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Recent progress in Temporal Action Segmentation (TAS) has increasingly relied on complex architectures, which can hinder practical deployment. We present a lightweight dual-loss training framework that improves fine-grained segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hinako Mitsuoka , Kazuhiro Hotta

We address the task of supervised action segmentation which aims to partition a video into non-overlapping segments, each representing a different action. Recent works apply transformers to perform temporal modeling at the frame-level,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zijia Lu , Ehsan Elhamifar

Temporal action detection (TAD) is an important yet challenging task in video analysis. Most existing works draw inspiration from image object detection and tend to reformulate it as a proposal generation - classification problem. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Chen Zhao , Merey Ramazanova , Mengmeng Xu , Bernard Ghanem

Traditional temporal action detection (TAD) usually handles untrimmed videos with small number of action instances from a single label (e.g., ActivityNet, THUMOS). However, this setting might be unrealistic as different classes of actions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Jing Tan , Xiaotong Zhao , Xintian Shi , Bin Kang , Limin Wang

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

Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization (WTAL) aims to classify and localize temporal boundaries of actions for the video, given only video-level category labels in the training datasets. Due to the lack of boundary information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Guozhang Li , De Cheng , Xinpeng Ding , Nannan Wang , Jie Li , Xinbo Gao

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) has garnered significant attention in information retrieval. Existing supervised or weakly supervised methods heavily rely on labeled temporal boundaries and action categories, which are labor-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Rui Xia , Dan Jiang , Quan Zhang , Ke Zhang , Chun Yuan

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) remains a fundamental challenge in video understanding, aiming to identify the start time, end time, and category of all action instances within untrimmed videos. While recent single-stage, anchor-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Thisara Rathnayaka , Uthayasanker Thayasivam

The crux of semi-supervised temporal action localization (SS-TAL) lies in excavating valuable information from abundant unlabeled videos. However, current approaches predominantly focus on building models that are robust to the error-prone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Kun Xia , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou , Gang Hua , Wei Tang

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

Enabling computational systems with the ability to localize actions in video-based content has manifold applications. Traditionally, such a problem is approached in a fully-supervised setting where video-clips with complete frame-by-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Kurt Degiorgio , Fabio Cuzzolin

Dense temporal annotation of procedural activity videos is vital for action understanding and embodied intelligence but remains labor-intensive due to reactive tools. Each correction is treated as an isolated edit, limiting reuse of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Qian Yin , Di Wen , Kunyu Peng , David Schneider , Zeyun Zhong , Alexander Jaus , Zdravko Marinov , Jiale Wei , Ruiping Liu , Junwei Zheng , Yufan Chen , Chen Zhang , Lei Qi , Rainer Stiefelhagen

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

This technical report presents an overview of our solution used in the submission to 2021 HACS Temporal Action Localization Challenge on both Supervised Learning Track and Weakly-Supervised Learning Track. Temporal Action Localization (TAL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Haisheng Su , Peiqin Zhuang , Yukun Li , Dongliang Wang , Weihao Gan , Wei Wu , Yu Qiao

The temporal segmentation of events is an essential task and a precursor for the automatic recognition of human actions in the video. Several attempts have been made to capture frame-level salient aspects through attention but they lack the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Harshala Gammulle , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Embodied intelligence relies on accurately segmenting objects actively involved in interactions. Action-based video object segmentation addresses this by linking segmentation with action semantics, but it depends on large-scale annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Wenxin Li , Kunyu Peng , Di Wen , Ruiping Liu , Mengfei Duan , Kai Luo , Kailun Yang

The task of temporally detecting and segmenting actions in untrimmed videos has seen an increased attention recently. One problem in this context arises from the need to define and label action boundaries to create annotations for training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Anna Kukleva , Hilde Kuehne , Fadime Sener , Juergen Gall

Temporal action segmentation in untrimmed videos has gained increased attention recently. However, annotating action classes and frame-wise boundaries is extremely time consuming and cost intensive, especially on large-scale datasets. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Wei Lin , Anna Kukleva , Horst Possegger , Hilde Kuehne , Horst Bischof

Recent temporal action segmentation approaches need frame annotations during training to be effective. These annotations are very expensive and time-consuming to obtain. This limits their performances when only limited annotated data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Sovan Biswas , Anthony Rhodes , Ramesh Manuvinakurike , Giuseppe Raffa , Richard Beckwith

Most activity localization methods in the literature suffer from the burden of frame-wise annotation requirement. Learning from weak labels may be a potential solution towards reducing such manual labeling effort. Recent years have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Sujoy Paul , Sourya Roy , Amit K Roy-Chowdhury