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The present study explores the intricacies of causal relationship extraction, a vital component in the pursuit of causality knowledge. Causality is frequently intertwined with temporal elements, as the progression from cause to effect is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Xiaosong Yuan , Ke Chen , Wanli Zuo , Yijia Zhang

As a critical task in video sequence classification within computer vision, Online Action Detection (OAD) has garnered significant attention. The sensitivity of mainstream OAD models to varying video viewpoints often hampers their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Liping Xie , Yang Tan , Shicheng Jing , Huimin Lu , Kanjian Zhang

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

Temporal action detection (TAD) is challenging, yet fundamental for real-world video applications. Recently, DETR-based models for TAD have been prevailing thanks to their unique benefits. However, transformers demand a huge dataset, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jihwan Kim , Miso Lee , Jae-Pil Heo

Video language models (VideoLMs) have made significant progress in multimodal understanding. However, temporal understanding, which involves identifying event order, duration, and relationships across time, still remains a core challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yumeng Shi , Quanyu Long , Yin Wu , Wenya Wang

Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Detection (OV-TAD) aims to classify and localize action segments in untrimmed videos for unseen categories. Previous methods rely solely on global alignment between label-level semantics and visual features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Sa Zhu , Wanqian Zhang , Lin Wang , Xiaohua Chen , Chenxu Cui , Jinchao Zhang , Bo Li

Our goal is to recover time-delayed latent causal variables and identify their relations from measured temporal data. Estimating causally-related latent variables from observations is particularly challenging as the latent variables are not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-10 Weiran Yao , Yuewen Sun , Alex Ho , Changyin Sun , Kun Zhang

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

This report presents our method for Temporal Action Localisation (TAL), which focuses on identifying and classifying actions within specific time intervals throughout a video sequence. We employ a data augmentation technique by expanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yinan Han , Qingyuan Jiang , Hongming Mei , Yang Yang , Jinhui Tang

Video causal reasoning aims to achieve a high-level understanding of video content from a causal perspective. However, current video reasoning tasks are limited in scope, primarily executed in a question-answering paradigm and focusing on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Tieyuan Chen , Huabin Liu , Tianyao He , Yihang Chen , Chaofan Gan , Xiao Ma , Cheng Zhong , Yang Zhang , Yingxue Wang , Hui Lin , Weiyao Lin

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

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

Learning human motion based on a time-dependent input signal presents a challenging yet impactful task with various applications. The goal of this task is to generate or estimate human movement that consistently reflects the temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Quang Nguyen , Tri Le , Baoru Huang , Minh Nhat Vu , Ngan Le , Thieu Vo , Anh Nguyen

Causal discovery from time series is critical for many real-world applications, such as tracing the root causes of anomalies. Existing approaches typically rely on dataset-specific optimization, making it difficult to transfer their causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Biao Ouyang , Tengxue Zhang , Zhihao Zhuang , Yang Shu , Chenjuan Guo , Bin Yang

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

Anticipating human actions is an important task that needs to be addressed for the development of reliable intelligent agents, such as self-driving cars or robot assistants. While the ability to make future predictions with high accuracy is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Olga Zatsarynna , Yazan Abu Farha , Juergen Gall

As robotic systems execute increasingly difficult task sequences, so does the number of ways in which they can fail. Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) frameworks typically focus on singular, low-level kinematic or action failures, struggling to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Nerea Gallego , Fernando Salanova , Claudio Mannarano , Cristian Mahulea , Eduardo Montijano

Event cameras capture asynchronous pixel-level brightness changes with microsecond temporal resolution, offering unique advantages for high-speed vision tasks. Existing methods often convert event streams into intermediate representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Hanfang Liang , Bing Wang , Shizhen Zhang , Wen Jiang , Yizhuo Yang , Weixiang Guo , Shenghai Yuan

This work aims at advancing temporal action detection (TAD) using an encoder-decoder framework with action queries, similar to DETR, which has shown great success in object detection. However, the framework suffers from several problems if…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Dingfeng Shi , Yujie Zhong , Qiong Cao , Jing Zhang , Lin Ma , Jia Li , Dacheng Tao

Temporal action localization is a recently-emerging task, aiming to localize video segments from untrimmed videos that contain specific actions. Despite the remarkable recent progress, most two-stage action localization methods still suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Guoqiang Gong , Liangfeng Zheng , Kun Bai , Yadong Mu