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We present a novel framework, Action Progression Network (APN), for temporal action detection (TAD) in videos. The framework locates actions in videos by detecting the action evolution process. To encode the action evolution, we quantify a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Chongkai Lu , Man-Wai Mak , Ruimin Li , Zheru Chi , Hong Fu

The temporal action segmentation task segments videos temporally and predicts action labels for all frames. Fully supervising such a segmentation model requires dense frame-wise action annotations, which are expensive and tedious to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Guodong Ding , Angela Yao

Temporal action proposal generation is an important task, akin to object proposals, temporal action proposals are intended to capture "clips" or temporal intervals in videos that are likely to contain an action. Previous methods can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Jiyang Gao , Kan Chen , Ram Nevatia

Disentangling complex causal relationships is important for accurate detection of anomalies. In multivariate time series analysis, dynamic interactions among data variables over time complicate the interpretation of causal relationships.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Wonah Kim , Jeonghyeon Park , Dongsan Jun , Jungkyu Han , Sejin Chun

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

Video anomaly detection (VAD) -- commonly formulated as a multiple-instance learning problem in a weakly-supervised manner due to its labor-intensive nature -- is a challenging problem in video surveillance where the frames of anomaly need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Hyekang Kevin Joo , Khoa Vo , Kashu Yamazaki , Ngan Le

Accurate driving behavior recognition and reasoning are critical for autonomous driving video understanding. However, existing methods often tend to dig out the shallow causal, fail to address spurious correlations across modalities, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Tongtong Cheng , Rongzhen Li , Yixin Xiong , Tao Zhang , Jing Wang , Kai Liu

Detecting anomalies in tabular data is critical for many real-world applications, such as credit card fraud detection. With the rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs), state-of-the-art performance in tabular anomaly detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ruiqi Wang , Ruikang Liu , Runyu Chen , Haoxiang Suo , Zhiyi Peng , Zhuo Tang , Changjian Chen

Recent proposed neural network-based Temporal Action Detection (TAD) models are inherently limited to extracting the discriminative representations and modeling action instances with various lengths from complex scenes by shared-weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Le Yang , Ziwei Zheng , Yizeng Han , Hao Cheng , Shiji Song , Gao Huang , Fan Li

In this work, we address the problem of spatio-temporal action detection in temporally untrimmed videos. It is an important and challenging task as finding accurate human actions in both temporal and spatial space is important for analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Zhenheng Yang , Jiyang Gao , Ram Nevatia

Our objective is to develop compact video representations that are sensitive to visual change over time. To measure such time-sensitivity, we introduce a new task: chiral action recognition, where one needs to distinguish between a pair of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Piyush Bagad , Andrew Zisserman

Online action detection (OAD) is a practical yet challenging task, which has attracted increasing attention in recent years. A typical OAD system mainly consists of three modules: a frame-level feature extractor which is usually based on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Wen Wang , Xiaojiang Peng , Yu Qiao , Jian Cheng

Temporal action segmentation (TAS) in videos aims at densely identifying video frames in minutes-long videos with multiple action classes. As a long-range video understanding task, researchers have developed an extended collection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Guodong Ding , Fadime Sener , Angela Yao

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

In this paper, we examine a key limitation in query-based detectors for temporal action detection (TAD), which arises from their direct adaptation of originally designed architectures for object detection. Despite the effectiveness of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Ho-Joong Kim , Yearang Lee , Jung-Ho Hong , Seong-Whan Lee

With the development of video understanding, there is a proliferation of tasks for clip-level temporal video analysis, including temporal action detection (TAD), temporal action segmentation (TAS), and generic event boundary detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Min Yang , Zichen Zhang , Limin Wang

Most approaches for assessing causality in complex dynamical systems fail when the interactions between variables are inherently non-linear and non-stationary. Here we introduce Temporal Autoencoders for Causal Inference (TACI), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Josuan Calderon , Gordon J. Berman

Temporal action detection aims to locate the boundaries of action in the video. The current method based on boundary matching enumerates and calculates all possible boundary matchings to generate proposals. However, these methods neglect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Guo Chen , Yin-Dong Zheng , Limin Wang , Tong Lu

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

This paper presents a novel spatiotemporal transformer network that introduces several original components to detect actions in untrimmed videos. First, the multi-feature selective semantic attention model calculates the correlations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Matthew Korban , Peter Youngs , Scott T. Acton