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Fine-grained action recognition (FGAR) aims to identify subtle and distinctive differences among fine-grained action categories. However, current recognition methods often capture coarse-grained motion patterns but struggle to identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Baoli Sun , Yihan Wang , Xinzhu Ma , Zhihui Wang , Kun Lu , Zhiyong Wang

Understanding human behavior and activity facilitates advancement of numerous real-world applications, and is critical for video analysis. Despite the progress of action recognition algorithms in trimmed videos, the majority of real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Elahe Vahdani , Yingli Tian

Current fully-supervised video datasets consist of only a few hundred thousand videos and fewer than a thousand domain-specific labels. This hinders the progress towards advanced video architectures. This paper presents an in-depth study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Deepti Ghadiyaram , Matt Feiszli , Du Tran , Xueting Yan , Heng Wang , Dhruv Mahajan

Temporal action localization is an important step towards video understanding. Most current action localization methods depend on untrimmed videos with full temporal annotations of action instances. However, it is expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Ashraful Islam , Richard J. Radke

Detecting temporal extents of human actions in videos is a challenging computer vision problem that requires detailed manual supervision including frame-level labels. This expensive annotation process limits deploying action detectors to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Basura Fernando , Cheston Tan Yin Chet , Hakan Bilen

We aim to understand how actions are performed and identify subtle differences, such as 'fold firmly' vs. 'fold gently'. To this end, we propose a method which recognizes adverbs across different actions. However, such fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Hazel Doughty , Cees G. M. Snoek

Temporal action segmentation is a topic of increasing interest, however, annotating each frame in a video is cumbersome and costly. Weakly supervised approaches therefore aim at learning temporal action segmentation from videos that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mohsen Fayyaz , Juergen Gall

This paper focuses on weakly-supervised action alignment, where only the ordered sequence of video-level actions is available for training. We propose a novel Duration Network, which captures a short temporal window of the video and learns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Reza Ghoddoosian , Saif Sayed , Vassilis Athitsos

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to learn detecting temporal intervals of action classes with only video-level labels. To this end, it is crucial to separate frames of action classes from the background frames (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Pilhyeon Lee , Jinglu Wang , Yan Lu , Hyeran Byun

With a focus on abnormal events contained within untrimmed videos, there is increasing interest among researchers in video anomaly detection. Among different video anomaly detection scenarios, weakly-supervised video anomaly detection poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Yidan Fan , Yongxin Yu , Wenhuan Lu , Yahong Han

We describe a latent approach that learns to detect actions in long sequences given training videos with only whole-video class labels. Our approach makes use of two innovations to attention-modeling in weakly-supervised learning. First,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Phuc Xuan Nguyen , Deva Ramanan , Charless C. Fowlkes

Video action detectors are usually trained using datasets with fully-supervised temporal annotations. Building such datasets is an expensive task. To alleviate this problem, recent methods have tried to leverage weak labeling, where videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Alejandro Pardo , Humam Alwassel , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Ali Thabet , Bernard Ghanem

Action Detection is a complex task that aims to detect and classify human actions in video clips. Typically, it has been addressed by processing fine-grained features extracted from a video classification backbone. Recently, thanks to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Matteo Tomei , Lorenzo Baraldi , Simone Calderara , Simone Bronzin , Rita Cucchiara

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

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

Fine-grained understanding of human actions and poses in videos is essential for human-centric AI applications. In this work, we introduce ActionArt, a fine-grained video-caption dataset designed to advance research in human-centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yi-Xing Peng , Qize Yang , Yu-Ming Tang , Shenghao Fu , Kun-Yu Lin , Xihan Wei , Wei-Shi Zheng

In this paper, we introduce Coarse-Fine Networks, a two-stream architecture which benefits from different abstractions of temporal resolution to learn better video representations for long-term motion. Traditional Video models process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Michael S. Ryoo

Action recognition in videos is a challenging task due to the complexity of the spatio-temporal patterns to model and the difficulty to acquire and learn on large quantities of video data. Deep learning, although a breakthrough for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-26 César Roberto de Souza , Adrien Gaidon , Eleonora Vig , Antonio Manuel López

Current state-of-the-art human activity recognition is focused on the classification of temporally trimmed videos in which only one action occurs per frame. We propose a simple, yet effective, method for the temporal detection of activities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-14 Gurkirt Singh , Fabio Cuzzolin

While the widely available embedded sensors in smartphones and other wearable devices make it easier to obtain data of human activities, recognizing different types of human activities from sensor-based data remains a difficult research…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Taoran Sheng , Manfred Huber