullivan

As a critical task in video sequence classification within computer vision, Online Action Detection (OAD) has garnered significant attention. The sensitivity of mainstream OAD models to varying video viewpoints often hampers their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Liping Xie , Yang Tan , Shicheng Jing , Huimin Lu , Kanjian Zhang

Diffusion models achieve strong generative performance but remain slow at inference due to the need for repeated full-model denoising passes. We present Token-Adaptive Predictor (TAP), a training-free, probe-driven framework that adaptively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Haowei Zhu , Tingxuan Huang , Xing Wang , Tianyu Zhao , Jiexi Wang , Weifeng Chen , Xurui Peng , Fangmin Chen , Junhai Yong , Bin Wang

Temporal action detection aims to locate the boundaries of action in the video. The current method based on boundary matching enumerates and calculates all possible boundary matchings to generate proposals. However, these methods neglect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Guo Chen , Yin-Dong Zheng , Limin Wang , Tong Lu

Accurately localising object proposals is an important precondition for high detection rate for the state-of-the-art object detection frameworks. The accuracy of an object detection method has been shown highly related to the average recall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Hsueh-Fu Lu , Xiaofei Du , Ping-Lin Chang

Temporal action detection (TAD) is challenging, yet fundamental for real-world video applications. Recently, DETR-based models for TAD have been prevailing thanks to their unique benefits. However, transformers demand a huge dataset, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jihwan Kim , Miso Lee , Jae-Pil Heo

Temporal action segmentation approaches have been very successful recently. However, annotating videos with frame-wise labels to train such models is very expensive and time consuming. While weakly supervised methods trained using only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zhe Li , Yazan Abu Farha , Juergen Gall

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

The recent advancement in Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) has largely been driven by the use of deeper and increasingly data-hungry transformer-based models. However, video masks are tedious and expensive to annotate, limiting the scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Lei Ke , Martin Danelljan , Henghui Ding , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang , Fisher Yu

Acne detection is crucial for interpretative diagnosis and precise treatment of skin disease. The arbitrary boundary and small size of acne lesions lead to a significant number of poor-quality proposals in two-stage detection. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Jianwei Zhang , Lei Zhang , Junyou Wang , Xin Wei , Jiaqi Li , Xian Jiang , Dan Du

Most activity localization methods in the literature suffer from the burden of frame-wise annotation requirement. Learning from weak labels may be a potential solution towards reducing such manual labeling effort. Recent years have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Sujoy Paul , Sourya Roy , Amit K Roy-Chowdhury

Video instance segmentation aims to detect, segment, and track objects in a video. Current approaches extend image-level segmentation algorithms to the temporal domain. However, this results in temporally inconsistent masks. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Anirudh S Chakravarthy , Won-Dong Jang , Zudi Lin , Donglai Wei , Song Bai , Hanspeter Pfister

Contemporary Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) methods typically adhere to a pre-train then fine-tune regime, where a segmentation model trained on images is fine-tuned on videos. However, the lack of temporal knowledge in the pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Qing Zhong , Peng-Tao Jiang , Wen Wang , Guodong Ding , Lin Wu , Kaiqi Huang

Detecting and segmenting novel object instances in open-world environments is a fundamental problem in robotic perception. Given only a small set of template images, a robot must locate and segment a specific object instance in a cluttered,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Qifan Zhang , Sai Haneesh Allu , Jikai Wang , Yangxiao Lu , Yu Xiang

Deep learning methods typically depend on the availability of labeled data, which is expensive and time-consuming to obtain. Active learning addresses such effort by prioritizing which samples are best to annotate in order to maximize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Mélanie Gaillochet , Christian Desrosiers , Hervé Lombaert

Temporal action segmentation (TAS) has long been a key area of research in both robotics and computer vision. In robotics, algorithms have primarily focused on leveraging proprioceptive information to determine skill boundaries, with recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Daniel Sliwowski , Dongheui Lee

This report presents our method for Temporal Action Localisation (TAL), which focuses on identifying and classifying actions within specific time intervals throughout a video sequence. We employ a data augmentation technique by expanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yinan Han , Qingyuan Jiang , Hongming Mei , Yang Yang , Jinhui Tang

The problem of video object segmentation can become extremely challenging when multiple instances co-exist. While each instance may exhibit large scale and pose variations, the problem is compounded when instances occlude each other causing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Xiaoxiao Li , Chen Change Loy

Temporal action localization (TAL), which involves recognizing and locating action instances, is a challenging task in video understanding. Most existing approaches directly predict action classes and regress offsets to boundaries, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Jiayi Shao , Xiaohan Wang , Ruijie Quan , Junjun Zheng , Jiang Yang , Yi Yang