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Temporal language grounding (TLG) aims to localize a video segment in an untrimmed video based on a natural language description. To alleviate the expensive cost of manual annotations for temporal boundary labels, we are dedicated to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yuechen Wang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

This paper addresses the challenging task of weakly-supervised video temporal grounding. Existing approaches are generally based on the moment proposal selection framework that utilizes contrastive learning and reconstruction paradigm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xiang Fang , Zeyu Xiong , Wanlong Fang , Xiaoye Qu , Chen Chen , Jianfeng Dong , Keke Tang , Pan Zhou , Yu Cheng , Daizong Liu

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) achieves strong generalization in vision-language tasks by aligning images and texts in a shared embedding space. However, recent findings show that CLIP-like models still underutilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Weiheng Zhao , Zilong Huang , Jiashi Feng , Xinggang Wang

Training with sparse annotations is known to reduce the performance of object detectors. Previous methods have focused on proxies for missing ground truth annotations in the form of pseudo-labels for unlabeled boxes. We observe that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Saksham Suri , Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Rama Chellappa , Abhinav Shrivastava

Current approaches for video grounding propose kinds of complex architectures to capture the video-text relations, and have achieved impressive improvements. However, it is hard to learn the complicated multi-modal relations by only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Shiwei Zhang , De Cheng , Xiaomeng Li , Ziyuan Huang , Mingqian Tang , Xinbo Gao

Scene text recognition (STR) is a challenging task that requires large-scale annotated data for training. However, collecting and labeling real text images is expensive and time-consuming, which limits the availability of real data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Mingkun Yang , Biao Yang , Minghui Liao , Yingying Zhu , Xiang Bai

Recent unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods have shown great success in addressing classical domain shifts (e.g., synthetic-to-real), but they still suffer under complex shifts (e.g. geographical shift), where both the background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mattia Litrico , Mario Valerio Giuffrida , Sebastiano Battiato , Devis Tuia

Temporal action segmentation classifies the action of each frame in (long) video sequences. Due to the high cost of frame-wise labeling, we propose the first semi-supervised method for temporal action segmentation. Our method hinges on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Dipika Singhania , Rahul Rahaman , Angela Yao

Temporal video grounding (TVG) aims to localize a target segment in a video according to a given sentence query. Though respectable works have made decent achievements in this task, they severely rely on abundant video-query paired data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Daizong Liu , Xiaoye Qu , Yinzhen Wang , Xing Di , Kai Zou , Yu Cheng , Zichuan Xu , Pan Zhou

Supervised learning in large discriminative models is a mainstay for modern computer vision. Such an approach necessitates investing in large-scale human-annotated datasets for achieving state-of-the-art results. In turn, the efficacy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Liang-Chieh Chen , Raphael Gontijo Lopes , Bowen Cheng , Maxwell D. Collins , Ekin D. Cubuk , Barret Zoph , Hartwig Adam , Jonathon Shlens

In recent years, the need for semantic segmentation has arisen across several different applications and environments. However, the expense and redundancy of annotation often limits the quantity of labels available for training in any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Tarun Kalluri , Girish Varma , Manmohan Chandraker , C V Jawahar

Contrastive learning has achieved remarkable success in learning effective representations, with supervised contrastive learning often outperforming self-supervised approaches. However, in real-world scenarios, data annotations are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zi-Hao Zhou , Jun-Jie Wang , Tong Wei , Min-Ling Zhang

Supervised deep learning requires massive labeled datasets, but obtaining annotations is not always easy or possible, especially for dense tasks like semantic segmentation. To overcome this issue, numerous works explore Unsupervised Domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Daniel Morales-Brotons , Grigorios Chrysos , Stratis Tzoumas , Volkan Cevher

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) can reduce the need for large labelled datasets by incorporating unlabelled data into the training. This is particularly interesting for semantic segmentation, where labelling data is very costly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Sebastian Scherer , Robin Schön , Rainer Lienhart

Data-driven based approaches, in spite of great success in many tasks, have poor generalization when applied to unseen image domains, and require expensive cost of annotation especially for dense pixel prediction tasks such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Shuaijun Chen , Xu Jia , Jianzhong He , Yongjie Shi , Jianzhuang Liu

We tackle the problem of localizing temporal intervals of actions with only a single frame label for each action instance for training. Owing to label sparsity, existing work fails to learn action completeness, resulting in fragmentary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Pilhyeon Lee , Hyeran Byun

The task of weakly supervised temporal sentence grounding (WSTSG) aims to detect temporal intervals corresponding to a language description from untrimmed videos with only video-level video-language correspondence. For an anchor sample,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lu Dong , Haiyu Zhang , Hongjie Zhang , Yifei Huang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang , Yali Wang

We introduce a novel approach to unsupervised and semi-supervised domain adaptation for semantic segmentation. Unlike many earlier methods that rely on adversarial learning for feature alignment, we leverage contrastive learning to bridge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Weizhe Liu , David Ferstl , Samuel Schulter , Lukas Zebedin , Pascal Fua , Christian Leistner

Learning time-series representations when only unlabeled data or few labeled samples are available can be a challenging task. Recently, contrastive self-supervised learning has shown great improvement in extracting useful representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Emadeldeen Eldele , Mohamed Ragab , Zhenghua Chen , Min Wu , Chee-Keong Kwoh , Xiaoli Li , Cuntai Guan

Weakly supervised temporal action localization aims at learning the instance-level action pattern from the video-level labels, where a significant challenge is action-context confusion. To overcome this challenge, one recent work builds an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Le Yang , Junwei Han , Tao Zhao , Tianwei Lin , Dingwen Zhang , Jianxin Chen