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Recent attempts mainly focus on learning deep representations for each video individually under the episodic meta-learning regime and then performing temporal alignment to match query and support videos. However, they still suffer from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Zhiwu Qing , Zhengrong Zuo , Changxin Gao , Rong Jin , Nong Sang

Classification of new class entities requires collecting and annotating hundreds or thousands of samples that is often prohibitively costly. Few-shot learning suggests learning to classify new classes using just a few examples. Only a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Rami Ben-Ari , Mor Shpigel , Ophir Azulai , Udi Barzelay , Daniel Rotman

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

This paper introduces the task of few-shot common action localization in time and space. Given a few trimmed support videos containing the same but unknown action, we strive for spatio-temporal localization of that action in a long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Pengwan Yang , Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek

Current few-shot action recognition methods reach impressive performance by learning discriminative features for each video via episodic training and designing various temporal alignment strategies. Nevertheless, they are limited in that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Zhiwu Qing , Mingqian Tang , Zhengrong Zuo , Changxin Gao , Rong Jin , Nong Sang

Temporal human action detection aims to identify and localize action segments within untrimmed videos, serving as a pivotal task in video understanding. Despite the progress achieved by prior architectures like CNN and Transformer models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yicheng Qiu , Keiji Yanai

We address the task of zero-shot video classification for extremely fine-grained actions (e.g., Windmill Dunk in basketball), where no video examples or temporal annotations are available for unseen classes. While image-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Amir Aghdam , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

We propose a simple yet effective approach for few-shot action recognition, emphasizing the disentanglement of motion and appearance representations. By harnessing recent progress in tracking, specifically point trajectories and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Pulkit Kumar , Namitha Padmanabhan , Luke Luo , Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Abhinav Shrivastava

This paper proposes a novel Zero-Shot Action Recognition~(ZSAR) method based on contrastive learning. In ZSAR, we aim to classify examples from classes that were missing during training. Two well-known problems remain in ZSAR: the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Valter Estevam , Rayson Laroca , Helio Pedrini , David Menotti

Temporal action segmentation (TAS) aims to classify and locate actions in the long untrimmed action sequence. With the success of deep learning, many deep models for action segmentation have emerged. However, few-shot TAS is still a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Leiyang Xu , Qiang Wang , Xiaotian Lin , Lin Yuan

Video representation learning has been successful in video-text pre-training for zero-shot transfer, where each sentence is trained to be close to the paired video clips in a common feature space. For long videos, given a paragraph of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Yuncong Yang , Jiawei Ma , Shiyuan Huang , Long Chen , Xudong Lin , Guangxing Han , Shih-Fu Chang

Point-supervised Temporal Action Localization (PTAL) adopts a lightly frame-annotated paradigm (\textit{i.e.}, labeling only a single frame per action instance) to train a model to effectively locate action instances within untrimmed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yunchuan Ma , Laiyun Qing , Guorong Li , Yuqing Liu , Yuankai Qi , Qingming Huang

Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization (ZS-TAL) seeks to identify and locate actions in untrimmed videos unseen during training. Existing ZS-TAL methods involve fine-tuning a model on a large amount of annotated training data. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Benedetta Liberatori , Alessandro Conti , Paolo Rota , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

This paper studies the joint learning of action recognition and temporal localization in long, untrimmed videos. We employ a multi-task learning framework that performs the three highly related steps of action proposal, action recognition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Yi Zhu , Shawn Newsam

Weakly-supervised temporal action localization aims to recognize and localize action segments in untrimmed videos given only video-level action labels for training. Without the boundary information of action segments, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Bo He , Xitong Yang , Le Kang , Zhiyu Cheng , Xin Zhou , Abhinav Shrivastava

Existing zero-shot temporal action detection (ZSTAD) methods predominantly use fully supervised or unsupervised strategies to recognize unseen activities. However, these training-based methods are prone to domain shifts and require high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chaolei Han , Hongsong Wang , Jidong Kuang , Lei Zhang , Jie Gui

Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to locate and recognize the actions in an untrimmed video. Anchor-free methods have made remarkable progress which mainly formulate TAD into two tasks: classification and localization using two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Junshan Hu , Chaoxu guo , Liansheng Zhuang , Biao Wang , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Houqiang Li

We propose a novel approach to few-shot action recognition, finding temporally-corresponding frame tuples between the query and videos in the support set. Distinct from previous few-shot works, we construct class prototypes using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Toby Perrett , Alessandro Masullo , Tilo Burghardt , Majid Mirmehdi , Dima Damen

Human animation aims to generate temporally coherent and visually consistent videos over long sequences, yet modeling long-range dependencies while preserving frame quality remains challenging. Inspired by the human ability to leverage past…

Few-shot action recognition aims to address the high cost and impracticality of manually labeling complex and variable video data in action recognition. It requires accurately classifying human actions in videos using only a few labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yuyang Wanyan , Xiaoshan Yang , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu