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We present a method for weakly-supervised action localization based on graph convolutions. In order to find and classify video time segments that correspond to relevant action classes, a system must be able to both identify discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Maheen Rashid , Hedvig Kjellström , Yong Jae Lee

Weakly supervised temporal action localization is a challenging vision task due to the absence of ground-truth temporal locations of actions in the training videos. With only video-level supervision during training, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Ashraful Islam , Chengjiang Long , Richard Radke

The task of language-guided video temporal grounding is to localize the particular video clip corresponding to a query sentence in an untrimmed video. Though progress has been made continuously in this field, some issues still need to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Binjie Zhang , Yu Li , Chun Yuan , Dejing Xu , Pin Jiang , Ying Shan

Image-level weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) reduces the usually vast data annotation cost by surrogate segmentation masks during training. The typical approach involves training an image classification network using global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Arvi Jonnarth , Yushan Zhang , Michael Felsberg

Real-world data often exhibit long-tailed distributions with numerous noisy labels, substantially degrading the performance of deep models. While prior research has made progress in addressing this combined challenge, it overlooks the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mengke Li , Haiquan Ling , Yiqun Zhang , Yang Lu , Hui Huang

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

In this paper, we study the problem of weakly-supervised temporal grounding of sentence in video. Specifically, given an untrimmed video and a query sentence, our goal is to localize a temporal segment in the video that semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Zhenfang Chen , Lin Ma , Wenhan Luo , Peng Tang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

The vocabulary size in temporal action localization (TAL) is limited by the scarcity of large-scale annotated datasets. To overcome this, recent works integrate vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, for open-vocabulary TAL (OV-TAL).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jeongseok Hyun , Su Ho Han , Hyolim Kang , Joon-Young Lee , Seon Joo Kim

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to bypass the need for laborious pixel-level annotation by using only image-level annotation. Most existing methods rely on Class Activation Maps (CAM) to derive pixel-level pseudo-labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Tianle Chen , Zheda Mai , Ruiwen Li , Wei-lun Chao

Temporal sentence grounding aims to detect event timestamps described by the natural language query from given untrimmed videos. The existing fully-supervised setting achieves great results but requires expensive annotation costs; while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Haicheng Wang , Chen Ju , Weixiong Lin , Chaofan Ma , Shuai Xiao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

The task of temporally grounding textual queries in videos is to localize one video segment that semantically corresponds to the given query. Most of the existing approaches rely on segment-sentence pairs (temporal annotations) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Yijun Song , Jingwen Wang , Lin Ma , Zhou Yu , Jun Yu

This paper tackles the challenge of point-supervised temporal action detection, wherein only a single frame is annotated for each action instance in the training set. Most of the current methods, hindered by the sparse nature of annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Elahe Vahdani , Yingli Tian

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

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

Recently, temporal action localization (TAL), i.e., finding specific action segments in untrimmed videos, has attracted increasing attentions of the computer vision community. State-of-the-art solutions for TAL involves evaluating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Peisen Zhao , Lingxi Xie , Chen Ju , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

In industrial settings, weakly supervised (WS) methods are usually preferred over their fully supervised (FS) counterparts as they do not require costly manual annotations. Unfortunately, the segmentation masks obtained in the WS regime are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Andrea Marelli , Luca Magri , Federica Arrigoni , Giacomo Boracchi

Temporal human action detection aims to identify and localize action segments within untrimmed videos, serving as a pivotal task in video understanding. Despite the progress achieved by prior architectures like CNN and Transformer models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yicheng Qiu , Keiji Yanai

The goal of this work is spatio-temporal action localization in videos, using only the supervision from video-level class labels. The state-of-the-art casts this weakly-supervised action localization regime as a Multiple Instance Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek

Text-to-audio grounding (TAG) task aims to predict the onsets and offsets of sound events described by natural language. This task can facilitate applications such as multimodal information retrieval. This paper focuses on weakly-supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xuenan Xu , Ziyang Ma , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Detecting actions in untrimmed videos is an important yet challenging task. In this paper, we present the structured segment network (SSN), a novel framework which models the temporal structure of each action instance via a structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Yue Zhao , Yuanjun Xiong , Limin Wang , Zhirong Wu , Xiaoou Tang , Dahua Lin