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Open-Vocabulary Temporal Action Localization (OVTAL) enables a model to recognize any desired action category in videos without the need to explicitly curate training data for all categories. However, this flexibility poses significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Akshita Gupta , Aditya Arora , Sanath Narayan , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Graham W. Taylor

Precise action localization in untrimmed video is vital for fields such as professional sports and minimally invasive surgery, where the delineation of particular motions in recordings can dramatically enhance analysis. But in many cases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Josiah Aklilu , Xiaohan Wang , Serena Yeung-Levy

As of today, state-of-the-art activity recognition from wearable sensors relies on algorithms being trained to classify fixed windows of data. In contrast, video-based Human Activity Recognition, known as Temporal Action Localization (TAL),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Marius Bock , Michael Moeller , Kristof Van Laerhoven

Existing temporal action localization (TAL) works rely on a large number of training videos with exhaustive segment-level annotation, preventing them from scaling to new classes. As a solution to this problem, few-shot TAL (FS-TAL) aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Sauradip Nag , Xiatian Zhu , Tao Xiang

Temporal action localization (TAL), which involves recognizing and locating action instances, is a challenging task in video understanding. Most existing approaches directly predict action classes and regress offsets to boundaries, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Jiayi Shao , Xiaohan Wang , Ruijie Quan , Junjun Zheng , Jiang Yang , Yi Yang

This report presents our method for Temporal Action Localisation (TAL), which focuses on identifying and classifying actions within specific time intervals throughout a video sequence. We employ a data augmentation technique by expanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yinan Han , Qingyuan Jiang , Hongming Mei , Yang Yang , Jinhui Tang

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of temporal action localization under low-shot (zero-shot & few-shot) scenario, with the goal of detecting and classifying the action instances from arbitrary categories within some untrimmed videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Chen Ju , Zeqian Li , Peisen Zhao , Ya Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) presents significant challenges in early diagnosis and intervention, impacting children and their families. With prevalence rates rising, there is a critical need for accessible and efficient screening tools.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Halil Ismail Helvaci , Sen-ching Samson Cheung , Chen-Nee Chuah , Sally Ozonoff

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

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) in untrimmed video is important for many applications. But it is very expensive to annotate the segment-level ground truth (action class and temporal boundary). This raises the interest of addressing TAL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Zheng Shou , Hang Gao , Lei Zhang , Kazuyuki Miyazawa , Shih-Fu Chang

Online action detection in untrimmed videos aims to identify an action as it happens, which makes it very important for real-time applications. Previous methods rely on tedious annotations of temporal action boundaries for training, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Mingfei Gao , Yingbo Zhou , Ran Xu , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) aims to predict both action category and temporal boundary of action instances in untrimmed videos, i.e., start and end time. Fully-supervised solutions are usually adopted in most existing works, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ding Li , Xuebing Yang , Yongqiang Tang , Chenyang Zhang , Wensheng Zhang

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

Nowadays, the interaction between humans and robots is constantly expanding, requiring more and more human motion recognition applications to operate in real time. However, most works on temporal action detection and recognition perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Vasiliki I. Vasileiou , Nikolaos Kardaris , Petros Maragos

Recently, temporal action localization (TAL), i.e., finding specific action segments in untrimmed videos, has attracted increasing attentions of the computer vision community. State-of-the-art solutions for TAL involves evaluating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Peisen Zhao , Lingxi Xie , Chen Ju , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

State-of-the-art temporal action detectors inefficiently search the entire video for specific actions. Despite the encouraging progress these methods achieve, it is crucial to design automated approaches that only explore parts of the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Humam Alwassel , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Bernard Ghanem

Online action detection (OAD) aims to identify ongoing actions from streaming video in real-time, without access to future frames. Since these actions manifest at varying scales of granularity, ranging from coarse to fine, projecting an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Zhipeng Yang , Ruoyu Wang , Yang Tan , Liping Xie

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…

Locating human-object interaction (HOI) actions within video serves as the foundation for multiple downstream tasks, such as human behavior analysis and human-robot skill transfer. Current temporal action localization methods typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Erhang Zhang , Junyi Ma , Yin-Dong Zheng , Yixuan Zhou , Hesheng Wang