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Understanding temporal information and how the visual world changes over time is a fundamental ability of intelligent systems. In video understanding, temporal information is at the core of many current challenges, including compression,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Laura Sevilla-Lara , Shengxin Zha , Zhicheng Yan , Vedanuj Goswami , Matt Feiszli , Lorenzo Torresani

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

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

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

Deep learning models have enjoyed great success for image related computer vision tasks like image classification and object detection. For video related tasks like human action recognition, however, the advancements are not as significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Xiaolin Song , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Junliang Xing , Jingyu Yang , Xiaoyan Sun

Temporal action localization (TAL) aims to detect the boundary and identify the class of each action instance in a long untrimmed video. Current approaches treat video frames homogeneously, and tend to give background and key objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yifan Liu , Youbao Tang , Ning Zhang , Ruei-Sung Lin , Haoqian Wang

With the rapid development of digital multimedia, video understanding has become an important field. For action recognition, temporal dimension plays an important role, and this is quite different from image recognition. In order to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Qian Liu , Tao Wang , Jie Liu , Yang Guan , Qi Bu , Longfei Yang

Temporal action localization aims to localize starting and ending time with action category. Limited by GPU memory, mainstream methods pre-extract features for each video. Therefore, feature quality determines the upper bound of detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Zhiwu Qing , Xiang Wang , Ziyuan Huang , Yutong Feng , Shiwei Zhang , jianwen Jiang , Mingqian Tang , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang

We propose an action parsing algorithm to parse a video sequence containing an unknown number of actions into its action segments. We argue that context information, particularly the temporal information about other actions in the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Nagita Mehrseresht

Multimodal foundation models (MFMs) have demonstrated significant success in tasks such as visual captioning, question answering, and image-text retrieval. However, these models face inherent limitations due to their finite internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xingjian Diao , Chunhui Zhang , Weiyi Wu , Zhongyu Ouyang , Peijun Qing , Ming Cheng , Soroush Vosoughi , Jiang Gui

Existing temporal action localization (TAL) works rely on a large number of training videos with exhaustive segment-level annotation, preventing them from scaling to new classes. As a solution to this problem, few-shot TAL (FS-TAL) aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Sauradip Nag , Xiatian Zhu , Tao Xiang

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

Research in action detection has grown in the recentyears, as it plays a key role in video understanding. Modelling the interactions (either spatial or temporal) between actors and their context has proven to be essential for this task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Manuel Sarmiento Calderó , David Varas , Elisenda Bou-Balust

In egocentric videos, actions occur in quick succession. We capitalise on the action's temporal context and propose a method that learns to attend to surrounding actions in order to improve recognition performance. To incorporate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Evangelos Kazakos , Jaesung Huh , Arsha Nagrani , Andrew Zisserman , Dima Damen

While most modern video understanding models operate on short-range clips, real-world videos are often several minutes long with semantically consistent segments of variable length. A common approach to process long videos is applying a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Mohamed Afham , Satya Narayan Shukla , Omid Poursaeed , Pengchuan Zhang , Ashish Shah , Sernam Lim

We introduce the task of retrieving relevant video moments from a large corpus of untrimmed, unsegmented videos given a natural language query. Our task poses unique challenges as a system must efficiently identify both the relevant videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Victor Escorcia , Mattia Soldan , Josef Sivic , Bernard Ghanem , Bryan Russell

Video temporal grounding aims to identify video segments within untrimmed videos that are most relevant to a given natural language query. Existing video temporal localization models rely on specific datasets for training and have high data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Minghang Zheng , Xinhao Cai , Qingchao Chen , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

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

Traditional temporal action localization (TAL) methods rely on large amounts of detailed annotated data, whereas few-shot TAL reduces this dependence by using only a few training samples to identify unseen action categories. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Mengshi Qi , Hongwei Ji , Wulian Yun , Xianlin Zhang , Huadong Ma

Action visual tempo characterizes the dynamics and the temporal scale of an action, which is helpful to distinguish human actions that share high similarities in visual dynamics and appearance. Previous methods capture the visual tempo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yuanzhong Liu , Junsong Yuan , Zhigang Tu