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Temporal Action Localization (TAL) is a challenging task in video understanding that aims to identify and localize actions within a video sequence. Recent studies have emphasized the importance of applying long-term temporal context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Tuan N. Tang , Kwonyoung Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

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

Localizing actions in video is a core task in computer vision. The weakly supervised temporal localization problem investigates whether this task can be adequately solved with only video-level labels, significantly reducing the amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Junwei Ma , Satya Krishna Gorti , Maksims Volkovs , Guangwei Yu

Few-shot action recognition aims to recognize action classes with few training samples. Most existing methods adopt a meta-learning approach with episodic training. In each episode, the few samples in a meta-training task are split into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xiatian Zhu , Antoine Toisoul , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua , Li Zhang , Brais Martinez , Tao Xiang

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

Weakly supervised temporal action localization (WS-TAL) is a challenging task that aims to localize action instances in the given video with video-level categorical supervision. Both appearance and motion features are used in previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Fa-Ting Hong , Jia-Chang Feng , Dan Xu , Ying Shan , Wei-Shi Zheng

Procedural activity videos often exhibit a long-tailed action distribution due to varying action frequencies and durations. However, state-of-the-art temporal action segmentation methods overlook the long tail and fail to recognize tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhanzhong Pang , Fadime Sener , Shrinivas Ramasubramanian , Angela Yao

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

Weakly supervised temporal action localization (WSTAL) aims to localize actions in untrimmed videos using video-level labels. Despite recent advances, existing approaches mainly follow a localization-by-classification pipeline, generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Songchun Zhang , Chunhui Zhao

We address temporal action localization in untrimmed long videos. This is important because videos in real applications are usually unconstrained and contain multiple action instances plus video content of background scenes or other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Zheng Shou , Dongang Wang , Shih-Fu Chang

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) requires identifying both the boundaries and categories of actions in untrimmed videos. While vision-language models (VLMs) offer rich semantics to complement visual evidence, existing approaches tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiaqi Li , Guangming Wang , Shuntian Zheng , Minzhe Ni , Xiaoman Lu , Guanghui Ye , Yu Guan

Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (W-TAL) aims to classify and localize all action instances in an untrimmed video under only video-level supervision. However, without frame-level annotations, it is challenging for W-TAL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Yuanhao Zhai , Le Wang , Wei Tang , Qilin Zhang , Junsong Yuan , Gang Hua

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 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

This technical report presents an overview of our solution used in the submission to ActivityNet Challenge 2020 Task 1 (\textbf{temporal action localization/detection}). Temporal action localization requires to not only precisely locate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Haisheng Su , Jinyuan Feng , Hao Shao , Zhenyu Jiang , Manyuan Zhang , Wei Wu , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li , Junjie Yan

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

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

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) involves localizing and classifying action snippets in an untrimmed video. The emergence of large video foundation models has led RGB-only video backbones to outperform previous methods needing both RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Akshita Gupta , Gaurav Mittal , Ahmed Magooda , Ye Yu , Graham W. Taylor , Mei Chen

Temporal action detection (TAD) involves the localization and classification of action instances within untrimmed videos. While standard TAD follows fully supervised learning with closed-set setting on large training data, recent zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Thinh Phan , Khoa Vo , Duy Le , Gianfranco Doretto , Donald Adjeroh , Ngan Le

We present a novel approach for unsupervised activity segmentation which uses video frame clustering as a pretext task and simultaneously performs representation learning and online clustering. This is in contrast with prior works where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sateesh Kumar , Sanjay Haresh , Awais Ahmed , Andrey Konin , M. Zeeshan Zia , Quoc-Huy Tran