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Weakly supervised temporal action localization aims to detect and localize actions in untrimmed videos with only video-level labels during training. However, without frame-level annotations, it is challenging to achieve localization…

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The \textit{de facto} paradigm for applying dense retrieval (DR) to new tasks involves fine-tuning a pre-trained model for a specific task. However, this paradigm has two significant limitations: (1) It is difficult adapt the DR to a new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zhan Su , Fengran Mo , Jinghan Zhang , Yuchen Hui , Jia Ao Sun , Bingbing Wen , Jian-Yun Nie

Neural Temporal Difference (TD) Learning is an approximate temporal difference method for policy evaluation that uses a neural network for function approximation. Analysis of Neural TD Learning has proven to be challenging. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Haoxing Tian , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis , Alex Olshevsky

Summarizing video content is an important task in many applications. This task can be defined as the computation of the ordered list of actions present in a video. Such a list could be extracted using action detection algorithms. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Guillaume Vaudaux-Ruth , Adrien Chan-Hon-Tong , Catherine Achard

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) modeling inefficiently applies a fixed computational depth to each position when generating high-resolution images. While existing methods accelerate inference by pruning tokens using frequency maps, their binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chunliang Li , Tianze Cao , Sanyuan Zhao

Recently, temporal action detection (TAD) has seen significant performance improvement with end-to-end training. However, due to the memory bottleneck, only models with limited scales and limited data volumes can afford end-to-end training,…

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Temporal difference (TD) learning is a cornerstone of reinforcement learning. In the average-reward setting, standard TD($\lambda$) is highly sensitive to the choice of step-size and thus requires careful tuning to maintain numerical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-08 Hwanwoo Kim , Dongkyu Derek Cho , Eric Laber

Temporal action detection aims to locate and classify actions in untrimmed videos. While recent works focus on designing powerful feature processors for pre-trained representations, they often overlook the inherent noise and redundancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xinnan Zhu , Yicheng Zhu , Tixin Chen , Wentao Wu , Yuanjie Dang

Generating temporal action proposals remains a very challenging problem, where the main issue lies in predicting precise temporal proposal boundaries and reliable action confidence in long and untrimmed real-world videos. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Chuming Lin , Jian Li , Yabiao Wang , Ying Tai , Donghao Luo , Zhipeng Cui , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Rongrong Ji

Temporal Action Detection (TAD), the task of localizing and classifying actions in untrimmed video, remains challenging due to action overlaps and variable action durations. Recent findings suggest that TAD performance is dependent on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Aglind Reka , Diana Laura Borza , Dominick Reilly , Michal Balazia , Francois Bremond

In this paper, we present a one-stage framework TriDet for temporal action detection. Existing methods often suffer from imprecise boundary predictions due to the ambiguous action boundaries in videos. To alleviate this problem, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Dingfeng Shi , Yujie Zhong , Qiong Cao , Lin Ma , Jia Li , Dacheng Tao

Fully supervised action segmentation works on frame-wise action recognition with dense annotations and often suffers from the over-segmentation issue. Existing works have proposed a variety of solutions such as boundary-aware networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Peiyao Wang , Haibin Ling

In the domain of moment retrieval, accurately identifying temporal segments within videos based on natural language queries remains challenging. Traditional methods often employ pre-trained models that struggle with fine-grained information…

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Visual localization is a fundamental machine learning problem. Absolute Pose Regression (APR) trains a scene-dependent model to efficiently map an input image to the camera pose in a pre-defined scene. However, many applications have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Zijun Li , Zhipeng Cai , Bochun Yang , Xuelun Shen , Siqi Shen , Xiaoliang Fan , Michael Paulitsch , Cheng Wang

Most of the current action localization methods follow an anchor-based pipeline: depicting action instances by pre-defined anchors, learning to select the anchors closest to the ground truth, and predicting the confidence of anchors with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Le Yang , Houwen Peng , Dingwen Zhang , Jianlong Fu , Junwei Han

Temporal action segmentation (TAS) demands dense temporal supervision, yet most of the annotation cost in untrimmed videos is spent identifying and refining action transitions, where segmentation errors concentrate and small temporal shifts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Halil Ismail Helvaci , Sen-ching Samson Cheung

Radar sensors offer power-efficient solutions for always-on smart devices, but processing the data streams on resource-constrained embedded platforms remains challenging. This paper presents novel techniques that leverage the temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Max Sponner , Julius Ott , Lorenzo Servadei , Bernd Waschneck , Robert Wille , Akash Kumar

Diffusion models are the go-to method for Text-to-Image generation, but their iterative denoising processes has high inference latency. Quantization reduces compute time by using lower bitwidths, but applies a fixed precision across all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Basile Lewandowski , Simon Kurz , Aditya Shankar , Robert Birke , Jian-Jia Chen , Lydia Y. Chen

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) is a critical task in video analysis, identifying precise start and end times of actions. Existing methods like CNNs, RNNs, GCNs, and Transformers have limitations in capturing long-range dependencies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sangyoun Lee , Juho Jung , Changdae Oh , Sunghee Yun

Temporal action localization aims to localize starting and ending time with action category. Limited by GPU memory, mainstream methods pre-extract features for each video. Therefore, feature quality determines the upper bound of detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Zhiwu Qing , Xiang Wang , Ziyuan Huang , Yutong Feng , Shiwei Zhang , jianwen Jiang , Mingqian Tang , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang