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Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) has achieved notable success but still suffers from a lack of temporal annotations, leading to a performance and framework gap compared with fully-supervised methods. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ziyi Liu , Yangcen Liu

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

In this paper, we provide a deep analysis of temporal modeling for action recognition, an important but underexplored problem in the literature. We first propose a new approach to quantify the temporal relationships between frames captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Quanfu Fan , Donghyun Kim , Chun-Fu , Chen , Stan Sclaroff , Kate Saenko , Sarah Adel Bargal

Deep learning models have enjoyed great success for image related computer vision tasks like image classification and object detection. For video related tasks like human action recognition, however, the advancements are not as significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Xiaolin Song , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Junliang Xing , Jingyu Yang , Xiaoyan Sun

State-of-the-art temporal action detectors inefficiently search the entire video for specific actions. Despite the encouraging progress these methods achieve, it is crucial to design automated approaches that only explore parts of the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Humam Alwassel , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Bernard Ghanem

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable sensor data has become a central task in mobile computing, healthcare, and human-computer interaction. Despite the success of traditional deep learning models such as CNNs and RNNs, they often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yunbo Liu , Xukui Qin , Yifan Gao , Xiang Li , Chengwei Feng

Video data is with complex temporal dynamics due to various factors such as camera motion, speed variation, and different activities. To effectively capture this diverse motion pattern, this paper presents a new temporal adaptive module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Zhaoyang Liu , Limin Wang , Wayne Wu , Chen Qian , Tong Lu

Deep convolutional networks have achieved great success for visual recognition in still images. However, for action recognition in videos, the advantage over traditional methods is not so evident. This paper aims to discover the principles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Limin Wang , Yuanjun Xiong , Zhe Wang , Yu Qiao , Dahua Lin , Xiaoou Tang , Luc Van Gool

Despite the recent progress in video understanding and the continuous rate of improvement in temporal action localization throughout the years, it is still unclear how far (or close?) we are to solving the problem. To this end, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Humam Alwassel , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Victor Escorcia , Bernard Ghanem

Recent progress in Temporal Action Segmentation (TAS) has increasingly relied on complex architectures, which can hinder practical deployment. We present a lightweight dual-loss training framework that improves fine-grained segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hinako Mitsuoka , Kazuhiro Hotta

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

Efficiency is an important issue in designing video architectures for action recognition. 3D CNNs have witnessed remarkable progress in action recognition from videos. However, compared with their 2D counterparts, 3D convolutions often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Zhaoyang Liu , Donghao Luo , Yabiao Wang , Limin Wang , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Tong Lu

Temporal action segmentation is a topic of increasing interest, however, annotating each frame in a video is cumbersome and costly. Weakly supervised approaches therefore aim at learning temporal action segmentation from videos that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mohsen Fayyaz , Juergen Gall

The object of Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WS-TAL) is to localize all action instances in an untrimmed video with only video-level supervision. Due to the lack of frame-level annotations during training, current WS-TAL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ziyi Liu , Le Wang , Qilin Zhang , Wei Tang , Junsong Yuan , Nanning Zheng , Gang Hua

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

Temporal action segmentation (TAS) divides untrimmed videos into labeled action segments. While fully supervised methods have advanced the field, challenges such as action variability, ambiguous boundaries, and high annotation costs remain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yeo Keat Ee , Debaditya Roy , Chen Li , Hao Zhang , Basura Fernando

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

Real-time and online action localization in a video is a critical yet highly challenging problem. Accurate action localization requires the utilization of both temporal and spatial information. Recent attempts achieve this by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Kalana Abeywardena , Shechem Sumanthiran , Sakuna Jayasundara , Sachira Karunasena , Ranga Rodrigo , Peshala Jayasekara

Traditional temporal action localization (TAL) methods rely on large amounts of detailed annotated data, whereas few-shot TAL reduces this dependence by using only a few training samples to identify unseen action categories. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Mengshi Qi , Hongwei Ji , Wulian Yun , Xianlin Zhang , Huadong Ma

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