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Detecting actions in untrimmed videos is an important yet challenging task. In this paper, we present the structured segment network (SSN), a novel framework which models the temporal structure of each action instance via a structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Yue Zhao , Yuanjun Xiong , Limin Wang , Zhirong Wu , Xiaoou Tang , Dahua Lin

Temporal representation is the cornerstone of modern action detection techniques. State-of-the-art methods mostly rely on a dense anchoring scheme, where anchors are sampled uniformly over the temporal domain with a discretized grid, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Qiang Wang , Yanhao Zhang , Yun Zheng , Pan Pan

We present a Temporal Context Network (TCN) for precise temporal localization of human activities. Similar to the Faster-RCNN architecture, proposals are placed at equal intervals in a video which span multiple temporal scales. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Xiyang Dai , Bharat Singh , Guyue Zhang , Larry S. Davis , Yan Qiu Chen

Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) has achieved notable success but still suffers from a lack of temporal annotations, leading to a performance and framework gap compared with fully-supervised methods. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ziyi Liu , Yangcen Liu

Latent Action Models (LAMs) enable learning from actionless data for applications ranging from robotic control to interactive world models. However, existing LAMs typically focus on short-horizon frame transitions and capture low-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hanjung Kim , Lerrel Pinto , Seon Joo Kim

The goal of Temporal Action Localization (TAL) is to find the categories and temporal boundaries of actions in an untrimmed video. Most TAL methods rely heavily on action recognition models that are sensitive to action labels rather than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hao Zhang , Chunyan Feng , Jiahui Yang , Zheng Li , Caili Guo

Although the performance of Temporal Action Segmentation (TAS) has improved in recent years, achieving promising results often comes with a high computational cost due to dense inputs, complex model structures, and resource-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Peiyao Wang , Yuewei Lin , Erik Blasch , Jie Wei , Haibin Ling

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) is a challenging task in video understanding that aims to identify and localize actions within a video sequence. Recent studies have emphasized the importance of applying long-term temporal context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Tuan N. Tang , Kwonyoung Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

Temporal action detection is a fundamental yet challenging task in video understanding. Many of the state-of-the-art methods predict the boundaries of action instances based on predetermined anchors akin to the two-dimensional object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Yiping Tang , Chuang Niu , Minghao Dong , Shenghan Ren , Jimin Liang

In the task of temporal action localization of ActivityNet-1.3 datasets, we propose to locate the temporal boundaries of each action and predict action class in untrimmed videos. We first apply VideoSwinTransformer as feature extractor to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Shimin Chen , Wei Li , Jianyang Gu , Chen Chen , Yandong Guo

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) aims to detect the start and end timestamps of actions in a video. However, the training of TAL models requires a substantial amount of manually annotated data. Data programming is an efficient method to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yuchen He , Jianbing Lv , Liqi Cheng , Lingyu Meng , Dazhen Deng , Yingcai Wu

Algorithms for the action segmentation task typically use temporal models to predict what action is occurring at each frame for a minute-long daily activity. Recent studies have shown the potential of Transformer in modeling the relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Fangqiu Yi , Hongyu Wen , Tingting Jiang

Video action detection (spatio-temporal action localization) is usually the starting point for human-centric intelligent analysis of videos nowadays. It has high practical impacts for many applications across robotics, security, healthcare,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Xin Hu , Zhenyu Wu , Hao-Yu Miao , Siqi Fan , Taiyu Long , Zhenyu Hu , Pengcheng Pi , Yi Wu , Zhou Ren , Zhangyang Wang , Gang Hua

Temporal convolutions have been the paradigm of choice in action segmentation, which enhances long-term receptive fields by increasing convolution layers. However, high layers cause the loss of local information necessary for frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Jiahui Wang , Zhenyou Wang , Shanna Zhuang , Hui Wang

This paper presents the first-rank solution for the Multi-Modal Action Recognition Challenge, part of the Multi-Modal Visual Pattern Recognition Workshop at the \acl{ICPR} 2024. The competition aimed to recognize human actions using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Anh-Kiet Duong , Petra Gomez-Krämer

Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to detect all action boundaries and their corresponding categories in an untrimmed video. The unclear boundaries of actions in videos often result in imprecise predictions of action boundaries by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Dingfeng Shi , Qiong Cao , Yujie Zhong , Shan An , Jian Cheng , Haogang Zhu , Dacheng Tao

Point-level weakly-supervised temporal action localization (PWTAL) aims to localize actions with only a single timestamp annotation for each action instance. Existing methods tend to mine dense pseudo labels to alleviate the label sparsity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yueyang Li , Yonghong Hou , Wanqing Li

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has recently witnessed advancements with Transformer-based models. Especially, ActionFormer shows us a new perspectives for HAR in the sense that this approach gives us additional outputs which detect the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Kunpeng Zhao , Asahi Miyazaki , Tsuyoshi Okita

Existing approaches for spatio-temporal action detection in videos are limited by the spatial extent and temporal duration of the actions. In this paper, we present a modular system for spatio-temporal action detection in untrimmed security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Joshua Gleason , Rajeev Ranjan , Steven Schwarcz , Carlos D. Castillo , Jun-Chen Cheng , Rama Chellappa

Online Temporal Action Localization (On-TAL) aims to detect the occurrence time and category of actions in untrimmed streaming videos immediately upon their completion. Recent advancements in this field focus on developing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chaolei Han , Hongsong Wang , Xin Gong , Jie Gui