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Temporal action segmentation (TAS) divides untrimmed videos into labeled action segments. While fully supervised methods have advanced the field, challenges such as action variability, ambiguous boundaries, and high annotation costs remain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yeo Keat Ee , Debaditya Roy , Chen Li , Hao Zhang , Basura Fernando

Spatio-temporal action detection in videos is typically addressed in a fully-supervised setup with manual annotation of training videos required at every frame. Since such annotation is extremely tedious and prohibits scalability, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Guilhem Chéron , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Monitoring the progression of an action towards completion offers fine grained insight into the actor's behaviour. In this work, we target detecting the completion moment of actions, that is the moment when the action's goal has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Farnoosh Heidarivincheh , Majid Mirmehdi , Dima Damen

With the knowledge of action moments (i.e., trimmed video clips that each contains an action instance), humans could routinely localize an action temporally in an untrimmed video. Nevertheless, most practical methods still require all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Fuchen Long , Ting Yao , Zhaofan Qiu , Xinmei Tian , Jiebo Luo , Tao Mei

Temporal action localization is an important and challenging task that aims to locate temporal regions in real-world untrimmed videos where actions occur and recognize their classes. It is widely acknowledged that video context is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Xin Qin , Hanbin Zhao , Guangchen Lin , Hao Zeng , Songcen Xu , Xi Li

To minimize the annotation costs associated with the training of semantic segmentation models, researchers have extensively investigated weakly-supervised segmentation approaches. In the current weakly-supervised segmentation methods, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Wataru Shimoda , Keiji Yanai

It is generally accepted that one of the critical parts of current vision algorithms based on deep learning and convolutional neural networks is the annotation of a sufficient number of images to achieve competitive performance. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Kai Yao , Alberto Ortiz , Francisco Bonnin-Pascual

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to localize action instances in untrimmed videos with only video-level supervision. We witness that different actions record common phases, e.g., the run-up in the HighJump and LongJump.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Yifu Liu , Xiaoxia Li , Zhiling Luo , Wei Zhou

We propose weakly supervised language localization networks (WSLLN) to detect events in long, untrimmed videos given language queries. To learn the correspondence between visual segments and texts, most previous methods require temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Mingfei Gao , Larry S. Davis , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

IMU-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has enabled a wide range of ubiquitous computing applications, yet its dominant clip classification paradigm cannot capture the rich temporal structure of real-world behaviors. This motivates a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Pei Li , Jiaxi Yin , Lei Ouyang , Shihan Pan , Ge Wang , Han Ding , Fei Wang

Temporal action segmentation is a task to classify each frame in the video with an action label. However, it is quite expensive to annotate every frame in a large corpus of videos to construct a comprehensive supervised training dataset.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhe Wang , Hao Chen , Xinyu Li , Chunhui Liu , Yuanjun Xiong , Joseph Tighe , Charless Fowlkes

Visual saliency, which predicts regions in the field of view that draw the most visual attention, has attracted a lot of interest from researchers. It has already been used in several vision tasks, e.g., image classification, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Qiang Zhang , Yilin Wang , Baoxin Li

Weakly supervised temporal action localization aims to detect and localize actions in untrimmed videos with only video-level labels during training. However, without frame-level annotations, it is challenging to achieve localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Wang Luo , Tianzhu Zhang , Wenfei Yang , Jingen Liu , Tao Mei , Feng Wu , Yongdong Zhang

Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) has achieved notable success but still suffers from a lack of temporal annotations, leading to a performance and framework gap compared with fully-supervised methods. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ziyi Liu , Yangcen Liu

Video action recognition is a challenging but important task for understanding and discovering what the video does. However, acquiring annotations for a video is costly, and semi-supervised learning (SSL) has been studied to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Seokun Kang , Taehwan Kim

Video moment retrieval is to identify the target moment according to the given sentence in an untrimmed video. Due to temporal boundary annotations of the video are extremely time-consuming to acquire, modeling in the weakly-supervised…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Haoyuan Li , Zhou Zhao , Zhu Zhang , Zhijie Lin

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation receives much research attention since it alleviates the need to obtain a large amount of dense pixel-wise ground-truth annotations for the training images. Compared with other forms of weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Tianyi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai , Tong Shen , Chunhua Shen , Alex C. Kot

Point-level weakly-supervised temporal action localization (PWTAL) aims to localize actions with only a single timestamp annotation for each action instance. Existing methods tend to mine dense pseudo labels to alleviate the label sparsity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yueyang Li , Yonghong Hou , Wanqing Li

The main challenge of Temporal Action Localization is to retrieve subtle human actions from various co-occurring ingredients, e.g., context and background, in an untrimmed video. While prior approaches have achieved substantial progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Kun Xia , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou , Nanning Zheng , Wei Tang

Video salient object detection aims to find the most visually distinctive objects in a video. To explore the temporal dependencies, existing methods usually resort to recurrent neural networks or optical flow. However, these approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Yi-Wen Chen , Xiaojie Jin , Xiaohui Shen , Ming-Hsuan Yang