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The task of weakly supervised temporal action localization targets at generating temporal boundaries for actions of interest, meanwhile the action category should also be classified. Pseudo-label-based methods, which serve as an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Jingqiu Zhou , Linjiang Huang , Liang Wang , Si Liu , Hongsheng Li

Compared with tedious per-pixel mask annotating, it is much easier to annotate data by clicks, which costs only several seconds for an image. However, applying clicks to learn video semantic segmentation model has not been explored before.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Peidong Liu , Zibin He , Xiyu Yan , Yong Jiang , Shutao Xia , Feng Zheng , Maowei Hu

The growth of videos in our digital age and the users' limited time raise the demand for processing untrimmed videos to produce shorter versions conveying the same information. Despite the remarkable progress that summarization methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Washington Ramos , Michel Silva , Edson Araujo , Victor Moura , Keller Oliveira , Leandro Soriano Marcolino , Erickson R. Nascimento

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

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

Temporal moment localization aims to retrieve the best video segment matching a moment specified by a query. The existing methods generate the visual and semantic embeddings independently and fuse them without full consideration of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Jungkyoo Shin , Jinyoung Moon

Temporal Activity Detection aims to predict activity classes per frame, in contrast to video-level predictions in Activity Classification (i.e., Activity Recognition). Due to the expensive frame-level annotations required for detection, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Zhou Ren , Haoxiang Li , Zhenyu Wu , Michael S. Ryoo , Gang Hua

Early weakly supervised video grounding (WSVG) methods often struggle with incomplete boundary detection due to the absence of temporal boundary annotations. To bridge the gap between video-level and boundary-level annotation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Guozhang Li , Xinpeng Ding , De Cheng , Jie Li , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Existing weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using image-level annotations typically rely on initial responses to locate object regions. However, such response maps generated by the classification network usually focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yu-Ting Chang , Qiaosong Wang , Wei-Chih Hung , Robinson Piramuthu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Temporal language grounding (TLG) aims to localize a video segment in an untrimmed video based on a natural language description. To alleviate the expensive cost of manual annotations for temporal boundary labels, we are dedicated to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yuechen Wang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

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

Salient Span Masking (SSM) has shown itself to be an effective strategy to improve closed-book question answering performance. SSM extends general masked language model pretraining by creating additional unsupervised training sentences that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Jeremy R. Cole , Aditi Chaudhary , Bhuwan Dhingra , Partha Talukdar

Given a text description, Temporal Language Grounding (TLG) aims to localize temporal boundaries of the segments that contain the specified semantics in an untrimmed video. TLG is inherently a challenging task, as it requires comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Fan Luo , Shaoxiang Chen , Jingjing Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

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

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

Temporal action localization is a recently-emerging task, aiming to localize video segments from untrimmed videos that contain specific actions. Despite the remarkable recent progress, most two-stage action localization methods still suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Guoqiang Gong , Liangfeng Zheng , Kun Bai , Yadong Mu

Text segmentation is a challenging vision task with many downstream applications. Current text segmentation methods require pixel-level annotations, which are expensive in the cost of human labor and limited in application scenarios. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xinyan Zu , Haiyang Yu , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Temporal action localization plays an important role in video analysis, which aims to localize and classify actions in untrimmed videos. The previous methods often predict actions on a feature space of a single-temporal scale. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Zan Gao , Xinglei Cui , Tao Zhuo , Zhiyong Cheng , An-An Liu , Meng Wang , Shenyong Chen

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

We tackle the problem of localizing temporal intervals of actions with only a single frame label for each action instance for training. Owing to label sparsity, existing work fails to learn action completeness, resulting in fragmentary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Pilhyeon Lee , Hyeran Byun