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Temporal Action Localization (TAL) has garnered significant attention in information retrieval. Existing supervised or weakly supervised methods heavily rely on labeled temporal boundaries and action categories, which are labor-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Rui Xia , Dan Jiang , Quan Zhang , Ke Zhang , Chun Yuan

Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization (WS-TAL) task aims to recognize and localize temporal starts and ends of action instances in an untrimmed video with only video-level label supervision. Due to lack of negative samples of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Xiang Wang , Zhiwu Qing , Ziyuan Huang , Yutong Feng , Shiwei Zhang , Jianwen Jiang , Mingqian Tang , Yuanjie Shao , Nong Sang

This paper focuses on temporal localization of actions in untrimmed videos. Existing methods typically train classifiers for a pre-defined list of actions and apply them in a sliding window fashion. However, activities in the wild consist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Jiyang Gao , Chen Sun , Zhenheng Yang , Ram Nevatia

Active learning (AL) can reduce annotation costs in surgical video analysis while maintaining model performance. However, traditional AL methods, developed for images or short video clips, are suboptimal for surgical step recognition due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Nisarg A. Shah , Bardia Safaei , Shameema Sikder , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

In many real-world machine learning applications, unlabeled data can be easily obtained, but it is very time-consuming and/or expensive to label them. So, it is desirable to be able to select the optimal samples to label, so that a good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Ziang Liu , Dongrui Wu

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization (WTAL) aims to recognize and localize action instances with only video-level labels. Despite the significant progress, existing methods suffer from severe performance degradation when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yangcen Liu , Ziyi Liu , Yuanhao Zhai , Wen Li , David Doerman , Junsong Yuan

Active learning (AL) seeks to reduce annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples for labeling, making it particularly valuable in resource-constrained settings. However, traditional evaluation methods, which focus solely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Julia Machnio , Mads Nielsen , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

Active learning is an iterative labeling process that is used to obtain a small labeled subset, despite the absence of labeled data, thereby enabling to train a model for supervised tasks such as text classification. While active learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Christopher Schröder , Gerhard Heyer

Temporal action localization (TAL) is a fundamental yet challenging task in video understanding. Existing TAL methods rely on pre-training a video encoder through action classification supervision. This results in a task discrepancy problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Mengmeng Xu , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua , Xiatian Zhu , Bernard Ghanem , Brais Martinez

The present few-shot temporal action localization model can't handle the situation where videos contain multiple action instances. So the purpose of this paper is to achieve manifold action instances localization in a lengthy untrimmed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Fengshun Wang , Qiurui Wang , Yuting Wang

Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) aims to classify and localize temporal boundaries of actions for the video, given only video-level category labels in the training datasets. Due to the lack of boundary information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Guozhang Li , De Cheng , Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Jie Li , Xinbo Gao

Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Imitation Learning (IL) have made great progress in robotic decision-making in recent years. However, these methods show obvious deterioration for new tasks that need to be completed through new combinations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Xianqi Zhang , Xingtao Wang , Xu Liu , Wenrui Wang , Xiaopeng Fan , Debin Zhao

Multi-task learning is central to many real-world applications. Unfortunately, obtaining labelled data for all tasks is time-consuming, challenging, and expensive. Active Learning (AL) can be used to reduce this burden. Existing techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Nikita Durasov , Nik Dorndorf , Pascal Fua

Temporal action segmentation classifies the action of each frame in (long) video sequences. Due to the high cost of frame-wise labeling, we propose the first semi-supervised method for temporal action segmentation. Our method hinges on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Dipika Singhania , Rahul Rahaman , Angela Yao

Temporal action localization presents a trade-off between test performance and annotation-time cost. Fully supervised methods achieve good performance with time-consuming boundary annotations. Weakly supervised methods with cheaper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Jie Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Tongliang Liu

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

Temporal action segmentation in videos has drawn much attention recently. Timestamp supervision is a cost-effective way for this task. To obtain more information to optimize the model, the existing method generated pseudo frame-wise labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Yang Zhao , Yan Song

Audio-Visual Event Localization (AVEL) is the task of temporally localizing and classifying \emph{audio-visual events}, i.e., events simultaneously visible and audible in a video. In this paper, we solve AVEL in a weakly-supervised setting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Kalyan Ramakrishnan

Active learning (AL) is a prominent technique for reducing the annotation effort required for training machine learning models. Deep learning offers a solution for several essential obstacles to deploying AL in practice but introduces many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Akim Tsvigun , Artem Shelmanov , Gleb Kuzmin , Leonid Sanochkin , Daniil Larionov , Gleb Gusev , Manvel Avetisian , Leonid Zhukov

Due to the lack of temporal annotation, current Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) methods are generally stuck into over-complete or incomplete localization. In this paper, we aim to leverage the text information to boost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Guozhang Li , De Cheng , Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Xiaoyu Wang , Xinbo Gao