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This paper addresses weakly supervised amodal instance segmentation, where the goal is to segment both visible and occluded (amodal) object parts, while training provides only ground-truth visible (modal) segmentations. Following prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Khoi Nguyen , Sinisa Todorovic

Temporal action localization is an important step towards video understanding. Most current action localization methods depend on untrimmed videos with full temporal annotations of action instances. However, it is expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Ashraful Islam , Richard J. Radke

Action recognition has become a rapidly developing research field within the last decade. But with the increasing demand for large scale data, the need of hand annotated data for the training becomes more and more impractical. One way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Hilde Kuehne , Alexander Richard , Juergen Gall

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to learn detecting temporal intervals of action classes with only video-level labels. To this end, it is crucial to separate frames of action classes from the background frames (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Pilhyeon Lee , Jinglu Wang , Yan Lu , Hyeran Byun

Understanding actions within surgical workflows is critical for evaluating post-operative outcomes and enhancing surgical training and efficiency. Capturing and analyzing long sequences of actions in surgical settings is challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Rezowan Shuvo , M S Mekala , Eyad Elyan

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to localize actions in untrimmed videos with only video-level action category labels. Most of previous methods ignore the incompleteness issue of Class Activation Sequences (CAS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Chen Ju , Peisen Zhao , Siheng Chen , Ya Zhang , Xiaoyun Zhang , Qi Tian

Weakly-supervised action localization aims to recognize and localize action instancese in untrimmed videos with only video-level labels. Most existing models rely on multiple instance learning(MIL), where the predictions of unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Guiqin Wang , Peng Zhao , Cong Zhao , Shusen Yang , Jie Cheng , Luziwei Leng , Jianxing Liao , Qinghai Guo

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

This paper focuses on weakly-supervised action alignment, where only the ordered sequence of video-level actions is available for training. We propose a novel Duration Network, which captures a short temporal window of the video and learns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Reza Ghoddoosian , Saif Sayed , Vassilis Athitsos

Instance segmentation in videos, which aims to segment and track multiple objects in video frames, has garnered a flurry of research attention in recent years. In this paper, we present a novel weakly supervised framework with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Liqi Yan , Qifan Wang , Siqi Ma , Jingang Wang , Changbin Yu

Semantic labelling and instance segmentation are two tasks that require particularly costly annotations. Starting from weak supervision in the form of bounding box detection annotations, we propose a new approach that does not require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Anna Khoreva , Rodrigo Benenson , Jan Hosang , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Despite the recent progress of fully-supervised action segmentation techniques, the performance is still not fully satisfactory. One main challenge is the problem of spatiotemporal variations (e.g. different people may perform the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Min-Hung Chen , Baopu Li , Yingze Bao , Ghassan AlRegib , Zsolt Kira

We propose a weakly-supervised framework for action labeling in video, where only the order of occurring actions is required during training time. The key challenge is that the per-frame alignments between the input (video) and label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-29 De-An Huang , Li Fei-Fei , Juan Carlos Niebles

We present a novel unsupervised framework to unlock vast unlabeled human demonstration data from continuous industrial video streams for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model pre-training. Our method first trains a lightweight motion tokenizer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiajie Zhang , Sören Schwertfeger , Alexander Kleiner

Action segmentation is a challenging yet active research area that involves identifying when and where specific actions occur in continuous video streams. Most existing work has focused on single-stream approaches that model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Harshala Gammulle , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan , Simon Denman

Existing supervised action segmentation methods depend on the quality of frame-wise classification using attention mechanisms or temporal convolutions to capture temporal dependencies. Even boundary detection-based methods primarily depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Kamel Aouaidjia , Wenhao Zhang , Aofan Li , Chongsheng Zhang

This paper proposes a novel active boundary loss for semantic segmentation. It can progressively encourage the alignment between predicted boundaries and ground-truth boundaries during end-to-end training, which is not explicitly enforced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Chi Wang , Yunke Zhang , Miaomiao Cui , Peiran Ren , Yin Yang , Xuansong Xie , XianSheng Hua , Hujun Bao , Weiwei Xu

Human skin segmentation is a crucial task in computer vision and biometric systems, yet it poses several challenges such as variability in skin color, pose, and illumination. This paper presents a robust data-driven skin segmentation method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Kooshan Hashemifard , Pau Climent-Perez , Francisco Florez-Revuelta

Accurate segmentation of organelle instances from electron microscopy (EM) images plays an essential role in many neuroscience researches. However, practical scenarios usually suffer from high annotation costs, label scarcity, and large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Dafei Qiu , Shan Xiong , Jiajin Yi , Jialin Peng

This paper addresses unsupervised action segmentation. Prior work captures the frame-level temporal structure of videos by a feature embedding that encodes time locations of frames in the video. We advance prior work with a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Jun Li , Sinisa Todorovic