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Temporal action localization (TAL), which involves recognizing and locating action instances, is a challenging task in video understanding. Most existing approaches directly predict action classes and regress offsets to boundaries, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Jiayi Shao , Xiaohan Wang , Ruijie Quan , Junjun Zheng , Jiang Yang , Yi Yang

Weakly supervised video object localization (WSVOL) allows locating object in videos using only global video tags such as object class. State-of-art methods rely on multiple independent stages, where initial spatio-temporal proposals are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Soufiane Belharbi , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

Due to the lack of temporal annotation, current Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) methods are generally stuck into over-complete or incomplete localization. In this paper, we aim to leverage the text information to boost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Guozhang Li , De Cheng , Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Xiaoyu Wang , Xinbo Gao

Recently, temporal action localization (TAL) has garnered significant interest in information retrieval community. However, existing supervised/weakly supervised methods are heavily dependent on extensive labeled temporal boundaries and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yupeng Hu , Han Jiang , Hao Liu , Kun Wang , Haoyu Tang , Liqiang Nie

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

With video-level labels, weakly supervised temporal action localization (WTAL) applies a localization-by-classification paradigm to detect and classify the action in untrimmed videos. Due to the characteristic of classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Ziqiang Li , Yongxin Ge , Jiaruo Yu , Zhongming Chen

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) promises to scale visual recognition by bypassing the conventional model training requirement of annotated examples for every category. This is achieved by establishing a mapping connecting low-level features and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Xun Xu , Timothy M. Hospedales , Shaogang Gong

Learning to localize actions in long, cluttered, and untrimmed videos is a hard task, that in the literature has typically been addressed assuming the availability of large amounts of annotated training samples for each class -- either in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Ting-Ting Xie , Christos Tzelepis , Fan Fu , Ioannis Patras

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) presents significant challenges in early diagnosis and intervention, impacting children and their families. With prevalence rates rising, there is a critical need for accessible and efficient screening tools.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Halil Ismail Helvaci , Sen-ching Samson Cheung , Chen-Nee Chuah , Sally Ozonoff

This technical report presents an overview of our solution used in the submission to 2021 HACS Temporal Action Localization Challenge on both Supervised Learning Track and Weakly-Supervised Learning Track. Temporal Action Localization (TAL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Haisheng Su , Peiqin Zhuang , Yukun Li , Dongliang Wang , Weihao Gan , Wei Wu , Yu Qiao

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) aims to detect the start and end timestamps of actions in a video. However, the training of TAL models requires a substantial amount of manually annotated data. Data programming is an efficient method to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yuchen He , Jianbing Lv , Liqi Cheng , Lingyu Meng , Dazhen Deng , Yingcai Wu

Zero-Shot Video Anomaly Detection (ZS-VAD) requires temporally localizing anomalies without target domain training data, which is a crucial task due to various practical concerns, e.g., data privacy or new surveillance deployments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Canhui Tang , Sanping Zhou , Haoyue Shi , Le Wang

Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization (WS-TAL) task aims to recognize and localize temporal starts and ends of action instances in an untrimmed video with only video-level label supervision. Due to lack of negative samples of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Xiang Wang , Zhiwu Qing , Ziyuan Huang , Yutong Feng , Shiwei Zhang , Jianwen Jiang , Mingqian Tang , Yuanjie Shao , Nong Sang

Weakly supervised temporal action localization aims at learning the instance-level action pattern from the video-level labels, where a significant challenge is action-context confusion. To overcome this challenge, one recent work builds an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Le Yang , Junwei Han , Tao Zhao , Tianwei Lin , Dingwen Zhang , Jianxin Chen

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

An integral part of video analysis and surveillance is temporal activity detection, which means to simultaneously recognize and localize activities in long untrimmed videos. Currently, the most effective methods of temporal activity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Lingling Zhang , Xiaojun Chang , Jun Liu , Minnan Luo , Sen Wang , Zongyuan Ge , Alexander Hauptmann

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 (WSTAL) aims to localize and classify action instances in long untrimmed videos with only video-level category labels. Due to the lack of snippet-level supervision for indicating action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Jia-Run Du , Jia-Chang Feng , Kun-Yu Lin , Fa-Ting Hong , Xiao-Ming Wu , Zhongang Qi , Ying Shan , Wei-Shi Zheng

Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Localization (OVTAL) enables a model to recognize any desired action category in videos without the need to explicitly curate training data for all categories. However, this flexibility poses significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Akshita Gupta , Aditya Arora , Sanath Narayan , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Graham W. Taylor

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