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Action chunking is a widely adopted approach in Learning from Demonstration (LfD). By modeling multi-step action chunks rather than single-step actions, action chunking significantly enhances modeling capabilities for human expert policies.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yueyang Weng , Xiaopeng Zhang , Yongjin Mu , Yingcong Zhu , Yanjie Li , Qi Liu

Temporal action detection (TAD) is an important yet challenging task in video analysis. Most existing works draw inspiration from image object detection and tend to reformulate it as a proposal generation - classification problem. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Chen Zhao , Merey Ramazanova , Mengmeng Xu , Bernard Ghanem

In this paper, we introduce Coarse-Fine Networks, a two-stream architecture which benefits from different abstractions of temporal resolution to learn better video representations for long-term motion. Traditional Video models process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Michael S. Ryoo

Weakly supervised temporal action localization (WTAL) aims to localize actions in untrimmed videos with only weak supervision information (e.g. video-level labels). Most existing models handle all input videos with a fixed temporal scale.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Weiqi Sun , Rui Su , Qian Yu , Dong Xu

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

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

Temporal action segmentation in untrimmed videos has gained increased attention recently. However, annotating action classes and frame-wise boundaries is extremely time consuming and cost intensive, especially on large-scale datasets. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Wei Lin , Anna Kukleva , Horst Possegger , Hilde Kuehne , Horst Bischof

Weakly supervised video object localization (WSVOL) allows locating object in videos using only global video tags such as object class. State-of-art methods rely on multiple independent stages, where initial spatio-temporal proposals are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Soufiane Belharbi , Ismail Ben Ayed , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

Traditional temporal action detection (TAD) usually handles untrimmed videos with small number of action instances from a single label (e.g., ActivityNet, THUMOS). However, this setting might be unrealistic as different classes of actions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Jing Tan , Xiaotong Zhao , Xintian Shi , Bin Kang , Limin Wang

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) has experienced remarkable success under the supervised learning paradigm. However, existing TAL methods are rooted in the closed set assumption, which cannot handle the inevitable unknown actions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Wentao Bao , Qi Yu , Yu Kong

Temporal modeling still remains challenging for action recognition in videos. To mitigate this issue, this paper presents a new video architecture, termed as Temporal Difference Network (TDN), with a focus on capturing multi-scale temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Limin Wang , Zhan Tong , Bin Ji , Gangshan Wu

Long-term action recognition (LTAR) is challenging due to extended temporal spans with complex atomic action correlations and visual confounders. Although vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promise, they often rely on statistical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Xu Shaowu , Jia Xibin , Gao Junyu , Sun Qianmei , Chang Jing , Fan Chao

The ability to identify and temporally segment fine-grained human actions throughout a video is crucial for robotics, surveillance, education, and beyond. Typical approaches decouple this problem by first extracting local spatiotemporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Colin Lea , Michael D. Flynn , Rene Vidal , Austin Reiter , Gregory D. Hager

In this work, we propose an approach to the spatiotemporal localisation (detection) and classification of multiple concurrent actions within temporally untrimmed videos. Our framework is composed of three stages. In stage 1, appearance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Suman Saha , Gurkirt Singh , Michael Sapienza , Philip H. S. Torr , Fabio Cuzzolin

Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to extract relevant video segments based on a given natural language query. Recently, zero-shot VTG methods have gained attention by leveraging pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) to localize target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jin-Seop Lee , SungJoon Lee , Jaehan Ahn , YunSeok Choi , Jee-Hyong Lee

Locating actions in long untrimmed videos has been a challenging problem in video content analysis. The performances of existing action localization approaches remain unsatisfactory in precisely determining the beginning and the end of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Haonan Qiu , Yingbin Zheng , Hao Ye , Yao Lu , Feng Wang , Liang He

Temporal action localization (TAL) requires long-form reasoning to predict actions of various durations and complex content. Given limited GPU memory, training TAL end to end (i.e., from videos to predictions) on long videos is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Chen Zhao , Shuming Liu , Karttikeya Mangalam , Bernard Ghanem

The crux of semi-supervised temporal action localization (SS-TAL) lies in excavating valuable information from abundant unlabeled videos. However, current approaches predominantly focus on building models that are robust to the error-prone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Kun Xia , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou , Gang Hua , Wei Tang

Temporal action detection (TAD), which locates and recognizes action segments, remains a challenging task in video understanding due to variable segment lengths and ambiguous boundaries. Existing methods treat neighboring contexts of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ning Wang , Yun Xiao , Xiaopeng Peng , Xiaojun Chang , Xuanhong Wang , Dingyi Fang

Temporal action detection (TAD) is a challenging task which aims to temporally localize and recognize the human action in untrimmed videos. Current mainstream one-stage TAD approaches localize and classify action proposals relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Ranyu Ning , Can Zhang , Yuexian Zou