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Temporal difference (TD) methods constitute a class of methods for learning predictions in multi-step prediction problems, parameterized by a recency factor lambda. Currently the most important application of these methods is to temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-02-03 P. Cichosz

Masked video modeling~(MVM) has emerged as a highly effective pre-training strategy for visual foundation models, whereby the model reconstructs masked spatiotemporal tokens using information from visible tokens. However, a key challenge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Ayush K. Rai , Kyle Min , Tarun Krishna , Feiyan Hu , Alan F. Smeaton , Noel E. O'Connor

In multi-agent environments, agents often struggle to learn optimal policies due to sparse or delayed global rewards, particularly in long-horizon tasks where it is challenging to evaluate actions at intermediate time steps. We introduce…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Aditya Kapoor , Sushant Swamy , Kale-ab Tessera , Mayank Baranwal , Mingfei Sun , Harshad Khadilkar , Stefano V. Albrecht

While modern policy optimization methods can do complex manipulation from sensory data, they struggle on problems with extended time horizons and multiple sub-goals. On the other hand, task and motion planning (TAMP) methods scale to long…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Michael James McDonald , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Temporal action detection (TAD) is an important yet challenging task in video understanding. It aims to simultaneously predict the semantic label and the temporal interval of every action instance in an untrimmed video. Rather than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Xiaolong Liu , Song Bai , Xiang Bai

Current state-of-the-art human action recognition is focused on the classification of temporally trimmed videos in which only one action occurs per frame. In this work we address the problem of action localisation and instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Suman Saha , Gurkirt Singh , Michael Sapienza , Philip H. S. Torr , Fabio Cuzzolin

Offline-to-online reinforcement learning with action chunking eliminates multi-step off-policy bias and enables temporally coherent exploration, but all existing methods use a fixed chunk size across every state. This is suboptimal: near…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Nandiraju Gireesh , Yuanliang Ju , He Wang

The temporal action segmentation task segments videos temporally and predicts action labels for all frames. Fully supervising such a segmentation model requires dense frame-wise action annotations, which are expensive and tedious to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Guodong Ding , Angela Yao

Temporal action segmentation approaches have been very successful recently. However, annotating videos with frame-wise labels to train such models is very expensive and time consuming. While weakly supervised methods trained using only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zhe Li , Yazan Abu Farha , Juergen Gall

Most reinforcement learning algorithms are based on a key assumption that Markov decision processes (MDPs) are stationary. However, non-stationary MDPs with dynamic action space are omnipresent in real-world scenarios. Yet problems of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jiaqi Ye , Xiaodong Li , Pangjing Wu , Feng Wang

We propose TAL-Net, an improved approach to temporal action localization in video that is inspired by the Faster R-CNN object detection framework. TAL-Net addresses three key shortcomings of existing approaches: (1) we improve receptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Yu-Wei Chao , Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , Bryan Seybold , David A. Ross , Jia Deng , Rahul Sukthankar

The present few-shot temporal action localization model can't handle the situation where videos contain multiple action instances. So the purpose of this paper is to achieve manifold action instances localization in a lengthy untrimmed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Fengshun Wang , Qiurui Wang , Yuting Wang

Point-level supervised temporal action localization (PTAL) aims at recognizing and localizing actions in untrimmed videos where only a single point (frame) within every action instance is annotated in training data. Without temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yuan Yin , Yifei Huang , Ryosuke Furuta , Yoichi Sato

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 localization plays an important role in video analysis, which aims to localize and classify actions in untrimmed videos. The previous methods often predict actions on a feature space of a single-temporal scale. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Zan Gao , Xinglei Cui , Tao Zhuo , Zhiyong Cheng , An-An Liu , Meng Wang , Shenyong Chen

Workers spend a significant amount of time learning how to make good decisions. Evaluating the efficacy of a given decision, however, can be complicated -- e.g., decision outcomes are often long-term and relate to the original decision in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Hamsa Bastani , Osbert Bastani , Wichinpong Park Sinchaisri

Temporal action detection (TAD) is a fundamental video understanding task that aims to identify human actions and localize their temporal boundaries in videos. Although this field has achieved remarkable progress in recent years, further…

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) task which is to predict the start and end of each action in a video along with the class label of the action has numerous applications in the real world. But due to the complexity of this task, acceptable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Hassan Keshvarikhojasteh , Hoda Mohammadzade , Hamid Behroozi

Real-time execution is essential for cyber-physical systems such as robots. These systems operate in dynamic real-world environments where even small delays can undermine responsiveness and compromise performance. Asynchronous inference has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Haoxuan Wang , Gengyu Zhang , Yan Yan , Yuzhang Shang , Ramana Rao Kompella , Gaowen Liu

Temporal action proposal generation is an important task, akin to object proposals, temporal action proposals are intended to capture "clips" or temporal intervals in videos that are likely to contain an action. Previous methods can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Jiyang Gao , Kan Chen , Ram Nevatia