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Most activity localization methods in the literature suffer from the burden of frame-wise annotation requirement. Learning from weak labels may be a potential solution towards reducing such manual labeling effort. Recent years have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Sujoy Paul , Sourya Roy , Amit K Roy-Chowdhury

Weakly supervised temporal action localization (WTAL) aims to detect action instances in untrimmed videos using only video-level annotations. Since many existing works optimize WTAL models based on action classification labels, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Geuntaek Lim , Hyunwoo Kim , Joonsoo Kim , Yukyung Choi

Recently, Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) has been densely studied but there is still a large gap between weakly-supervised models and fully-supervised models. It is practical and intuitive to annotate temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Xudong Lin , Zheng Shou , Shih-Fu Chang

Language models often show little to no improvement (i.e., "saturation") when trained via vanilla supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on data similar to what they saw in their training set (e.g., MATH). We introduce a new fine-tuning strategy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yinghui He , Abhishek Panigrahi , Yong Lin , Sanjeev Arora

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

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) in untrimmed video is important for many applications. But it is very expensive to annotate the segment-level ground truth (action class and temporal boundary). This raises the interest of addressing TAL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Zheng Shou , Hang Gao , Lei Zhang , Kazuyuki Miyazawa , Shih-Fu Chang

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization (WTAL) in untrimmed videos has emerged as a practical but challenging task since only video-level labels are available. Existing approaches typically leverage off-the-shelf segment-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Zichen Yang , Jie Qin , Di Huang

Temporal action localization presents a trade-off between test performance and annotation-time cost. Fully supervised methods achieve good performance with time-consuming boundary annotations. Weakly supervised methods with cheaper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Jie Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Tongliang Liu

Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization (ZS-TAL) seeks to identify and locate actions in untrimmed videos unseen during training. Existing ZS-TAL methods involve fine-tuning a model on a large amount of annotated training data. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Benedetta Liberatori , Alessandro Conti , Paolo Rota , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

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

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

Few-shot temporal action localization (TAL) methods that adapt large models via single-prompt tuning often fail to produce precise temporal boundaries. This stems from the model learning a non-discriminative mean representation of an action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Edward Fish , Andrew Gilbert

Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization (WSTAL) aims to localize actions in untrimmed videos with only video-level labels. Currently, most state-of-the-art WSTAL methods follow a Multi-Instance Learning (MIL) pipeline: producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Meng Cao , Can Zhang , Long Chen , Mike Zheng Shou , Yuexian Zou

Temporal action localization (TAL) involves dual tasks to classify and localize actions within untrimmed videos. However, the two tasks often have conflicting requirements for features. Existing methods typically employ separate heads for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Qiang Li , Di Liu , Jun Kong , Sen Li , Hui Xu , Jianzhong Wang

Point-level weakly-supervised temporal action localization (PWTAL) aims to localize actions with only a single timestamp annotation for each action instance. Existing methods tend to mine dense pseudo labels to alleviate the label sparsity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yueyang Li , Yonghong Hou , Wanqing Li

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

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

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

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) is a complex task that poses relevant challenges, particularly when attempting to generalize on new -- unseen -- domains in real-world applications. These scenarios, despite realistic, are often neglected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 David Pujol-Perich , Albert Clapés , Sergio Escalera

Unsupervised video representation learning has made remarkable achievements in recent years. However, most existing methods are designed and optimized for video classification. These pre-trained models can be sub-optimal for temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Can Zhang , Tianyu Yang , Junwu Weng , Meng Cao , Jue Wang , Yuexian Zou