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Temporal action detection (TAD) is an important yet challenging task in video understanding. It aims to simultaneously predict the semantic label and the temporal interval of every action instance in an untrimmed video. Rather than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Xiaolong Liu , Song Bai , Xiang Bai

Online action detection in untrimmed videos aims to identify an action as it happens, which makes it very important for real-time applications. Previous methods rely on tedious annotations of temporal action boundaries for training, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Mingfei Gao , Yingbo Zhou , Ran Xu , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

In this paper, we investigate that the normalized coordinate expression is a key factor as reliance on hand-crafted components in query-based detectors for temporal action detection (TAD). Despite significant advancements towards an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Ho-Joong Kim , Jung-Ho Hong , Heejo Kong , Seong-Whan Lee

As a fundamental task in long-form video understanding, temporal action detection (TAD) aims to capture inherent temporal relations in untrimmed videos and identify candidate actions with precise boundaries. Over the years, various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Shuming Liu , Lin Sui , Chen-Lin Zhang , Fangzhou Mu , Chen Zhao , Bernard Ghanem

Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to locate and recognize the actions in an untrimmed video. Anchor-free methods have made remarkable progress which mainly formulate TAD into two tasks: classification and localization using two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Junshan Hu , Chaoxu guo , Liansheng Zhuang , Biao Wang , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Houqiang Li

Temporal Action Detection (TAD) requires precise localization of action boundaries within long, untrimmed video sequences. While current high-performing methods achieve strong accuracy, they are often characterized by excessive parameter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zepeng Sun , Naichuan Zheng , Hailun Xia , Junjie Wu , Liwei Bao , Xiaotai Zhang

Temporal action detection (TAD) with end-to-end training often suffers from the pain of huge demand for computing resources due to long video duration. In this work, we propose an efficient temporal action detector (ETAD) that can train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Shuming Liu , Mengmeng Xu , Chen Zhao , Xu Zhao , Bernard Ghanem

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of temporal action localization under low-shot (zero-shot & few-shot) scenario, with the goal of detecting and classifying the action instances from arbitrary categories within some untrimmed videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Chen Ju , Zeqian Li , Peisen Zhao , Ya Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Temporal action detection (TAD) is a challenging task which aims to temporally localize and recognize the human action in untrimmed videos. Current mainstream one-stage TAD approaches localize and classify action proposals relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Ranyu Ning , Can Zhang , Yuexian Zou

Temporal action detection is a very important yet challenging problem, since videos in real applications are usually long, untrimmed and contain multiple action instances. This problem requires not only recognizing action categories but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Tianwei Lin , Xu Zhao , Zheng Shou

Spatio-temporal action detection (STAD) aims to classify the actions present in a video and localize them in space and time. It has become a particularly active area of research in computer vision because of its explosively emerging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Peng Wang , Fanwei Zeng , Yuntao Qian

Training temporal action detection in videos requires large amounts of labeled data, yet such annotation is expensive to collect. Incorporating unlabeled or weakly-labeled data to train action detection model could help reduce annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Baifeng Shi , Qi Dai , Judy Hoffman , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell , Huijuan Xu

Existing Temporal Action Detection (TAD) methods typically take a pre-processing step in converting an input varying-length video into a fixed-length snippet representation sequence, before temporal boundary estimation and action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Sauradip Nag , Xiatian Zhu , Yi-Zhe Song , 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

Temporal Action Detection (TAD) focuses on detecting pre-defined actions, while Moment Retrieval (MR) aims to identify the events described by open-ended natural language within untrimmed videos. Despite that they focus on different events,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yingsen Zeng , Yujie Zhong , Chengjian Feng , Lin Ma

Temporal Action Detection (TAD) aims to identify and localize actions by determining their starting and ending frames within untrimmed videos. Recent Structured State-Space Models such as Mamba have demonstrated potential in TAD due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hui Lu , Yi Yu , Shijian Lu , Deepu Rajan , Boon Poh Ng , Alex C. Kot , Xudong Jiang

Temporal understanding in autonomous driving (AD) remains a significant challenge, even for recent state-of-the-art (SoTA) Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Prior work has introduced datasets and benchmarks aimed at improving temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Kevin Cannons , Saeed Ranjbar Alvar , Mohammad Asiful Hossain , Ahmad Rezaei , Mohsen Gholami , Alireza Heidarikhazaei , Zhou Weimin , Yong Zhang , Mohammad Akbari

Online action detection (OAD) is a practical yet challenging task, which has attracted increasing attention in recent years. A typical OAD system mainly consists of three modules: a frame-level feature extractor which is usually based on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Wen Wang , Xiaojiang Peng , Yu Qiao , Jian Cheng

Understanding the structure of complex activities in untrimmed videos is a challenging task in the area of action recognition. One problem here is that this task usually requires a large amount of hand-annotated minute- or even hour-long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Rosaura G. VidalMata , Walter J. Scheirer , Anna Kukleva , David Cox , Hilde Kuehne