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Human action analysis and understanding in videos is an important and challenging task. Although substantial progress has been made in past years, the explainability of existing methods is still limited. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Tao Zhuo , Zhiyong Cheng , Peng Zhang , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli

We present a dual-pathway approach for recognizing fine-grained interactions from videos. We build on the success of prior dual-stream approaches, but make a distinction between the static and dynamic representations of objects and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Tae Soo Kim , Jonathan Jones , Gregory D. Hager

Zero-shot learning methods rely on fixed visual and semantic embeddings, extracted from independent vision and language models, both pre-trained for other large-scale tasks. This is a weakness of current zero-shot learning frameworks as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shah Nawaz , Jacopo Cavazza , Alessio Del Bue

Video question answering requires the models to understand and reason about both the complex video and language data to correctly derive the answers. Existing efforts have been focused on designing sophisticated cross-modal interactions to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Junbin Xiao , Angela Yao , Zhiyuan Liu , Yicong Li , Wei Ji , Tat-Seng Chua

Existing action quality assessment (AQA) methods mainly learn deep representations at the video level for scoring diverse actions. Due to the lack of a fine-grained understanding of actions in videos, they harshly suffer from low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Jinglin Xu , Sibo Yin , Guohao Zhao , Zishuo Wang , Yuxin Peng

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot action recognition by learning to associate video embeddings with class embeddings. However, a significant challenge arises when relying solely on action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yehna Kim , Young-Eun Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Action recognition in videos is a challenging task due to the complexity of the spatio-temporal patterns to model and the difficulty to acquire and learn on large quantities of video data. Deep learning, although a breakthrough for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-26 César Roberto de Souza , Adrien Gaidon , Eleonora Vig , Antonio Manuel López

Human actions often involve complex interactions across several inter-related objects in the scene. However, existing approaches to fine-grained video understanding or visual relationship detection often rely on single object representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Chih-Yao Ma , Asim Kadav , Iain Melvin , Zsolt Kira , Ghassan AlRegib , Hans Peter Graf

Zero-shot action recognition, which recognizes actions in videos without having received any training examples, is gaining wide attention considering it can save labor costs and training time. Nevertheless, the performance of zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Nan Wu , Hiroshi Kera , Kazuhiko Kawamoto

Existing Video Corpus Moment Retrieval (VCMR) is limited to coarse-grained understanding, which hinders precise video moment localization when given fine-grained queries. In this paper, we propose a more challenging fine-grained VCMR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Houlun Chen , Xin Wang , Hong Chen , Zeyang Zhang , Wei Feng , Bin Huang , Jia Jia , Wenwu Zhu

Our objective in this work is fine-grained classification of actions in untrimmed videos, where the actions may be temporally extended or may span only a few frames of the video. We cast this into a query-response mechanism, where each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Chuhan Zhang , Ankush Gupta , Andrew Zisserman

Large-scale pretrained image-text models have shown incredible zero-shot performance in a handful of tasks, including video ones such as action recognition and text-to-video retrieval. However, these models have not been adapted to video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Santiago Castro , Fabian Caba Heilbron

The goal of this paper is to recognize actions in video without the need for examples. Different from traditional zero-shot approaches we do not demand the design and specification of attribute classifiers and class-to-attribute mappings to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-26 Mihir Jain , Jan C. van Gemert , Thomas Mensink , Cees G. M. Snoek

Video action segmentation have been widely applied in many fields. Most previous studies employed video-based vision models for this purpose. However, they often rely on a large receptive field, LSTM or Transformer methods to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Junbin Zhang , Pei-Hsuan Tsai , Meng-Hsun Tsai

In recent years, vision language models (VLMs) have made significant advancements in video understanding. However, a crucial capability - fine-grained motion comprehension - remains under-explored in current benchmarks. To address this gap,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wenyi Hong , Yean Cheng , Zhuoyi Yang , Weihan Wang , Lefan Wang , Xiaotao Gu , Shiyu Huang , Yuxiao Dong , Jie Tang

Videos are more informative than images because they capture the dynamics of the scene. By representing motion in videos, we can capture dynamic activities. In this work, we introduce GPT-4 generated motion descriptions that capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Chinmaya Devaraj , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

In the field of action recognition, video clips are always treated as ordered frames for subsequent processing. To achieve spatio-temporal perception, existing approaches propose to embed adjacent temporal interaction in the convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Rongchang Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tianyang Xu

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have been cherished for their ability to perform zero-shot visual recognition on open-vocabulary concepts. This is achieved by selecting the object category whose textual representation bears the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Shaunak Halbe , Junjiao Tian , K J Joseph , James Seale Smith , Katherine Stevo , Vineeth N Balasubramanian , Zsolt Kira

Fine-grained knowledge is crucial for vision-language models to obtain a better understanding of the real world. While there has been work trying to acquire this kind of knowledge in the space of vision and language, it has mostly focused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Melika Behjati , James Henderson

Action segmentation refers to inferring boundaries of semantically consistent visual concepts in videos and is an important requirement for many video understanding tasks. For this and other video understanding tasks, supervised approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 M. Saquib Sarfraz , Naila Murray , Vivek Sharma , Ali Diba , Luc Van Gool , Rainer Stiefelhagen